ABOUT THE COURSE

The Adobe Illustrator Certificate course is a 6-day hands-on training programme that shows participants how to use some of the common tools and features of Illustrator to produce engaging designs and publications. The course will expose learners to the principles of graphic design in areas such as fonts and typography, colour scheme, measurement, creating awesome background and the use of the freehand and pen tools to design logos and other amazing visuals.

Course Outline

DAY I:  

1.   What is Graphics?

2.   Introduction to Typography

3.   Understanding colour scheme 

4.    The application of colour

5.   The ruler feature and measurement

6.   Understanding the Tool bar

DAY II: 

1.    How to create shapes and objects with Freehand

2.   How to use the Pen tool

3.   Combining images in Photoshop

4.   How to use the masking … including the dreaded hair!

5.   How to clean up images.

6.   Create amazing typography

DAY III: 

1.   Create engaging visual styles

2.   Create distorted images

3.   How to create graphics from scratch

4.   Retouch of photographs like a pro

5.   You will create a postcard.

6.   Create posters.

DAY IV: 

1.   Create adverts banner

2.   Resize Images

3.   Build a flyer

4.   Change the color or images

5.   Fix the colors in photographs

6.   How to change eye & hair colors

DAY V: 

1.   Combining two or more photographs

2.   Create a storm effect in a tea cup

3.   Create text textures with stone effect

4.   Create a logo with type with wrap around effect

5.   How to super-impose photographs on an object

6.   How to clean up images 

DAY VI: 

1.   Adding a shadow effect to images

2.   Converting images to duotone

3.   Convert photographs to oil paintings

4.   Adding halftone effects to your images

5.   Blending a logo with photographs and objects

6.   Creating 3D dripping effect with text