Course Description

The objective of this course is to familiarize you with this powerful software. The topics cover in depth, all the basics which will allow you to start making professional looking graphics immediately.

The course main goal is to give you a professional experience in Adobe Illustrator and once you leave the class to be confident in your ability to create any type of design you desire.

This course will help you to do a layout for a book, create a web page, and the list goes on.

However, you should be noticed that Illustrator is an extensive program because there is so much you can do with it. That's because the course starts from the beginning, showing you around the program and teaching you how to do the most basic functions. These are the building blocks that will make Illustrator's advanced features easy to learn and use when we start to cover them later in the course.

 

During the course you'll learn how to:

• Navigate Illustrator and where to find all the tools and features you'll need

• Draw basic shapes

• Draw objects

• Create vector images, then edit those vector images quickly and easily

• Add color to your work

• Use blends, gradients, and patterns

• Create symbols to place into your work to save time

• Create layers and masks

• Draw landscapes such as buildings and houses with ease using perspective

• Add graphs to your documents

• Add text to your documents – and even to your objects and shapes

• Create drawings, business cards, brochures, or anything you want using Adobe Illustrator

 

At the completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Draw accurate vector objects using the Pen tool and its associated features.

• Use the various type tools, and apply wrap, flow, shape, and path modifications to typography.

• Design an advertisement using appropriate typography, drawing tools, and a clipping mask to contain the art within a shape.

• Align multiple objects with the Align panel and create complex shapes from simple objects with the Pathfinder panel and Shape Builder tool.

• Design a logo using the appropriate tools and features covered throughout the course.

 

Requirements:

To take this course you'll need:

• Computer with High Speed Internet access;

• Windows 7 or higher; or Mac OS v.10.7 or higher;

• Adobe Illustrator CS6 or CC.

• Computer with 64 bits 3GHz processor or Mac Intel;

• Minimum 8GB of RAM;

• Hard Drive 1TB;

• Graphics Card compatible with Direct3D®, or OpenGL®;

• Internet Browser;

• Screen with minimum resolution of 1080 x 900 (1280 x 1024 recommended);

• Sound Card, headphones and microphones;

• Players and plugins: Flash Player 8 or higher;

   

Duration:

• 16 academic hours /1 hour is 45 min, 8 live sessions/

 

Price:

• Individual learning: No certificate: 435 EUR or with certificate: 465 EUR

• Join a class: No certificate: 290 EUR or with certificate: 320 EUR