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Description
Our Adobe Illustrator Course is Conveniet and Affordable
The Adobe Illustrator course from Gatlin International combines high quality courseware with the convenience and affordability of online learning.
Adobe Illustrator puts the power of vector art at your fingertips. Most digital designers, however, only scratch the surface of Illustrator's powerful toolset. Our Adobe Illustrator course is designed to help you harness the awesome power of this incredible design tool.
This Adobe Illustrator course is ideal for anyone whose mastered the basics of Adobe Illustrator and is ready to take thier skills and knowledge the next level.
In this course, you'll learn how to move beyond the pen tool to explore gradient meshes, symbols, graphic styles and effects.
You'll also learn about exciting features like Live Color and Live Trace.
The Adobe Illustrator course is lead by nn industry-leading professional who will guide you through a variety of projects you never knew Illustrator was capable of.
This is a challenging hands-on course designed to help you create photo-realistic illustrations, complex patterns and rich designs.
You'll also learn how to speed your efforts with Illustrator's helpful workflow tools as you build on your existing skills and tackle complex, high-end projects.
Take your creativity to the next level with the Adobe Illustrator course from Gatlin International. Enroll today!
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Outline
LESSON 1 Advanced Color There's more to color in Illustrator than the fill and stroke boxes. In this lesson you'll pick up techniques for sampling colors and using swatch libraries, and learn to develop color schemes with CS3's Live Color. You'll blend colors with gradients, the Blend tool, and the Mesh tool, adding more dimension and even realism to your work, and wrap up with a look at adjusting color through special color commands. In the exercise, you'll use meshes to create realistic objects.
LESSON 2 Transparency Sophisticated transparency techniques can make your work more multi-faceted and intriguing. Lesson two covers techniques such as opacity masks and knockout groups, along with a detailed look at each of Illustrator's 16 blending modes. Finally, you'll see how transparency features can be handled by your printer for accurate output. In the exercise, you'll use transparency techniques and blending modes to create a photorealistic music player.
LESSON 3 Filters, Effects, and Shape Manipulation A piece of vector art can become a sophisticated 3D object with the techniques that kick off Lesson Three. You'll take a thorough look at blends, effects, and filters that can randomly or precisely re-shape your Illustrator designs and amaze your viewers. You'll put these to work in the exercise, designing a product label and applying it to a 3D object.
LESSON 4 Brushes, Patterns, Symbols, and Graphing The latest versions of Illustrator help you streamline your workflow by providing the ability to customize features and quickly reuse repetitive designs or objects. First, you'll look at complex brush techniques including art and scatter brushes that can "paint" with your own designs. Next, you discover how Illustrator allows you to create patterns with precision and ease. You'll explore symbols, an indispensable feature enabling you to reuse common elements. Finally, you'll check out Illustrator's graphing tools before jumping into the exercise's exploration of patterns.
LESSON 5 Masks, Graphic Styles, and Appearances This lesson tackles more ways to speed your workflow, as well as an important method for masking or framing artwork. This method is the clipping mask, key to encasing artwork within other shapes. The Graphic Styles and Appearance palettes are explored, giving you greater control over the appearance of any object. You'll wrap this lesson up with a look at actions, a feature that allows you to "record" commonly-implemented tasks, then repeat them whenever needed. In the exercise, you'll try your hand at map drawing, extensively utilizing Appearance features.
LESSON 6 Tracing and Technology Adobe Illustrator makes it easy to work with other common design programs like Photoshop, Flash, and Word. This lesson explores those modalities and looks at other technologies that Illustrator can handle, import, and export, including basic Web graphics, Web slices, and even dynamic data driven content. You'll also learn how to take images from bitmap to vector using Live Trace technology. You'll keep working on Live Trace in the exercise as you develop a poster with stylized photo elements.
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 60.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Enrolled students have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each course lesson requires an average of 10 hours of study time.
- Instructor
Michael Hamm is a freelance designer and Web developer with over a decade of experience in the creative field. Based in Washington state, Michael provides design solutions for clients across the country through his company ClayEdward Design. Prior to working on his own, Michael worked for JPMorgan Chase in Houston, Texas as an interactive designer. His work has been published in various Web design books and magazines and he is a regular contributor to Layers Magazine. In addition, he has served as technical editor on several design books published by Friends of Ed. Michael recently co-authored Introduction to Web Design Using Dreamweaver published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Adobe Illustrator and has a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Houston. Michael is the founder, designer, programmer, and writer of PointsandPaths.com, a Web site that grew from his passion for illustration software and all things vector.
- Prerequisites/Audience
Courses are designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.
- Requirements/Materials Included
To take this course you'll need Adobe Illustrator CS3 or CS4, a digital imaging program such as Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks, and basic experience in the software packages needed for this course including using common features such as shapes, transformations, and the Pen tool.
- Certification
3 CEU's
Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.
