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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,319 --> 00:00:04,854 Hi there, in this video we're going to look at getting started with Illustrator. 2 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,383 Basically some navigation of the interface... 3 00:00:07,420 --> 00:00:08,850 and just getting Illustrator set up... 4 00:00:08,875 --> 00:00:11,470 so that we can all work together, and you can follow along with me. 5 00:00:11,648 --> 00:00:14,629 First thing we'll do is, let's open up one of our Exercise Files. 6 00:00:14,654 --> 00:00:16,789 Let's go up to 'File', 'Open'. 7 00:00:17,383 --> 00:00:19,045 In our 'Exercise Files'... 8 00:00:19,070 --> 00:00:21,756 there is one called 'Getting Started', let's click 'Open'. 9 00:00:22,644 --> 00:00:25,323 The first thing we'll do to get everybody kind of lined up together... 10 00:00:25,348 --> 00:00:27,144 is resetting our Workspace. 11 00:00:27,245 --> 00:00:30,634 Now in the top right here, you can see, it says Essentials Online. 12 00:00:30,659 --> 00:00:32,729 Yours might say something different from this drop down. 13 00:00:32,924 --> 00:00:34,916 What I'd like you to do is pick 'Essentials'... 14 00:00:35,082 --> 00:00:37,463 and then once it's got that little tick next to it, click on it. 15 00:00:37,811 --> 00:00:39,954 Then drop it down again, and say 'Reset Essentials'. 16 00:00:39,979 --> 00:00:42,946 That will just kind of reset it, and make it look like mine. 17 00:00:43,212 --> 00:00:46,005 The other thing that might look little different between yours and mine... 18 00:00:46,030 --> 00:00:48,410 is this Tool Bar on the left here. 19 00:00:48,642 --> 00:00:50,237 Because my laptop's big enough... 20 00:00:50,262 --> 00:00:53,305 it allows me to see all of the tools in one big long line... 21 00:00:53,508 --> 00:00:54,686 but yours might be smaller... 22 00:00:54,711 --> 00:00:58,088 you might be using a 13" MacBook Pro, or something. 23 00:00:58,528 --> 00:01:00,765 It will show them as a double, like this. 24 00:01:00,798 --> 00:01:04,372 See this little double arrow here, this little Chevron? 25 00:01:04,853 --> 00:01:07,699 You can decide whether you want to work this way, or this way. 26 00:01:07,724 --> 00:01:09,774 I'm going to work this way because that's my default... 27 00:01:09,994 --> 00:01:12,018 but you might be seeing it just a little bit differently. 28 00:01:12,330 --> 00:01:16,123 Next thing to do is to deal with your preferences for units and increments. 29 00:01:16,148 --> 00:01:17,497 It's a bit strange in Illustrator... 30 00:01:17,522 --> 00:01:19,261 so it's worth mentioning here at the beginning. 31 00:01:19,536 --> 00:01:21,853 I've got a document open, I have nothing selected... 32 00:01:21,878 --> 00:01:25,170 by using the Black Arrow, just clicking in the background, nothing selected... 33 00:01:25,311 --> 00:01:28,089 you can see, the units in this case are set to centimeters. 34 00:01:28,171 --> 00:01:31,123 I can change them here for this document, which will say 'Inches'. 35 00:01:31,357 --> 00:01:33,373 That's how to change it for this document. 36 00:01:33,566 --> 00:01:35,661 Now if you've come from other Adobe products... 37 00:01:35,686 --> 00:01:37,824 you'll know that you can go into 'Preferences'... 38 00:01:37,849 --> 00:01:39,472 and change your units and increments. 39 00:01:39,572 --> 00:01:41,405 It doesn't work that way in Illustrator. 40 00:01:41,437 --> 00:01:44,662 What happens is, you create the units and increments... 41 00:01:44,687 --> 00:01:45,875 as you create a new document... 42 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:48,983 or, like we did here, you change it with nothing selected. 43 00:01:49,176 --> 00:01:52,208 So say I want to make a new document, and I want to make sure it's inches. 