Adobe Illustrator CS4 Intermediate

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

This course is intended for designers, publishers, prepress 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. They will have some previous experience with Illustrator.

Before taking this course, students are recommended to take the following course, or have equivalent knowledge:

• Adobe Illustrator CS4 Introduction

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create complex illustrations.
• Enhance complex illustrations.
• Create a vector version of a raster graphic.
• Create special effects.
• Work with graphs.
• Work with variables.
• Prepare documents for composite and commercial printing.
• Export graphics for the web and mobile devices.

Lesson 1: Creating Complex Illustrations

Topic 1A: Create a Custom Shape Using Simple Shapes
Topic 1B: Create Compound Paths
Topic 1C: Offset Paths
Topic 1D: Erase Shapes

Lesson 2: Enhancing Complex Illustrations

Topic 2A: Create Symbols
Topic 2B: Organise Objects with Layers
Topic 2C: Create a Pattern Swatch
Topic 2D: Create a Mesh
Topic 2E: Create Custom Brushes
Topic 2F: Apply Colour Using Live Paint
Topic 2G: Recolor Artwork

Lesson 3: Creating a Vector Version of a Raster Graphic

Topic 3A: Trace Artwork Automatically
Topic 3B: Adjust the Results of Tracing
Topic 3C: Create a Custom Preset
Topic 3D: Convert a Traced Object to Paths

Lesson 4: Creating Special Effects

Topic 4A: Apply Effects
Topic 4B: Create Masks
Topic 4C: Simplify Paths
Topic 4D: Create Blends
Topic 4E: Share Graphic Styles
Topic 4F: Create 3-D Effects

Lesson 5: Working with Graphs

Topic 5A: Create a Graph
Topic 5B: Format a Graph

Lesson 6: Working with Variables

Topic 6A: Create Variables
Topic 6B: Create Data Sets

Lesson 7: Outputting Documents

Topic 7A: Create an Artboard
Topic 7B: Set Up Colour Management
Topic 7C: Preview an Overprint
Topic 7D: Apply Spot Colours
Topic 7E: Print a Composite Proof
Topic 7F: Create Colour Separations
Topic 7G: Create an Adobe PDF File

Infero Training Ltd is based in the Lace Market in Nottingham. Training courses take place at the following locations including Nottingham, Derby, Loughborough, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Burton-on-Trent, Lincoln, Leicester, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Birmingham, Solihul, Coventry, Nuneaton, Peterborough, Grantham.