Adobe Illustrator Advanced Course

Dive into this online Adobe Illustrator Advanced Training course and find out more about working with complex paths, advanced tracing techniques and take advantage of the under-utilised Appearance panel.

Virtual Online Illustrator training 24 /7 including nights and weekends 

Contact us to arrange online training

All online Illustrator courses are with a live instructor and run in all popular video conferencing software.

Online Illustrator Courses

Our online  Adobe Illustrator Courses run virtually with a live instructor giving you direct contact with them throughout the training via video, chat & screen share. They will be with you from the first initial online meeting all the way through your virtual Illustrator training session.

Online Illustrator Training Courses are run via all the most popular video conferencing software including Zoom, Teams, Google and WebEx. It’s your choice which one you prefer.

We are happy to record your training session for you to refer back to after the training. Unfortunately due to privacy reasons we can only this for private one to one training and closed company group courses.

All our digital design courses are available online. 

Added Bonus about Online Illustrator Courses

An added bonus of Online Illustrator Courses is that because no travel is involved there’s less stress on the planet and environmentally a good step.

It’s great for those working from home days wherever you are, the UK or even the US for that matter.

If you have any questions about our Online Adobe Training please do not hesitate to pick up the phone or drop us an email. 

Find out more about Online Training

During the course you will learn how to work with complex paths, the Advanced Trace Panel and Appearance panel. Find out how to use the latest AI tools including mockups, recolour and text to image to both streamline workflows and generate ‘interesting’ artwork. 

The course also shows a range of ways to save time and improve workflow effectively and creatively.

We still love to travel come out to host onsite Illustrator courses at your premises.

 

We visit the length and breadth of the UK including Liverpool, Luton, Birmingham, York, Cheltenham, Nottingham and everywhere else North, South, East and West of these.

Contact us to arrange onsite training

You need to have either worked with Illustrator quite intensely in the workplace or to have attended either the Illustrator Introduction Course or Illustrator Intermediate to attend this training.

Perfect for anyone working in a graphic environment this Illustrator Advanced Training works well for graphic designers,

content creators, video editors, businesses looking to create professional graphics.

This is a one /two day course depending on the amount of delegates sitting in.

For a 121 or a couple of people the content works well over one day but for larger groups then two days is more realistic. 

The course gives you the ability to work with both print & digital and to enhance your existing skills by learning the more in-depth techniques contained in the software. 

 

You will work with:

 

  • Advanced Colour Techniques
  • Colour Share
  • 3D & Materials
  • CC Libraries 
  • Advanced Pen, Curvature Pen & Pencil
  • Advanced Path Techniques
  • Create, Edit & Design Brushes
  • Work with Patterns
  • Work with Appearance Panel /None Destructive Design
  • Advanced Trace Panel
  • Clipping Paths & Compound Paths
  • Charts & Graphs
  • Website Design /Slice /Slice Selections /Slice Options /Save for Web

Onsite training is extremely flexible and can be organised for one to one sessions, larger team roll outs or company groups/workshops.

 

There are a range of plusses for choosing an onsite Illustrator course but the main ones are:

 

  • Training is hands on meaning you retain more

  • No traveling involved for you or your team saving travel & expenses

  • Cheaper than traditional training 

  • The approach is focused specifically on you and your specific needs this is not a generic one size fits all course. 

  • No external attendees on the course
  • Prior to the training you chat with me about your aims, content preferences and levels of delegate /s knowledge which means we both have clear guidelines for the Illustrator Training

  • Flexible dates & times to suit you

 

Adobe Illustrator Advanced Course - Overviews

Illustrator Colour

Advanced Colour Techniques

Swatch Libraries

Edit Colours

Colour Overprint

Balancing Colour

Illustrator Live Trace Panel

Working with Trace Panel

Adjusting Paths, Corners, and Noise

Method Options /Abutting & Overlapping

Snap Curves

Compound Paths & Clipping Masks

Creating and releasing compound paths

Transparency control

Editing compound paths, pathfinder palette.

Creating and releasing a clipping mask, modifying a clipping mask.

Illustrator Brushes

Creating & Designing Brushes
Art /Scatter /Bristle /Pattern

Brush Panels 

Illustrator 3D & Materials

Working with 3D Objects

Object /Materials /Lighting

Revolving, Rotating & Mapping Artwork

3D & Materials Properties

Creating Charts

Importing Chart Data

Formatting Chart Data

Customising your chart

Combining Chart

Working with Graph Design

Styling and Updating Graphs

Un-grouping Graphs

Illustrator Pen Tool

Advanced Pen, Curvature Pen & Pencil

Advanced paths

Scissors & knife tools

Average/Splitting paths

Tips and tricks to manipulate the curves lines and speed up the pen workflow

Illustrator Symbols

Using symbols

Editing Existing Symbols

Creating New Symbols

Working with the Symbols Tool

Illustrator Print and Export

Printing

Using the Attributes panel

Separations Panel

Flattener Preview

Print terminology 

Exporting to PDF

Illustrator Appearance Panel

None Destructive Editing with Appearance

Panel Overview /Appearance Attributes

Stacking Appearance Objects

Copy Appearance Objects

Appearance Panel & Eyedropper

 

Webpage Design /Mail Shots

Using the Slice Tool

Adjusting Slices with the Slice Selection Tool

Different slice options

Automated slicing

Save for Web