Adobe Illustrator Workshop: One-Day Seminar Topics Covered

  • Getting to know the workspace
  • Illustrator essentials
  • Adding color
  • Working with the drawing tools
  • Exploring additional color options
  • Editing and formatting text
  • Organizing your Illustrations with layers

Adobe Illustrator Workshop: One-Day Seminar - Course Dates

All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.

Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Boston
American Graphics Institute
8 Cabot Rd
Boston - Woburn, MA
01801
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Boston
American Graphics Institute
8 Cabot Rd
Boston - Woburn, MA
01801
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00

Adobe Illustrator Workshop Topics

Lesson 1: Understanding the Illustrator workspace

  • Exploring the interface
  • Using artboards
  • Zooming and scrolling
  • Using tools and panels
  • Working with panels and the dock

Lesson 2: Essential skills for working with Illustrator

  • Using the shape tools
  • Repositioning and resizing shapes
  • Selecting artwork
  • Using the shape and transform tools
  • Introducing layers
  • Repeating transformations

Lesson 3: Adding color to your designs

  • Exploring the Appearance panel
  • Changing colors
  • Adding effects
  • Using Live Paint
  • Adding a symbol
  • Saving swatches
  • Using the Color panel
  • Adding Pantone colors

Lesson 4: Using the drawing tools to create great artwork

  • Understanding the Pen tool
  • Straight, curved, and hinged lines
  • Tracing images
  • Creating a tracing template
  • Working with Image Trace
  • Editing existing paths
  • Using the Shape Builder

Lesson 5: Additional color options to enhance your artwork

  • Adding tonal values with gradients
  • Applying a pattern
  • Editing a pattern
  • Using the Color Guide

Lesson 6: Designing with text

  • Formatting text
  • Paragraph formatting
  • Using paragraph and character styles
  • Editing styles
  • Putting text on a path
  • Warping text
  • Putting text in a shape
  • Checking spelling
  • Using Find and Replace

Lesson 7: Using layers to work more creatively and effectively

  • Getting to know the Layers panel
  • Using layers to organize an illustration
  • Moving items between layers
  • Remembering layers when pasting
  • Creating a template layer


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.

Adobe Illustrator course instructors

Learn Illustrator from expert instructors who are professional illustrators and designers. Our instructors authored Adobe Illustrator Digital Classroom, Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book, and Creative Cloud for Dummies. Benefit from our skilled teachers that help you learn Illustrator quickly and easily.

Greg
Greg

BA, Advertising Design

Adobe Certified Instructor

Author, multiple Adobe Creative Cloud books

Jennifer
Jennifer

MS, Human Factors Information Design

BA, Commercial Art

UXQB Certfied

Adjunct Professor, Boston University

Grace
Grace

MS, Information Design

BA, Digital Communications

Adjunct Professor, St. Olaf

Patti
Patti

BA

BFA

Adjunct Professor

Custom and private Adobe Illustrator classes

This Adobe Illustrator course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. Adobe Illustrator classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.

Adobe Illustrator Workshop: Prerequisites

This one-day Illustrator workshop requires that you have general computer skills but no previous Illustrator experience is required. While a computer is provided, along with Illustrator for use during the session, you can also obtain a free trial version of Illustrator for your own use after the seminar at the Adobe website.

Exceptional Adobe Illustrator course materials 

Our proprietary curriculum has been proven effective in teaching [category short name] to thousands. You’ll receive our extensive written reference along with lesson files for you to continue your practice following the class. This Adobe Illustrator course includes a copy of our Digital Classroom book with many projects and exercises.

Repeat for free

If you need a refresher or miss a day of class you can repeat the Adobe Illustrator class at no additional cost for one year.

Private Adobe Illustrator classes for companies and groups

This Adobe Illustrator class is available as a private workshop for your company, group, or team. Use the contact form on this page or call 781 376-6044 to learn more about private classes.

Adobe Illustrator FAQ

Do I receive a Adobe Illustrator certificate?

AGI provides a certificate upon course completion, which can be shared on LinkedIn and verified digitally on the AGI website.

How many students are in a Adobe Illustrator class?

AGI limits its class sizes so that you receive personalized attention. Classes are limited to no more than 10 participants. 

Can I get specific Adobe Illustrator questions answered in the class?

Yes, as a live class, you can ask the instructor questions about how you will be using Adobe Illustrator.

Does this Adobe Illustrator class include job placement support?

AGI provides job support only when Adobe Illustrator classes are taken as part of a longer-term certificate program, where AGI has a dedicated career counselor assigned to each certificate student.

Is this Adobe Illustrator class for Mac or Windows?

Using a Mac or Windows computer, you can attend this Adobe Illustrator class. The application itself has identical functionality for both. If attending in our classrooms, a computer will be provided using the operating system of your choice.

 

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