Course Overview
TOPIn this two-day advanced Illustrator course, you discover the power and versatility of vector artwork. This advanced course takes you beyond the basics to learn the many capabilities available to you in Illustrator. This two-day course also covers troubleshooting for production personnel and advanced techniques for interesting design effects.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 07/09/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 08/06/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 09/04/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 10/08/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 11/05/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 12/03/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOP- Work more efficiently by re-using editable artwork with symbols and libraries
- Enhance appearance and creativity with effects and transparency
- Save and repurpose attributes with graphic styles
- Get creative with gradients, blends, patterns, and meshes
- Use advanced brushes for advanced drawing and painting techniques
- Tracing images
- Integration with other Creative Cloud apps
- Learn Illustrator's (AI) artificial intelligence using generative color and text-to-art features
Outline
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Illustrator essential skills and review
- Setting up the artboard
- Using the artboard panel
- Creating background shapes
- Combining shapes
- Sampling colors
- Applying fills and strokes
- Applying colors and effects
- Aligning and distributing shapes
- Distorting shapes
- Importing images
Working with symbols in Illustrator
- Understanding symbols and instances
- Cleaning out the symbol library
- Creating symbols
- Editing symbols
- Importing a symbol library
- Modifying symbol instances
- Using the symbolism tools
- Editing nested symbols
- Replacing symbols
- Saving symbol libraries
Using Adobe Illustrator effects and transparency
- Working with the Appearance panel
- Applying effects
- Editing effects
- Using graphic styles
- Creating and saving graphic styles
- Working with object transparency
- Experimenting with multiple opacities
- Understanding blending modes
- Saving and importing graphic styles
- Applying graphic styles to layers and symbols
Advanced Illustrator blending techniques
- Using the Blend Tool in Adobe Illustrator
- Applying a gradient
- Understanding linear vs. radial gradients
- Using Gradient Mesh options
- Adjusting a mesh
- Revisiting Blend Options
- Selecting multiple mesh points
- Overlapping images
- Using the Mesh tool
- Adding a highlight
Advanced Illustrator features
- Image Trace
- Pattern Options panel
- Gradients on strokes
- Make Mask and Release button
- Expandable color spectrum
- Character panel enhancements
- Transform panel additions
- Using the control panel
- Generative color with AI (artificial intelligence) (Beta)
- Using AI to create vector illustrations
Exporting and saving files from Illustrator
- Saving an illustration with layers for use in other applications
- Using Asset Export to save icons and other art for web and applications
- Exporting for Figma
- Exporting for Photoshop
- Integrating with InDesign
- Integrating with Animate
- Integrating with Premiere and After Effects
- File formats, SVG, AI, PNG, PSD and more
The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your Adobe Illustrator questions.
Prerequisites
TOPYou must have the Adobe Illustrator software to attend this class. Virtual labs are not provided. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version from the Adobe website.
Participants should have knowledge of all topics covered in the introduction to Illustrator course.
