Adobe Illustrator Training Course Level 1 UK Wide- On-site and Online

Beginners Adobe Illustrator Training Course

This one-day introduction to Adobe Illustrator training course teaches the basics of Illustrator for working with vector graphics to produce professional logos, line art, illustrations and artwork.

The course is available for the Cresative Cloud subscription version of Illustrator as well as for legacy desktop versions such as Creative Suite CS5 and CS6, and for Mac or Windows operating systems. This essentials course is an on-site event delivered either at your workplace, or as a live virtual classroom event, for one-to-one sessions and small groups of up to 10 delegates.

During our Adobe Illustrator beginners course you will start to work with Adobe's flagship vector graphic design software and be introduced to drawing tools and techniques, how to create custom shapes with ease and manage selections and layouts. You will also discover how to work with fonts, colours and images, new Generative AI features, and learn how to go about printing your finished work.

The beginners course can be combined with the Advanced 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.

What are the Illustrator Beginners Training Course Prerequisites?

No previous knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is required to attend this essentials course. The course is also suitable for those who are self-taught using Illustrator but feel more comfortable starting from scratch with an introductory course, or with a refresher.

On-site Beginners Adobe Illustrator Courses in the United Kingdom

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). On rare ocassions travel supplements may apply for Illustrator training in Central London to cover additional expenses such as congestion charges, but we will endeavour to waive these when possible.

Live Virtual Classroom Adobe Illustrator Beginners Training, UK and Beyond

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 Illustrator Training Delivery Method for Closed Courses

• 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).

Essentials Adobe Illustrator Training - Beginners 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 Overview
   • What is Adobe Illustrator?
   • Overview of the Toolbox
   • Overview of Palettes
   • Illustrator Views and navigating your way around the Illustrator environment
   • Setting Illustrator Preferences
   
   
2. Adobe Illustrator Selection Tools
   • Working with the Selection Tool
   • Directing the Selection Tool
   • Manipulating the selection tool
   • Techniques for better selecting
   
   
3. Adobe Illustrator Drawing Tools
   • Using the bézier¹ pen
   • Adding, removing and manipulating points
   • Using the Knife Tool for manipulating paths
   • Working with the Pencil Tool
   • Using the Smooth Tool
   • Using the Reshape tool
   • Using the Eraser Tool
   
   
4. Adobe Illustrator Shapes
   • Using Shape tools including elliptic, poly, spiral and rectangle tools
   • Working with geometric shapes
   • Reshaping and resizing your shapes
   • Using the Transform Tool for scaling, reflections, shearing and rotation
   • Working with the Pathfinder Palette²
   
   
5. Adobe Illustrator Layout Tools
   • Manipulating your layout with Illustrator grids, guides and rulers
   • Understanding and managing the stacking order
   • Grouping and ungrouping objects
   • Manipulating alignment and distribution
   
   
6. Working with Colour in Adobe Illustrator
   • Introduction to colour palettes
   • Working with spot colours³, global colours and Pantones⁴
   • Using the Swatch Palette (add, edit, delete swatches)
   • Using fills and strokes
   • Working with gradient colours and inkwells
   • Using the Eyedropper Tool
   • Using the Paint Bucket tool
   
   
7. The Adobe Illustrator Type Tool
   • Manipulating your typefaces
   • Understanding typeface attributes and properties (tracking, leading, kerning)⁵
   • Type paths and type path options
   • Working with outline type
   • Using the area tool and working with frame options
   
   
8. Working with Images in Adobe Illustrator
   • Importing
   • Moving and placing
   • Matching your image colours
   • Linking images and embedding images
   
   
9. Generative AI Features in Adobe Illustrator
   • Transform images to vector shapes with Generative AI
   • Vectorise your text with AI
   • Enhance your typography with vectorised scalable text
   • Recolouring with Generative AI
   • Content Aware Layouts
   
   
10. Printing your Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
    • Printing your Illustrator files
    • Print options and choices
    
    

Notes: Adobe Illustrator Beginners Terminology in Layman's Terms

1) In computer graphics a bézier curve is a curve which makes use of a mathematical formula to define the control points of the curve (and its scale) to produce a smooth and continual arc.

2) Just about anyone who works in illustration will tell you that the Pathfinder Palette (AKA the Pathfinder Tool) 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.

3) Spot Swatches in Adobe Illustrator enable you to provide / store additional colour information ("plates") for print where colours beyond the CYMK sprectrum of inks are required.

4) Native Pantone colours were phased out of Adobe Illustrator in late 2022 with just a few remaining (CYMK Coated, CYMK uncoated and Metallic Coated). Wider libraries of Pantone colours are available with a Pantone Connect Extension license. See the Pantone website on the subject here: Pantone Connect X Adobe FAQ.

The Pantone Colour System is a proprietry colour matching system for printing and used for ink colours which cannot be matched with conventional CYMK colours.

5) In typography, tracking and kerning change the distance between letters vertically, whereas leading changes the distance between letters horizontally. Tracking adjusts the space between all letters in a block of text whereas kerning changes the space between two letters at a time. With tracking and kerning, letters with ascending (e.g. h, l, t) or descending (e.g. y, p, q) features are adjusted, thereby changing their relationship with adjacent lines of text.

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)

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)

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)

Very Enjoyable! Lovely tutor and very interesting course
A Hemingway, Wakefield City Council (Adobe Acrobat training Wakefield, West Yorkshire)

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)

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)

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

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

Very first time I have used Captivate and it was a great start.
A. Kaczmarczyk, Learn Direct (Adobe Captivate training Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

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