Adobe Illustrator – Advanced « click for details
1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

Prerequisite: Illustrator 101 or equivalent experience.

This course teaches you techniques that help you work faster and smarter. You’ll also work with advanced features that make it easier to create schematics, infographics, graphs, 3D comps, floor plans, or architectural elevations. Prerequisite: Illustrator 101 or equivalent experience.

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Adobe Illustrator – Advanced 1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

Basic review of essentials

» The Workspace
» Appearances
» Automated procedures (rotate, resize)
» Lock, Hide
» Preview mode

3D drawing

» Draw 3d objects
» Change lighting
» Map art

Perspective drawing

» Drawing in perspective
» Customing your perspective grid
» Adding type to the grid
» Transforming objects using the grid

Creating any object

» Think “basic shapes”
» Creating icons
» Using Pathfinder filters
» Outline Stroke and offset Path

Using the power of Blends

» Morphing objects
» Smooth colour blends
» Smooth steps

Designing Type & Layout

» Types of Type
» Working with Threaded Text
» Wrapping Area Type Around Objects
» Converting Type to Outlines
» The Glyphs Panel
» Fitting Type to Curved Paths
» Transforming Type with Warps & Envelopes

Working with transparency

» Opacity and blending modes
» Transparency effects

Using gradient mesh

» Create and modify gradient mesh
» Convert shapes to mesh
» Modify gradient colour in mesh
» Add, remove and modify mesh anchor points

Live Trace

» Converting raster files to vector

Working with graphs

» Create various types of graphs
» Import and export graph data
» Create custom graphs

Colour

» Create colours
» Recolour Artwork
» Colour Rules
» Kuler Colour

Preparing Art for Commercial Printing

» Crops, bleed
» File menu, Package

Our goal is to make sure your class meets your objectives, not ours. This outline is intended as a guide to provide structure for the workshop. Don’t be afraid to ask questions outside the box; our instructors are experts in the use of Illustrator at all levels and are prepared to answer your questions on the fly.

Custom Training. We love it when clients ask for custom training. Whether your team wants to combine certain topics from various courses or needs us to create a completely customized solution using your data, this is something we do really well. (Available for groups of three or more.)

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Runs on request. Please call for dates.

Production & Packaging « click for details
1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

Prerequisite: Illustrator 101 or equivalent experience.

This course is designed for advanced users who wish to use Illustrator for prepress and/or packaging production. The course material is customized to suit the needs of each person taking the class.

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Runs on request for 3 or more

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Production & Packaging 1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

This course is designed for advanced users who wish to use Illustrator for prepress and/or packaging production. The course material is customized to suit the needs of each person taking the class. Prerequisite: Illustrator 101 or equivalent experience.

Introduction

» round table
» sample files

Printing considerations

» spot colours
» varnish or uv plates
» overprint & knock out
» bleed and trim sizes
» crop marks + dielines
» registration colour
» colour separations
» when to outline fonts

Production basics

» embedding vs linking images
» press quality PDFs
» production colour modes

Advanced art

» logo production
» graphics for production + packaging
» using layers effectively
» converting raster to vector art
» gradient mesh
» gradients that follow a shape

Advanced path techniques

» offset path
» outline path
» pathfinder functions on steroids

Professional packaging

» creating a dieline
» adding fold lines
» using the right colours
» creating the right nutrition table
» creating bar codes

Styles + symbols

» speeding up the process
» reducing file size
» making changes easy

Creating realistic comps

» the perspective tool
» the appearance panel
» 3D extrude, revolve, and rotate

Custom Training. We love it when clients ask for custom training. Whether your team wants to combine certain topics from various courses or needs us to create a completely customized solution using your data, this is something we do really well. (Available for groups of three or more.)

Dates

Online:
Runs on request for 3 or more

Adobe After Effects « click for details
3 Days | 21 hours | $1190 PLUS TAX

Prerequisite: Photoshop.