44 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,172 So I go to 'Print', and I decide I want a 'Letter'. 45 00:01:55,326 --> 00:01:58,580 You'll notice that it's defaulted to 'Points', and it always does that. 46 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:01,275 There is a bit of a hack to go through and change it... 47 00:02:01,300 --> 00:02:02,716 but we'll just live with points... 48 00:02:02,741 --> 00:02:04,698 because that's what Adobe said, even with A4. 49 00:02:04,939 --> 00:02:08,099 So Metric sizings, it still defaults to 'Points'. 50 00:02:08,131 --> 00:02:09,967 So what you need to do is pick 'Letter'... 51 00:02:09,992 --> 00:02:12,235 then go in here, and say, I want it to be in 'Inches'. 52 00:02:12,368 --> 00:02:17,624 That will make sure the default sizing for that document is in inches. 53 00:02:17,656 --> 00:02:18,854 I'm going to click on 'Create'. 54 00:02:19,781 --> 00:02:21,820 Now you might be doing more kind of Web Design... 55 00:02:21,974 --> 00:02:25,047 so that units could be switched from inches, millimeters... 56 00:02:25,072 --> 00:02:26,420 to something like pixels. 57 00:02:26,445 --> 00:02:28,361 Often I work that way especially when I'm doing... 58 00:02:28,386 --> 00:02:30,304 maybe UI Design in Illustrator... 59 00:02:30,477 --> 00:02:32,866 but we're going to work in inches for most of this course. 60 00:02:33,090 --> 00:02:35,574 Now if you need to change the page size afterwards... 61 00:02:35,711 --> 00:02:37,751 a really easy way to do it is... 62 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:38,990 down here, there's a tool... 63 00:02:39,023 --> 00:02:40,825 it's called the Artboard tool, if I click on it... 64 00:02:41,359 --> 00:02:42,855 it kind of selects the Artboard... 65 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,212 and I can drag it around, which is kind of strange. 66 00:02:45,413 --> 00:02:48,214 You can just make up a size, but often, with it selected... 67 00:02:48,239 --> 00:02:49,225 over here, you can see... 68 00:02:49,250 --> 00:02:52,948 I can give it a Page Size by changing the height and the width. 69 00:02:53,151 --> 00:02:56,167 You can see here also, I can change it to 'Landscape'. 70 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,742 Now one thing is, if you're following along with say, something like CS6... 71 00:03:00,782 --> 00:03:02,555 quite an older version of Illustrator... 72 00:03:02,595 --> 00:03:04,984 95% of this course will work just fine. 73 00:03:05,101 --> 00:03:06,314 The big change for you is... 74 00:03:06,339 --> 00:03:09,101 you won't have this Properties panel, you'll have something slightly different. 75 00:03:09,141 --> 00:03:11,446 Under 'Essentials', you'll have 'Essential Classic'. 76 00:03:12,369 --> 00:03:13,838 And you'll have most of these options. 77 00:03:13,863 --> 00:03:17,156 Can you see, there's 'Artboard 1', up the top there. 78 00:03:17,223 --> 00:03:20,056 But in the later version, the one we're using now... 79 00:03:20,179 --> 00:03:22,306 is they just tucked them into this Properties panel. 80 00:03:22,691 --> 00:03:25,889 So you can play along just fine with CS6 or earlier versions... 81 00:03:26,091 --> 00:03:29,385 but you just have to know that when I'm using the Properties panel... 82 00:03:29,410 --> 00:03:32,117 you're actually using this kind of Control App bar along the top. 83 00:03:32,455 --> 00:03:33,658 Now a couple of more things... 84 00:03:33,683 --> 00:03:36,346 just to get us used to Illustrator before we start making things. 85 00:03:36,371 --> 00:03:39,968 I've gone back to 'Getting Started', you'll notice, these tabs along the top... 86 00:03:40,177 --> 00:03:42,612 so this is how to have more than one document open... 87 00:03:42,637 --> 00:03:44,027 and toggle between the two. 88 00:03:44,180 --> 00:03:45,911 So I'm going to go to 'Getting Started'. 