tailieunhanh - A quick tour of adobe Illustrator

Getting started You’ll work in one art file during this tour. All art files are located on the Adobe Classroom in a Book CD that is located on the inside back cover of this book. Make sure that you copy the AICIB folder from the CD to your hard drive before starting this exercise. Before you begin, you need to restore the default preferences for Adobe Illustrator. Then you’ll open the finished art file for this lesson to see what you’ll create. Note: If you’re new to Adobe Illustrator or to vector-drawing applications, you may want to begin with Lesson 1,. | A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator Color your world with new high density wax ColorStiks. ey color on any surface including plastic cellophane metal and foil. Great for crafts and home use. Find them at your local grocery or crafts store. This interactive demonstration of Adobe Illustrator is designed to give an overview of key features of the program in about one hour. 6 A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator Getting started You ll work in one art file during this tour. All art files are located on the Adobe Classroom in a Book CD that is located on the inside back cover of this book. Make sure that you copy the AICIB folder from the CD to your hard drive before starting this exercise. Before you begin you need to restore the default preferences for Adobe Illustrator. Then you ll open the finished art file for this lesson to see what you ll create. Note If you re new to Adobe Illustrator or to vector-drawing applications you may want to begin with Lesson 1 Getting to Know the Work Area. 1 To ensure that the tools and palettes function exactly as described in this tour delete or deactivate by renaming the Adobe Illustrator CS preferences file. See Restoring default preferences on page 4. 2 Start Adobe Illustrator. When the Welcome Screen appears choose Open Document or File Open. 3 Open the file in the Lesson00 folder located inside the Lessons folder within the AICIB folder on your hard drive. Note The tour file uses an OpenType font named Chaparral Pro Regular. Illustrator CS comes with Chaparral Pro and a variety of other OpenType fonts so you can use these features in your work right away. See Lesson 11 for more information on fonts. ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS 7 Classroom in a Book Zoom Out to make the finished artwork smaller and leave it on your screen as you work. Use the Hand tool C 1 to reposition the artwork in the upper left of the page then drag the lower right corner to make the window smaller. If you don t want to leave the image open choose File .