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Get a brief overview of the application bar, tools panel, control panel, and using panels. Set up and save a custom workspace.
Fill: A color, pattern, or gradient inside an object. You can apply fills to open and closed objects and to faces of Live Paint groups.
Stroke: The visible outline of an object, a path, or the edge of a Live Paint group. You can control the width and color a stroke.
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Go ahead and have Illustrator open,
and then we'll do File, New.
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For now let's not worry
about the settings.
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I'm just gonna hit OK.
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We're gonna get familiar
with the workspace.
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So technically, a workspace is
defined as any arrangement of panels,
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toolbars, and windows.
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Yours may look different than mine.
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The way that we can sort of sync up
is if you go up to Window here, and
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then Workspace, they have a series
of preset workspace options here.
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I'm gonna be using Essentials, so
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if you wanna click on Essentials,
we'll be in the same starting point.
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So over to the left-hand
side is our toolbar.
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As you click on these, you can see
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down here in the bottom left-hand side
it's going to tell you what it is.
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So first we have the selection tool,
this is our Direct Selection Tool,
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Magic Wand, Lasso, Pen Tool.
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You see how this works.
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And when you click on one of these,
it automatically activates it.
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So as I drag my mouse away,
now my Pen Tool is open.
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You'll notice that some of these tools,
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they have a little arrow here
in the bottom right-hand side.
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If you click and hold on those,
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it will show you a subgroup of
different tools within there.
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So this is Direct Selection tool
in the Group Selection tool.
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Let's do that with the Pen Tool.
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And you can see that beside these,
we have what the shortcut keys are.
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So the shortcut key for
the Pen Tool is P, and
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then we have Anchor Tool,
Delete Anchor Point Tool.
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And as you get more
familiar with Illustrator,
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you'll see that knowing shortcut keys
is gonna really speed up your process.
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Also if you know you're going
to be using a tool a lot,
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you can click on the arrow here and
create a little, a new window.
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And this will allow you to immediately
have access to these buttons.
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All right,
I am going to close that for now.
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And then further down, this is our,
these are the colors we are working with.
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So this will be our fill color and
our stroke.
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This is also colors, so solids,
gradients, and no-stroke, no-fill.
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These are drawing modes here,
which we'll also talk about later.
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And then right here at the bottom,
this is for screen modes.
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If you click on it one time,
you can see what our options are.
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So Normal Screen Mode.
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That's what that is.
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We have Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar,
and
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you can see it's stretching out
the canvas to cover the whole screen.
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And then we have Full Screen Mode
without any of the menu.
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There is a shortcut key that you can use
to toggle through these and that's F.
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So as I click F one time, you can
see that I'm toggling through these.
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I'm gonna work in this middle one,
Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar,
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because I like to have as few
distractions as possible.
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And being able to see my desktop or
my browser window can be distracting,
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so I'll keep that open.
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As we click on Tools, so
I'm gonna click on the Artword Tool, for
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instance, you can see up here at the top,
this is the control panel.
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So whenever you press and
are using any of these tools,
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they have different controls
that are related to it up here.
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So that's really handy, and then above
that, this is the application bar.
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And if we were using
more of Adobe's programs,
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and switching between them,
that would be useful.
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But since we're not, let's hide that so we
can have as much screen space as possible.
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If you go up here to Window, you can see
Application Bar has a check beside it.
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If you press that one time,
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that check goes away and
we don't see the Application Bar.
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That's what we want.
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Over to the right hand side, these
are more panels, and they're collapsed.
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So if I press on one of these,
you can see what these three icons are.
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So we have Color,
Color guide, Color Themes.
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And kinda go through here.
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If there was something that I
knew I wasn't going to use,
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I might drag that out here.
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And you can drag these out.
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I can delete it by hitting X,
which I'm not going to do.
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I'm actually just gonna go put it
back over here and collapse that.
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Okay.
And if we wanted to add one,
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like I don't see layers and
I know we're going to need layers.
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So let's go to Window, Layers.
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Great.
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I'm gonna leave that right there.
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Okay, so
now we like the way this is all set up.
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Let's go up to Window,
Workspace, and New Workspace.
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So we're actually customizing
our own workspace at this point.
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So New Workspace.
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Let's call it Treehouse Workspace.
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Hit Okay.
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And so now when we wanna choose this
workspace, it's right there for
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us, which is awesome.
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And then one last thing, and
that is if you can't find a tool and
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you're looking for something, the Help
Menu in Illustrator can be very helpful.
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Go up to Help here, and there's
a search bar, so you can search for
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what you're looking for.
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In our case I'm like,
where's that colored pencil I wanna use?
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So as I go down to that menu item,
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it actually will show you where
it is using these little arrows.
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So that can be very, very helpful.
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