What: Hands-on practical course, lesson 4 is bespoke allowing for you to work on your projects and portfolio.

When: 4 week evening course - 1 class per week with practice in-between.

Time: 6:45pm - 9:30pm

Where: London Software Training, 17, Sheep Lane, London, E8 3FA

After our comprehensive and practical 4 evening course, you’ll be up and running with Illustrator and gain the drawing skills and confidence that will improve your productivity. You’ll work on exciting design projects within the course, with the aim to develop your portfolio.

Course outline

• Setting up Illustrator projects
• Identify project requirements
• Establish target audience and needs
• Identify user interface elements
• Create and select Workspaces
• Navigate and zoom documents

 

Artboards

• Setting up Documents
• The Artboard Tool
• Artboard View
• Editing Artboards
• Rearranging Options
• Best Practice
• Artboards & Advanced Guides
• Artboards & Interface
• Artboards & Smart Guides
• Create artwork
• Understand difference between vector and bitmap formats
• Apply design principles to create artwork
• Use shape tools to create basic geometry
• Select and grouping objects
• Transform and modify elements
• Create text
• Organise artwork using layers
• Colours
• Select and apply colours
• Create colour swatches
• Apply and modify gradients
• Effects and transparency
• Apply transparency to objects
• Place raster images

 

Image Trace

• Settings
• Adjustments
• Editing

 

Live Paint

• Live Paint Overview
• Live Paint Tools
• Live Paint Explored
• Selecting Areas
• Selecting Paths
• Gap Direction

 

• Use the links panel to relink and update images
• Trace images using live trace presets
• Identifying common file formats
• Choose appropriate settings to optimise graphics on the screen and print
• Create JPEG, PDF, PNG, SVG

Your course price includes

• Free group course re-take within 18 months
• Expert teaching from practising architects, designers and software pros
• Hands-on, practical lessons - tailoring of syllabus and work on your projects
• Class recordings for revision and development
• LST certificate of completion for your CV and LinkedIn

Your tutors are designers, makers and architects, as well as software pros. They will guide you on the best way to apply for design roles or set-up a creative business, whilst teaching you all the key technical skills to make your CV and portfolio stand out from the crowd.