Adobe Illustrator Masterclass with ACP Exam
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Course Facts
- 4/6 day course (according to needs)
- Our Trainers are Authorised Professionals
- Live Online or Classroom-based
- Certificate of completion
- Maximum class size of 6 for scheduled courses
- Unlimited support after your course
- Courses at all levels: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced and Masterclasses
Course Outline
- Working in the Design Industry
- Project Setup and Interface
- Organising Documents
- Creating and Modifying Visual Elements
- Publishing Digital Media
Courses in this Masterclass
Course Dates
These are the dates for the first part of the Masterclass: Illustrator Introduction. More experienced users may wish to start with the next level: Illustrator Intermediate.
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| Mon 27 - Tue 28 Jan 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Mon 3 - Tue 4 Feb 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Tue 4 - Wed 5 Feb 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Wed 26 - Thu 27 Feb 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Tue 4 - Wed 5 Mar 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Mon 17 - Tue 18 Mar 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Tue 18 - Wed 19 Mar 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Tue 8 - Wed 9 Apr 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Thu 10 - Fri 11 Apr 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Wed 23 - Thu 24 Apr 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Tue 29 - Wed 30 Apr 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Wed 7 - Thu 8 May 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Wed 14 - Thu 15 May 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Tue 27 - Wed 28 May 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Mon 2 - Tue 3 Jun 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Thu 26 - Fri 27 Jun 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Mon 30 - Tue 1 Jul 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Thu 10 - Fri 11 Jul 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Tue 22 - Wed 23 Jul 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Wed 6 - Thu 7 Aug 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Mon 11 - Tue 12 Aug 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Thu 28 - Fri 29 Aug 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Mon 1 - Tue 2 Sep 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Mon 8 - Tue 9 Sep 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Tue 9 - Wed 10 Sep 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Mon 22 - Tue 23 Sep 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Thu 9 - Fri 10 Oct 2025 | London | £545 |
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| Mon 13 - Tue 14 Oct 2025 | Live Online | £545 |
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| Mon 10 - Tue 11 Nov 2025 | London | £545 |
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Overview
Our Illustrator Masterclass is aimed at those with none, limited or an intermediate knowledge of Illustrator. Rather than attending a single, intensive class, our flexible approach allows you to follow the agenda that best meets your needs, taking any combination of Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced, on the dates that suit you. In combination, you'll gain all the knowledge you need to pass the Adobe Illustrator ACP Exam. And whether you take all three classes or just two, you'll always pay less than if you book the classes separately. All our Adobe Illustrator courses are taught by industry professionals who are also Adobe Certified Professional trainers. They will share years of their industry experience with you, imparting best practice techniques as well mastery of the tools.
Our free Training Needs Analysis will help you decide whether the Introduction or the Intermediate Illustrator course is your best starting point. Our recommendation is usually to allow at least 3 to 4 weeks between classes, depending on your study time. When you've completed the curriculum you need to meet your goals, we'll arrange for you to take the ACP exam.
Topics covered include Working in the design industry, Project setup and interface, Organising documents, Creating and modifying visual elements, Publishing digital media and Adobe certification preparation and ACP exam. Please note that there is a separate cost for the exam.
