How To Get Started With Adobe Illustrator CC - 10 Things Beginners Want To Know How To Do

hello and welcome to a new episode of adobe creative cloud TV my name is teri white in this episode we're going to take a look at how to get started with adobe illustrator 10 things beginners want to know how to do so first and foremost if you're an expert illustrator user then chances are this is not your video but if you're just getting started you've never touched illustrator before or you maybe you've started but you kind of really would like to get some foundation and know how to get going further then this is for you what I'm doing is I'm taking the ten things that people ask the most about illustrator when they're first starting out we're going to kind of condense this as much as we can into a video that will you know take the gloves off make it easier for you to jump right in and start using a little straighter now there's a couple things right off the bat first of all I am using a tablet a tablet makes using illustrator and Photoshop much much easier it's not required you can of course use your mouse the program works and fully functional without a tablet but if you use a drawing tablet for example I have a Wacom Intuos Pro here and I am working on a Cintiq which is their larger display based tablet it will make life easier because instead of using a mouse you're using a stylus to draw and do things a lot more accurately like I said not require it but certainly will make your life easier so when you see me pick up the pen it's because I need to do something more intricate so now that we got that out of the way let's go ahead and jump right in and see how to use illustrator CC the first thing that people need to know how to do is once you launch it once you've installed it by the way I want you to go into your apps in your Creative Cloud application and make sure illustrator is actually up to date if not go ahead and apply the updates now that we've done that let's go ahead and dive into the first thing which is creating a new document so you have file new and new from template new from templates actually an older command where you would maybe pick an image to start with that you're going to trace on top of so we're just going to jump right in and say new now new is where you would give it the document name so I'm going to say intro to a eye for illustrator see see see there we go and then you have a profile now you can choose print for example and print will set it up for the most common print sizes so you have presets for a letter legal tabloid a4 so forth and so on and you can work in points pikas inches for examples what I prefer millimeters so forth and so on now what's this whole print thing for well you notice that it sets the color mode to CMYK which is the most common for color separations and then any raster effects or pixel based data that it has to deal with it's going to do it pretty highly at 300 pixels per inch which is common for printing and that would set you up for a great print experience but what if you're creating a document or creating a logo that's going to be used for more than one thing well you could start with print that's going to keep it CMYK for nice color separated print documents but and you could still use that logo on other places such as the web or on mobile devices but if you knew you were going to use it only on the web or start out with a web graphic free web site then if you choose web you'll notice that it changes the size to document our scrum server screen sizes so 800 by 600 1024 by 768 1280 by 800 and of course you can type in whatever custom one you want you'll notice it also changes the color mode to RGB instead of CMYK and changes the rest or effects down to 72 PPI for a lower resolution screen but more importantly this is fairly new is that it adds the align new objects to pixel grid option by default which means you'll get crisper corners crisper non anti-aliased graphics on the web so that's a great new addition to illustrator and of course we can keep going we can say we're building something for a device such as an iPad when we were using making a startup screen for our app so it will give me all these various tablet and phone sizes or we could say that we're doing for video and film and it will give me all these nice standard-def and high definition resolutions for working with film maybe you're creating a logo that's going to be animating after-effects or a lower third for your video and premiere so these are all nice presets to get going I'm going to go ahead and switch to web and I'll leave it on the default 960 by 560 and that's number one how to create your new document number two deals with artboards artboards is illustrators way for lack of a better way of saying multiple pages we don't call it multiple pages because for example if I'm doing something for a web design those aren't pages those are different logos or different things for my different websites so that's why we don't use the generic term of pages because not everything in those three is going to print however think of it if you need to as multiple pages for print and so if I say make two artboards it will now activate the artboard settings for two three five ten whatever upward you want so now when I click OK that will create my two Art boards that are identical in size I can use the artboard tool to click on an artboard and then i can go in and resize at our board manually I could change it to be tall for example instead of wide I can pick it up and move it anywhere I want in front of the other artboard and I can also use presets so for example