Adobe Illustrator Level 2 Expert Training Course

Where is the school located?

New York City Location
545 8th Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10018
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Washington, DC / Virginia Location
1901 N. Fort Myer Drive, Suite 1020
Arlington, VA 22209
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Why is the tuition much lower than other schools?

Our tuition is much lower than other training providers because we have optimized our business processes to ensure quality training at a reasonable price. As a smaller school with lower overhead we are able to provide a great class and better value to our students.

What are your instructors like?

We only hire the best instructors. Our instructors for Adobe design courses must have a minimum of 10 years of real world experience and at least 5 years of teaching experience.

Why should I choose your training over other Adobe training providers?

Choosing a training provider can be tough choice. We all claim to offer the best value, in terms of price, passing rates, and guarantee. The Technical Institute of America offers the lowest price, one of the best passing rate, and an excellent guarantee. As a New York State licensed school and Better Business Bureau Accredited business we can honestly say what we offer is the truth and you can verify it.

Do you ever cancel a class because you don't have enough students?

No, we never cancel a class. We will teach a class with 1 registered student if we have to. If unforeseen circumstances arise such as bad weather, instructor health or family problems and we have to cancel a class, we will offer all students a 100% refund or reschedule to another class.

Lesson 1: Creating and Combining Shapes revisited

• Shape draw tools revisited
• Pathfinder / Shape Mode revisited and expanded upon
• Complex shape challenges with the Pathfinder
• Logo and icon design with shapes

Lesson 2: Brushes, Swatches, Symbols and Graphic Styles revisited: Creating Custom Libraries

• Concise review of core Brush skills: using and creating custom Brushes; saving Brush Libraries
• Blending / “morphing” one object into another and saving as a brush
• Graphic Styles review: using and creating custom Graphic Styles, including interactive Buttons
• Creating a new font as Graphic Style
• Creating and Saving Pattern Swatches for fashion industry, revisited and expanded upon
•  Creating and Saving Custom Symbols revisited; creating more complex Symbols
• Creating symbols and Patterns from Bitmaps

Lesson 3: Working in 3D

• Extruding 2D vector art in perspective to create 3D Object Effects
• Revolving a curved line in 3D space to create 3D objects
• Mapping a “Skin” to a 3D Object

Lesson 4: Integrating Illustrator with other programs: Bridge, InDesign, Photoshop and Flash

• Creating a Contact Sheet of art samples in Bridge
• Effects: Photoshop vs. Illustrator effects, including but not limited to: Paint Daubs, Colored Pencil, Neon Glow, Film Grain, Scribble, Pucker and Bloat and many more
• Importing Illustrator-created art into an InDesign document, such as a book and magazine
• Saving an Illustrator Web ad as Vectors for Flash

Lesson 5: Precision Vector Drawing with the Pen Tool, revisited

• The Pen Tool is the most demanding—and rewarding tool in your Illustrator arsenal
• Creating shapes with curves and which combine straight lines and curves
• Switching on the fly between curved and straight lines
• Manipulating Bezier Curves with the Direct Selection Tool and “Convert Anchor Point Tool
• When to use the Pen Tool—when to use edited Shapes instead

Lesson 6: “Vectorizing” an Image: Bitmap to Line Art Conversion

• “Vectorizing” photos: Converting a photo to vector line art using Trace Bitmap
• Editing, removing and filling paths of traced bitmaps
• Creating a postcard design using vector and bitmap images together
  

Lesson 7: Putting It All Together: Creating a Map of a City Park

• Selectively trace and clean up a scan of a busy, cluttered map using the Pen Tool
• Adding custom icons and legend to the City Map
• Working with multiple text boxes of various sizes and angles.
• Deploying content for maximum clarity and legibility

Lesson 8: Putting It All Together: Designing an Advertisement for Print and Web

• Assembling text and image elements into a professional ad
• Handling the challenge of the client wanting to cram too much into their ad space
• Delivering finished work to web designers, desktop publishers and other professionals

Lesson 9: Putting It All Together: Designing a Logo

• Understanding core principles of logo and advertising design
• Understanding visual communication
• Using negative space to create contemporary, clean designs
• Designing a Logo for print and web
• Typing on a Path revisited: adding curved text to the logo

Lesson 10: Putting It All Together: Creating a Multimedia Interface for Flash

• Designing a Multimedia player interface for export to Flash
• Deploying the final product to Web and Mobile Devices, including iPad
• Providing output for printing presses, web designers, ad agencies and other professionals

Lesson 11: What’s new in CC & Third-party Resources

• Stroke Gradients
• Mercury Engine
• Link panel enhancements
• Pattern creation improvements
• Unembedded images

Lesson 12: Slicing for Web / HTML Export

• Creating a Web page design
• Slicing the Web page design using the Slice Tool
• Exporting the Slices as HTML Web page