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In the panel that opens, make sure that the Swatches option is selected at the top to show the default swatches saved colors. While you can use the default swatches, you can also create your own colors and save them as swatches to reuse them later.
With the Swatches panel still showing, double-click the orange swatch you just applied to the shape to edit the color. Select Preview to see the change to the rectangle. Click OK to save the change you made to the swatch. You can press the Escape key to do this. Press the Escape key to hide the Swatches panel. Editing strokes A stroke is the outline border of artwork like shapes and paths. There are a lot of appearance properties you can change for a stroke, including width, color, dashes, and more.
With the rectangle still selected, click the Stroke color box in the Properties panel. In the panel that appears, click the Color Mixer button at the top to create a custom color. To save the color you just created so you can use it again easily, click the Swatches button at the top of the panel. Click the New Swatch button at the bottom of the panel to save it as a swatch. The blue color should now be showing in the Swatches panel as a saved swatch. Working with layers Layers allow you to organize and more easily select artwork.
Type Background, and press Return or Enter to change the layer name. Naming layers can be helpful when organizing content. Currently, the rectangle you created is on this layer. Click the Create New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers panel, to create a new, blank layer.
Double-click the new layer name, Layer 2, and type Content. Press Return or Enter to change the layer name. By creating multiple layers in your artwork, you can control how overlapping objects are displayed. In the document, artwork on the Content layer will be on top of the artwork on the Background layer since the Content layer is above the Background layer in the Layers panel. Click the eye icon to the left of the Background layer name to temporarily hide the rectangle on the background layer.
Any new artwork will be added to the selected Content layer. Select the Type tool in the Tools panel on the left, and click in a blank area toward the bottom of the artboard. Click the Properties panel tab in the upper-right corner of the application window to the right to show the panel. Click the Fill color box.
In the panel that appears, make sure the Swatches button is selected at the top of the panel, and click to select the blue swatch you created in a previous step. Press the Escape key to hide the panel.
In the Character section of the Properties panel, select the font size, and type Press Return or Enter to accept the size change. Click the arrow to the right of the Font Family field in the Properties panel. In the menu that appears, click Find More to see a listing of Adobe fonts.
Click the Activate button to the far right of the Montserrat Light font name to activate it. Click OK in the dialog box that appears to activate the font. Click Montserrat Light to apply it. Note It may take some time for the font to be activated.
With the text selected, in the Properties panel on the right, change the Tracking value by selecting the value in the field and typing Press Return or Enter to accept the change. Click More Options in the Character section to show more options. Creating shapes using the Shape Builder tool The Shape Builder tool is an interactive tool for creating complex shapes by merging and erasing simpler shapes.
Press and hold down on the Rectangle tool in the Tools panel on the left. Select the Ellipse tool in the menu that appears. Above the text, drag to create an ellipse. See the figure for roughly how big to make it. Press the D key to apply the default color fill of white and a black stroke to the shape.
Click the stroke color in the Properties panel, and click the Color Mixer button at the top of the panel to make a new color. Press Return or Enter to hide the panel. Change the stroke weight in the Properties panel to 2. Press and hold on the Ellipse tool, and select the Rectangle tool. Drag to create a small rectangle on top of the ellipse. See the first part of the following figure. To round the corners of the rectangle, drag any of the corner widgets toward the center of the shape.
Select the Selection tool in the Tools panel on the left, and drag the ellipse so it is center aligned with the rounded rectangle. A temporary vertical magenta guide may appear when they are aligned. The goal is to understand how to create and edit the shapes.
They come in different shapes and sizes! Drag across both shapes to select them see the first part of the following figure.
Select the Shape Builder tool in the Tools panel on the left. Move the pointer where you see the red X in the middle part of the following figure. Release the mouse button and then the key.
Creating with the Curvature tool With the Curvature tool , you can draw and edit paths quickly and visually to create paths with smooth refined curves and straight lines. Select the Curvature tool in the Tools panel. Move the pointer into a blank area, away from the top of the acorn you just created. Click and release to start drawing a shape see the first part of the following figure. Move the pointer away see the second part of the figure. Click and release see the first part of the following figure to continue drawing a shape.
Move the pointer away and notice the path curving in different ways as you move it. Every time you click, you are creating what is called an anchor point. The anchor points you add control the shape of the path. Move the pointer up and to the left, and when the path looks something like the figure, click and release to continue drawing the shape. Move the pointer over where you first clicked. When the pointer shows a small circle next to it , click to close the path, creating a shape.
Move the pointer over the point on the left, and when the pointer looks like this , double- click to make it a corner. Do the same for the point on the right the first anchor point you created.
Move the pointer over the point, and double-click to make it a corner as well. You now have all of the artwork you need to make the acorn. Transforming artwork In Illustrator, there are a number of ways to move, rotate, skew, scale, and more—in other words transforming artwork so you can get it just the way you want.