if I'm making one that's specifically for a certain size or certain screen I can do that as well so an iPad Mini that would be an iPad Mini screen size so there you are you have the ability to go in and create these multiple artboards pages whatever you like to call them and as a last tip here you can use the artboards panel because once you have more than a few you might forget which ones which you can go in and double click and say that my main artboard is going to be for the web or web site and my second artboard is going to be for my smartphone so you make him whatever you need them to be and now those artboards will be referenced when you double click it will actually take you to that artboard and you can work fullscreen on that bored so now that was work number two working with multiple artboards number three and probably the most commonly requested thing is how to work with shapes so you have shape tools in Illustrator you have the rectangle if you hold down the rectangle you'll have rounded rectangle ellipse polygon star and flare tool the rectangle tool and ellipse are probably the two most common ones that people use to make shapes but you can use any one of these illustrator has had for a long time this side benefit of working with multiple tools is that if I know I'm going to be switching back and forth between these a lot then what I can do is just simply click this button over here on the right hand side that will tear this off and make it a small floating panel you can do that with any of the tools that are here that have multiple tools underneath them you can tear it off and make it a panel then when you want to get rid of it just click the little X to put it away and tear it off again if you ever need it again so I'm going to keep it open because we're going to work with a couple of different shapes now when I want to draw a shape I can do it like one of them maybe two or three ways one I can just go ahead and just simply drag out a rectangle okay that's what I expect number two I can simply drag out another rectangle but if I hold down my shift key I'm constraining it to a perfect square so it will not be a rectangle it will be a square instead number three if I click then I can type in the dimensions for that rectangle so if I needed that rectangle to be exactly 230 pixels by 230 pixels that will give me a perfect square at 230 pixels so you can go in and you can use these shapes any one of those three ways drag it out hold down the shift key to constrain it click to type in your exact dimensions now if you want to manipulate the shapes themselves then you go back to your selection tool and now you can pick these up and move them around as objects that's the difference between working with vector shapes in Illustrator versus with painting in Photoshop because once you paint on the background you're not going to easily pick up that paint stroke and it around unless you proactively made a layer first where as an illustrator whether you make layers first or not every object is its own separate object that you can pick up and move around so working with shapes now the next one is and for example just so you see that yes you can work with this ellipse as an ellipse or hold down the shift key and get a perfect circle you'll notice that the other thing is that these are all now stacking on top of each other in the order I drew them in so the first rectangle is on the bottom next one's above it the next one's above it the ellipse is above that and the circles last you can control the stacking order just by simply arranging the objects so if I click on the very first rectangle I drew and I go to my object menu I can say a range bring to front meaning bring it to the foremost object on top of everything else so now it's in on top in the stacking order that's kind of a bonus thing just because I know people want to know how to do that at some point but your objects are always drawn on top of each other even if they're not touching each other any order you drew them in so since the circle was last it would be on top of the ellipse and now that the rectangle the rectangles on top of everything else even if I move it over here it's still on top of everything else in the stacking order so illustrator is always keeping track of that the next one we're going to work with is working with paths lines and brushes so for example if I want to now create a line well I have a couple of ways of doing that the original way would be to use the pen tool the pen tool is used for drawing freeform lines and curves so the way I would draw a line is I would come seem silly once you see the next tool but the way I would draw a line is click and then hold down the shift key if I want a perfectly straight line and click away from it and that will give me a perfectly straight line if I don't want it to be perfectly straight then I can click actually let's undo that let's deselect it first let's make a new one click and then click somewhere else and that will make a line that's not perfectly straight now that's two clicks just to make a line the pin tool can make lines but that's really not what it's geared for what it's really geared for is drawing or tracing around the regular shapes that are both lines and curves so for example I can click click or drag to get a curve and I can drag to get another curve and I can drag to get another curve and I can click to get a line and I can click to get another line and I can join that together so everywhere I click it made a point whether it was a curve point or a corner point these are corner points on the end curve points along the way and