adobe-illustrator-cc-tutorial – Page 5

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

Be sure to develop the habit for using this by using it a lot!
Store any configuration aspects of that view
Are what they sound like
- Good for editing individual keycap objects
Questions
- Per file?
- Share-able?
- Panel for them? Hassle to go up to the menubar

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

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

Option-Drag an object to create a copy
Grid
- Configure line separation in pixels
- Can snap to them
Guides
- Use Rulers
- Command R
- Click-and-Drag from a ruler pulls out a guide
- They are objects that you can delete
- Shift-Options changes orientation of guide
- Are guides for lining up symbols per keycap?
- Can put them all in one layer
- Can turn objects into guides
- Strategy: Easily split objects using a guide
  - Drag down a guide
  - Position it
  - Turn the guide into a line via Release Guide
  - Keep the object selected
  - Object → Path → Divide Objects Below
  - Creates two new objects
  - Easily cut via any guide anywhere
- Guides are more than aligning
  - Cutting
  - Maneuvering
  - Angling
Right click just about anything to find out what you can do with it
- Sometimes stuff in lecture isn’t there in current AI

Had been watching every video twice just be sure. Switched to once otherwise this will take forever
Mastering AI is about making navigation muscle memory
Access tools via their single-key shortcuts
Option modifies the tool actions in an expected way
Double-clicking using the cursor will reset to the default state of the document
Additionally learn the shortcuts for menu-bar items
- Zoom in and out Control plus and minus
Navigator panel rocks!
- Helpful for navigating a keyboard template!
- Box color is configurable
- Art-boards are introduced in context of the panel
Getting where you want to go quickly and automatically is a big deal

Files are opened in tabs that display information on
- Name
- View
- Color-space
- Mode
Hover over a tap and a tool-tip will show you all information if the tab is squashed
Arrange documents button in top position lets you display multiple documents

When you Align New Object to Pixel Grid all objects align to an invisible grid that helps prevent visual pixelation of an image on a monitor
Command-R shows the rulers in your workspace

Create documents with their intended destination
When your destination is a printing-press if you want graphics printed up to the edge of the final size of the paper you need to consider that printing presses can’t press up to the edge so you print to a larger sheet of paper that is cut down to the desired size. The bleed is the addition to the page size that will be cut down from.