Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep

Course details

Get ready for the Adobe Certified Professional in Graphic Design & Illustration Using Adobe Illustrator exam with our comprehensive certification prep course. Optimize your workflow with new document creation, workspace customization, and efficient navigation. Learn to harness the power of Illustrator tools for creating and modifying visual elements through hands-on projects. Protect your work with insights into copyright, permissions, and licensing. Refine your designs with lessons on typographic hierarchy, color management, and visual composition. This course is ideal for designers looking to validate their skills and improve their marketability. Whether you're a budding designer or an experienced professional seeking certification, this course can equip you with the skills you need to excel.

Learning objectives
Learn critical concepts related to working with colleagues and clients as well as crucial legal, technical, and design-related knowledge.
Discover interface setup and program settings that assist in an efficient and effective workflow, as well as knowledge about ingesting digital assets for a project.
Manage document structure, such as layers and tracks, for efficient workflows.
Learn to use core tools and functionality of the application, as well as tools that affect the visual appearance of document elements.
Learn how to save and export documents or assets within individual layers or selections.

Concepts

About the Course

About the course
What to expect during the exam

Chapter One

Identify the purpose, audience
Requirements based on video, print, and web
Key components of project communication
Basic project management concepts
Copyright, permissions, licensing and how to use specific content
File formats
Resolution
Image size
Aliasing
Color spaces
LAB color space and synchronizing color settings
Design elements and principles
Gestalt principles
Typographic hierarchy, readability and legibility
Photographic and cinematic composition terms

Chapter Two

New document
Templates
Workspace
Settings
Navigation
Guides
Views and modes
Placing assets
Links panel
Fill and stroke
Gradients
Swatches and color guide
Graphic styles and symbols
Brushes and width profiles

Chapter Three

Why do we need layers
Moving objects between layers
Selecting objects from layers panel
Practice using layers
Blend modes and opacity
Opacity mask
Clipping mask

Chapter Four

Selection tools
Drawing tools
Brush and painting tools
Shape tools
Type tools
Character formatting options
Paragraph panel
Convert text to graphics
Manage text flow
Selections
Modify artboards
Transformations
Reconstructing and editing
Appearance

Chapter Five

Setting the color mode (color space)
Rasterizing vector graphics and applying raster effects
Managing metadata
Saving to Adobe Cloud
Saving locally
Save for print and web
Export options
Export for screens - artboards and assets
Package an Illustrator project

Projects

About the projects
Project 1 - Heart
Project 2 - Pin
Project 3 - Sun
Project 4 - Starfish
Project 5 - Circular logo
Project 6 - 3D text
Project 7 - Astro logo
Project 8 - Camera pattern
Project 9 - Tracing
Project 10 - Skateboard
Project 11 - Document setup

Conclusion

Conclusion