Select the Selection tool in the Tools panel on the left. Click the top of the acorn shape you created in a previous section. Select the Eraser tool in the Tools panel on the left.
Drag across the bottom of the artwork in a U shape to erase part of it. After releasing the mouse button, you will see the resulting shape. Drag across any remaining artwork below the acorn top to erase it see the figure at right.
Select the Selection tool , and drag the top of the acorn onto the bottom of the acorn, centering them as best you can see the following acorn figure. Click the Arrange button towards the bottom of the Properties panel to the right of the document and choose Bring To Front to bring the top of the acorn on top of the bottom.
Press Option macOS or Alt Windows , and drag the right point on the box surrounding the shape to make it wider or narrower—whichever allows you to fit the top best. When it looks good, release the mouse button and then the key. Note The figure shows making the top of the acorn a bit narrower. Drag across both acorn shapes to select them.
Click the Fill color in the Properties panel on the right, and choose the None swatch to remove the white fill color. You can use the Shape Builder tool to fix that. Move the pointer where you see the red X in the following figure. Drag across the top shapes to combine them. Make sure not to drag into the bottom shape. Working with symbols A symbol is reusable art stored in the Symbols panel.
Symbols are useful because they can help you save time and can save on file size as well. You will now create a symbol from the acorn artwork. With the acorn shapes still selected, select the Selection tool.
Click the New Symbol button at the bottom of the panel to save the selected artwork as a symbol. If a warning dialog box appears, click OK as well. The artwork now appears as a saved symbol in the Symbols panel, and the acorn on the artboard you used to create the symbol is now a symbol instance. From the Symbols panel, drag the acorn symbol thumbnail onto the artboard twice.
Note Your acorn symbol instances may be in different locations than those in the figure. Also, the figure shows dragging the third symbol onto the artboard. Click the X at the top of the Symbols panel group to close it.
With one of the acorns selected, move the pointer just off of a corner. When the rotate arrows appear, drag to rotate the acorn. Click to select one of the other acorns and rotate it in the opposite direction. Double-click the red path of one of the acorn instances on the artboard to enter Isolation mode. In the dialog box that appears, click OK. Tip You could have also clicked the Edit Symbol button in the Properties panel to the right of the document. Click the stroke border of the bottom part of the acorn to select it.
Click the Stroke color in the Properties panel, and click the Color Mixer button at the top of the panel to make a new color. After typing in the last value, press Return or Enter to make the change and also close the panel.
Note If Send To Back is dimmed, then you are already set. Double-click in a blank area of the Document window to exit the editing Isolation mode, and notice that the other acorns have changed as well. Creating and editing gradients Gradients are color blends of two or more colors that you can apply to the fill or stroke of artwork. Click the Layers panel tab in the upper-right corner of the application window to show the panel. Click in the visibility column to the left of the Background layer name to show the rectangle on the Background layer.
With the Selection tool selected in the Tools panel to the left, click in the rectangle in the background to select it. Click the Properties panel tab in the upper-right corner of the application window to show the panel. In the Properties panel, click the Fill color box and make sure the Swatches option is selected.
Note A message may appear after selecting the gradient. You can click Okay to dismiss it. At the bottom of the panel, click the Gradient Options button to open the Gradient panel. An arrow is pointing to the button in the previous figure. You can drag the Gradient panel by the title bar at the top to move it around. Click the Color button in the panel that appears. Click the panel menu icon , and choose CMYK.
Press Return or Enter after typing in the last value to make the change and hide the panel. Click the Radial Gradient button at the top of the Gradient panel to change the gradient to a circular gradient. Click the X at the top of the Gradient panel to close it. That way you can focus on other artwork. Click the Layers panel tab in the upper-right corner of the application window to show the Layers panel. Click the Content layer name so that any new artwork you add will be on the Content layer and above the content on the Background layer.
Make sure that the Link option in the dialog box is not selected, and click Place. Move the loaded graphics cursor into the artboard. Click to place the hand lettering image. With the Selection tool selected, click to select the hand-lettering image. To trace the lettering so you can edit it as shapes in Illustrator, click the Properties panel tab to show the panel.
Note Note: The hand lettering was hand-drawn and a picture was taken of it. It was created by Danielle Fritz www. In the Image Trace panel that opens, click the disclosure triangle to the left of Advanced circled in the figure. Close the Image Trace panel by clicking the small X at the top. With the lettering still selected, click the Expand button in the Quick Actions section of the Properties panel to make the object a series of editable shapes that are grouped together.
With the lettering selected, click the Fill color in the Properties panel. With the Swatches option selected at the top of the panel, click the blue color you created previously to apply it.
With the Selection tool selected, pressing the Shift key, drag a corner of the text shapes to make them larger. When you see a width of approximately 8. Working with brushes Brushes let you stylize the appearance of paths. You can apply brush strokes to existing paths, or you can use the Paintbrush tool to draw a path and apply a brush stroke simultaneously. Select the Squirrel. Drag the squirrel artwork by one of the red paths, up toward the top of the artboard. Note The lines in the tail of the squirrel and the squirrel artwork are separate objects.