those points can be manipulated with your direct selection tool so if I want to click on this point and move it around I can if I want to change the direction or shape of that curve I can use the handles that are on that curve point to do it with so there you are a kind of a weird looking backwards maybe Nike kind of looking logo but you get the idea if you were a little bit more proficient and patient you could actually get the exact shape that you want it using the pen tool so the pen tool was always designed for just that and I've got a great tutorial on how to use the pen tool on my youtube channel you want to know more about the pen tool next up of course is what if you just want to draw a line well instead of using the pen tool guess what here's a great line tool that's exactly what it's for you just want to draw a line just drag you want to hold down the shift and draw a perfect line you can so if I were going to draw a line and probably do it with the line tool before I'd use the pen tool now so we've done lines and curves what about freeform drawing the pencil tool was my first choice back in the day of drawing freeform because it just really let me draw freeform as opposed to having to mathematically do it with the pen tool so I could go in for example and I could do weirdo I could draw kind of my own little circle there I could start to sign my name if I want it the pencil tool is great and using it with a stylus is even better but let's go in and let's look at some of the attributes of the of the pencil tool itself so for example if I kind of draw a shape and I don't like it one of the things I always loved about the pencil tool is that you can draw on the original shape you just made and reshape it that's right I love that so if you kind of want to refine it you can keep refining it a little bit more to kind of get it around or in the shape that you wanted it to be so pencil tool that way is fantastic now the pencil tool and the line tools and the pen tools are all drawing what are called strokes when it get into fills and strokes on the next one but those are all just strokes they're not like the squares and circles that are fillable objects the next one which is the blob brush that's right be lob blob brush gives me the best of both worlds it lets me draw freeform like the pencil tool but more importantly it's actually letting me draw with a closed object so if I select that with my direct selection tool for example we'll see that we have a path going around the black that is a fillable object so I can fill it with whatever colors for a pattern gradient whatever I want to use so that's the difference between using the regular line tools pen tools and using the blob brush the only one we haven't covered yet is the paint brush tool and if I go to the paint brush tool and I go to my brushes panel there are some cool brushes that we can use for example I can use this kind of brush here and this brush looks more like a pixel-based or a hand-drawn stroke but it is vector so I can go ahead and make that thicker actually select it first there we go I can make that thicker and kind of see what that's really doing so we have all these brushes of course they're just a few that come in by default but you can go into your brush libraries and you can open up a library of all kinds of different things so for example I can open up decorative banners and seals and if I need a banner oops not out of that one let's go ahead and make a banner and let's make it not fourteen points anymore and let's go ahead and use our brush and draw a banner so banners can be drawn using the banner brush now you'll notice that here will close this you notice that this one is a pattern so we can go in and draw a pattern based shape that just repeats and looks like a pattern you can go in and use that pattern to fill other objects or stroke other objects I should say so I can say go ahead and do that as well so these are cool to be able to use these are cool things to do with brushes with new and illustrator CC we have one more new brush option and that is image brushes so if I open up the image brush library these are the difference is these are not vector these are actually things that were drawn or photographed I should say and brought in this pixel images and then we can now go in and use those here let's do it this way we can use those as brushes for our artwork so you can go in you can take a photograph drag it into the brushes panel and make it a brush now so pretty cool to be able to do this and this is all using all of the kind of path based drawing tools so now we spend a lot of time on strokes and I'm sorry it paths lines and brushes now let's get into strokes and fills so for example let's go back let's go ahead and draw here we'll do a rounded rectangle here and that rounded rectangle comes in as in this case with no fill and a black stroke so if we look at this over here on the left hand side that line going through the film means it's not filled with anything it's Hollow and the black on the stroke means that it's a black line around it so you can go in to your swatches here and you can go in and fill this with whatever you want so if I want to fill this with green for example that will now be filled with green and it has a black line around it if I don't want the black line around it I go to stroke and simply remove it so that's how fill and Stroke works now you were in your essentials workspace and that's the one it defaults to an illustrator I'm going to switch that essentials workspace to lay out because layouts going to expose some panels that will help me out and just