Adobe Illustrator Intro Training in Omagh, Derry, Belfast and Throughout Northern Ireland

Our 2 day Introduction to Adobe Illustrator CS5 CS6 CC is designed to provide delegates with the basics of creating and editing vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator.

Call 028 9032 2228 or email info@mullantraining.com to enquire.

PREREQUISITES 

No experience of Adobe Illustrator is necessary.

BENEFITS
Delegates will learn when to use vector graphics rather than bit-mapped, how to use the comprehensive selection of drawing tools, building up an illustration with objects and using type in illustrations.

COURSE CONTENT

CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT

• Profiles for Screen and Print
• Resolution
• Pasteboard
• Save as…
• Exploring Illustrator’s Templates

ILLUSTRATOR WORKSPACE

• Built in Workspaces
• Creating and saving a Workspace
• The Tool Bar
• Using the Control Panel
• Organizing Panels
• View Options
• Basic Navigation and Viewing
• Preview/Outline Options
• Tabbed open documents
• The Application Frame

CREATING GEOMETRIC OBJECTS

• Basic drawing tools
• Shortcuts
• The Bounding Box and dimensions
• The Strokes panel
• Adding colour with fill and stroke
• Altering Objects with transformations
• Scaling
• Rotating
• Shearing
• Reflecting
• Free Transform Tool
• Transform Each

PATHFINDER

• Combining vector objects
• Pathfinder Modes
• Shape Modes

THE PEN TOOL

• Creating Paths with the Pen Tool
• Editing Anchor Points
• The Direct Selection Tool
• Beautiful New Strokes CS5 New!

SELECTION TOOLS

• The Selection Menu
• Editing Objects with the Direct Selection Tool
• Working with Grouped objects

WORKING WITH COLOUR

• Colour Panel and Swatches Panel differences
• Creating new colours
• Editing colours
• Global colours
• Spot Colours
• Creating Swatch Groups
• Opening Existing Libraries
• Live Paint for easy colouring

GRADIENTS

• The Gradient Tool
• The Gradient panel
• Creating and Editing Gradients
• Using Gradient Libraries

DRAWING AND PAINTING WITH BRUSHES

• Using Illustrator Brushes
• Using Brush Libraries
• Different Brush types
• Editing Brushes
• Creating a Calligraphic Brush
• Creating a Scatter Brush
• Creating an Art Brush
• Creating a Pattern Brush
• Bristle Brushes CS5 New!

GRAPHIC STYLES

• The Graphic Styles panel
• Opening Graphic Style Libraries
• Creating and saving Graphic Styles

APPERANCE

• The Appearance Panel
• Object Attributes
• Graphic Styles
• Appearance Panel Settings
• The Transparency Panel
• Blend Options

WORKING WITH RASTER IMAGES

• Placing and Masking images
• The Links panel
• Edit Original
• Quick Intro to Live Trace
• Rasterizing artwork

SYMBOLS

• Exploring Symbol Libraries
• Adding a Symbol
• Editing a Symbol
• Symbol Sprayer Tools

CREATING BLENDS

• Creating a simple blend
• Expanding a blend to objects

OVERVIEW OF EFFECTS

• 3D Extrude & Bevel Effect
• 3D Revolve Effects
• Stylize, Scribble, Warp Effects
• Editing not reapplying new effects
• Expanding Appearance

PRINTING AND EXPORTING

• Printing in Illustrator
• Exporting in Illustrator
• PDF options
• Web Options

Microsoft Word 2010 2013 Intro Training Course in Belfast City Centre NI

Learn to use styles, formatting, inserting and editing tables and simple Mail Merge with our Microsoft Word Intro course, next Monday 10th February – £100+VAT:

http://www.mullantraining.com/Word_-_Intro

Call us on 028 9032 2228 or email info@mullantraining.com to enquire

Benefits

At the end of this training course you will:

• have a good working knowledge of Word basics.
• feel more confident using Word and be able to create a document from scratch.
• Understand and use some of the built in layout and text editing functionality
• be enable you to produce far more striking and effective documentation in your work and home environments.
• create documents that will be easier to read and look more presentable.

After completing this Word Introduction Course, you will be prepared to attend our Advanced MS Word training course.

Course Content

The Ribbon

• Tabs
• Groups
• Commands

 The File Tab

• Introduction to the File tab
• New Documents and Word Templates
• Getting Help

The Quick Access Toolbar

• Adding Common Commands
• Adding Additional Commands with the Customize Dialog Box
• Adding Ribbon Commands or Groups
• Placement

Document Navigation

• Page Up, Page Down
• Skip words (CTRL and Arrow keys)
• GOTO (F5 function button)
• HOME and END (and use with CTRL key)

Enter & Format Text

• Vs Overwrite
• Apply Bold, Italic, Underline, Etc
• Create & Apply Styles
• Format Painter
• Cut, Copy, Paste

Paragraph Formatting

• Line Spacing, Tabs, Justification
• Indentation (inc Hanging Paragraphs)
• Bullets & Numbering (inc Nested Lists)

Tools

• Spell Check, Thesaurus, Word Count
• Find & Replace
• AutoText, AutoCorrect

Styles

• Create Paragraph Styles
• Apply Styles Using The Format Painter

Tables

• Create New
• Merge & Split Cells
• And Rows/ Columns
• Apply Borders & Shading
• Adjust Column Width And Row Height
• Sort Rows
• Convert Paragraphs into Tables

Organising The Document

• Changing Page Setup – Line Length, Orientation, Paper Size
• Editing Headers And Footers
• Switch Between Open Documents
• Templates

Mail Merge

• Create Form Letter
• Create & Maintain Database
• Merge Letters To Printer/ Document
• Print Envelopes & Labels