Adobe Illustrator is a powerful drawing software program offered by Adobe. Anyone, regardless of artistic or computer ability, can use Illustrator to do a layout for a book, create a web page, and the list goes on. The best thing about it is, however, that you can do all these things easily using Illustrator once you learn the program and what different functions and features it provides.

This course was designed to teach you everything you need to know to make full use of Adobe Illustrator. However, you should be forewarned that Illustrator is a large program because there is so much you can do with it. 

If you're new to Illustrator, don't be nervous or worry. Again, we'll start at the beginning and teach you everything you need to know in simple, everyday language so you understand and learn. We'll even give you lesson exercises and assignments to aid you on your way. By the end of the course, no matter who you are or how much experience you've had with the program in the past, you will be an advanced user capable of using Adobe Illustrator like a professional.

At the end of this Adobe Illustrator Training Program, participants will be able to :

• Confidently apply the graphics and pictures 
• Transform Objects and working with artboards
• Blend Colors and Shapes
• Work with Layers and apply appearance attributes to layers
• Understand the Perspective Grid
• Apply Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles

This course is ideal for new and novice illustrator users. Typical delegates include graphic/web designers and people transitioning into design-related jobs who need to create illustrations, logos, diagrams, advertisements or other graphics.

Level: Foundation

• Getting to Know the Work Area
  • Working with the Tools Panel
  • The Control Panel
  • Working with Panels
  • Resetting and saving Your Workspace
  • Using panel menus
  • Changing the view of Artwork
  • Using the view commands
  • Using the zoom tool
  • Navigating multiple artboards
  • Using the Navigator Panel
  • Understanding rulers
  • Arranging multiple documents
  • Document groups
  • Finding resources for using Illustrator
  • Searching for a topic in the Search of Help box
  • Checking for updates

• Selecting and Aligning
  • Using the Selection Tool
  • Using the Direct Selection Tool
  • Creating selections with the Magic Wand tool
  • Selecting similar objects
  • Aligning Objects
  • Aligning objects to each other
  • Aligning to a key object
  • Aligning points
  • Distributing objects
  • Aligning to the artboard
  • Working with groups
  • Group items
  • Working in isolation mode
  • Adding a group
  • Object arrangement
  • Arrange objects
  • Selecting objects behind
  • Applying selection techniques

• Creating and Editing Shapes
  • Creating a new document
  • Working with basic shapes
  • Understanding drawing modes
  • Creating rectangles
  • Creating rounded rectangles
  • Creating ellipses
  • Creating polygons
  • Working with Draw Behind mode
  • Creating Stars
  • Changing stroke width and alignment
  • Working with line segments
  • Joining paths
  • Using Width tool
  • Outlining strokes
  • Combining and editing shapes
  • Working with the Shape Builder tool
  • Working with Pathfinder effects
  • Working with shape modes
  • Using Draw Inside mode
  • Editing content drawn inside
  • Using the Eraser tool
  • Using Image Trace to create shapes
  • Cleaning up traced artwork

• Transforming Objects
  • Working with artboards
  • Adding artboards to the document
  • Editing artboards
  • Renaming Artboards
  • Reordering Artboards
  • Transforming content
  • Working with rulers and guides
  • Scaling objects
  • Reflecting objects
  • Rotating objects
  • Distorting objects
  • Shearing objects
  • Positioning objects precisely
  • Changing perspective
  • Multiple Transformations
  • Using the Free Distort effect

• Drawing with the Pen Tool
  • Creating Straight Lines
  • Creating Curved Paths
  • Building a Curve
  • Curves and Corner Points
  • Creating the violin illustration
  • Selecting a curve
  • Drawing a curved shape
  • Drawing different kinds of curve
  • Drawing a violin shape
  • Creating the strings
  • Splitting a path
  • Adding arrowheads
  • Creating a dashed line
  • Editing curves
  • Deleting and adding anchor points
  • Convert between smooth points and corner points
  • Drawing with the Pencil tool
  • Editing with the Pencil tool
  • Finishing the violin illustration
  • Assembling the parts
  • Painting the artwork

• Color and painting
  • Color Modes
  • Understanding the Color Controls
  • Creating color
  • Building and saving a custom color
  • Editing a swatch
  • Using Illustrator swatch libraries
  • Creating a Spot Color
  • Using the Color Picker
  • Creating and saving a tint of a color
  • Copying attributes
  • Creating color groups
  • Working with the Color Guide panel
  • Editing a color group
  • Editing colors in artwork
  • Working with the Kuler panel
  • Assigning colors to your artwork
  • Adjusting colors
  • Painting with patterns and gradients
  • Applying exisiting patterns
  • Creating your own pattern
  • Applying a pattern
  • Editing a pattern
  • Working with Live Paint
  • Editing Live Paint
  • Working with Gap Options

