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- [Instructor] In this
movie, I'll show you how

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to open a document inside Illustrator

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just by double-clicking on its icon

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here at the Windows desktop.

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If you're working on the Mac,

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go ahead and skip to the next movie.

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Now obviously we all know how
to double-click on a file.

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The trick is to make
sure that when you do so

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that file, if it's
supported by Illustrator,

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opens automatically inside Illustrator

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and not inside some other program.

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So currently I'm looking at the contents

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of the 01_create_doc
folder, which is available

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to those of you who have access to

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the Exercise Files that are included

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along with this course.

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I'm also looking at the thumbnail view,

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which you can invoke in
the lower right corner

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of the folder window.

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Now if you're working along with me

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you should see among other files

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these three files called Welcome.

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Now you may ask, how can three
files have the same name?

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Well they actually have
different extensions,

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which the Windows operating system

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hides by default.

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However, when you're
working with Illustrator,

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as well as any of the other

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Adobe Creative Cloud applications,

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you definitely want to see
your file name extensions.

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And to make that happen,
click on the word View

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up here at the top of the folder window.

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Now I should be able to
see a few checkboxes.

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In my case my window is too narrow,

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so I'll go ahead and
make it a little wider

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so that I can see this
checkbox right here,

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File name extensions.

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You'll want to go ahead
and turn that checkbox on.

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And that will show those extensions,

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which for the Welcome files turn out

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to be .ai, .eps, and .svg,

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which are the three major file types

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that you'll be using when
working with Illustrator.

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Now we're going to start
with this guy, the EPS file.

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EPS stands for encapsulated postscript,

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and it's an old school file format

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that was originally designed to allow you

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to export graphics from
programs like Illustrator

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and then import them
into page layout programs

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such as, well originally PageMaker,

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and later QuarkXPress.

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Now once upon a time EPS was a
state of the art file format.

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These days, not so much,

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but EPS is still a common
standard in some countries,

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and it's a common file
format for clipart as well.

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And so the good news is,
if you find such a file

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you can open and edit
it inside Illustrator.

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And I'm going to do just
that by double-clicking

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on the file's thumbnail, in which case

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you'll see the file open
inside of Illustrator, like so.

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And you can tell that I'm
working in Illustrator

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by the appearance of this orange Ai icon

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up here in the top left
corner of the screen.

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And that's a very good thing

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because unless you open
your artwork in Illustrator

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you can't take advantage of Illustrator's

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vast array of features.

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And I should say, this is a file

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that I drew from scratch
inside Illustrator,

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thus demonstrating that it
is sufficiently powerful

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to create full blown
professional quality artwork.

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Now when I showed this orange depiction

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of Michelangelo's David
to a couple of people,

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they were under the impression
that he looks angry.

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In fact, he looks apprehensive,

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and the reason is that Illustrator

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is an extremely challenging program.

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It is in fact the most
powerful vector drawing program

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there is, and in as much as we would like

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to hope otherwise, that
power comes at a price.

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But just as David conquered Goliath,

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we are going to conquer
this program, I assure you.

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All right now so far everything is working

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the way it should, but
that's not necessarily

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how things are going to turn out for you.

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I'm going to go ahead and
click on the Minimize button

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in the top right corner of the screen

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in order to hide
Illustrator for the moment,

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and now notice this document
right here, Welcome.ai.

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AI stands for Adobe Illustrator,

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and it is Illustrator's
native file format.

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99 times out of 100,
this is the file format

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that you're going to use when
you go to save your files.

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But for whatever reason,
on this particular machine,

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AI files are associated with

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the free Acrobat Reader,
which is specifically

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designed to open PDF documents.

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And as a result, if I go
ahead and double-click

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on this file, I'm going to see it open

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inside the Reader application.

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Now, it's a great thing that you can

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open illustrations inside
this free Acrobat Reader,

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which by the way you can locate

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and download at adobe.com.

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And the reason this is so great is that

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it means other people out there

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who don't have Illustrator can actually

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view your illustrations, and
in great quality as well.

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So I can go ahead and zoom
into 100% for example,

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and then I can drag David's face around,

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and as you can see we have
the super smooth lines.

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The problem of course
is that I'm not going to

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be able to edit this illustration

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with anything resembling
the degree of control

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I can get out of Illustrator.

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So what I want to do is associate
.ai files with Illustrator

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on this machine forever more.

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And so I'll start by
closing Acrobat Reader,

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and then I'll right-click
on this file, Welcome.ai,

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and I'll choose Open with,
which brings up this submenu.

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Next, I'll choose this
last command right here

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which may read Choose another app

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as it does in my case,
or Choose default program

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depending on your version of
the Windows operating system.

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Now I'll locate the most recent version

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of Illustrator CC and I'll click on it.

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And now if you see this checkbox,

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Always use this app to open .ai files,

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go ahead and turn it
on, and then click OK,

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and that will not only open

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the illustration inside of Illustrator

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as we're seeing right
here, but if I go ahead

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and once again minimize the program,

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we can see that the
icon is updated as well

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to these orange and white letters, AI,

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against a brown background.

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Finally we've got this file, Welcome.svg.

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Now SVG stands for
scalable vector graphics,

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and it's a popular file
format for creating

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scalable graphics that you intend

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to distribute on the web,
or view on a smartphone,

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tablet, or other screen device.

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And as with AI and EPS files,

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your best tool for editing a scalable

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vector graphic is Illustrator.

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But notice on this particular machine

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if I go ahead and
double-click on this file

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it opens in Microsoft Edge,

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which is Windows default web browser.

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And notice it doesn't even look right.

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David is gray instead of orange,

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and the border is green which clashes

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with the rest of the design.

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That's no good of course, so I'll go ahead

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and close this file, and
then I'll run through

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those same steps.

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So I'll go ahead and
right-click on that file,

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Welcome.svg, then I'll choose Open with

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followed by this last command here.

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And then I'll select
the most recent version

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of Illustrator CC.

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If necessary, go ahead and turn on

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Always use this app to open .svg files,

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and then click OK.

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And a moment later the artwork
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David appears orange,
the border appears brown,

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and I can edit this file
to my heart's content.

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And that's how you set things up

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so that you can open
AI, EPS, and SVG files

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inside of Illustrator just by

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double-clicking on the document's icon

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at the Windows desktop.