Adobe Illustrator CS3 Training Courses

About this course

Adobe Illustrator is the definitive application for creating professional drawings, logos and other vector-based objects and documents.

While bitmap applications such as Photoshop allow painting, filtering and photographic enhancement, Illustrator is the tool of choice for Web or print designers wishing to create logos, line art, and 2 dimensional objects with unparalleled precision. Illustrator also allows you to trace bitmap images to create scalable vector graphics from drawings or photographs.

Assumed knowledge

A basic understanding of graphic design principles will be assumed along with some exposure to Web or print publishing. Reasonable computer competence with either Mac or Windows will also be assumed.

Working with layers

• Creating, moving, locking and viewing layers
• Moving objects and layers
• Pasting layers
• Creating clipping masks
• Merging layers
• Applying appearance attributes to layers

Creating airbrush effects

• Setting smart guides preferences
• Painting with the mesh tool
• Specifying the number of mesh lines
• Applying colours to the mesh
• Highlighting a mesh object
• Editing mesh points
• Reflecting mesh objects
• Modifying mesh lines
• Warping a mesh
• Applying transparency to a mesh

Printing artwork and producing separations

• Printing: an overview
• Colour management
• Printing black and white proofs
• Soft proofing colours
• Using the document info command
• Creating colour separations
• Working with two-colour illustrations
• Creating a trap
• Overprinting objects

Combining artwork

• Vector versus bitmap graphics
• Placing an Adobe Photoshop file
• Duplicating a placed image
• Adjusting colour in a placed image
• Masking an image
• Sampling colours in placed images
• Replacing a placed image
• Exporting a layered file to Photoshop

Creating a web publication

• About Web format and compression options
• Slicing artwork for web pages
• Linking slices to URLs
• Saving your Web page as an HTML file with images
• Creating a Flash animation from symbols

Here's what you get on a Fearless course

Course Materials

We typically supply detailed course notes or a reference text or in some cases both. Either way, we try to provide sufficient supporting material so that you can return to your work place with sufficient confidence to permit further learning.

Catering

We like to look after our customers with:

• Quality catering from local cafes
• Fresh fruit
• Filter coffee and good biscuits
• Table sweets
• Chilled water

We also accommodate special dietary requirements such as vegetarian, gluten intolerance etc.

Support

There's nothing worse than leaving a course and feeling left on your own. We like to ensure our customers have all the support and backup they need including:

• 90 days unlimited support by phone, email or instant messaging
• On-going support through our Fearless Flyer program (for an extra fee)
• A free re-sit of this course on any scheduled date in the future

You also get

• A certificate of completion
• A CD-ROM with worked examples (for most courses)

Please select your location from the list below. A PDF brochure with the course description, price and other details will appear in your browser. Alternatively, right-click on the desired link and choose "Save file (or target) as..." and save the file to your local system. Adobe (Acrobat) reader is required.

View PDF Brochure for

• Canberra
• Hobart
• Melbourne
• Sydney

This course is still in development.

Creating airbrush effects

• Setting smart guides preferences
• Painting with the mesh tool
• Specifying the number of mesh lines
• Applying colours to the mesh
• Highlighting a mesh object
• Editing mesh points

Output and finishing

• Saving to PDF/EPS
• Saving for web
• Saving for fabric output

Here's what you get on a Fearless course

Course Materials

We typically supply detailed course notes or a reference text or in some cases both. Either way, we try to provide sufficient supporting material so that you can return to your work place with sufficient confidence to permit further learning.

Catering

We like to look after our customers with:

• Quality catering from local cafes
• Fresh fruit
• Filter coffee and good biscuits
• Table sweets
• Chilled water

We also accommodate special dietary requirements such as vegetarian, gluten intolerance etc.

Support

There's nothing worse than leaving a course and feeling left on your own. We like to ensure our customers have all the support and backup they need including:

• 90 days unlimited support by phone, email or instant messaging
• On-going support through our Fearless Flyer program (for an extra fee)
• A free re-sit of this course on any scheduled date in the future

You also get

• A certificate of completion
• A CD-ROM with worked examples (for most courses)

Please select your location from the list below. A PDF brochure with the course description, price and other details will appear in your browser. Alternatively, right-click on the desired link and choose "Save file (or target) as..." and save the file to your local system. Adobe (Acrobat) reader is required.

View PDF Brochure for

• Canberra
• Hobart
• Melbourne
• Sydney

About this course

If you're working in fashion, textiles or fabric design, you'll find this course a brilliant introduction to the power of Illustrator to realise fabric design concepts. It is designed for those with some exposure to the program but may be adapted for beginners if delivered on-demand.

What you will learn

This course will concentrate on those features of Illustrator which lend themselves to fabric and textile design such as symbols, brushes, patterns, spot colours and more. While the course is normally delivered to those with at least some experience with the program, we will include a revision of essentials such as bezier curves, object creation and layer construction as well as a discussion of new features such as the powerful Live Trace which permits tracing and objectification of hand drawings, scans and bitmap designs.

The course will also examine Illustrator's important relationship with Photoshop and Acrobat, insofar as those applications play a role in the textile design and production process.

Where possible, time will be made available to discuss any specific problems you may be having with your own work.

Please note:

• Masterclasses are also available in Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat Professional which examine a range of techniques more applicable to those environments.



• Many of our customers prefer to organise customised training for one or more staff which is tailored towards their specific working environment. This may be a better option if you feel your needs fall outside those indicated in our outline or if times and dates of scheduled courses don't suit.

Creating airbrush effects

• Setting smart guides preferences
• Painting with the mesh tool
• Specifying the number of mesh lines
• Applying colours to the mesh
• Highlighting a mesh object
• Editing mesh points

Output and finishing

• Saving to PDF/EPS
• Saving for web
• Saving for fabric output

Here's what you get on a Fearless course

Course Materials

We typically supply detailed course notes or a reference text or in some cases both. Either way, we try to provide sufficient supporting material so that you can return to your work place with sufficient confidence to permit further learning.

Catering

We like to look after our customers with:

• Quality catering from local cafes
• Fresh fruit
• Filter coffee and good biscuits
• Table sweets
• Chilled water

We also accommodate special dietary requirements such as vegetarian, gluten intolerance etc.

Support

There's nothing worse than leaving a course and feeling left on your own. We like to ensure our customers have all the support and backup they need including:

• 90 days unlimited support by phone, email or instant messaging
• On-going support through our Fearless Flyer program (for an extra fee)
• A free re-sit of this course on any scheduled date in the future

You also get

• A certificate of completion
• A CD-ROM with worked examples (for most courses)

Please select your location from the list below. A PDF brochure with the course description, price and other details will appear in your browser. Alternatively, right-click on the desired link and choose "Save file (or target) as..." and save the file to your local system. Adobe (Acrobat) reader is required.

View PDF Brochure for

• Canberra
• Hobart
• Melbourne
• Sydney