If you find that you only drag one, simply drag the other artwork into place. Click a lighter red path in the tail of the squirrel to select a group of paths.
Move the pointer over a brush in the list, and you will see its name in a tool tip. Note The brush you apply is an art brush, which means that it stretches artwork along the path. The brush artwork is scaled on the path based on the stroke border weight.
Select the Selection tool , and pressing the Shift key, click the red path of the squirrel artwork to select the paths in the tail and the squirrel. Aligning artwork Illustrator makes it easy to align or distribute multiple objects relative to each other, the artboard, or a key object.
With the Selection tool selected, drag each object into position like you see in the figure. Tip You can also drag across the background rectangle and text to select them. Any content you apply an alignment to will now align to the edges of the artboard. Click the Horizontal Align Center button to align the selected artwork to the horizontal center of the artboard.
Working with effects Effects alter the appearance of an object without changing the base object. With the Selection tool , click the rectangle in the background.
Select Preview to see it applied to the rectangle and then click OK. Presenting your document In Illustrator, you can view your document in different ways. Tip Another way to show your document in Presentation mode is to click the Change Screen Mode button toward the bottom of the Tools panel on the left and choose Presentation mode.
To turn it off, you can press the Escape key. Everything but the active artboard is hidden from view. The area around the artboard is replaced by a solid color, usually black. If there were more artboards like multiple pages in Adobe InDesign , you could press the right or left arrow key to navigate between them.
Press the Escape key to exit Presentation mode. The workspace consists of the Application bar, menus, Tools panel, Properties panel, Document window, and other default panels. Work with the Tools panel. Work with panels. Reset and save your workspace. Use viewing options to change the display magnification. Navigate multiple artboards and documents. Explore document groups. Find resources for using Illustrator.
This lesson will take about 45 minutes to complete. Introducing Adobe Illustrator In Illustrator, you primarily create and work with vector graphics sometimes called vector shapes or vector objects.
Vector graphics are made up of lines and curves defined by mathematical objects called vectors. You can freely move or modify vector graphics without losing detail or clarity because they are resolution-independent. An example of vector artwork. Editing vector artwork. As a result, vector graphics are the best choice for artwork, such as logos, that will be used at various sizes and in various output media.
Illustrator also allows you to incorporate bitmap images—technically called raster images—that are made up of a rectangular grid of picture elements pixels. Each pixel is assigned a specific location and color value. Pictures you take on your phone camera are considered raster images. Raster images can be created and edited in a program like Adobe Photoshop.
Example of a raster image and a zoomed-in portion to show the pixels. This is something you will do at the start of each lesson in this book to ensure that the tools function and the defaults are set exactly as described in this lesson. Note If finding the preferences file proves difficult, please email brian brianwoodtraining. With Illustrator open, you will see a start screen showing resources for Illustrator, and more. The Reset Essentials command ensures that the workspace, which includes all of the tools and panels, is set to the default settings.
This command fits the whole artboard into the Document window so that you can see the entire artboard. When the file is open and Illustrator is fully launched, the menus, Application bar, Tools panel, and panels appear on the screen. Exploring the workspace You create and manipulate your documents and files using various elements, such as panels, bars, and windows. Any arrangement of these elements is called a workspace. When you first start Illustrator, you see the default workspace, which you can customize for the tasks you perform.
You can create and save multiple workspaces—one for editing and another for viewing, for example—and switch among them as you work. Note The figures in this lesson are taken using macOS and may look slightly different from what you see, especially if you are using Windows. Below, the areas of the default workspace are described: A. The Application bar across the top by default contains application controls, the Workspace Switcher, and Search. On Windows, the menu items appear inline with the Application bar— see the following figure.
Panels help you monitor and modify your work. Certain panels are displayed by default, and you can display any panel by choosing it from the Window menu. The Tools panel contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, and more. Related tools are grouped together. The Status bar appears at the lower-left edge of the Document window. It displays information, zooming, and navigation controls. Getting to know the Tools panel The Tools panel on the left side of the workspace contains tools for selecting, drawing and painting, editing, and viewing, as well as the Fill and Stroke boxes, drawing modes, and screen modes.
Move the pointer over the Selection tool in the Tools panel. Notice that the name Selection Tool and keyboard shortcut V are displayed in a tool tip.
Tip You can modify the default keyboard shortcuts that Illustrator comes with. Move the pointer over the Direct Selection tool and press and hold until a tools menu appears.
Release the mouse button and then click the Group Selection tool to select it. Any tool in the Tools panel that displays a small triangle contains additional tools that can be selected in this way.
Press and hold on the Rectangle tool to reveal more tools. Click the arrow at the right edge of the hidden tools panel to separate the tools from the Tools panel as a separate floating panel of tools, so that you can access them easily.
