Illustrator Training Course Level 2 UK Wide - On-site and Online

Advanced Adobe Illustrator Training Course

This one-day Adobe Illustrator advanced course is available for all versions of Creative Suite including CS5, CS6 and Illustrator CC (Creative Cloud), and on Mac or Windows operating systems. The course introduces students to some of the more sophisticated ways of working with Illustrator including advanced techniques for layouts, brushes, colours, shapes, paths and also looks at some newer subjects such as working with 3D effects.

Our Adobe Illustrator course is delivered on-site at your workplace or as live virtual classroom for one-to-one sessions and small groups of up to 10 delegates.

The course can be combined with the Beginners Adobe Illustrator training course to create a two-day training programme. Alternatively, you can also blend the training with other Adobe applications, or opt for our five day Creative Cloud Master Class.

Illustrator Advanced Training Course Prerequisites

In order to attend this course you should already have basic Adobe Illustrator skills and knowledge equivalent to our Illustrator Beginners training course.

On-site Adobe Illustrator Advanced Courses

Our 'face-to-face' closed courses for Adobe Illustrator are delivered as private courses for your delegates offering more flexibility than off-the-shelf public courses and topics taught can often be tailored to match your learning needs. One of our trainers will discuss your training requirements with you prior to the course.

These Adobe Illustrator training courses are conducted at your workplace for small groups and are exceptional value and very popular. You will usually need to book at least one month in advance. We can attend anywhere in the UK (for overseas requirements, please enquire).

With our on-site Adobe Illustrator courses our regional trainers come to your workplace throughout England, bringing the training to you regardless of whether you are in a major city such as London, Manchester, Birmingham or Leeds, or anywhere else. This offers a really cost-effective way to train small groups and entire departments in the comfort of familiar surroundings from the Capital City of London to The Cotswolds, from Hampshire to Northamptonshire, West Midlands to West Yorkshire, Sussex to South Yorkshire, Norfolk to Northumberland, Lancashire to Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire to Gloucestershire, Bristol to Berkshire, Essex to the East Riding and everywhere inbetween.

Live Virtual Classroom Adobe Illustrator Advanced Courses

If you have a group of staff that you would prefer to be tutored remotely rather than having a trainer come out to you these small-group Adobe Illustrator courses are also available Online as live virtual, interactive training sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These live instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we are all becoming more used to Online learning and live virtual meetings it has become apparent that the virtual classroom method of delivery has many advantages over traditional face-to-face learning venues.

If you are looking for local training near you, then you can't get any closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

Our virtual learning Illustrator courses cater for groups of up to ten people and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with your trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is further enhanced by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

You can find out how to set up Microsoft Teams for a live Online virtual course here (Virtual Learning with MS Teams).

Adobe Training Delivery Method for Closed Courses for Businesses

• Instructor-led Adobe Illustrator training provided in-person with step-by-step demonstrations, lessons and hands-on exercises.
  
  
• Dynamic and interactive Adobe Illustrator courses with plenty of time for questions and answers.
  
  
• The personal touch: Professional tuition that's tailored to match your team's present knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Adobe Illustrator functions, design features and techniques that your trainee staff, co-workers or employees need the most.
  
  
• Private, corporate Adobe Illustrator training for small group sizes with a maximum of 10 learners on any course.
  
  
• Can be run as a single course, tutorial or workshop; Or as a training rollout bringing whole teams, departments and organisations up to the benchmark level of Adobe software knowledge that you require.

What is the difference between Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Creative Suite?

Adobe Creative Cloud is Adobe's platform of Cloud-based creative design and desk-top publishing applications and tools (such as PhotoShop, Indesign and Illustrator and so forth) which is licensed as a subscription-based service either for individual CC products, or for the whole of the Creative Cloud suite.

Adobe Creative Suite is Adobe's legacy 'On-Premise' suite of creative design and desk-top publishing applications and tools (such as PhotoShop, Indesign and Illustrator and so forth) which is licensed with a traditional EULA (End User License Agreement) whereby the software is physically installed on your device both for individual Creative Suite products or the whole suite of software applications.

All of our closed course Adobe training programmes can be delivered on either Creative Cloud (CC) or Creative Suite (CS).

Advanced Adobe Illustrator Training - One Day Course Outline

We specialise in delivering flexible training programmes and the actual course content, topics and syllabus taught will often vary depending upon your learning requirements and upon the version of the software taught.

1. Adobe Illustrator: Working with Layouts
   • Working with Object guides
   • Using smart guides
   • Setting default workspaces
   • Applying precise positioning
   • Aligning and distributing Illustrator objects
   
   
2. Adobe Illustrator: Working with Brushes
   • Customising your brushes
   • Creating brush libraries
   • Associating your bursh libraries with other documents
   
   
3. Adobe Illustrator Advanced Typographics
   • Applying paragraph styles and character styles
   • Setting outlined text
   • Setting text line curves
   • Slicing your text paths
   • Inserting link text
   • Open type and type compositing
   
   
4. Adobe Illustrator: Working with Paths
   • Working with the Pen tool and manipulating anchor points
   • Editing paths with the scissor and knife tool
   • Using smart guides
   • Pen techniques and tips
   
   
5. Adobe Illustrator Live Trace¹ Techniques
   • Working with tracing
   • Applying trace options
   • Expanding Live Trace
   • Artwork to path conversion
   • Editing and touching-up your artwork
   
   
6. Adobe Illustrator: Working with Colours
   • Introduction to advanced colour modes
   • Working with colour palettes and swatches
   • Using gradient colours and techniques for working with gradients
   • Helpful Colour picker techniques
   