This three-day course is for anyone who wants to create compelling motion graphics and awesome visual effects. Industry experts demonstrate professional workflows and provide hands on instruction with practical exercises designed to educate and inspire you.

Dates

Online:
Aug 26-28
Sep 23-25
Oct 21-23
Nov 20-22

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Adobe After Effects 3 Days | 21 hours | $1190 PLUS TAX

Understanding Motion Graphics

» Defining mograph
» Digital video basics
» Understanding video formats
» Frame rates and resolution

The interface

» Menus
» Projects
» Panels
» Workspaces

Media Management

» Importing media
» Organizing your Project panel
» Previewing Audio
» Working with Photoshop and Illustrator files
» Interpreting media

Creating Animation

» Creating compositions
» Working with Layers
» Using Parenting to write Ae scriptsAnimation
» Animating properties
» Blur and Blending
» Layer styles
» Nesting and Precomposing

Masks Mattes and Keys

» What are Masks?
» Creating and working with Shapes
» Track Mattes
» Chroma/Luma Keys

Working with Text

» Creating text
» Formatting
» Animating
» Creating animation presets
» Creating custom text animators

Working with Audio

» Adding audio
» How to preview audio
» Audio metadata
» Audio effects
» Audio composition markers

Working in 3D

» RAM preview
» 3D Layers
» Material options
» Camera and lighting
» Adding depth of fi eld
» Ray traced rendering

Advanced Animation

» Animating eff ect properties
» Creating animation presets
» Controlling time
» Smoother/ Wiggler
» Interpolation
» Squash and Stretch
» The Graph editor

Tracking and stabilizing

» Tracker
» Mocha for Ae
» Warp Stabilizer
» 3D Camera solver

Using the Pick Whip to create AE scripts

» LoopOut, Random, Wiggle
» Installing scripts
» Ease and Whiz

Dates

Online:
Aug 26-28
Sep 23-25
Oct 21-23
Nov 20-22

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Adobe Illustrator – Advanced « click for details 1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

Dates

Adobe Illustrator – Advanced 1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

Basic review of essentials

3D drawing

Perspective drawing

Creating any object

Using the power of Blends

Designing Type & Layout

Working with transparency

Using gradient mesh

Live Trace

Working with graphs

Colour

Preparing Art for Commercial Printing

Custom Training. We love it when clients ask for custom training. Whether your team wants to combine certain topics from various courses or needs us to create a completely customized solution using your data, this is something we do really well. (Available for groups of three or more.)

Dates

Production & Packaging « click for details 1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

Dates

Production & Packaging 1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

Introduction

Printing considerations

Production basics

Advanced art

Advanced path techniques

Professional packaging

Styles + symbols

Creating realistic comps

Custom Training. We love it when clients ask for custom training. Whether your team wants to combine certain topics from various courses or needs us to create a completely customized solution using your data, this is something we do really well. (Available for groups of three or more.)

Dates

Adobe After Effects « click for details 3 Days | 21 hours | $1190 PLUS TAX

Dates

Adobe After Effects 3 Days | 21 hours | $1190 PLUS TAX

Understanding Motion Graphics

The interface

Media Management

Creating Animation

Masks Mattes and Keys

Working with Text

Working with Audio

Working in 3D

Advanced Animation

Tracking and stabilizing

Using the Pick Whip to create AE scripts

Dates

Cancellation & Rescheduling Policy

Plans change, and we can accommodate all reasonable requests. Sometimes there are hard costs involved but we’ll work with you to reduce or avoid them altogether. Please direct all cancellation and rescheduling emails to learning@thetrainingcompany.ca

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Adobe Illustrator – Advanced « click for details
1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

Production & Packaging « click for details
1 Day | 7 hours | $550 PLUS TAX

Adobe After Effects « click for details
3 Days | 21 hours | $1190 PLUS TAX

Plans change, and we can accommodate all reasonable requests. Sometimes there are hard costs
involved but we’ll work with you to reduce or avoid them altogether. Please direct all cancellation
and rescheduling emails to learning@thetrainingcompany.ca