Each click selects the next hidden tool in the tool sequence. The tools return to the Tools panel. Tip You can also collapse the floating tool panels or dock them to the workspace or each other. In the figures in this lesson, the Tools panel is a single column by default.
Click the double arrow in the upper-left corner of the Tools panel to either expand the one column into two columns or collapse the two columns into one depending on your screen resolution. Click the same double arrow again to collapse or expand the Tools panel. Tip You can click the double arrow at the top of the Tools panel or double-click the title bar at the top of the Tools panel to switch between two columns and one column.
When the Tools panel is floating, be careful not to click the X or it will close! Drag the Tools panel into the workspace by the dark gray title bar at the top of the Tools panel or the dashed line beneath the title bar.
The Tools panel is now floating in the workspace. When the pointer reaches the left edge, a translucent blue border, called the drop zone, appears. Release the mouse button to dock the Tools panel neatly into the side of the workspace. Finding more tools In Illustrator, the default set of tools showing in the Tools panel does not include every tool available.
Click Edit Toolbar toward the bottom of the content in the Tools panel on the left. A panel appears that shows all of the tools available to you. You can drag any of the remaining tools into the Tools panel where you can then select them to use them.
Note A message may appear after clicking Edit Toolbar. You can click Okay to dismiss it, then click Edit Toolbar again. Tip You can also toggle the appearance of the controls at the bottom of the Tools panel in the menu that appears after clicking Edit Toolbar.
Move the pointer over a tool that is dimmed, like the Selection tool at the top of the tools list you may need to scroll up. The tool is highlighted in the Tools panel.
If you hover the pointer over a tool like the Ellipse tool, which is nested within the Rectangle tool, the Rectangle tool will highlight, showing you where it is. Scroll in the list of tools until you see the Shaper tool.
To add it to the Tools panel, drag the Shaper tool onto the Rectangle tool. Press the Escape key to hide the extra tools. The Shaper tool will now be in the Tools panel until you remove it or reset the Tools panel.
Later in the lessons, you will be adding tools to learn more about them. Click Edit Toolbar in the Tools panel again to show the panel of extra tools. Drag the Shaper tool onto the panel. When a minus shows next to the pointer , release the mouse to remove the Shaper tool from the Tools panel. Tip You can reset the Tools panel by clicking the panel menu icon and choosing Reset.
The Properties panel displays properties for the active document when nothing is selected and displays appearance properties for content you select.
Select the Selection tool in the Tools panel, and look in the Properties panel on the right. With nothing selected in the document, the Properties panel shows the current document properties as well as program preferences. Note A message may appear after selecting the shape. Move the pointer into the dark blue background shape in the artwork, and click to select it. You can change the size, position, color, and much more for the artwork you selected.
Words that are underlined in the Properties panel will show more options when you click them. Press Escape to hide the Transparency panel, if necessary. The Properties panel once again shows document properties and program preferences when nothing is selected.
Working with panels Panels in Illustrator, like the Properties panel, give you quick access to many of the tools and options that make modifying artwork easier.
All of the panels available in Illustrator are listed alphabetically in the Window menu. Click the Layers panel tab to the right of the Properties panel tab. The Layers panel appears with two other panels—the Properties panel and the Libraries panel. They are all part of the same panel group. Tip To find a hidden panel, choose the panel name from the Window menu. A checkmark to the left of the panel name indicates that the panel is already open and in front of other panels in its panel group.
If you choose a panel name that is already selected in the Window menu, the panel and its group either close or collapse. Click the double arrow at the top of the dock to collapse the panels. You can use this method of collapsing the panels so you have more area to work on your document. Drag the left edge of the docked panels to the right until the panel text disappears. This hides the panel names and collapses the panel dock to icons only. To open a panel when collapsed as an icon, you can click a panel icon.
Click the double arrow again to expand the panels. Docking panels Panels in Illustrator can be moved around in the workspace and organized to match your working needs. Click the Window menu at the top of the screen to see all of the panels available in Illustrator. Choose Align from the Window menu to open the Align panel and the other panels grouped with it by default. Panels you open that do not appear in the default workspace are free-floating. That means they are not docked and can be moved around.
You can dock free-floating panels on the right or left side of the workspace. Drag the Align panel group by the title bar above the panel names to move the group closer to the docked panels on the right. Drag the Align panel by the panel tab, away from the panel group and onto the panel tabs Properties, Layers, and Libraries at the top of the docked panels. When a blue highlight appears around the entire panel dock, release the mouse button to dock the panel.
Click the X at the top of the Transform and Pathfinder panel group, which is free-floating, to close it. Aside from adding panels to the dock on the right, you can also remove them. Tip You can also dock panels next to each other on the right or left side of the workspace. This is a great way to conserve space. Drag the Align panel by the panel tab, to the left, away from the dock of panels, and release the mouse button.
