Adobe Illustrator Essentials

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard application for producing illustrations and vector graphics. Vectors can be re-scaled up or down and do not pixelate or lose their quality.

Illustrator is used in conjunction with other Adobe programs -principally PhotoShop and InDesign. Users of Quark xPress also use it for producing the graphic components for integration with this DTP package.

Key Illustrator essential level skills include:

• Understanding Illustrator
• The Toolbox
• Palettes
• Drawing
• Colours
• Graphics
• Layouts
• Types
• Printing
• Exporting as PDFs

Course Aims
The course is for anyone with an interest in producing graphics. This includes people who enjoy the creative fun of using a top-end graphics program and well as people who feel they need to get a basic grounding in using the program to enhance their work skills.

Entry:
Entry is open –but participants need good general keyboard skills.

Certification:
Participants receive the Griffin College Certificate in Illustrator Essentials.

NOTE – This is not an Adobe-certified course.

Duration and Times

The course runs over 1 day from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm with a break at lunchtime.

The course is delivered online in real time by the tutors.

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