• Working with Type
  • Importing a Plain Text File
  • Creating Columns of Text
  • Understanding Text Flow
  • Working with Overflow Text and Text Reflow
  • Threading Text
  • Resizing type objects
  • Formatting type
  • Changing the Font Color
  • Changing additional text attributes
  • Changing paragraph attributes
  • Saving and using styles
  • Creating and using a paragraph style
  • Creating and using a character style
  • Sampling text
  • Reshaping text with an envelope wrap
  • Wrapping text around an object
  • Creating text on open paths
  • Creating text on closed paths
  • Creating Text Outlines

Level: Intermediate

• Working with Layers
  • Creating Layers
  • Moving Objects and Layers
  • Locking Layers
  • Viewing Layers
  • Pasting Layers
  • Creating Clipping Masks
  • Merging Layers
  • Applying Appearance Attributes to Layers
  • Isolating Layers

• Working with Perspective Drawing
  
  • Understanding the Perspective Grid
  • Understanding Perspective
  • Working with the Perspective Grid
  • Using a preset grid
  • Drawing objects in perspective
  • Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
  • Attaching objects to perspective
  • Editing planes and objects together
  • Adding and editing text in perspective
  • Adding Symbols to the Perspective Grid
  • Transforming Symbols in perspective
  • Release content from perspective

• Blending Colors and Shapes
  
  • Creating and applying a linear gradient
  • Working with gradients
  • Adjusting the direction and angle of gradient blend
  • Creating a radial gradient
  • Changing colors and adjusting the gradient
  • Applying gradient to multiple objects
  • Adding transparency to gradients
  • Working with blended objects
  • Creating a blend with specified steps
  • Modifying the blend
  • Creating smooth color blends

• Working with Brushes
  • Using Calligraphic brushes
  • Editing a brush
  • Using a fill color with brushes
  • Remove a brush stroke
  • Using Art brushes
  • Drawing with the Paintbrush tool
  • Create an Art brush
  • Edit an Art brush
  • Using Bristle brushes
  • Changing bristle brush options
  • Painting with a Bristle brush
  • Using Pattern brushes
  • Creating a Pattern brush
  • Applying a Pattern brush
  • Changing the color attributes of brushes
  • Changing the brush color using Tints colorization
  • Changing the brush color using Hue Shift colorization
  • Working with the Blob Brush tool
  • Drawing with the Blob Brush tool
  • Edit an Art brush
  • Using Bristle brushes
  • Merging paths with the Blob Brush tool
  • Painting with a Bristle brush
  • Editing the Eraser tool
    
    
• Applying Effects
  • Using live effects
  • Applying an effect
  • Editing an effect
  • Styling text with effects
  • Editing shapes with a Pathfinder effect
  • Offsetting paths
  • Applying a Photoshop effect
  • Working with a 3D effect
  • Creating a revolved object
  • Changing the lighting of a 3D object
  • Mapping a symbol to the 3D artwork
    
    
• Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
  • Using appearance attributes
  • Editing and adding appearance attributes
  • Reordering appearance attributes
  • Adding an additional stroke and fill
  • Using graphic styles
  • Creating and saving a graphic style
  • Applying a graphic style to an object
  • Applying a graphic style to a layer
  • Applying existing graphic styles
  • Applying an appearance to a layer
  • Copying, applying, and removing graphic styles

• Working with symbols
  • Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
  • Creating symbols
  • Editing a symbol
  • Breaking a link to a symbol
  • Replacing symbols
  • Renaming symbols
  • Working with the Symbolism tools
  • Copy and edit symbol sets
  • Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
  • Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
  • Symbols and Flash integration

Level: Advanced

• Combing Illustrator Graphics with other Adobe Applications
  • Working with Adobe Bridge
  • Combining artwork
  • Vector versus bitmap graphic
  • Placing Adobe Photoshop files
  • Transforming a placed image
  • Embed a Photoshop image with Layer comp
  • Applying color edits to a placed image
  • Masking an image
  • Applying a clipping mask to an image
  • Editing a mask
  • Masking an object with a shape
  • Creating and Editing an opacity mask
  • Sampling colors in placed images
  • Working with image links
  • Finding link information
  • Replacing a linked image
  • Exporting a layered file to Photoshop

• Your Creative Workspace
  • Organizing Your Workspace
  • Mastering Object Management
  • Managing Multiple Artboards
  • Digitizing a Logo: Learning to Use a Template Layer
  • Basic to Complex: Starting Simple for Creative Composition
  • Guides for Arcs: Designing with Guides, Arc, and Pen Tools
  • Nested Layers: Organizing with Layers and Sublayers
  • Basic Appearances: Making and Applying Appearances
  • Auto-Scaling Art: Apply Effects and Graphic Styles to Resize

