Today, I learned about smart guides and how to customize them. Smart Guides are temporary snap‑to guides that appear when you create or manipulate objects or artboards. These appear when the object is position to a certain point of another object, like the right side or the center. You can customize these smart guides by going to Preferences, …
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Saving Documents
Today, I learned how to properly save documents by adding metadata and keywords so that I can easily find a certain document. Saving document in Illustrator is the same process in any application, but saving metadata in a document to make it searchable by programs like Adobe Bridge is completely different. Firstly, Head to File …
Illustrator Templates
During this lesson, I learned about different templates Illustrator offers and the usefulness of them To start, head to File menu then New from Template, which opens the New from Template dialog box within the Templates directory. When you open one of these templates, for example tech, there’s many different template files. To open one, …
Multiple Artboards
In today’s lesson, I worked on many properties and functions of an artboard and how a multitude of them can come in handy. Illustrator allows you to have multiple artboards on a document, which comes in handy. For example, a design can be easily implemented on a letterhead, an envelope, and a business card without …
Anatomy of a Document
Today, I set up parameters and measurements to understand the inner parts of a document. To begin, head to the File menu at the top right of the screen, then choose New. Inside the dialog box, set the bleed values to 20 pt then click OK. After creating the new document, head to the View …
Creating New Documents
In this lesson, I learned how to effectively create a new document inside Illustrator. Creating new documents is a frequent activity in Illustrator, so it is important to understand the options when it comes to creating new documents. At the very top of the screen, you can see File, and when opened, you can click …
Isolation Mode
In this lesson, I learned what Isolation Mode is and how it works. Isolation mode is used to edit objects or paths within a sublayer, compound path, group, or symbol. When Isolation Mode is entered, anything not within the isolated object will appear dimmed out. To get to Isolation mode, you must double-click a part of the grouped object. …
Selections and Stacking Order
Today, I learned the fundamentals of selections and its tools. I also learned about the stacking order of objects and how to change the order. At the top of the tools panel, which is on the left hand side of the screen, there’s a black arrow (Selection Tool) and a white arrow (Direct Selection). With …
Fills and Strokes
During this video, I worked on different types of strokes and fills and where to find and apply them. To start, the fill function allows you to cover a large space of your image with a solid color or pattern and the stroke command makes it easy to paint borders around whole images or within them. When the path …
Understanding Paths
For today’s lesson, I learned about how a path is created by anchor points and the two types of paths and anchor points. In Illustrator, a path means a line that can be either open, making a line, or closed, creating a shape. Each path consists of 2 or more anchor points. For example, the …
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