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Hi there, in this video we're going to
look at getting started with Illustrator.
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Basically some navigation
of the interface...
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and just getting Illustrator set up...
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so that we can all work together,
and you can follow along with me.
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First thing we'll do is, let's open up
one of our Exercise Files.
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Let's go up to 'File', 'Open'.
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In our 'Exercise Files'...
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there is one called 'Getting Started',
let's click 'Open'.
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The first thing we'll do to get
everybody kind of lined up together...
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is resetting our Workspace.
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Now in the top right here, you can see,
it says Essentials Online.
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Yours might say something different
from this drop down.
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What I'd like you to do
is pick 'Essentials'...
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and then once it's got that little tick
next to it, click on it.
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Then drop it down again,
and say 'Reset Essentials'.
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That will just kind of reset it,
and make it look like mine.
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The other thing that might look
little different between yours and mine...
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is this Tool Bar on the left here.
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Because my laptop's big enough...
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it allows me to see all of
the tools in one big long line...
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but yours might be smaller...
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you might be using a 13" MacBook Pro,
or something.
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It will show them as a double, like this.
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See this little double arrow here,
this little Chevron?
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You can decide whether you want
to work this way, or this way.
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I'm going to work this way
because that's my default...
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but you might be seeing it
just a little bit differently.
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Next thing to do is to deal with
your preferences for units and increments.
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It's a bit strange in Illustrator...
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so it's worth mentioning
here at the beginning.
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I've got a document open,
I have nothing selected...
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by using the Black Arrow, just clicking
in the background, nothing selected...
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you can see, the units in this case
are set to centimeters.
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I can change them here for this document,
which will say 'Inches'.
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That's how to change it
for this document.
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Now if you've come from
other Adobe products...
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you'll know that you can
go into 'Preferences'...
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and change your units and increments.
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It doesn't work that way in Illustrator.
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What happens is, you create
the units and increments...
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as you create a new document...
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or, like we did here, you change it
with nothing selected.
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So say I want to make a new document,
and I want to make sure it's inches.
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So I go to 'Print', and I decide
I want a 'Letter'.
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You'll notice that it's defaulted
to 'Points', and it always does that.
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There is a bit of a hack to go through
and change it...
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but we'll just live with points...
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because that's what Adobe said,
even with A4.
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So Metric sizings,
it still defaults to 'Points'.
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So what you need to do is pick 'Letter'...
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then go in here, and say,
I want it to be in 'Inches'.
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That will make sure the default sizing
for that document is in inches.
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I'm going to click on 'Create'.
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Now you might be doing
more kind of Web Design...
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so that units could be switched
from inches, millimeters...
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to something like pixels.
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Often I work that way
especially when I'm doing...
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maybe UI Design in Illustrator...
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but we're going to work in inches
for most of this course.
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Now if you need to change
the page size afterwards...
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a really easy way to do it is...
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down here, there's a tool...
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it's called the Artboard tool,
if I click on it...
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it kind of selects the Artboard...
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and I can drag it around,
which is kind of strange.
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You can just make up a size,
but often, with it selected...
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over here, you can see...
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I can give it a Page Size by
changing the height and the width.
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You can see here also,
I can change it to 'Landscape'.
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Now one thing is, if you're following along
with say, something like CS6...
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quite an older version of Illustrator...
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95% of this course will work just fine.
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The big change for you is...
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you won't have this Properties panel,
you'll have something slightly different.
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Under 'Essentials',
you'll have 'Essential Classic'.
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And you'll have most of these options.
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Can you see, there's 'Artboard 1',
up the top there.
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But in the later version,
the one we're using now...
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is they just tucked them
into this Properties panel.
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So you can play along just fine
with CS6 or earlier versions...
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but you just have to know that
when I'm using the Properties panel...
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you're actually using this kind of
Control App bar along the top.
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Now a couple of more things...
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just to get us used to Illustrator
before we start making things.
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I've gone back to 'Getting Started',
you'll notice, these tabs along the top...
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so this is how to have
more than one document open...
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and toggle between the two.
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So I'm going to go to 'Getting Started'.
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I'm going to grab my 'Black Arrow'.
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Black Arrow is your default,
this is the one to use all the time.