89 00:03:45,936 --> 00:03:47,315 I'm going to grab my 'Black Arrow'. 90 00:03:47,484 --> 00:03:50,944 Black Arrow is your default, this is the one to use all the time. 91 00:03:51,610 --> 00:03:53,642 It's your fall back tool... 92 00:03:54,137 --> 00:03:56,015 because what it does is it just moves things around. 93 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,232 If I click on this guy, I can move him around. 94 00:03:58,257 --> 00:04:01,621 It physically moves stuff, that's his job, the Selection tool. 95 00:04:02,172 --> 00:04:05,259 Now the Selection tool moves the thing in its entirety. 96 00:04:05,488 --> 00:04:07,592 There's another tool in here, called the White Arrow... 97 00:04:08,052 --> 00:04:09,469 or the Direct Selection tool. 98 00:04:09,599 --> 00:04:13,139 What this does is it allows you to pick little parts of that object... 99 00:04:13,207 --> 00:04:14,762 whereas the Black Arrow moves the whole thing. 100 00:04:14,787 --> 00:04:16,739 Watch this, if I click on one of these little dots here... 101 00:04:17,060 --> 00:04:19,711 you can see, it's blue, versus all the rest of them that are white. 102 00:04:19,825 --> 00:04:22,682 I can move just one part of this little fox here. 103 00:04:22,915 --> 00:04:26,026 So we're going to be using both of these tools, mainly the Black Arrow... 104 00:04:26,172 --> 00:04:28,902 but the White Arrow will be something that we use as well. 105 00:04:29,048 --> 00:04:31,794 Couple of more things that we'll need to work with... 106 00:04:31,909 --> 00:04:34,108 is 'Edit', you've got 'Undo' and 'Redo'. 107 00:04:34,133 --> 00:04:36,268 So if things go wrong, you can go backwards... 108 00:04:36,293 --> 00:04:38,382 you can use the shortcut if you feel like it. 109 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,266 It has unlimited undos, so you can go back loads. 110 00:04:41,403 --> 00:04:42,943 The next thing is zooming in and out. 111 00:04:42,968 --> 00:04:46,649 There's a tool down the bottom here, the Zoom tool, you can click on it. 112 00:04:47,841 --> 00:04:52,229 Hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac, to zoom out, or 'Alt' key on a PC. 113 00:04:52,398 --> 00:04:54,377 You can see, the icon changes from a plus, '+'... 114 00:04:54,402 --> 00:04:56,143 but if I hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac... 115 00:04:56,168 --> 00:04:58,162 it changes into a minus, '-', and you just click once. 116 00:04:58,247 --> 00:05:00,112 Now I never use that, and you'll find that-- 117 00:05:00,137 --> 00:05:03,001 we're not going to do too many shortcuts in this Intro class... 118 00:05:03,171 --> 00:05:05,698 but a really good shortcut for in and out... 119 00:05:05,723 --> 00:05:09,991 is holding down the 'Command' key on a Mac, or 'Control on a PC... 120 00:05:10,016 --> 00:05:11,401 and just tapping the plus, '+' key... 121 00:05:11,660 --> 00:05:13,041 and the minus, '-' to zoom out. 122 00:05:13,066 --> 00:05:15,490 It's a really quick and easy way to zoom out. 123 00:05:15,725 --> 00:05:18,360 Another really useful tool - I'm going to go back to my 'Black Arrow'. 124 00:05:18,609 --> 00:05:22,802 - is when I'm moving around, you can drag these sliders here, and that's fine... 125 00:05:22,995 --> 00:05:25,560 but you'll find that, just holding down the 'space bar'... 126 00:05:25,585 --> 00:05:28,193 you'll see, my cursor changes from black Arrow to the Hand. 127 00:05:28,291 --> 00:05:30,109 Click, hold, drag around. 128 00:05:30,376 --> 00:05:33,468 So 'space bar', and just click, hold your mouse button... 129 00:05:33,493 --> 00:05:35,265 it's a really easy way to move around. 130 00:05:35,532 --> 00:05:37,157 Another thing to note in Illustrator... 131 00:05:37,182 --> 00:05:39,199 is that we've got something called an Artboard. 