Tag: Adobe

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

Chapter 16. Object Control With Grids And Guides 10:59

  • 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

Chapter 15. Using View And Navigation Features 7:46

  • 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

Chapter 12. Working Toward Printing 4:42

  • 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.