Adobe Illustrator: Level 2 Training
Adobe Illustrator is a long standing favorite Adobe resource. Adobe Illustrator is the favorite vector design tool of thousands of design professionals due to the vast amount of creative possibilities offered in the application.
Adobe Illustrator: Level 2
Course Overview
Once you gain a foundation and some experience using Illustrator’s core skills, you are ready for Level 2 training. In Level 2 class, content is covered at a faster pace and additional focus is placed on use of shortcuts and real world ‘tips and tricks’ to improve your workflow.
Each lesson includes unique and challenging project files. The Level 2 class also goes more thoroughly into advanced topics with some of the project files from our Level 1 courses.
Course Outline
- Lesson 1: Using Shapes to Create Artwork for a Postcard
- Using Image Trace to convert raster images into editable vector art
- Cleaning up traced artwork
- Lesson 2: Editing and Combining Shapes and Paths
- Creating a compound path
- Combining shapes
- Working with the Shape Builder tool
- Assemble drawn objects
- Combining objects using Pathfinder effects
- Understanding shape modes
- Reshaping a path
- Using the Width tool
- Lesson 3: Drawing with the Pen Tool
- Brief review – as needed
- Lesson 4: Using Color to Enhance Artwork
- Brief Review – using swatches and using global color
- Creating and saving a tint of a color
- Creating a color group
- Using the Color Guide panel for Creative inspiration
- Editing a color group in the Edit Colors dialog box
- Editing colors in artwork
- Recoloring artwork
- Working with Live Paint
- Creating a Live Paint group
- Painting with the Live Paint Bucket tool
- Modifying a Live Paint group
- Lesson 5: Adding Type to a Project
- Creating and applying text styles
- Creating and applying a paragraph style
- Editing a paragraph style
- Creating and applying a character style
- Editing a character style
- Lesson 6: Organizing Your Artwork with Layers
- Collecting into a new layer
- Duplicating layer content
- Pasting layers
- Applying appearance attributes to layers
- Creating a clipping mask
- Lesson 7: Gradients, Blends and Patterns
- Starting the lesson
- Working with gradients
- Applying a linear gradient to a fill
- Editing a gradient
- Saving a gradient
- Adjusting a linear gradient fill
- Applying a linear gradient to a stroke
- Editing a gradient on a stroke
- Applying a radial gradient to artwork
- Editing the colors in the radial gradient
- Adjusting the radial gradient
- Applying gradients to multiple objects
- Adding transparency to gradients
- Working with blended objects
- Creating a blend with specified steps
- Modifying a blend
- Creating and editing a smooth color blend
- Painting with patterns
- Applying an existing pattern
- Creating your own pattern
- Applying your pattern
- Editing your pattern
- Lesson 8: Creating Artwork for a T-Shirt
- Starting the lesson
- Working with symbols
- Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
- Editing a symbol
- Working with dynamic symbols
- Creating a symbol
- Duplicating symbols
- Replacing symbols
- Breaking a link to a symbol
- Working with Creative Cloud libraries
- Adding assets to CC libraries
- Using library assets
- Updating a library asset
- Working with global editing
- Lesson 9: Placing and Working with Images
- Starting the lesson
- Combining artwork
- Placing image files
- Placing an image
- Transforming a placed image
- Cropping an image
- Placing a Photoshop document
- Placing multiple images
- Masking images
- Applying a simple mask to an image
- Editing a clipping path (mask)
- Masking an object with text
- Creating an opacity mask
- Editing an opacity mask
- Working with image links
- Finding link information
- Embedding and unembedding images
- Replacing an image
- Lesson 10: Sharing Projects (Exporting Assets)
- Starting the lesson
- Fixing the missing image link
- Creating a PDF
- Exporting artboards and assets
- Exporting artboards
- Exporting assets
Intended Audience
This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people taking on design responsibilities who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents. It is also useful for anyone interested in working toward the Adobe Certified Professional Graphic Design and Illustration Using Adobe Illustrator exam certification.
Prerequisites
Students should have experience with Illustrator and working knowledge of the skills covered in Core Skills: Level 1. Specifically, you should be familiar with the work area, be able to make selections, have some experience creating and editing shapes, as well as making transformations, using the drawing tools, and working with color, type, and layers.
For more information on the Level 1 course, go to:
Illustrator CC Core Skills: Level 1
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Subject: Request for Business Applications training from Applied Technology Academy
[Decision Maker Name],
I'm writing to request time and budget approval to complete Applied Technology Academy's course, Adobe Illustrator: Level 2 Training. The information below outlines how this training benefits our organization, the tasks I'll be able to perform after completing it, and relevant cost and funding details.
Course Description
Adobe Illustrator is a long standing favorite Adobe resource. Adobe Illustrator is the favorite vector design tool of thousands of design professionals due to the vast amount of creative possibilities offered in the application. Applied Technology Academy is an award-winning, SBA-certified woman-owned training provider (est. 2008) whose instructors are active practitioners; the course is hands-on with virtual labs and a learn-by-doing methodology.
Course Objectives
Once I've completed the course, I'll have hands-on, job-ready skills in business applications that I can apply immediately to our work.
Expected Organizational Benefits
After completing this course, I will be better equipped to apply these skills directly to our projects, reduce our reliance on outside expertise, strengthen our team's capabilities, and share what I learn with colleagues.
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Conclusion
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