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- 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.
- Control reduces implementation speed and increases code
- Begin with the end in mind
- Will cover twelve features in the context of control
- Control is efficiency
- The workspace is the layout of panels in your application
- Add, remove, drag off, tab together, stack and dock them in, next to, and on top of each other
- Save your workspace with a name
- Easily restore it
- Love it
- Implement your personal workflow here
- Can’t wait for setting up a keycap workspace
- Menubar lists all panels available
- AI is so easy and nice to use
