Adobe Illustrator CC

Audience:

Designers, marketing and communications staff, publishing and prepress professionals, and anyone taking on design responsibilities that involve vector artwork.

Prerequisites:

Comfort with basic computer tasks such as opening applications, managing files, and formatting text. Familiarity with design terms such as color modes, shapes, and paths is recommended.

Course Description:

Create scalable vector graphics for logos, advertisements, and other print and digital materials. On Day 1, you’ll draw and edit shapes and paths, combine artwork with text, and style objects with fills, strokes, and brushes. On Day 2, you’ll build more complex illustrations using layers, perspective drawing, and tracing, then prepare artwork for print, web, video, and other applications.

Course Objectives:

Students will learn to:

• Draw and edit scalable shapes and paths.
• Combine placed graphics and formatted type with vector artwork.
• Build complex illustrations with layers, perspective tools, and tracing.
• Refine artwork using custom brushes, swatches, blending modes, masks, and effects.
• Prepare artwork for print and digital delivery.