- [Instructor] So as I was saying in my live-action intro,
Illustrator CC is a work in progress,
meaning that Adobe updates the program
every few months or so, which is generally a great thing
because it provides us with a constant stream
of the latest and greatest technology
in the world of graphic design.
But it presents a challenge where teaching
the program is concerned, because it means
that what you see in my videos,
and what you see on your screen, may sometimes be
ever so slightly different.
For example, with the most recent editions
of Illustrator CC, Adobe has tinkered
with the program's onscreen appearance.
That is to say, they very modestly revamped the interface.
Which frankly presented us with one of two options,
re-record literally hundreds of movies,
or offer you this movie upfront,
in which I explain the very few differences
that you might encounter.
Not surprisingly, we went with the latter.
In other words, I'm going to introduce you
to the new interface right now, right up front.
And truly, this is minor stuff,
but after all the purpose of this course
is to make you a lean, mean illustrating machine.
And so I'm going to err on the side
of being as thorough as humanly possible.
So the first thing you'll notice is the so-called flat tools
which differ slightly from their previous appearance.
Specifically notice the two arrow tools up here
at the top of the tool box, which Illustrator
calls the selection tool and the direct selection tool.
Why don't I call them that?
Because they look like arrows, one black and one white.
Their keyboard shortcuts V and A,
were selected specifically because the letters
are pointy like arrows, and the cool kids call them
the arrow tools, even inside the hallowed walls of Adobe.
All right, but that aside, these two arrow icons,
they used to have stems, but now their stems
have been lopped off, both where the tool icons
are concerned and for the cursors, as well.
Now these guys right here, the pen tool
and the curvature tool, they pretty much
look the way they've always looked.
However, you'll notice if you select the pen tool,
that the cursor is now black.
Now, between you and me, I think the new cursor
looks like it's been set on fire
and rescued from an ash heap,
however it works the same as it ever did.
Now this guy is the Shaper tool,
which is an interesting, if minor tool,
that I discuss at the end of chapter nine.
If you click and hold on the Shaper tool,
you'll see that it shares a fly-out menu,
along with the pencil tool,
which is a major tool that I discuss at length
throughout Chapter 10.
In Chapter 11, I talk about the eraser tool,
which used to look like a pink pearl,
and now I guess looks like a mechanical eraser.
But again, it works the same as it ever has.
All right, I'll switch back to the black arrow,
which is your main editing tool in Illustrator,
and I'll click on this big white arrow to select it.
And notice the word Opacity over here
in the properties panel.
It's a hotlink, and if you click on it,
it pops up a sub-panel.
The only difference, these hotlinks used to be orange,
and now they're white.
To hide the pop-up panel, just press the Enter key,
that's the Return key on the Mac.
Now notice these numerical fields,
such as the one representing the line weight.
Initially they look dark, but they light up
as soon as you click inside them.
And here's a fun trick.
If you hover your cursor over a value,
and you scrub with the scroll wheel on your mouse,
move it up or down, that is to say,
you'll increase or decrease the value in increments of one.
If you add the Shift key, you'll scrub in increments of 10.
Either up or down, as you can see here.
And this works with a magic mouse or a track pad,
anything that scrolls.
So there's something for you to try out.
All right, now let's say I go ahead and close this document,
at which point Illustrator invites me to save my changes.
Adobe has modified these dialogue boxes ever so slightly,
including rounding off the buttons.
All right, so trivial stuff, but there it is.
For my part, I'm just going to cancel out.
And then, here's something that's not different,
nor is it trivial,
but you should know about it right up front.
Let's say something isn't looking right on your screen,
or your artwork isn't looking the way it does in my videos.
Then one thing to try is to go up to the View menu
and choose this command right here, Preview on CPU.
If that doesn't solve the problem,
or if stranger things happen, like a menu command
goes missing or the program is just plain misbehaving,
then don't panic, just re-set the Preferences.
And the way you do that on the PC is to go to the File menu
and choose the Exit command in order to quit the program,
then you want to restart Illustrator while immediately
pressing and holding, very important that you keep
those keys down, Control + Shift + Alt,
so all three of the major modifier keys.
And you just want to keep holding those keys
until either you're asked to give Illustrator permission
to modify a file, or you just see the program
eventually start up.
On a Mac, again you want to Quit the program,
but you do so by choosing the Quit command
from the File menu, and then, again you're going
to restart Illustrator, while immediately pressing
and holding these modifier keys, Command + Shift + Option,
which are the major modifier keys that are at work
inside Illustrator and other Creative Cloud programs.
All right, so hopefully you'll never have to do that,
but it's worth knowing that it's an option, just in case.
Otherwise, it should all be smooth sailing,
especially now that you're poised to begin your journey
of the world's most powerful vector-based drawing program,
with Illustrator CC 2018, one-on-one.