- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to
open a document inside Illustrator
just by double-clicking on its icon
here at the Macintosh Finder.
If you're working under Windows on a PC
then just go ahead and skip to the next movie.
Now obviously we all know how to double-click on a file.
The trick is to make sure that when you do so,
that file, if it's supported by Illustrator,
opens automatically inside Illustrator
and not some other program.
So here I am looking at the contents
of the 01_create_doc folder,
which is available to those of you
who have access to the Exercise Files
that are included with this course.
I'm also looking at the thumbnail view
which you can get by clicking on this
first view icon up here in the toolbar.
Now notice in addition to these other files
that we have three files that are called
Welcome.ai, Welcome.eps, and Welcome.svg.
If for some reason you're not seeing those file extensions
then you can go up to the Finder menu
and choose the Preferences command.
Then click on the Advanced icon right here
and turn on this checkbox Show all file extensions.
But that's just a precaution.
Most likely you'll be able to see
the extensions either way, which is very useful
when using any of the Adobe Creative Cloud applications.
All right so I'll just go ahead
and close that panel.
Now we're going to start off here
with this .ai file.
AI stands for Adobe Illustrator
and it represents Illustrator's default file format,
which you're going to use about 99 out of 100 times
when saving your illustrations.
And so notice, if I double-click on this file
it opens automatically inside Illustrator
and I can tell I'm inside Illustrator
because I'm seeing these orange letters Ai
up here in the top left corner of the screen,
and perhaps more obviously I can see
the words Illustrator CC on the far left side
of the menu bar.
Which is a very good thing, because unless you open
your artwork in Illustrator, you can't take advantage
of Illustrator's vast array of features.
And I should say, this is a file that
I drew from scratch inside Illustrator.
Thus demonstrating that it's sufficiently powerful
to create full blown professional quality artwork.
Now when I showed this orange depiction
of Michelangelo's David to a couple of people,
they were under the impression
that he looks angry.
In fact, he looks apprehensive,
and the reason is that Illustrator
is an extremely challenging program.
It is in fact the most powerful vector drawing
program there is, and in as much as we would
like to hope otherwise, that power comes at a price.
But just as David conquered Goliath,
we are going to conquer this program, I assure you.
All right now let's check out the other two file formats.
I'll go up to the Illustrator CC menu
and I'll choose Hide Illustrator
so that we can once again see that folder of thumbnails,
and notice the next file, Welcome.eps.
EPS stands for encapsulated post script,
and it's an old school file format
that was originally designed to allow you
to export graphics from programs like Illustrator
and then import them into page layout programs
such as, well originally PageMaker and later QuarkXPress.
Now once upon a time EPS was
a state of the art file format.
These days not so much, but EPS is still
a common standard in some countries,
and it's a common file format for clipart.
And so the good news is if you find
such a file, which you undoubtedly will,
you could open and edit it inside Illustrator.
But notice if I double-click on this file,
for whatever reason, it opens inside
of Apple's Preview utility.
Now I've already zoomed in on the artwork
and I can zoom in even further
by clicking on this little magnifying glass icon
up here in the toolbar, but notice if I zoom in
on these irises here, you may be able
to just make out these seams inside
both the left and the right iris.
Those aren't really there, and of course
no matter how far I zoom in,
I don't have any ability to edit this drawing
inside of Preview, which is obviously not what we want.
So I'm going to go up to the Preview menu
and choose the Quit Preview command
in order to quit the utility
and I'm going to set things up so that EPS files
from now on open inside Illustrator,
and you do that by right-clicking on the file
and then choosing the Get Info command,
which in case you're interested
has a keyboard shortcut of Command + I,
and that's going to bring up this slim panel over here
on the left-hand side of the screen.
Now, you want to make sure this area, Open With,
is twirled open, so that you can see
a list of applications.
And then go ahead and click on this popup menu
and choose the most recent version of Illustrator CC.
Next, go ahead and click on the Change All button
and that's going to bring up this alert message
asking if you really want to open all EPS files
inside Illustrator CC in the future.
And assuming you do, just go ahead
and click on the Continue button,
and then you can close the Get Info panel.
And now if you double-click on this thumbnail,
the file will open once again here inside Illustrator.
All right we still have one more file format,
so I'll return to the Illustrator CC menu
and choose Hide Illustrator,
and now notice this final guy right here, Welcome.svg.
SVG stands for scalable vector graphics,
and it's a popular file format for creating
scalable graphics that you intend
to distribute on the web, or view on a smartphone,
tablet, or other screen device.
And as with AI and EPS files,
your best tool for editing a scalable vector graphic
is Illustrator, but notice on this particular machine
if I go ahead and double-click on this file
it opens inside of Firefox,
which is a popular open source web browser.
Now the good news is that I can scale the graphic
by going up to the View menu, choosing Zoom,
and then choosing the Zoom In command,
which as you can see has a keyboard shortcut
of Command + Plus, and so I can continue to zoom
as much as I like by pressing Command + Plus
over and over again, and now I'm just going to
go ahead and scroll down, perhaps not quite that much,
just so that I can see David's face
and I'll go ahead and scroll over to the right as well.
And we can see that David's face,
as well as this little bit of text here,
is looking absolutely smooth.
So the good news is you can scale this graphic
to any size you like and you'll always
get great results.
Bad news is the colors in this particular graphic
are all wrong.
Notice that David's face is looking gray and the background
over here on the left-hand side is green.
And we can't edit the graphic inside Firefox
or any other web browser.
And so I'll go up to the Firefox menu
and choose the Quit command,
and then I'll run through those very same steps.
So with the Welcome.svg file selected,
I'll right-click on it and choose Get Info,
and then I'll click on the Open With popup menu
and I'll choose the most recent version
of Illustrator CC.
I'll click the Change All button,
followed by Continue, and now if I go ahead
and close that Get Info panel and I double-click
on the SVG file, it once again opens up
inside Illustrator, where everything looks
exactly the way it should.
All right now the last thing I want to note
is that you may end up seeing your open files
inside of a floating window, like this one right here.
Which is scalable, as you can see,
so I can just go ahead and make it smaller
and drag it around, and it also allows me
to see through to other applications,
such as the Finder running in the background.
But I frankly prefer to let Illustrator
consume the entire screen,
so that I can focus on this very powerful application.
And if you want to make that happen as well,
then go up to the Window menu
and choose the Application Frame command to turn it on.
Now this command is turned on by default,
but I just want you to notice that it's here
because it's only available with a Macintosh
version of Illustrator.
And so notice in my case, if I turn that command on,
then I can no longer see any of the other applications
running in the background, and I can focus
exclusively on Illustrator, and incidentally,
this is the way I'll be working in all of
the future movies inside of this course.
And that, friends, is how you can open
AI, EPS, and SVG files inside of Illustrator
just by double-clicking on a file's icon
at the Macintosh Finder.