Tonights Notes

  • The conscience never needs validation
    • Seems is always unified, soothing, and practical.
  • The mind usually makes you nervous
    • You’re not really sure if it is the right thing to do
  • You actually are a good person
    • It isn’t a trick
    • It will always be that way no matter what
    • The soul and conscience are never tarnished.
  • Where you should direct all your energy to make the world a better place
    • Is where you should be
  • Learn how to love all and exclude none
  • That which creates sustainibility is good

Chapter 23. New Tricks With Guides 3:42

  • When you set the origin point you are setting that position on the ruler to 0,0
  • When you snap the origin to an object you can use the ruler to position a guide exactly N units away from that object
    • Double click the genesis point to reset it to the default position
    • You are left with a guide so you know where to place the new object
  • When you hold shift to work with a guide it always snaps to the whole location
  • Command-rag from origin brings two guides
  • Guides are indispensable

Chapter 22. Resizing An Art-Board From Center 3:56

  • You can automatically resize an artboard by centering it and shrinking it on an object
  • You can also manually do it by
    • Selecting the object on which to center
    • Selecting the dropdown of the align tool to choose Align To Artboard
    • Manually selecting center vertical and horizontal
    • Shift-Option and resize on the corner of the artboard keeps the object centered
    • This will take some examples

Chapter 21. Generating Multiple Illustrator Art-boards 5:31

  • Author is an illustrator by trade
    • Did everything by hand before AI
    • Now does it all in AI
  • For Techne or Tekne or Texni
    • Use for Keycap layout
    • Use for shield lettering
    • Use for keyboard printing
    • Use for website
    • Use for business cards
    • Use for logo
  • Artboards are artboards, not pages, InDesign is for that

Chapter 20. Hiding And Locking Illustrator Objects 3:12

  • Teacher
    • Great sound
    • Uses examples and repetition
    • Combination of casual conversation light-heartedness and serious philosophy about workflow and cognitive space
  • Goal: Only work on the butterfly
    • Accidentally select something else, move the wrong thing, undo it
    • Instead lock the background to avoid the accident
  • Approaches
    • Background is in a group, so select it, and lock it
    • You can manipulate every other object
    • Unlock when done
  • Easier way
    • Everything is in one layer right now, wrong approach, should use separate layers
    • In this example you open the layer and lock the individual groups
    • Can also hide them
    • Show and hide layers and groups
    • Even though you have everything in one layer, you can still do what you want in your workflow

Chapter 18. Defining Default Measuring Systems 4:09

  • Be sure to open each new AI file each new lesson
  • File → Document Setup or menu up in top area or right click on ruler
  • Settings locations
    • For all documents via preferences
    • Per document
  • The genesis point of the measuring system 0,0
    • Unsure how to relate/use the object location to this point

Chapter 17. Controlling What You See 4:48

  • AI’s default setup is for print, not web or digital
    • Print is CMYK
    • Most other things are RGB
  • WYSIWIG, is not. There are too many variables.
  • View outlines rocks
    • See the paths
    • Not the fill
  • Pixel Preview shows what an object will look like rasterized
    • So cool!
    • For online icons and application icons
  • Over Print Preview shows how the object will look on a printing press
  • Proof Setup is fun to play with to see how each works
  • Begin with the end in mind and choose a proof view for the destination
  • Fun to swatch Color panel change as you switch between Proofs