allow me to do more work more quickly so we have a fill of green and a stroke of nothing I'm going to go ahead and now draw any another shape we'll use our rounded rectangle or I'm sorry our ellipse and now we're going to learn how to draw a little bit more precisely to kind of a line and get these objects together so for example I'm going to start with the point in the middle of the rounded rectangle I'm going to hold down my option key and here's why if you just if you just draw it's going to draw from the point you started drawing on if you hold down your option or Alt key it draws from the center out and of course if you hold on your Shift key you're making a perfect shape so here's what I want to do I want to start from the center hold down my option or Alt key and hold down my shift key and get a perfect shape that lines up perfectly with the object I already drew so now I have two green shapes on top of each other I'm going to take the selection tool and move this one up until it covers the top of that shape and then we'll come back to that just a moment but notice I'm already getting kind of a different look with those two shapes now the next thing we're going to do is talk about here let's go ahead and make another shape and by the way we can tear these back off again and let's go ahead and make a rectangle this time and you'll notice that the rectangle filled with the last color we used and last stroke we used we can go into that fill and we can fill it with whatever we want so we can pick a different color you can also pick patterns these patterns are the ones that came with illustrator and there is a ways to make your own as well using different shapes and then of course we have something called a gradient so what's a gradient how does that work you notice you have a gradient tool and with the gradient tool you can come over and just click on your object and it will make a gradient it will make the gradient based on whatever your default was or the last gradient you use so for example your default it's probably white to black and it will put this bar here as long as the gradient tool is selected so that you can change the gradient so for example if I want the gradient to start white a little bit further in I can just drag the white slider further in same thing with a black one if I want it to be black further over and drag the black one further over what if I don't want it to be black and white well if I hover over the black one and double click I can then choose a different color so for example I can choose orange and go back to the white one double click and I could choose yellow for example so now I have a nice yellow to orange gradient what if I want another color in between well you can add as many color these or call color stops you can add as many color stops as you want just by simply clicking right below the line when you get the plus sign so if I double click again I'll get the ability to now pick a different color so I can use any color I want to kind of change the look and feel of this gradient I kind of like the red and the way we go we can say that this is going to be more red over this way or less red over this way now what if I want the gradient to go in a different direction if you hover outside the bar you actually get a rotation tool and we can rotate that gradient to go in a different direction so now it's going from yellow to orange diagonal diagonally same thing I can keep going line it up and down now it's going up and down I can still move my points my color stops I can choose the range of color here and it's pretty cool to be able to do this all graphically built right in using the gradient tool so people ask about fills and strokes and working with gradients all the time and now we've taken a look at how to do that so the next thing and the big one is going to be number seven how to transform objects so let's let's continue what we started kind of with the green objects here and let's talk about transforming joining and just making objects into our desired logo or desired effects now keep in mind this is still a circle on top of a rounded rectangle what I'm going to do is use the selection tool and I'm going to select both of them just by dragging a selection around them now that I've got them both selected I would love to join them into one in other words instead of it being two shapes I just want it to be one shape that looks like this well luckily there is a shape builder tool the shape builder tool on the left hand side here allows me to now it knows what these shapes are and I can just simply drag through all three to join them into one so now just like that I just took the tool drug straight down between all three objects and it said oh you want to join all three of these things to all three it's really not three shapes it's two shapes but the overlap was counted as the third thing so you want to basically combine all three of those together just simply drag down now when I go to my selection tool I have one object now the next thing I want to do is we're going to start to create a logo that will look very familiar to you I'm not going to finish it because I want to aisle eight any copyright or anything I'm just going to show you how easily something like this can be done so we're going to grab our line tool and we're going to say that it has no snow soup's hang on undo I forget to deselect sometimes so des elect now we're going to grab our line tool I'm going to say that our line tool has a as a white stroke so white stroke and no fill and just going to take our line tool and we're just going to drag a line hold down our