Hello everyone.
Welcome to very first lesson of learning Adobe Illustrator.
So you can see in my screen I run the Adobe Illustrator software and this is my opening interface.
So when you will run the software on your computer you will have the similar opening interface as like
mine.
And we will start our Adobe Illustrator journey from here.
So this is called the opening interface.
And whatever design you will start creating, you have to create a file first.
And for creating a new file you can use this new file option.
Or you can just go to this file menu here.
And you will have this new options as well.
So this new option and this new file option working for same reason okay.
And Adobe Illustrator provides different type of presets like if you need to create a postcard or if
you need to create a posters, you will have different type of presets.
So you can see this is the postcard preset.
So if you just click this postcard, this 288 by 560 point file will be opened.
And this is the exact size for creating a postcard so similar like this is for the A4 size.
So.
It's have more present.
And for creating a custom file, you just have to click for the file.
New new file options.
I'm going to click this new file and the pop up will be appeared.
So you can see for creating a new file you have to use this option.
So what will be the width or what will be the height of your file size.
You have to declare it here.
So you can see this is our width field and this is our height field.
But you have to know.
The sizes.
Okay, so here is the field for sizes.
And the size is declared with what is it declared with points or pixels or inches or millimeters.
You will describe these things from here.
You can see this is the points option.
So if you know the points you can use this points.
But if you want to create your file with the pixels in that case you can use this pixels.
If you want to create a new file or design with the inches or with the feet, with the millimeter or
centimeter, even meters, you can declare it from here.
So if you know any designs with the centimeters, in that case, you can use this centimeters option.
If you know any size of pixels, you can use this pixels, you can use this inches.
So whatever you need you can use from here okay.
So this is our width field.
This is our height field and this is the orientation.
So if you need to create your uh files or designs with the portrait orientation you can use this one.
Or you can use this landscape as well okay.
So I'm keeping this portrait option.
And if you need more preset in that case you can use these tabs.
You can see this is the mobile tabs.
So if you need any preset for designing any relevant design with the phone size, in that case you can
use this one.
And here is a web tab.
So if you need any designs to create with the websites in that case you can use this options okay.
So you can see this mobile.
This mobile preset is using px.
That means pixels.
This web also using px that means pixels.
So this web preset is using 1920 by 1080 pixels.
Okay.
But if you click on print tab, you can see the letter A4 or print large or legal.
These things are declared with the M that means millimeter.
So this is a tabloid preset.
And you can see 279 by 431 millimeter.
And if you go to the next tab called film and video, it's also declared with the pixels.
Okay.
And if you need to create or if you need to find any preset that's relevant with the art and illustration,
in that case, you can go to the other illustration tab and you can see you will have the postcard,
you will have the letter A4 tablet and many more presets are available.
So it depends on your need.
You can pick it any preset from here, or you can just create the manual values over here.
And you can then you just have to click this create.
And if you want to type a name for your document or for the file, in that case you can type in here
okay.
So as an example I'm going to use this postcard option.
And I'm going to pick this a postcard preset.
And I want to write first file.
So this will be my file name.
And then I'm going to click create.
Here we go.
This is our first file.
And you can see this is our postcard size.
And you can see, as we have written our file name as the first file.
Here is the first file name okay.
And this is our opening interface.
And after opening interface we have created our first files.
And this is the interface of Adobe Illustrator.
So at the top you can see we found the menu bar.
This is called the menu bar.
And at left side this all our tools.
Basically these tools are using for designing whatever you need to design.
You have to use these tools, and in right side you can see this is the properties tab.
You will have this layers option.
You will have this libraries.
And if you scroll down with your mouse you will have this rulers and grids guides and snap options.
So Adobe Illustrator they do have two type of workspace.
So this is the essential or the default workspace of Adobe Illustrator.
But I will suggest you to use Essential Classics.
This is this interface called uh Essential Workspace.
But using of Essential Classic workspace will make your task easier.
So let me show you the difference between essential and the essential classics.
For changing the workspace.
You have to go to this windows menu.
And from there you will have this workspace option.
And you can see here is the tick mark on essential.
That means right now we do have the essential workspace.
And in left side you can see only a single line of tools.
But when you will use this essential classic then you can see you will have two line of tools and you
will have a different type of options available in here.
And you got different type of options in our properties tab.
So using of Essential Classics, it will help you for designing easily because you will get everything
you need very easily.
Okay.
So you can see we got two lines and all the essential essential tools are available in here.
I don't need to find a separately because after using the essential classic workspace, you will get
every tools that you required very easily as well as like the changing the colors, using the strokes,
using the uh, uniforms, everything.
You will get very easily.
So I will suggest you to use this windows menu and using the workspace.
And from here you have to go with the essential classics.
Then you will be very comfortable with the using of Adobe Illustrator.
Okay.
So this was our opening interface and we already created a file.
And now we will learn how you will use the Adobe Illustrator for designing.
And in our next lesson we are going to learn how you will create a design using shape.
So till then Tata and I'm going to see you in next lesson.