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Daniel Walter Scott. Check out the How to earn your certificate video for instructions on how to earn yours and click the available certificate levels below for more information. Hi there, in this video we're going to look at getting started with Illustrator. Basically some navigation of the interface, and just getting Illustrator set up, so that we can all work together, and you can follow along with me. First thing we'll do is, let's open up one of our Exercise Files, let's go up to 'File', 'Open'.

The first thing we'll do to get everybody kind of lined up together is resetting our Workspace. Now in the top right here, you can see, it says Essentials Online. Yours might say something different from this drop down. What I'd like you to do is pick 'Essentials', and then once it's got that little tick next to it, click on it, then drop it down again, and say 'Reset Essentials'.

That will just kind of reset it, and make it look like mine. The other thing that might look little different between yours and mine is this Tool Bar on the left here. Because my laptop's big enough it allows me to see all of the tools in one big long line, but yours might be smaller you might be using a 13" MacBook Pro, or something.

It will show them as a double, like this. See this little double arrow here, this little Chevron? You can decide whether you want to work this way, or this way.

I'm going to work this way because that's my default, but you might be seeing it just a little bit differently. Next thing to do is to deal with your preferences for units and increments. It's a bit strange in Illustrator so it's worth mentioning here at the beginning. I've got a document open, I have nothing selected, by using the Black Arrow, just clicking in the background, nothing selected, you can see, the units in this case are set to centimeters.

I can change them here for this document, which will say 'Inches'. That's how to change it for this document. Now if you've come from other Adobe products you'll know that you can go into 'Preferences' and change your units and increments.

It doesn't work that way in Illustrator. What happens is, you create the units and increments as you create a new document or, like we did here, you change it with nothing selected. So say I want to make a new document, and I want to make sure it's inches. You'll notice that it's defaulted to 'Points', and it always does that. There is a bit of a hack to go through and change it but we'll just live with points, because that's what Adobe said, even with A4.

So Metric sizings, it still defaults to 'Points'. So what you need to do is pick 'Letter', then go in here, and say, I want it to be in 'Inches'. That will make sure the default sizing for that document is in inches. I'm going to click on 'Create'. Now you might be doing more kind of Web Design so that units could be switched from inches, millimeters to something like pixels. Often I work that way, especially when I'm doing maybe UI Design in Illustrator, but we're going to work in inches for most of this course.

Now if you need to change the page size afterwards, a really easy way to do it is, down here, there's a tool, it's called the Artboard tool, if I click on it, it kind of selects the Artboard and I can drag it around, which is kind of strange. You can just make up a size, but often, with it selected over here, you can see, I can give it a Page Size by changing the height and the width.

You can see here also, I can change it to 'Landscape'. The big change for you is you won't have this Properties panel, you'll have something slightly different. Under 'Essentials', you'll have 'Essential Classic'. And you'll have most of these options. Can you see, there's 'Artboard 1', up the top there.

But in the later version, the one we're using now, is they just tucked them into this Properties panel. So you can play along just fine with CS6 or earlier versions, but you just have to know that when I'm using the Properties panel you're actually using this kind of Control App bar along the top.

Now a couple of more things just to get us used to Illustrator before we start making things. I've gone back to 'Getting Started', you'll notice these tabs along the top, so this is how to have more than one document open and toggle between the two.

So I'm going to go to 'Getting Started'. I'm going to grab my 'Black Arrow'. Black Arrow is your default, this is the one to use all the time. It's your fall back tool because what it does is it just moves things around. If I click on this guy, I can move him around. It physically moves stuff, that's his job, the Selection tool.

Now the Selection tool moves the thing in its entirety. There's another tool in here, called the White Arrow or the Direct Selection tool. What this does is it allows you to pick little parts of that object whereas the Black Arrow moves the whole thing. Watch this, if I click on one of these little dots here, you can see, it's blue, versus all the rest of them that are white. Scroll down to browse our full selection of the best Illustrator tutorials. For more ways to get the most from Adobe Illustrator, see our guide to the best illustrator plugins.

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