Course description
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.
Duration:
This course runs over one full day.
Entry:
Entry is open –but participants need good general keyboard skills.
Certification:
Participants receive the Griffin College Certificate in Illustrator Essentials.
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