132 00:05:39,224 --> 00:05:41,390 Now Artboard is just like another page. 133 00:05:41,543 --> 00:05:44,448 They call them Artboards in Illustrator. I'm going to zoom out a little bit. 134 00:05:44,771 --> 00:05:47,541 Now I'm going to go back to my Artboard tool, to my Pages tool. 135 00:05:47,726 --> 00:05:49,806 I'm going to click once over here... 136 00:05:49,956 --> 00:05:52,522 and drag out, and I've got a second page. 137 00:05:52,755 --> 00:05:56,224 So with it selected, I can click, hold, drag it across a little bit... 138 00:05:56,249 --> 00:05:59,353 give it some room, and then over here, I can switch it to A4. 139 00:05:59,615 --> 00:06:00,603 I'm going to zoom out. 140 00:06:00,628 --> 00:06:02,364 So you can have more than one page. 141 00:06:02,389 --> 00:06:04,874 I've got first page, which is kind of a postcard size... 142 00:06:04,899 --> 00:06:06,519 then I've got this A4 page. 143 00:06:06,738 --> 00:06:09,185 So just think of them as pages in a document. 144 00:06:09,225 --> 00:06:12,160 You can export them as pages in a PDF. 145 00:06:12,298 --> 00:06:15,600 Or you just might have multiple concepts to work in between the two. 146 00:06:15,771 --> 00:06:17,374 So you can have more than one Artboard. 147 00:06:17,543 --> 00:06:20,606 One last thing to quickly discuss before we get into making stuff... 148 00:06:20,631 --> 00:06:22,889 is the Grouping and Isolation mode. 149 00:06:23,057 --> 00:06:25,406 I'll show you this now because everyone gets lost. 150 00:06:25,431 --> 00:06:27,279 So I've got this fox here. 151 00:06:27,530 --> 00:06:29,935 At the moment it's actually just separate shapes. 152 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,049 So what I'm going to do is select it all, so I'm going to hold down 'Shift' key. 153 00:06:33,218 --> 00:06:35,996 So with my 'Black Arrow', 'Shift' key, click on these guys. 154 00:06:36,675 --> 00:06:39,135 So with them all selected, what I'm going to do is go to 'Object'. 155 00:06:39,161 --> 00:06:40,205 I'm going to group them... 156 00:06:40,230 --> 00:06:42,638 so they're kind of one little unit that I can move around. 157 00:06:42,767 --> 00:06:44,426 I missed that little white bit, but that's okay. 158 00:06:44,635 --> 00:06:46,739 But he's grouped, now what ends up happening is... 159 00:06:46,764 --> 00:06:49,754 when you're new to Illustrator, especially if you love to double click... 160 00:06:50,157 --> 00:06:53,015 with my Black Arrow, if I double click him, weird stuff happens. 161 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,595 This kind of grays out, and I can't select on it anymore. 162 00:06:55,845 --> 00:06:57,623 I can work on these guys individually... 163 00:06:57,678 --> 00:07:00,376 what's happened is you've entered something called Isolation mode. 164 00:07:00,462 --> 00:07:03,056 And the way I know, is that it's grayed out in the background... 165 00:07:03,081 --> 00:07:04,732 and there's this blue line along the top. 166 00:07:04,757 --> 00:07:07,284 And you can see here, I'm inside of this group. 167 00:07:07,461 --> 00:07:11,773 Layer 1 is home base, so I can just click on that to come back out. 168 00:07:11,902 --> 00:07:13,617 So that's where people often get lost. 169 00:07:13,838 --> 00:07:16,386 So we're working fine, working fine... double click... 170 00:07:16,749 --> 00:07:17,802 and they get lost in here... 171 00:07:17,827 --> 00:07:20,082 and they kind of work on stuff, and things go a bit weird. 172 00:07:20,221 --> 00:07:22,737 So if that ever happens, just click on Layer 1... 173 00:07:22,762 --> 00:07:27,384 or this big arrow here, up to you, just to come back to home base. 174 00:07:27,664 --> 00:07:31,373 Enough boring navigation, getting setup stuff. 175 00:07:31,398 --> 00:07:33,698 Let's start making stuff in the next video. 176 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:35,060 I'll see you over there. 16724

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