Click the X at the top of the Align panel to close it. Switching workspaces When you first launch Illustrator, the Essentials workspace is showing. Illustrator comes with a host of other default workspaces that can be used to set the workspace for a variety of tasks.
Tip Press Tab to toggle between hiding and showing all panels. Choose Layout from the workspace switcher menu to change workspaces. One of the biggest is the Control panel, which is now docked at the top of the workspace, just above the Document window an arrow is pointing to it in the following figure. Similar to the Properties panel, it offers quick access to options, commands, and other panels relevant to the currently selected content.
Also, notice all of the collapsed panel icons on the right side of the workspace. In workspaces, you can create groups of panels that are stacked one on another. Choose Essentials from the workspace switcher above the docked panels to switch back to the Essentials workspace.
Choose Reset Essentials from the workspace switcher in the Application bar. When you choose a previous workspace to switch to, it remembers any changes you made, like selecting the Libraries panel. To completely reset a workspace, Essentials in this case, to its default settings, you can choose to reset it. You can also set up the panels the way you like and save your own custom workspace. Drag the Artboards panel by the panel tab onto the Properties panel tab at the top of the docked panels on the right.
When a blue highlight appears around the entire panel dock, release the mouse button to dock the Artboards panel. Select the workspace name, and click the Delete Workspace button.
Click the X at the top of the free-floating Asset Export panel to close it. The name of the workspace could be anything, as long as it makes sense to you. In the New Workspace dialog box, name the workspace with the original name. A message appears in the dialog box warning that you will overwrite an existing workspace with the same name if you click OK. Notice that the panels return to their default positions. Using panel and context menus Most panels in Illustrator have more options available in a panel menu, found by clicking the panel menu icon or in the upper-right corner of a panel.
These additional options can be used to change the panel display, add or change panel content, and more. With the Selection tool selected in the Tools panel on the left, click the dark blue shape in the background of the artwork again. In the panel that appears, make sure that the Swatches option is selected. Click the panel menu icon in the upper-right corner, and choose Small List View from the panel menu.
This displays the swatch names, together with thumbnails. Because the options in the panel menu apply only to the active panel, only the Swatches panel view is affected. Click the same panel menu icon in the panel showing, and choose Small Thumbnail View to return the swatches to their original view. In addition to the panel menus, context-sensitive menus display commands relevant to the active tool, selection, or panel. Usually the commands in a context menu are available in another part of the workspace, but using a context menu can save you time.
Move the pointer over the dark gray area surrounding the artwork. Then, right-click to show a context menu with specific options. The context-sensitive menu you see may contain different commands, depending on what the pointer is positioned over.
Tip If you move the pointer over the tab or title bar for a panel and right-click, you can close a panel or a panel group from the context menu that appears. Adjusting the user-interface Similar to Adobe InDesign or Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator supports a brightness adjustment for the application user interface. This is a program preference setting that allows you to choose a brightness setting from four preset levels. You can also scale the user interface of Illustrator based on your screen resolution.
When you launch Illustrator, it identifies your screen resolution and adjusts the application scale factor accordingly. Scale the user interface using the UI Scaling settings in the User Interface preferences section of the Preferences dialog box. The magnification level, which can range from 3. Each time you choose a Zoom option, the view of the artwork is resized to the closest preset zoom level.
Using any of the viewing tools and commands affects only the display of the artwork, not the actual size of the artwork. The preset zoom levels appear in a menu in the lower- left corner of the Document window, identified by a down arrow next to a percentage. You can also use the View menu to fit the active artboard to your screen, to fit all artboards into the view area, or to view artwork at actual size.
The active artboard is the selected artboard. Artboards represent the areas that can contain printable artwork similar to pages in a program like Adobe InDesign. The artboard is indicated by a red line added to the following figure. Using the Zoom tool In addition to the View menu options, you can use the Zoom tool to magnify and reduce the view of artwork to predefined magnification levels.
Select the Zoom tool in the Tools panel and then move the pointer into the Document window. The artwork is displayed at a higher magnification. Notice that where you clicked is now in the center of the Document window. Click two more times on the text. A minus sign — appears at the center of the Zoom tool pointer. With the Option or Alt key pressed, click the artwork twice to reduce the view of the artwork.
Using the Zoom tool, you can also drag in the document to zoom in and out. With the Zoom tool still selected, drag from the left side of the document to the right to zoom in. The zooming is animated. Drag from right to left to zoom out. Note If your computer does not meet the system requirements for GPU Performance, you will instead draw a dotted rectangle, called a marquee, when dragging with the Zoom tool.
Tip With the Zoom tool selected, if you move the pointer into the Document window and press the mouse button for a few seconds, you can zoom in using the animated zoom. The Zoom tool is used frequently during the editing process to enlarge and reduce the view of artwork. Because of this, Illustrator allows you to select it using the keyboard at any time without first deselecting any other tool you may be using.
