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Illustrator Essentials

Illustrator Essentials. Illustrator Basics. Illustrator excels in its ability to create and manipulate Vector based graphics. However, if you intend to create images for web use, Illustrator allows you to “ rasterize ” an image into JPEG or GIF format. Working with Illustrator Documents.

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Illustrator Essentials

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  1. Illustrator Essentials

  2. Illustrator Basics • Illustrator excels in its ability to create and manipulate Vector based graphics. • However, if you intend to create images for web use, Illustrator allows you to “rasterize” an image into JPEG or GIF format.

  3. Working with Illustrator Documents • An Illustrator documents “canvas”, is referred to as the Artboard • The solid borders around the Artboard is the Artboard Boundary (Page Margin’s) and the Dashed lines around the Artboard are referred to as the Non-printing tiling lines.

  4. You can have up to 100 artboards per working document. • Artboards can be specified when creating a new document or added and deleted on the fly.

  5. .AI • Although Illustrator can save or export to a number of different formats, Illustrators native file type is an .ai file.

  6. Getting Help • If you require Help at any time in Adobe Illustrator, press the F1 key.

  7. Views • The Hand tool is used to reposition your artwork and the Zoom Tool is used to magnify certain sections. Illustrator allows you to save and store custom views. • View > New View. • This is helpful if you need to repeatedly zoom in on a particular area.

  8. Navigator • Illustrator also contains a navigator panel for viewing or changing the view of different areas in your artwork.

  9. Hide all Palettes • To Hide all Tools and Palettes, hit Tab. • To Hide only the Palettes, hit Shift+Tab.

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