• Designing Type & Layout
  • Types of Type
  • Working with Threaded Text
  • Wrapping Area Type Around Objects
  • Formatting Text
  • Converting Type to Outlines
  • Using the Eyedropper with Type
  • Using the Appearance Panel with Type
  • The Glyphs Panel
  • Working with Legacy Text
  • Advanced Features of Multiple Artboards
  • Create an Identity: Working Efficiently with Multiple Elements
  • For Client Review: Creating Presentations for Artboards
  • Book Cover Design: Illustrator as a Stand-Alone Layout Tool
  • Curvaceous Type: Fitting Type to Curved Paths
  • Moving Your Type Setting: Setting Type on a Curve and Warping Type
  • Arcing Type: Transforming Type with Warps & Envelopes
  • Brush Your Type: Applying Brushes to Letterforms

• Rethinking Construction
  • The Eraser tools & the Blob Brush
  • Shape Builder tool
  • Working with Live Paint
  • Using Live Trace
  • Aligning, Joining, and averaging
  • Draw Behind and Draw Inside
  • Compound Shapes & Compound Paths
  • Combining Paths: Basic Path Construction with Pathfinders
  • Coloring Line Art: Using Live Paint for Fluid Productivity
  • Blob to Live Paint: From Sketch to Blob Brush and Live Paint
  • Rapid Reshaping: Using Shape Builder to Construct Objects
  • Interlock Objects: Using the Pathfinder Panel & Live Paint
  • Drawing Inside: Building with Multiple Construction Modes

• Expressive Strokes
  • Width Tool
  • The Expanded Stroke Panel
  • Brushes
  • Symbols
  • Brushes & Washes: Drawing with Naturalistic Pen, Ink & Wash
  • Pattern Brushes: Creating Details with the Pattern Brush
  • Symbolism Basics: Creating and Working with Symbols
  • Painterly Portraits: Painting in Layers with Bristle Brushes

• Color Transitions
  • Gradients
  • Gradient Mesh
  • Live Color
  • Custom Coloring: Creating Custom Colors & Color Groups
  • Color Guidance: Inspiration from the Color Guide Panel
  • Scripting Colors: Tools for Adding and Editing Colors
  • Kuler Colors: Using Kuler, Live Trace, & Live Color
  • Unified Gradients: Controlling Fills with the Gradient Annotator
  • Folding Gradients: Simulating Paper Folds with Gradients
  • Contouring Mesh: Converting Gradients to Mesh and Editing
  • Recolor Black: Using Live Color to Replace Blacks
  • Reducing Color: Going Monochromatic with Live Color
  • Transparent Mesh: Molding Transparent Mesh Layers Going

• Reshaping Dimensions
  • Wraps and Envelopes
  • 3D Effect
  • The Perspective Grid
  • Wrap & Distort: Bending Forms to Create Organic Variations
  • 3D with a 2D Twist: Using 3D Effects to Achieve 2D Results
  • One Perspective: Simulating a One-Point Perspective View
  • Amplified Angels: Creating Details with Two-Point Perspective
  • Modifying a Photo: Inserting Photographs in Perspective
  • Establishing Perspective: Aligning Grids & Planes to an Architectural Sketch
• Mastering Complexity
  • Transparency
  • Opacity Masks
  • Blends
  • Clipping Masks
  • Roping in Paths: Using Masks and Pathfinders for Shapes
  • Floating Type: Type Objects with Transparency & Effects
  • Adding Highlights: Using Transparency to Create Highlights
  • Opacity Masks 101: Transparency Masks for Blending Objects
  • Simple Masking: Applying the Basics of Clipping Masks
  • Blending Elements: Using Transparency to Blend and Unify
  • Warping Blends: Creating and Warping 3D Blends
  • Moonlighting: Using Transparency for Glows & Highlights
  • Creating Depth: Gradients Add Dimension in Space

• Creatively Combining Apps
  • Linking vs. Embedding in Illustrator
  • Moving Illustrator files to other Programs
  • Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
  • Illustrator and InDesign
  • Illustrator, PDF, and Adobe Acrobat
  • Illustrator & 3D Programs
  • Web Graphics
  • Creating Animation with Layers

This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, discussions, and practical exercises.

Nexam Mokhtar
Qualifications:
Corporate IT Trainer
Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) | UPM
Certification in Physical Science | KPM Matriculation College

Mr. Nexam is experienced in handling participants from the corporate as well as the public sector.

He has been actively conducting training for the past 8 years and 10 years of corporate work and is a certified Microsoft, Adobe & AUTOCAD trainer.

He has also worked through various age group of the participants and have a lot of experience in handling versatile participants.

“Before attending the course, I wanted to know how to design using Adobe Illustrator. After the course, I understand what AI can do  and the trainer was easy to understand and engaging too.”–Dato’ Mazlan, Director, International Science Council,  Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.