If you decide to use these shortcuts in Illustrator, you may want to turn off or change those keyboard shortcuts in the macOS System Preferences. GPU Performance The graphics processing unit GPU , found on video cards and part of display systems, is a specialized processor that can rapidly execute commands for manipulating and displaying images.
GPU-accelerated computing offers faster performance across a broad range of design, animation, and video applications. This feature is available on compatible Mac and Windows computers. Scrolling through a document In Illustrator, you can use the Hand tool to pan to different areas of a document. Using the Hand tool allows you to push the document around much like you would a piece of paper on your desk. This can be a useful way to move around in a document with a lot of artboards or when you are zoomed in.
Press and hold on the Zoom tool and select the Hand tool in the Tools panel. Drag down in the Document window. As you drag, the artwork moves with the hand. As with the Zoom tool , you can select the Hand tool with a keyboard shortcut without first deselecting the active tool. Click any other tool except the Type tool in the Tools panel, and move the pointer into the Document window. Hold down the spacebar on the keyboard to temporarily select the Hand tool and then drag to bring the artwork back into the center of your view.
Release the spacebar. Note The spacebar shortcut for the Hand tool does not work when the Type tool is active and the cursor is in text. The touch layout has a cleaner interface that allows you to comfortably use a stylus or your fingertip to access the tools and controls of the Touch workspace.
At any time on a supported device , you can immediately switch between the Touch and traditional workspaces to access the full range of Illustrator tools and controls.
On a touch device, such as a Direct touch device a touchscreen device , Indirect touch device the trackpad on macOS , a touchpad, or a Wacom Intuos5 and later device, you can also use standard touch gestures pinch and swipe to do the following: Pinch in or out, using two fingers like the thumb and forefinger to zoom. Place two fingers on the touch device, and move the fingers together to pan within the document. Swipe or flick to navigate artboards. Viewing artwork When you open a file, it is automatically displayed in Preview mode, which shows how the artwork will print.
Illustrator offers other ways of viewing your artwork, such as outlines and rasterized. This is called Outline mode. Only the outlines of objects are displayed. You can use this view to find and select objects that might not be visible in Preview mode.
This view is helpful for those in the print industry who need to see how inks interact when set to overprint. Note When switching between viewing modes, visual changes may not be readily apparent.
When you turn on Pixel preview, Overprint preview is turned off. Pixel preview can be used to see how the artwork will look when it is rasterized and viewed on-screen in a web browser.
An arrow is pointing to it in the figure. This is useful when you need to see all artboards in the document in one window and to edit content in any of those artboards in a zoomed-in view.
It is in a free-floating group in the workspace. The Navigator panel can be used in several ways, including the following: The red box in the Navigator panel, called the proxy view area, indicates the area of the document that is being shown. Type in a zoom value or click the mountain icons to change the magnification of your artwork. Position the pointer inside the proxy view area of the Navigator panel. When the pointer becomes a hand , drag to pan to different parts of the artwork.
Navigating artboards As you may recall, artboards contain printable artwork, similar to pages in Adobe InDesign. You can use artboards to crop areas for printing or placement purposes. You can easily share content among designs, create multipage PDFs, and print multiple pages by creating more than one artboard.
Illustrator allows for up to 1, artboards within a single file depending on their size. Multiple artboards can be added when you initially create an Illustrator document, or you can add, remove, and edit artboards after the document is created. Next, you will learn how to efficiently navigate a document that contains multiple artboards. Click Open to open the file. Notice that there are two artboards in the document that contain the designs for the front and back of a postcard.
The artboards in a document can be arranged in any order, orientation, or artboard size—they can even overlap. Suppose that you want to create a four-page brochure. You can create different artboards for every page of the brochure, all with the same size and orientation. They can be arranged horizontally or vertically or in whatever way you like. When you select artwork, it makes the artboard that the artwork is on the active, or selected, artboard. By choosing the Fit Artboard In Window command, the currently active artboard is fit into the Document window.
The active artboard is identified in the Artboard Navigation menu in the Status bar in lower-left corner of the Document window.
Currently it is artboard 2. Choose 1 from the Active Artboard menu in the Properties panel. Notice the arrows to the right of the Active Artboard menu in the Properties panel. You can use these to navigate to the previous and next artboards. Those arrows plus a few others also appear in the status bar below the document. Click the Next navigation button in the Status bar below the document to view the next artboard artboard 2 in the Document window. The Artboard Navigation menu and navigation arrows always appear in the Status bar below the document, but they appear in the Properties panel only when not in Artboard Editing mode, the Selection tool is selected, and nothing is selected.
Using the Artboards panel Another method for navigating multiple artboards is to use the Artboards panel. The Artboards panel lists all artboards currently in the document and allows you to navigate between artboards, rename artboards, add or delete artboards, edit artboard settings, and more.
Note Double-clicking the artboard name in the Artboards panel allows you to change the name of the artboard. Clicking the artboard icon or to the right of the artboard name in the panel allows you to edit artboard options. The artboard named Front is now fit in the Document window.