Shift key so it's perfectly straight right across the top of this and now that we've got our line we're going to go ahead and make it thicker another six point maybe eight point and make it nice and thick to look like we've separated the two but really we didn't that's just one shape that has a white line across it now the next thing we'll do is we'll grab our rounded rectangle we'll go back to the green color which is great that's why we work with swatches and we get smart guides as we align as we get near an object to kind of know where we're going to end up lining things up so we're going to draw kind of a rounded rectangle here the difference is we don't want to stroke on it at all so we'll take the stroke off and now I want to have another one just like it on the other side so we'll switch back to our selection tool we could copy and paste we could duplicate but the way I always do it is hold down my option or Alt key and simply start dragging and if I want it to be perfectly aligned to hold down my shift key as well so now options shift or alt shift and that will give me another one that's perfectly the same shape right next to this one and you're starting to maybe figure out what this might be I'm not going to call it but you get the idea and now we're going to draw one more shape we're going to use on white for a fill and we're going to make a perfect circle holding down our Shift key and once again we'll grab the option or Alt key and we'll just make another one and kind of cute but you get the idea where that might be headed all right so with that that's how easy it would be to start drawing and manipulating these shapes now just so you know there are ways that people want to manipulate shapes even further for example let's say I take the rectangle with rounded corners and I draw another one and we fill this one with blue this time and now I want to go in and I want to manipulate it how would I do that I could go in and I could use the selection tool and the selection tool gives me a bounding box so I could resize it if I want I can hold down the shift key and constrain it to the perfect shape that I had before I can hover outside of it and rotate it but that's pretty much it if I undo the last thing which was the rotation I can now go to the free transform tool and with the free transform tool I can do a little more I can go ahead and and scale this like I did before I can rotate it like I did before but now if we move this out of the way we get more options I can distort the perspective of it so this will constrain the perspective so I can kind of make things look like they're going off in a distance I can also do free distort so that lets lets me do one corner at a time so this is great for quickly and easily starting with a basic shape and then customizing it to be your own using the free transform so free transform is great for manipulating your objects now last but not least what if you have some objects that you want to align so for example let's draw some shapes here and again we'll just quickly duplicate those maybe you're starting to create an Olympics logo I don't know but let's go ahead and select those now and if I want to make sure they're all perfectly aligned at the top we have a nice alignment option right here in the control panel when you have two or more objects selected we need to simply say align to the tops and there they are now what if I you notice the spacing is way off like some are closer some are not if I go back to that align option I also have distribute so I could say distribute between the Centers of those objects so now they're perfectly aligned at the top and perfectly spaced apart using a line and distribute right there on the control panel so that's a line that's distribute that's transforming that shape builder that's a things which basically makes up number seven now let's head to number eight so I'm going to just simply select all and delete and we'll we'll put our tools away from now because number eight is placing graphics and tracing them so we'll use our file menu place and you can go out and you can place image based data so we can say I want to bring in a photograph and that photographs in this case a JPEG it could be a PSD it could be a tiff it could be whatever you want and notice it's going to create a link to the original to start off with so it's not going to make my illustrator document any bigger we'll just place it and we get the new placement gun in CC I can simply click which is going to bring it in to full size or I can click and drag and it will keep it proportionally so I can make it whatever size I want now that is raster based data those are pixels little squares coming from Photoshop coming from a photograph that's pixel based and I can use this I can say print I can be done this could be my fire this could be a me logo we're going to add text in a moment but that's all it would take however if I want this to be vector then I can take it up a notch using what's called image trace now image trace activated right here because it saw that I had an image selected I could also bring up the image trace panel and work with the panel as well either way either the image trace here or the panel now the thing about the panel that's nice is you get to pick your preset right off the bat so since this is a photograph I can say trace this as a high fidelity photo but what if I want to trace it as a silhouette and I just want to use the shape well the shape wouldn't really do me much good here because it traced the whole thing is one solid thing so that's not going to be very good what about shades of gray