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Course Outline
Working in the Design Industry
- Purpose, audience and requirements for preparing designs and artwork for target devices and media
- Thinking like a digital designer: designing accessible experiences at scale
- Communicating with colleagues and clients and understanding project management
- Understanding key terms eg. client goals, target audience, demographics, accessibility etc
- Demonstrating knowledge of basic design principles and best practices employed in the design industry
- How to succeed as a digital designer; an introductory guide to design thinking
- Communicating visually by using the elements and principles of design and common design techniques
- Demonstrating knowledge of basic project management concepts eg. project scope, scope creep, cloud utilisation and file management
- Understanding key terms such as sketches, specifications, design process, wireframes, prototypes, iterations, change orders, drafts, feedback loop etc
- Best practice in presenting design concepts to stakeholders
- Designing business and ethics eg. copyright, permissions and licensing, including when and how to obtain permission to use images of people and locations
- Legal and ethical considerations for using third-party content, such as copyright, permissions and licensing
- Identifying when and how to obtain permission to use images of people and locations, including model release, location release, permission to use a person’s face or restricted location
- Demonstrating knowledge of digital image terminology eg. image resolution, image size, file types, pixel, raster, bitmap, vector, path, object, type, rasterising, rendering, resizing, image size measured in pixels vs. document size measured in inches/centimetres etc
- Demonstrating knowledge of how colour is created in digital images
- Understanding key terms such as space, line, shape, form, colour, texture, emphasis/focal point, unity/harmony, variety, balance, alignment, proximity, repetition, rhythm, scale, movement, negative space, gestalt etc
- Identifying and using common typographic adjustments to create contrast, hierarchy, and enhanced readability
- Understanding key terms such as font, size, style, colour, alignment, kerning, tracking, leading, horizontal and vertical scale, line length etc.
- Demonstrating knowledge of common photographic/cinematic composition terms and principles.
- Understanding key terms such as aspect ratio, rule of thirds, foreground, background, colour, tone, contrast, framing etc
- Basic design principles; line and character spacing; text and type
Project Setup and Interface
- Understanding the interface setup and program settings that assist in an efficient and effective workflow
- Understanding the proper use of digital assets for a project
- Understanding the appropriate settings for mobile, web, print, film and video, art and illustration and printed and onscreen artwork
- Understanding key concepts such as width/height, orientation, artboards, bleed, raster effects, resolution, colour mode etc
- Creating a new document preset to reuse for specific project needs.
- Changing page size and orientation
- Setting up Multiple Artboards
- Understanding bit depth and preferences
- Navigating, organising and customising the application workspace
- Identifying and manipulating elements of the Illustrator interface
- Understanding key concepts such as Control bar, menus, panels, toolbars, artboards, 100x canvas etc.
- Understanding key concepts such as using and switching between default workspaces, tabbed documents, showing, hiding, nesting, and docking panels, shortcuts and menus, customising, saving and resetting workspaces
- Configuring application preferences
- Understanding key concepts such as General, Type, Units, Guides and Grid, User Interface, File Handling & Clipboard, Appearance of Black etc
- Illustration techniques
- Workspace basics
- Using non-printing design tools in the interface to aid in design or workflow
- Navigating a document
- Understanding key concepts such as panning, zooming, pasteboard etc
- Using rulers, showing and hiding rulers, changing the measurement unit on rulers, adjusting and resetting ruler origin
- Using guides and grids, including adding, removing, and locking/unlocking guides, showing grids, using snap or align options and creating guide layouts
- Using views and modes to work efficiently with vector graphics
- Understanding key concepts such as Outline vs Preview, Screen Mode, Presentation Mode, Isolation Mode and Drawing modes
- Locking, Hiding and Deleting Objects
- Viewing Artwork
- Managing assets in a project
- Opening artwork
- Placing assets in an Illustrator document
- Understanding key concepts such as embedding, linking, replacing, copying and pasting, import options
- Using the Links panel
- Moving, aligning and distributing objects
- Importing artwork
- Managing colours, swatches and gradients including creating and customising gradients
- Understanding key concepts such as Gradient panel, editing colour and transparency stops, gradient types and Gradient Mesh
- Setting the active fill and stroke colours
- Understanding key concepts such as Colour Picker, swatches, Eyedropper tool and colour values
- Using Brushes, Symbols, Graphic Styles and Patterns including opening and browsing libraries of brushes, symbols, graphic styles and patterns
- Understanding key concepts such as stroke, fill, brushes, brush types, width tool etc
Organising Documents
- Understanding layers and tracks structure for efficient workflows
- Using layers to manage design elements
- Using the Layers panel to modify layers
- Understanding key concepts such as adding, deleting, hiding/showing, locking/unlocking, and duplicating etc
- Managing and organising multiple layers in a complex project
- Understanding key concepts such as sublayers, Paste Remembers layers, hierarchy and stacking order, selecting and targeting objects using the Layers panel etc
- Transparency Panel, Layer opacity and masks including modifying layer visibility and adjusting the opacity of a layer
- Moving, aligning and distributing objects
- Adjusting appearance attributes
- Creating, applying and manipulating clipping masks
- Transparency blending modes
Creating and Modifying Visual Elements
- The Core tools and functionality that particularly affect the visual outcome of a document
- Create graphics or artwork using a variety of tools including the drawing tools, painting tools, Pencil tool, Paintbrush tool, Pen tool, Curvature tool, shapes, Blob Brush tool etc
- Drawing with pen, curvature and pencil
- Overview of painting
- Understanding text and typography
- Adding and manipulating text using appropriate typographic settings
- Using type tools to add typography eg. Point Type tool, Area Type tool, Type on a Path tool, Vertical Type tool, Vertical Area Type tool, Vertical Type on a Path tool and Touch Type tool
- Understanding the difference between area type, point type, type on a path and placeholder text
- Using appropriate character settings for font, size, style, alignment, kerning, tracking, leading, horizontal and vertical scale, colour used to enhance readability and hierarchy, enhanced type etc.