Notice that when you double-click to navigate to an artboard, that artboard is also fit in the Document window. Click the X at the top of the Artboards panel group to close it. Arranging multiple documents When you open more than one document in Illustrator, the Document windows are tabbed. You can also use the Arrange Documents menu to quickly display your open documents in a variety of configurations. Each file has its own tab at the top of the Document window.
These documents are considered a group of Document windows. You can create document groups to loosely associate files while they are open. Release the mouse button to see the new tab order. Dragging the document tabs allows you to change the order of the documents. This can be useful if you use the document shortcuts to navigate to the next or previous document.
Note Be careful to drag directly to the right. Otherwise, you could undock the Document window and create a new group. To see both of the documents at the same time, maybe to drag artwork from one to the other, you can arrange the Document windows by cascading or tiling them.
Cascading allows you to cascade stack different document groups. Tiling shows multiple Document windows at one time, in various arrangements. The available space in the Application frame is divided between the documents. Do the same for the Document window on the right. Note Your documents may be tiled in a different order. With documents tiled, you can drag artwork between documents, which copies them from one document to another.
When you move or resize the Application frame or any of its elements, all the elements within it respond to each other so none overlap.
Click the Consolidate All button to bring the documents back together. Note On Windows, menus appear in the Application bar. Click the Arrange Documents button in the Application bar to display the Arrange Documents menu again. Click the 2-Up vertical button in the Arrange Documents menu.
Data recovery When you restart Illustrator after a program crash, you have the option of recovering work-in-progress files so that your hours of work are not wasted. Review questions 1. Describe two ways to change the view of a document. How do you select a tool in Illustrator? How do you save panel locations and visibility preferences? Describe a few ways to navigate among artboards in Illustrator.
Describe how arranging Document windows can be helpful. Review answers 1. You can choose commands from the View menu to zoom in or out of a document or to fit it to your screen; you can also use the Zoom tool in the Tools panel and click or drag over a document to enlarge or reduce the view.
In addition, you can use keyboard shortcuts to magnify or reduce the display of artwork. You can also use the Navigator panel to scroll artwork or to change its magnification without using the Document window. To select a tool, you can either click the tool in the Tools panel or press the keyboard shortcut for that tool. For example, you can press V to select the Selection tool from the keyboard. Selected tools remain active until you click a different tool.
To navigate among artboards in Illustrator, you can choose the artboard number from the Artboard Navigation menu at the lower-left of the Document window; with nothing selected and while not in Artboard Editing mode, you can choose the artboard number from the Artboard Navigation menu or use the Active Artboard arrows in the Properties panel; you can use the Artboard Navigation arrows in the status bar in lower-left of the Document window to go to the first, previous, next, and last artboards; you can use the Artboards panel to navigate to artboards; or you can use the Navigator panel to drag the proxy view area to navigate between artboards.
This can be useful if you are working on multiple Illustrator files and you need to compare or share content among them. In this lesson, you learn how to locate and select objects using the Selection tools; protect other objects by grouping, hiding, and locking them; align objects to each other and the artboard; and much more. Recognize Smart Guides.
Save selections for future use. Hide and lock items. Use tools and commands to align shapes and points to each other and the artboard.
Group and ungroup items. Work in Isolation mode. Starting the lesson Creating, selecting, and editing are the cornerstones of creating artwork in Adobe Illustrator. To ensure that the tools function and the defaults are set exactly as described in this lesson, delete or deactivate by renaming the Adobe Illustrator CC preferences file.
In the Save As dialog box, name the file ZooPoster. In the Illustrator Options dialog box, leave the Illustrator options at their default settings, and click OK. Using the Selection tool The Selection tool in the Tools panel lets you select, move, rotate, and resize entire objects.
Choose 2 Pieces from the Artboard Navigation menu in the lower left of the Document window. This should fit the artboard on the right into the window. The icon that appears next to the pointer as it passes over objects indicates that there is artwork under the pointer that can be selected. When you hover over an object, that object is also outlined in a color, like blue in this instance.
Select the Zoom tool in the Tools panel, and click a few times on the beige circles to zoom in. Select the Selection tool in the Tools panel and then move the pointer over the edge of the beige circle on the left. Smart Guides are temporary snap-to guides that help you align, edit, and transform objects or artboards.
Click anywhere inside the circle on the left to select it. A bounding box with eight handles appears around the selected circle. The bounding box can be used to make changes to artwork vector or raster , such as resizing or rotating. The bounding box also indicates that an item is selected and ready to be modified.
The color of the bounding box indicates which layer the object is on. Using the Selection tool, click in the circle on the right.
Notice that the circle on the left is now deselected and only the circle on the right is selected. Note Note: To select an item that has no fill, you can click the stroke the edge or drag across the object. Pressing the Shift key, click the circle on the left to add it to the selection and then release the key. Both circles are now selected, and a larger bounding box surrounds them. Move the circles a short distance by pressing and dragging from inside either selected circle in the beige color.
