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1 day course

Illustrator CS3 Foundation

Creating Simple Shapes

  • Create a New Document
  • Customize the Workspace
  • Draw Basic Shapes with the Shape Tools
  • Draw Basic Freeform Shapes with the Pencil Tool

Creating Logos Using Simple Shapes

  • Format Objects
  • Manipulate Objects
  • Insert Type

Creating Logos Using Custom Paths

  • Draw Paths with the Pen Tool
  • Modify Existing Shapes
  • Duplicate Objects
  • Apply Graphic Styles

Enhancing Logo Type

  • Apply Gradients to Type
  • Flow Type on a Path
  • Apply an Envelope to Type

Manipulating Body Type

  • Import Body Type
  • Format Type with Styles
  • Find and Replace Text
  • Fix Spelling Errors
  • Insert Typographic Characters

Creating an Advertisement

  • Import a Graphic
  • Align Objects
  • Apply Spot Colors
  • Wrap Text
  • Export a File

Organizing Assets with Adobe Bridge

  • Customize the Adobe Bridge Workspace

Overview

Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 is a sophisticated graphics application that helps you to create complex and attractive designs with type effects. You can create logos, advertisements, and other illustrations with ease using this software. However, creating complex designs can be overwhelming if you are not familiar with the tools present in Adobe Illustrator and their features. In this course, you will learn to use Adobe Illustrator CS3 by drawing and manipulating simple shapes to create logos. You will also combine text and graphics to create advertisements. Course Objective: You will use Adobe Illustrator CS3 to create illustrations such as logos and advertisements that include type and graphics.

Target student

This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities, who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should be familiar with the basic functions of their computer's operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, and working with windows. Students should also have basic Windows application skills such as copying and pasting objects, formatting text, and saving files.

Private Training Courses

We offer private training courses which may be delivered at our training centre or at your premises on dates to suit you and your delegates. Course content can follow the standard course material as listed in the course outline, or can be tailored to your specific requirements at no extra cost.

For a single company private course we normally recommend that any class does not exceed 8 delegates in order to ensure that the learning objectives are met.

Total price per day (ex-Vat)
Number of delegates 1 2 3 4 5 6 Extra Person
At our Reading Training Centre £545 £595 £645 £695 £745 £795 £50
On your premises £495 £545 £595 £645 £695 £745 £50

 

For on-site courses only:

  • Notebook computer hire is £40 per computer per day. Savings can be made for block bookings of 2 or more days, please ask for details.
  • Trainer travel and accomodation is charged at cost and we can give you a fixed price quote for this prior to booking.

Course fees are payable in advance and are listed exclusive of VAT.