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It's your fall back tool...
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because what it does is
it just moves things around.
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If I click on this guy,
I can move him around.
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It physically moves stuff, that's his job,
the Selection tool.
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Now the Selection tool moves
the thing in its entirety.
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There's another tool in here,
called the White Arrow...
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or the Direct Selection tool.
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What this does is it allows you to pick
little parts of that object...
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whereas the Black Arrow
moves the whole thing.
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Watch this, if I click on
one of these little dots here...
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you can see, it's blue,
versus all the rest of them that are white.
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I can move just one part
of this little fox here.
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So we're going to be using both
of these tools, mainly the Black Arrow...
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but the White Arrow will be something
that we use as well.
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Couple of more things that
we'll need to work with...
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is 'Edit', you've got 'Undo' and 'Redo'.
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So if things go wrong,
you can go backwards...
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you can use the shortcut
if you feel like it.
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It has unlimited undos,
so you can go back loads.
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The next thing is zooming in and out.
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There's a tool down the bottom here,
the Zoom tool, you can click on it.
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Hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac,
to zoom out, or 'Alt' key on a PC.
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You can see, the icon
changes from a plus, '+'...
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but if I hold down
the 'Option' key on a Mac...
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it changes into a minus, '-',
and you just click once.
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Now I never use that,
and you'll find that--
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we're not going to do too many
shortcuts in this Intro class...
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but a really good shortcut
for in and out...
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is holding down the 'Command' key
on a Mac, or 'Control on a PC...
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and just tapping the plus, '+' key...
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and the minus, '-' to zoom out.
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It's a really quick and
easy way to zoom out.
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Another really useful tool -
I'm going to go back to my 'Black Arrow'.
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- is when I'm moving around, you can drag
these sliders here, and that's fine...
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but you'll find that,
just holding down the 'space bar'...
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you'll see, my cursor changes
from black Arrow to the Hand.
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Click, hold, drag around.
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So 'space bar', and just click,
hold your mouse button...
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it's a really easy way to move around.
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Another thing to note in Illustrator...
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is that we've got something
called an Artboard.
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Now Artboard is just like another page.
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They call them Artboards in Illustrator.
I'm going to zoom out a little bit.
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Now I'm going to go back
to my Artboard tool, to my Pages tool.
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I'm going to click once over here...
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and drag out, and I've got a second page.
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So with it selected, I can click, hold,
drag it across a little bit...
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give it some room, and then over here,
I can switch it to A4.
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I'm going to zoom out.
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So you can have more than one page.
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I've got first page, which is kind
of a postcard size...
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then I've got this A4 page.
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So just think of them
as pages in a document.
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You can export them
as pages in a PDF.
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Or you just might have multiple concepts
to work in between the two.
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So you can have more than one Artboard.
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One last thing to quickly discuss
before we get into making stuff...
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is the Grouping and Isolation mode.
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I'll show you this now
because everyone gets lost.
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So I've got this fox here.
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At the moment it's actually
just separate shapes.
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So what I'm going to do is select it all,
so I'm going to hold down 'Shift' key.
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So with my 'Black Arrow', 'Shift' key,
click on these guys.
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So with them all selected, what I'm
going to do is go to 'Object'.
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I'm going to group them...
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so they're kind of one little unit
that I can move around.
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I missed that little white bit,
but that's okay.
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But he's grouped, now what ends up
happening is...
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when you're new to Illustrator,
especially if you love to double click...
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with my Black Arrow, if I double click him,
weird stuff happens.
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This kind of grays out, and I can't
select on it anymore.
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I can work on these guys individually...
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what's happened is you've entered
something called Isolation mode.
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And the way I know, is that it's
grayed out in the background...
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and there's this blue line along the top.
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And you can see here,
I'm inside of this group.
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Layer 1 is home base, so I can
just click on that to come back out.
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So that's where people often get lost.
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So we're working fine, working fine...
double click...
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and they get lost in here...
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and they kind of work on stuff,
and things go a bit weird.
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So if that ever happens,
just click on Layer 1...
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or this big arrow here, up to you,
just to come back to home base.
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Enough boring navigation,
getting setup stuff.
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Let's start making stuff in the next video.
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I'll see you over there.
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