Because both circles are selected, they move together. As you drag, you may notice that magenta lines appear. These are called alignment guides. As you drag, the objects align to other objects in the document. Measurement labels also appear because Smart Guides are turned on. In the dialog box that appears, click Revert. Selecting and editing with the Direct Selection tool In Illustrator, as you draw, you create vector paths that are made up of anchor points and paths.
Anchor points are used to control the shape of the path and work like pins holding a wire in place. A shape you create, like a square, is composed of at least four anchor points on the corners with paths connecting the anchor points. Explore the new streamlined Tools panel and all of the features essential for being creative in Illustrator, including working with the Shaper tool and Live Shapes along with dynamic symbols to streamline graphics creation.
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Some of them just don’t do a good job describing the minutia of each step so you don’t get tripped up. This book does an excellent job of walking you step by step through the exercise files so you build your knowledge. The author also re-uses skills learned in lessons to reinforce those skills and help you apply them consistently.
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I do wish that Adobe would be better about providing the links you should look up for deeper dives on some things, but over all this was a very understandable, organized book that actually helps you make good sense out of Illustrator. This is the first Classroom in Series book I’ve been able to finish without throwing it across the room at one time or another. It’s just exceptionally well done.
This book is easy to follow, up to date currently, lessons are building for the most part and review steps from prior lesson. It has helped out a lot and just thru the first 3 lessons and a lot more to go.
Worth the investment- First work item I did with it, was from a hand drawing and I turned it to graphics. Now they want more Best book for learning illustrator! Bought this for school but it has so much packed into this small book. Will keep this around even after class for an illustration refresh. One person found this helpful.
There are 2 lessons in this that can be great practice for using the pen tool too. If you look at the tool bar of an illustrator layout and have no clue what any of the symbols means, this book can fix that. Are small but very helpful book for beginners. This adobe illustrator cc classroom in a book (2019 release) 1st edition free download is great if you are just learning to use Illustrator. If you get lost just go to file and undo until you can correct the issue. The only bad thing I will say is that the phots are very small and sometimes hard to see what to click on.
If you want to learn AI, this is where you start. Absolutely great lessons, samples, instructions and support. Just buy it and do it. The book contents are great but the construction is poor quality I expected better. It is convenient that you ссылка на подробности download the the lessons from the internet to work with. The computer screenshots are too tiny to read. I have to use a magnifying glass just to read it.
The minuscule lettering with the black background makes it challenging to read and understand. See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. I agonised over buying this book for a while. Big chunky books when you have quite severe wrist problems is not ideal, and I didn’t just want an eBook for that price, so when looking into this, seeing a promised web edition with interactive lessons and videos, it sealed the deal adobe illustrator cc classroom in a book (2019 release) 1st edition free download me.
I got my book and signed up to the Adobe Press website to activate my web version. It told me to enter the 10 or 13 digit ISBN to do so. I entered the 10 digit one and it said I’d registered my book, but no web version appeared for me. I contacted support who were the most unhelpful, knowledgeable, and shady support team I’ve ever adobe illustrator cc classroom in a book (2019 release) 1st edition free download with.
After making me provide my Amazon invoice, another screenshot of this product page, and 18 messages back and forth over nearly a week, they told me that the web version does not come with this book because it’s not in the product description and that only the paperbacks bought from their website contain access to the web version. This was of course, completely false because the book says all over it that any purchase of it gains you access.
The last adobe illustrator cc classroom in a book (2019 release) 1st edition free download from them told me to take it up with Amazon as they will have instructions on how to access the service.
This was again completely unhelpful as Amazon have nothing to do with this service. At the point where I was about to contact Trading Standards and anyone else who will listen, I made a new account with another email address and entered the 13 digit ISBN instead, and it worked instantly. Why they couldn’t tell me to do this, why they had no idea how to solve what I imagine смотрите подробнее a very common problem I’m not stupid, I just entered one of the 2 codes it said would work, my only crime is maybe I was a bit lazy going for the 10 digit code over the 13 digit oneis utterly disgraceful and very worrying from a consumer point of view.
The web version itself is quite good, the tutor is fantastic, but the videos are temperamental. You can pause and play, but if you try to skip back or forwards if you missed something, it stops working and you need to watch the whole video again. On the plus side they are to 3 minutes long each one so it’s not the end of the world, but this company InFormIT and Pearson fail at almost every aspect that they need to provide beyond the paperback windows 10 on screen keyboard change color free download itself.
The issues I’ve experienced are so bad that I truly hope Adobe never change too much to Illustrator and I find myself needing a future version of this book.
I will not buy another one and was considering the Photoshop one next but I think I will stick to YouTube tutorials for that. For the record, when I contacted Adobe about this, despite being apologetic, they said they had absolutely nothing to do with this company as they are just partners.