Lesson Info
3. Create a New Document
Lessons
Class Introduction
05:01 2Zoom and Navigation
10:31 3Create a New Document
02:19 4Drawing Shapes
12:50 5Properties Panel
02:57 6Live Shapes and Transform Panel
07:16 7Drawing Lines
06:42 8Combine Shapes
08:32Lesson Info
Create a New Document
starting a new document, an illustrator so we can begin to create something simple. File new. We've seen this before. Up pops the standard new document template. Here in the new document window, we have our choice between creating items for mobile for web primp, film, video art in illustration So why all these different presets? Well, all these presets here do a lot of things. One you can start off with mobile or web or print. And what is going to do is give you a lot of common templates to design for whatever and result that you want. And not only that, they also have a lot of adobe stock and some of this stuff it's actually free. These are all free right here. Just make sure you're logged into your adobe creative cloud account and you can simply navigate through any of these presets. Be able to open up a template if you'd like to get started, or you can come over here and you can set your size, your height, your orientation, the number of art boards bleed things like that. Color mode...
s, everything. And once you do that, you simply click create and you get yourself a new document. Pretty simple. Okay, these presets air great. And if you create any custom sizes yourself here and you want certain custom sizes, they will then appear in your presets here so you don't have to set those custom sizes every time you create a new document. Super easy. Any time you have opened multiple files, you can go under the file menu and choose open recent. It will show you the last 20 files that you have open there. Everything's great. Now, when you have multiple files open here, I'm just going to start a new file here so I can go ahead and create a couple open files. You're open files Air gun. Appear as tabs in your document window, and you can simply click through all of your tabs right here for your open files. If you have a lot of open files, this whole section up here will fill up with tabs and you may have mawr tabs than you have Space. Not a problem. If you go into the window menu the very bottom of the window menu. These are all the open windows that you have, hence the window menu. So If you've got 20 of Windows open, you can scroll through them here. The one with a check mark is the one that we're currently on.
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