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Adobe Illustrator Core Skills: Level 1

ONLC Training Centers @ Midwest Plaza South, Oak Brook, IL

Master the essential skills of Adobe Illustrator with this comprehensive course at ONLC Training Centers. Learn how to navigate the interface, create illustrations using shapes and paths, enhance your artwork with color and type, and organize your designs with layers. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user looking to fill in the gaps, this class will take your Illustrator skills to the next level.

(7) Beginner 18 and older
$795

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Adobe Illustrator Level 1

  • Beginner
  • 18 and older
  • $999
  • 11 E Illinois, Chicago, IL
  • 21 hours over 3 sessions

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  • Ascend Training @ 11 E Illinois 6th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611
  • 21 hours over 3 sessions
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What you'll learn in this illustrator class:

Learn from the top professionals to create high quality logos, icons, infographics and more. Learn to create and format a vast variety of objects, shapes and text. Understand how to apply patterns, gradients and use Adobe Color for cohesive color systems. Add special effects, and combine images. Use your new skills to create powerful imagery that can be incorporated into any graphic design project, both print and digital.

About Illustrator And Using The Interface
  • Understand the difference between Adobe programs, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat etc.
  • Use Adobe Bridge to View, Open & Oragnize
  • Create new Illustrator documents
  • Set artboard size and color space, set up different artboard sizes, and export one or all artboards to PDF
  • Open documents created in other programs. Save as an Illustrator file (.ai), EPS, and PDF
  • Understand the Illustrator interface - windows, panels, tools, & customizing the workspace
  • Navigate the document - zoom commands and shortcuts, viewing the non printing items on the page
Using the Tools
  • Use the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection Tools
  • Use the Select Menu or Magic Wand Tool to select similar items
  • Shapes: Oval, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Star and Polygon
  • Lines: Arc, line segment, pencil, rectangular grid, polar grid and spiral tools
  • Transform objects with the scale, shear, rotate & reflect tools
  • Group, ungroup, lock and hide objects
  • Use and understand Group Isolation mode
  • Use the new Draw Inside command
Text in Illustrator
  • Artistic vs. paragraph text, when to click and when to click and drag with the Text Tool
  • Text on a path, including text on ovals, circles, and lines
  • Create outlines from text and creating new font shapes
  • Character Panel: size, kerning, baseline shift, horizontal & vertical scaling
Fill and Stroke Objects
  • Stroke an Object- Dashed lines, joins, caps, weight and color
  • Fill & stroke options on the tool panel & how they work with the stroke, color & swatches palettes
  • Use offset strokes inside, outside or in the center of a path
Colors, Swatches & Gradients
  • Create process, spot, web & Pantone +® colors then add and save them to the swatches panel
  • Save colors in a Color Group for excellent color organization
  • Append swatches from other documents to pull colors into the active document
  • Specify and change global or non-global colors
  • Use the Live Color features
  • Create and apply gradients to objects
  • Use gradient opacity, and interact with gradients on screen
  • Apply a gradient to a stroke - control the options
Layers, Appearance Panel & Effects
  • Create new Layers, change the stacking order, move an object from one layer to another, select objects with the layers panel, lock and hide layers
  • Apply a basic fill and stroke with the Appearance panel
  • Understand how the Appearance panel works with Effects
  • Apply, modify and delete effects on objects
Creating Objects & Logos
  • Use the pen tool to draw straight lines. Add and delete points along a path
  • Understand the basics of Bezier drawing with the pen tool
  • Pencil tool - Freeform drawing and editing with this powerful way to modify a path
  • Shape Modes - Add, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude. Understand how shape modes create “live objects” and how to work with them
  • Use the Width tool to modify the width of a stroke
  • Live Paint Group - understand the difference between grouping objects to painting them with live paint
  • Shape builder tool: create a new shape from overlapping areas
  • Blob Brush to draw with vector shapes
  • Size concerns for digital artwork
Icons & Banner Ads & Infographics
  • Setting up proper sizing for standard banner ads and icons.
  • Using resources for free imagery
  • Adding gradients and textures to your icons and banner ads
  • Setting up the document and choosing eye catching fonts and effects that fit the topic
  • Creating charts and graphs in Illustrator and importing from Excel
  • Choose a color palette and applying fills, strokes, tints for dynamic visual impact
  • Exporting infographics for both print and digital usage
  • Understanding how digital images rely on resolution on the web and mobile devices
More Complex Illustrator Features
  • Use Clipping Masks to put artwork inside of a shape
  • Use Compound Paths in conjunction with Clipping Masks
  • Blending basics, blend shapes from one to the other. Use to make highlights within an object
  • Use the basics of the Pattern Creator
  • Introduction to the new and improved Image Trace
Save And Export Your Works In Illustrator
  • Save an .ai file to be placed into InDesign and other programs
  • Place a .ai file into Photoshop
  • Export an Illustrator file as a .psd to open in photoshop
  • Export to .png, .jpg, .psd, & .swf
  • Use other file formats from Illustrator
Prerequisites: Solid computer skills, Mac or Windows.

Refund Policy

A $25 administrative fee will be charged on all refund requests.

  • The request must arrive greater than 4 business days prior to the course start date.
  • No refunds will be provided for requests arriving less than 4 business days prior to the class start date.

Upon receipt of a refund request, students will be provided the option of receiving course credit towards the purchase of another class. If a student elects to receive credit, the administrative fee is not charged, and a voucher for the amount of the applicable class fee will be sent to the student’s email address. If a refund is to be given, the refund will be processed within 72 hours of notice of cancellation.

All classes need at least 3 students to run.

On occasion, a class may cancel due to low enrollment or unforeseen instructor conflicts. If such a case occurs, all students will be refunded less a 5% non-refundable registration fee.

We do not take responsibility for non-refundable airline tickets, hotel expenses, or any other costs that may be attributable towards enrolling in a class.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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