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This Adobe Illustrator course will provide you with the skills and knowledge required to create illustrations. Extend your knowledge beyond the Adobe Illustrator Course: Level 1 and take your skills to the next level.

Your own Adobe Creative Cloud account is required for this course. You will also need your own device. Please download the latest version of Adobe Illustrator before the start of the course. For further details, see 'Before the course'.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• create illustrations
• create a vector version of a raster graphic
• create special effects
• utilise and edit objects using 3D and materials
• work with graphs
• work with new illustrator functions
• utilise Illustrator beta options
• understand and create advanced vectored objects
• prepare documents for composite and commercial printing
• export graphics for the web and mobile devices.

Content

The Adobe Account

• The Adobe Website
• Signing in to your Adobe Account
• Managing your Adobe Account
• Adobe creative cloud application manager
• Managing auto updates
• Understanding shared files and libraries
• Downloading Adobe fonts
• Adobe stock and marketplace

Creative cloud libraries

• The libraries panel
• Adding elements to the libraries panel
• Adding peoples to your library

Working collaboratively

• Uploading a file to creative cloud
• Creating a folder in creative cloud
• Working with files and folders
• Viewing a file in creative cloud
• Adding collaborators
• Making changes to a shared file
• Invite to edit
• Share for review

Adobe mobile apps

• Adobe creative cloud mobile apps
• The Adobe Capture apps
• Adobe Illustrator mobile apps
• The creative cloud library and mobile apps
• Mobile application help and support

Contextual task bar

• Understanding the contextual task bar
• Exploring the task bar options
• Viewing or hiding the task bar
• Pinning the task bar

Animate illustrator designs in Adobe Express

• Saving elements to the library
• Exporting elements to AE
• Apply animation and music to illustrator elements
• Saving AE projects

The transform tools

• Understanding the transform tools
• Scaling and rotating objects
• Reflecting object
• Shearing objects
• Changing the perspective of an object
• Understanding the distortion tools
• Distorting objects

Advanced colour

• Understanding recolour
• Navigating to Adobe Colour
• Advanced options
• Saving a colour group
• Using harmony colours
• Working with generative recolour
• Using sample prompts
• Creating colour themes with prompt inputs

Patterns

• Understanding patterns
• Creating different types of patterns
• Applying a pattern swatch
• Scaling and moving a pattern
• Creating a new pattern
• Editing a pattern

Working with graphs

• Defining the graph type
• Inserting data
• Editing a graph
• Adding symbols to the graph
• Editing symbol display to different column types

Text to pattern (beta)

• Defining selections for pattern fill
• Using text to define a pattern
• Applying a pattern to selected areas
• Editing and adjusting existing patterns

Text to vector

• Using text to define an image
• Adjust and edit the selected image
• Autofill and expand the selected image
• Save and export the object

Advanced objects

• Understanding the shape builder tool
• Applying shape build effects
• Merge and stroke with the blending tool
• Exploring blend tool options
• Choosing colour from swatches or artwork
• Creating a clipping mask
• Adjusting a clipping mask
• Utilise the Object on Path tool
• Utilise the Puppet warp tool to adjust and edit objects

3D and Materials

• Understanding the 3D and Materials panel
• Applying the object effect
• Applying the materials effect
• Applying the lighting effect
• Adjusting bevel, rotation and presets

Masks

• Understanding clipping masks
• Creating a clipping mask
• Creating an opacity mask

Live paint

• Understanding live paint
• Preparing for live paint
• Simplifying paths
• Creating live paint groups
• Live paint gap options
• Applying live pant fill
• Adding paths to a live paint object
• Using the live paint selection tool
• Adding gradients to live paint objects

Mockup

• Creating vectored objects for design layout
• The mockup panel
• Applying mockup to different graphic groups
• Using the auto adjust feature
• Editing the mockup example
• Saving the mockup to libraries

Intertwine

• Create overlapping objects
• Edit objects with the intertwine option
• Apply and release the intertwined objects

Tracing

• Understanding tracing
• The image trace panel
• Using image trace
• Expanding paths in a traced image
• Tracing an image manually
• Enhanced image trace

Intended audience

Suitable for anyone wanting to advance their understanding of the Adobe Illustrator software.

Prerequisites

Prior to attending, you should have completed Adobe Illustrator Course: Level 1 or have equivalent knowledge.

Delivery modes

• Face-to-face, presenter-taught training using your own device
• Online training via the platform Zoom

Delivery style

Face-to-face classes

These classes run in a classroom and you need to bring your own device with Adobe Illustrator installed. You should ensure it is fully charged as access to power is limited. Please note that the University does not carry any responsibility for your lost, stolen, or damaged devices whilst on the University premises.

Online classes

You will need your own device with Adobe Illustrator installed. We also recommend using a computer with a larger screen, or two screens/devices. A small laptop screen provides limited space, and it can be difficult to manage following the facilitator’s screen and using your own software.

Materials

Course materials are provided electronically using Dropbox.

Before the course

You will need an Adobe Creative Cloud account to participate. If you don't have an existing account, you can purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud account here. Please bring your account login details with you to class.

• Recommended operating system: Windows or Mac
• Recommended software for PC: Adobe Illustrator CC 2023
• Recommended software for Mac OS: Adobe Illustrator CC 2023

Download the BETA version through your Creative Cloud to access the AI features. Please ensure that you have downloaded the latest version of Illustrator.