- Using appropriate paragraph settings for indentation, alignment and paragraph spacing
- Converting text to graphics including converting text to outlines and benefits/disadvantages
- Managing text flow including multiple text areas, overflow text, threading text, wrapping text etc
- Creating text including fonts and typography and formatting paragraphs
- Making, managing and manipulating selections including selecting objects using a variety of tools
- Targeting vs selecting, saving selections, selecting based on object attributes of colour, stroke, opacity etc
- Modifying and refining selections using various methods including keyboard modifiers, selecting multiple objects with selection tools or Layers panel, moving and grouping objects, regular Selection tool vs Direct Selection tool vs Lasso tool vs Group Selection tool etc.
- Grouping and ungrouping selections
- Working with objects including grouping objects, expanding objects, using Isolation Mode, moving, aligning and distributing objects
- Transforming digital graphics and media
- Modifying artboards including using the Artboard tool, resizing, cropping, and copy-and-pasting art and artboards within and between documents, using multiple artboards etc
- Understanding the relationship between the art and the artboard
- Rotating, flipping and transforming individual layers, objects, selections, groups or graphical elements
- Understanding key concepts such as scaling, scale options, transforming, warping, distorting, skewing, using distortion tools or menu options, rotating and reflecting objects, repeating objects
- Editing Artwork basics and using basic reconstructing and editing techniques to manipulate digital graphics and media
- Applying basic auto-correction methods and tools
- Using key tools such as the Simplify tool, Smooth tool, Join tool etc
- Repairing and reconstructing graphics
- Using key tools such as eraser, scissors, knife, Shape Builder, pathfinder, Live Paint etc
- Evaluating or adjusting the appearance of objects, selections or layers
- Understanding key concepts such as fill and stroke, Appearance panel, brushes, Eyedropper tool etc
- Using Image Trace to create vectors from bitmap images including Trace presets, tracing settings, expanding etc
- Editing Paths
- Appearance attributes
- Modifying the appearance of design elements using effects and graphic styles
- Using effects to modify images
- Understanding key concepts such as identifying the difference between raster and vector effects, drop shadows, feathers, glows, editing applied effects
- Creating, editing, saving and deleting Graphic Styles, breaking links to graphic styles etc
- Expanding the appearance of objects including expanding transformations, stroke effects
- Applying effects such as drop shadows, glows and feathering
Publishing Digital Media
- Saving and exporting documents or assets within individual layers or selections
- Preparing images for export to web, print and video
- Verifying project specifications including setting document colour mode (colour space), resolution (raster effects), pixel dimensions, metadata etc
- Setting up files for printing
- Creating efficient Illustrator files and sharing files
Adobe Certification Preparation and ACP Exam
- Working through exam preparation sheet and sample exam questions
- Taking a practice exam
- Questions and answers
- Taking the Illustrator ACP Exam
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