   
7. Adobe Illustrator Filters and 3D Effects
   • Using Illustrator filters to manipulate light, shade and bevel effects
   • Using bevelling, revolve and rotate
   
   
8. Adobe Illustrator Compound Paths² / Shapes and Clipping Masks³
   • Producing compound paths (manipulating and editing)
   • Manipulating transparencies
   • Working with the Pathfinder Palette⁴
   • Producing and manipulating Clipping Masks
   
   
9. Adobe Illustrator: Working with Special Characters and Symbols
   • Working with Special Characters
   • Symbol instances
   • Techniques for manipulating symbols
   • Using the symbol sprayer
   • Making your own custom symbols
   • Working from the symbol libraries
   
   
10. Adobe Illustrator Print, Export and PDF
    • Considerations for printing from Illustrator
    • Creating PDFs from your work
    
    

Notes: Adobe Illustrator Terminology in Layman's Terms:

1) In Adobe Illustrator the Live Trace feature allows you to trace the outline of an image as a vector graphic without needing to do this by hand.

2) A Compound Path in Adobe Illustrator is a collection of paths which together create holes where they intersect with one another.

3) Clipping Masks are used to define the visible area in a group of layers. For instance, the lowest layer might contain a shape, the middle layer an image and the top layer a text area. You would use a Clipping Mask to confine the visible area to the dimensions of the shape on the bottom layer.

A Clipping Mask Example:

4) Just about anyone who works in illustration will tell you that the Pathfinder Palette is one of the best and most useful features of Adobe Illustrator. With it you can create custom shapes and paths with a single click. You can morph two or more shapes with combinations of addition, subtraction, exclusions, segmentations, trims, merges and crops giving you an impressive range of flexibility and control over shape manipulation.

Illustrator Course Levels: training courses are available for beginners and advanced users of Adobe Illustrator.

Desktop Publishing & Adobe Software Training Reviews from our UK Clients

Just wanted to put on record how pleased we were with the standard of training we received last week. The trainer is a credit to your organisation and we will certainly not hesitate in organising training through yourself again as required in the future.
M Roberts, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (PhotoShop beginners training Chester, Cheshire)

I just wanted to thank you for all of your help regarding our illustrator training course for beginners. We had a great day, learnt a lot, and definitely felt the benefit of a days training. Our instructor was brilliant, good training method and really went into detail on areas we struggled in (which helped a lot.)
H. Fox, HTI Group (Illustrator Beginners Training Fleetwood, Lancashire)

A comprehensive course, no need for improvements.
A Alvey, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (Advanced Illustrator Training Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

The trainer knew her stuff and was well versed in Illustrator and the design process. She was approachable and her style was relaxed and enjoyable and she explained in an easily understandable way.
C. Pringle, IDOX Group (Adobe Illustrator Training Reading, Berkshire)

I've been getting some feedback from our delegates saying that they enjoyed their day immensely, got so much out of it and thought that their trainer was ace!
E Stephenson, Studio Cambridge (Beginners Illustrator Training Cambridge, East of England)

I just wanted to let you know that we had a fantastic time yesterday in your training session! What a fab, funny enthusiastic lady. We're all feeling a bit more confident now in using this tool in our jobs. Can you pass on our best wishes to her.
C Farthing, Sue Ryder (Beginners PhotoShop Training Northampton, Northants)

The instructions made learning the software so much easier than I had imagined, and the trainer is an absolute delight to be with. Making learning fun is a talent. She is a rare gem. Thank you for sending her to me. She has changed my working life in three days flat!
P. Scott (Beginners PhotoShop, InDesign and Illustrator Training Winchester, Hampshire)

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thank you to the trainer for the training on Friday. Everyone really enjoyed it and we found it really beneficial. We do hope to use you again in the future for other training purposes.
C Boothroyd, Bako North Western Ltd (PhotoShop and InDesign Training Preston, Lancashire)

The trainer was lovely and incredibly helpful tailoring the training to our needs, please pass on our thanks.
D Kilty, Hitchcock Wright and Partners (Adobe InDesign Training Liverpool, Merseyside)

Excellent
L Bhardwaj (PhotoShop training Blaby Leicestershire)

A fantastic tutor, made the whole experience very enjoyable.
R Sharma-Slessor, Depuy Spine (a Jonson & Jonson Company) (Adobe Photoshop and Indesign Training Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Very informative course with lots of helpful advice and good practice.
M Hamilton, Canon Slade School (Dreamweaver Training workshop Bolton Lancashire)

Really enjoyable and worthwhile.
L Maycock, Trutex Ltd (QuarkXpress Beginners Training Clitheroe Lancashire)

[The trainer] has been great to work with. I really enjoyed the training.
K. Clarke, HSBC (Indesign training Birmingham, West Midlands)

I'd just like to say a big thank you to you on behalf of all the attendees. We thoroughly enjoyed the training.
A Hall, Royal Liverpool University Hospital (Adobe Captivate Training Liverpool, Merseyside)

The training was great and the trainer was marvellous.
S. Hart, Chester Grosvenor Hotel (Adobe InDesign training Chester, Cheshire)

An exceptional trainer. I found her manner warm, easy going professional and interested. Her skills with the Adobe Cloud were vast, her knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets, Convert to Paths, and Clipping Handles exceptional. She will always be somebody who shall forever remain in our hearts.
D. Cook, CML2 Ltd (Adobe Creative Cloud Master Class and QuarkXpress Beginners training Ipswich, Suffolk)

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