Live workshopAdobe Creative Cloud training for teams
Adobe Illustrator Beginners (Level 1)
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Adobe Illustrator Beginners (Level 1)
- Duration
- 14 hrs (4 sessions)
- Tuition
- $795.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
Your logo pixelates on a banner. That is a file problem.
The logo someone sent you is a JPEG. It looked fine in the email and it is a blurry mess on the trade show banner. That is not a design problem, it is a file format problem, and it is the single most common reason organizations end up paying a designer for something they already own.
Illustrator is the answer, and it is the application people bounce off hardest. The pen tool defeats most self-teachers in the first hour. This class gets participants through that wall in a session, with an instructor watching their screen and telling them what their hand is doing wrong.
Marketing staff take this to stop outsourcing every icon and social graphic. Small business owners take it to own their brand assets outright. It counts toward the Graphic Design and Digital Media Production certificates.
Content and exercises are built around real work, and private group sessions are built around your own brand, templates, and files. Classes are delivered live online, and on-site delivery is available across the Colorado Front Range. This class sits alongside our other Adobe Creative Cloud classes.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led class delivered across four sessions
- Focused pen tool instruction with an instructor watching your screen
- Real assets built during class: logo, icon set, and marketing artwork
- Export and handoff for print, web, and social
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The first sessions cover why vector exists and how to draw it. Participants learn the difference between vector and raster and why it decides everything downstream, then work through shapes, the pathfinder, and the pen tool. The pen tool gets real time, because it is the gate everyone gets stuck at and it is learnable in an afternoon with someone correcting you.
The middle is type and color. Participants learn to work with typography as a designer rather than a word processor, build and apply a color palette, and understand why the blue on screen is not the blue that prints. They build real assets: a logo, a set of icons, a piece of marketing artwork.
The final sessions are structure and output. Layers, symbols, and artboards that keep a file organized enough to hand over. Then export: which format goes where, how to give a printer what they need, and how to produce the versions of a logo an organization actually requires rather than one file that half works everywhere.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Understand why vector scales and raster does not
- Draw and edit paths with the pen tool without fighting it
- Build shapes and combine them with the pathfinder
- Work with type as a designer rather than a word processor
- Build and apply a color palette that survives print
- Organize a file with layers, symbols, and artboards
- Export the right format for print, web, and social
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this class and no design experience is assumed. Basic computer skills are expected. You will need Adobe Illustrator installed before the first session; we send information about access, student discounts, and trials beforehand.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Adobe software is not included
Participants need access to the Adobe application this workshop covers, and the software has its own cost. Once enrolled, DWC students are eligible for Adobe student pricing.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Tue, Jan 5 - Thu, Jan 14, 2027
5:00 PM to 8:30 PM
$795.00per participant
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$795.00 per participant
Adobe Illustrator Beginners (Level 1) runs 14 hours across four live sessions. Enroll as an individual or book private training for your team.
- Individual enrollment: $895 per participant. Book a seat on a scheduled class directly. If no date is listed, request information and we will tell you when one opens
- Private group training: request a custom quote. Built around your own brand, templates, and files, and scheduled around your team
- Certificate credit: this class counts toward the Graphic Design Certificate and the Digital Media Production Certificate
- Employer funding: we provide invoices, purchase order documentation, and certificates of completion on request
Register above for the next scheduled class, or request a quote for group pricing and scheduling.
Adobe software is not included in tuition. Once enrolled, DWC students are eligible for Adobe student pricing.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Adobe Creative Cloud training
Adobe Creative Cloud training for teams
Marketing, communications, and in-house creative teams rely on Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Express. DWC teaches each one live, in beginner and advanced levels, with exercises built around your brand and the assets your team produces.
Train a whole creative team at once, or upskill the people outside it who need to produce on-brand graphics, documents, and video without waiting in the design queue.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Do participants need Adobe software?
Yes. Participants need access to the Adobe application the workshop covers, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, or After Effects. The software has its own cost and is not included in tuition. Once enrolled, DWC students are eligible for Adobe student pricing.
Do you offer beginner and advanced levels?
Yes. Most Adobe workshops come in a beginner level and an advanced level, so new users and experienced staff each get the right starting point.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.