shades of gray we'll make it a grayscale image and that kind of gives me a grayscale again all vector I could say make it a low fidelity photo and I can make it a photograph that will mimic the colors as well and now when i zoom in on this this is actually vector data these are mathematical lines and curves at different fills and different shades because this is now vector art if i zoom back out then I can say once I've traced it I can expand it to say let me drill down right into the actual shape itself and I could for example select the green background and get rid of the green and I can go in pixel but I'm sorry line by line path by path and go in and manipulate change colors delete get rid of the things that I don't want because now this is a vector object now I'm going to move my vector version of this object out of the way for a moment there we go let's move that over and let's place that photo one more time let's do file place and let's bring the photo back and again let's make it whatever size we want the other most common thing people want to do when they bring in a photo even if they don't trace it they might just want to bring in the photo but crop it and there's no crop tool in Illustrator so what we're going to do is the next best thing we're going to grab our rectangle tool we're going to say that it has no fill no stroke and we're just going to go ahead and drag out a rectangle for the area that we want to keep right on top of it so that's how much we want to see now we'll just use our selection tool and select both of those and then we'll go up to our object menu and we'll come down the clipping mask and say make in other words use the object on top to mask the object below effectively cropping it and you still have the ability here if we select it you still have the ability to there we go move the flower around inside the crop area so just by double clicking I was able to get to the rectangle that represents the actual flower as opposed to the cropped area and of course the cropped area can also be resized now that we've made it a mask it really does effectively work like a cropping tool at this point to be reshaped around the object so that is placing and tracing images as as a bonus one thrown in for cropping now let's get to number nine which is working with text so I'm going to go ahead and blow this away and blow that away and now we're going to go in and take a look at let's draw a quick logo so let's go in use our ellipse tool and we're going to fill this with red and we're just going to go ahead and draw a circle holding down the shift key that will give us our perfect red circle now I'm going to hold down my option or Alt key and the shift key as well and draw another perfect circle from the center out maybe about that much now I'm going to select both of those and using the shape builder one more time I'm going to go in and say that I want to not join these two together but I'm going to hold down my option or Alt key and use the one in the middle to subtract the one on the outside so I just click and that tells it to subtract the circle from the other circles select the whole thing there we go and this is actually a hole that's using the cutout so select the whole thing we now have an object that is cutting the object out below so the next thing we want to do is draw our next shape and now let's draw a rectangle sorry about that folks I was drill down into the other object and it was freaking out okay so now we got our our object here and I want to align them to be perfectly on top of each other perfectly centered so I'm going to select both and we're going to say a line I'm going to say from our centers and from our centers so Center vertically Center Center horizontally Center vertically and now they're perfectly aligned on top of each other and now we want to add some text so the problem is the text I want to add let's go ahead and add it first we'll go ahead and grab our type tool we'll click and we can go in and just simply type in our text which is under-underground now that we've added our text let's go ahead and select and let's go ahead and change the size there we go and we can make it whatever size we want but what about font you notice that my font is basically myriad Pro by default and I can choose any font I want I can go through my entire font list and new an illustrator CC I can even search based on styles so I can say well we're all my heavy fonts and I can do heavy and then go pick the one I want but what if I want to use the font I don't actually have yet so what I would do is go get one but luckily it's easier now to go get one and that is because I'm a creative cloud member I'm going to create a cloud in the Creative Cloud app and I can say go to my fonts and browse fonts on Typekit that will take me to the Typekit library on the web and I can then go in and search for the kind of font I want I want to San serif font so that will narrow it down to just my San serif and I can go and pick a nice underground looking font so for example maybe I want oh let's load a few more see what else we've got here I don't know I kinda like tin so so I'm gonna go ahead and click use fonts and then I can say sync selected fonts so synced in so to my computer now in a moment you'll see the Creative Cloud logo activate letting me know that it's basically syncing that data so we'll see a couple blue arrows when that happens and when that happens by the way it will also alert me with a little message letting me know that those spots have been synced so I don't have to wait for this I can close it and I can head back to there's my little sync icon and my little message comes up setting saying I got four new fonts now I can head back to illustrator and the beauty of it is because of the integration with Creative Cloud and Typekit I don't have to quit illustrator all I have to do is go in now scroll down to my T's and there is the ten so font I can go ahead and choose whichever one I want there's the bold and now I can pick that up and put it right on top of my object of course I want that to stand out more so we'll just grab a different fill color such as white and now that's my underground logo now of course I can go in select this as an object I can use free transform I can rotate the whole thing I can distort it I can do whatever I needed to do to kind of make my logo a little cooler then the next person's logo but you get the idea so that's how quickly and easily we can add text we can fill the text with colors we can create outlines we can do all kinds of cool transitions with our text for example even using the new touch type feature so I can settle for example use the word touch we can select it we can make it nice and large nice and large about 300 and let's make our frame bigger make our frame much bigger there we go there's our touch type and once we pick a color for that touch type we can actually go in let's move our logo out of the way a bit we're going to type down area and using the new touch type feature which is type tool touch type tool we can now click on the individual letters and manipulate them so I can for example move that one over I can rotate or scale the look oh and rotate Oh a little bit more move that in and create just that easily a quick custom logo for my client based on just rotating one of the characters or perhaps moving one of the characters up over a little bit more they get their new touch type logo and of course we can make the characters a little skinnier and perhaps even a little taller and quickly I can make a type treatment that would have required me to break up all these individual characters separately or all these characters and make them separate in order to get that ability but now with touch type it is still one word I can select the whole thing and apply a different color different font different size whatever I want to the whole thing because it is still technically one word so that's touch type that's working with text creating our logo last but not least very quickly and that is output so once you're done with all this then what so we've got our nice touch under ground flower logo and now we want to save it so if I choose save that will bring up the save dialog box and I can then just save it and notice it's going to save it in AI format by default so that I could always open this back up and continue working on it it's going to save it in the latest format by default which in my case is illustrator CC version 17 but illustrator has had a long history of being able to say backwards as a matter of fact it can save all the way back to illustrator 3 that's from the late 80s Early 90s folks that's why long ways back see us see us all the way through cs6 so if you're working with anyone with an older version of Illustrator you could save it down to their version and hand them the document now the other thing is that what if you want to save this in a format that someone can use and they're not using the latest and greatest tools you can say file save as and you could save it for example as an EPS file which is a generic vector format that's an industry standard years ago EPS now of course if you're going to put this on the web because remember this was going to be a web document to begin with we could just simply say save for web and that will bring up the save for web dialog box where we could optimize the size of it so we can say no we don't need to be quite that big maybe we don't want to be 600 on the width and it will scale it down and we can make a nice ping graphic for it and it will give us the size that it's going to make it and it's going to be 35 K in this case which is pretty acceptable on the web today so there we go we have a nice crisp logo using the web format that we started with and very beginning the web profile that will align the objects to the underlying grid so that would be how we'd save save to open up an illustrator save it for the web save it to give someone else an older format and save to save to save to the web saving an older format hand - Oh save it in a generic format which is EPS last but not least this kind of got added after illustrator CC was released because it will start gets you know frequent updates and that's the ability to package so for example I could save this out as my illustrator file and because I you know may have placed a logo or placed that flower or wanted to work on something that would people would be able to work on with all the elements that I used I could say package and package this whole thing up which it will collect all the links copy the fonts and create a report out on my desktop and there's the package it's done show the package and there's all if needed to work on this document so packaging new feature in illustrator CC and that is it those are my 10 things for illustrator users so if you're new to illustrator hopefully you got something out of this hopefully you learned that illustrator is not hard to get into there's a lot you can do but that's great because there's a lot you can do take care and we'll catch on the next one you

Channel: Terry White

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Length: 43min 33sec (2613 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 08 2013