- [Instructor] In this movie,
we're going to take that eight page document
that we created in the previous movie,
and we're going to turn it into the document
you see before you now.
And the reason is I think it's really important
to have an early sense of accomplishment,
even if it's fairly rudimentary.
And it'll give you a sense
for just how amazing Illustrator can be.
So if you're working along with me,
and you have open this particular document,
then let's just go ahead and start things off
by getting rid of the existing numbers,
so we can recreate them.
And you do that by going up to the Select menu
and choosing the All command,
which has a fairly obvious keyboard shortcut
of Control + A here on the PC, or Command + A on the Mac.
And that's going to select all of the numbers
across all eight art boards.
After which point, you can just press the Backspace key
here on the PC, or the Delete key on the Mac,
in order to get rid of all of those numbers.
Now obviously, if you were already looking
at a blank document, those previous steps weren't necessary,
but these next steps are.
First, make sure that the very first tool
in the top-left corner of the Toolbox is selected.
Illustrator calls it the Selection Tool,
but it looks like a black arrow,
which is why most folks call it just that, the black arrow.
Now just go ahead and click in this first art board,
to make sure that it's active.
And notice once again that Illustrator shows you
which art board is active,
by drawing a black outline around it.
And then I'll go ahead and select my Type Tool.
Now depending on how big your screen is,
you may see a single column version of this toolbox.
And you can switch between the single,
and double column display
by clicking this tiny little double arrow icon right there.
And so if your screen is sufficiently tall,
this is the version of the toolbox that you'll see.
I'm working on a short screen however,
which is why, by default, I'm seeing a two column toolbox.
In any event, the Type Tool looks like a capital T,
so just go ahead and click on it to select it.
And then click anywhere inside the first art board
to create this tiny text object,
complete with some itsy bitsy placeholder text.
And then, just type in the number one,
which is going to start off so small
that you can barely see it.
But of course, we're going to be making it bigger.
So the first thing you want to do
is accept your new text object, by pressing the Escape key.
The idea being that you're escaping the text entry mode.
And notice that that creates this object right here
inside of this little bounding box.
And it automatically switches you back
to the black arrow selection tool
up here, at the top of the toolbox.
Now notice this group of panels way over here
on the right side of the screen.
By default, you'll see three tabs.
Properties, Layers, and Libraries.
We want the Properties tab.
Now this panel is context sensitive,
meaning that it's reacting to the current circumstances
that are at work here inside my Illustration.
Now notice this lower half of the panel.
Because I've selected a text object,
I can see the font, and the type size, and so on.
I'm going to go ahead and change that font
by clicking inside the Character option right there,
and that'll go ahead and highlight the font,
which by default, is Myriad Pro.
And I'm going to go ahead and change it to Minion Pro
just by typing in M-I-N, followed by a space character,
because there's a bunch of different minions
available to you these days.
And then P-R-O, like so.
So just M-I-N, space, P-R-O,
which is going to show you all the styles of Minion Pro
that are installed on your system.
Now most likely, you'll see fewer styles than this.
But in any case, you want to scroll down the list,
using the scroll wheel on your mouse,
until you see this guy right here,
Minion Pro, with nothing after it.
At which point, just go ahead and click on it.
And that'll give you Minion Pro Regular
as we're seeing here.
Alright, now let's go ahead and increase the type size,
which is this numerical value right here,
from 12 points, to 600 points.
Which is quite a bit larger of course,
and we end up with this very obvious number
here inside of the first art board.
Now I want to go ahead and align the number to the art board.
As I'm recording this,
you can't do that from the properties panel.
And so we need to shift our panels around a little bit,
by clicking on the word Essentials,
up here at the top of the screen,
and choosing Essentials Classic.
And that's going to display the older,
and what I consider to be wiser
version of the properties panel,
which is this horizontal strip at the top of the screen,
which is known as the Control Panel.
Now frankly, we don't need the Properties panel anymore,
so right click on the Properties tab,
and choose Close Tab Group to hide it for now.
And don't worry about the fact that the panel is going away,
you can always bring it back later, just as we will
when we discuss panels in detail in chapter 3.
Now what you want to do is click on the word Align
over here on the right side of the Control Panel,
and that goes ahead and brings up
this pop-up panel right here.
At which point, you want to click on this Align To icon
in the bottom-right corner,
and change it to Align to ArtBoard.
Now go ahead and click on these two icons,
Vertical Align Center, up here in the top row,
and then Horizontal Align Center.
And that'll go ahead and center that number.
Or at least, Illustrator thinks it's centered,
and that's because the program is taking into account
that any possible character of type
could have a descender which would be hanging down.
Now of course, a number one doesn't have a descender,
and so what I'm going to do is press the Enter key,
or the Return key on a Mac, to hide that Align Panel.
And then, assuming the default settings,
I'm going to nudge this number down 50 points,
by pressing and holding the Shift key,
and then tapping the down arrow key
one, two, three, four, five times,
which produces what I consider to be a much better effect.
Alright, now let's go ahead and paste this number
across all of the art boards.
And you do that by first going up to the Edit menu,
and choosing the Cut command.
Which may seem like a weird thing to do,
especially with an object that we just created.
But what happens is that it not only deletes the object,
but it also places it in the so-called Clipboard,
which is a special portion of your computers memory,
and it records the numbers location on the page.
Now to retrieve the number,
you want to return to the Edit menu,
and instead of choosing the Paste command,
which would be fairly futile,
that would just go ahead and paste the object
in the center of the art board.
Instead, you want to go ahead
and choose this command right here, Past on All Artboards,
and you'll paste the number one
across each and every art board in the document.
Now let's go ahead and change the numbers
by once again selecting that Type Tool,
and then all you have to do is drag across the numbers,
and enter new ones, and you can go ahead
and change those numbers to anything you like,
but I'm going to go ahead
and stick with that original numbering scheme,
which is to say, one through eight.
And once you finish, just go ahead and press the Escape key
to once again accept that change.
And then you can click off the numbers
with this black arrow cursor,
which you can see over here
on the left-hand side of the screen, to deselect everything.
Now, that slightly messes up my view of the document,
which is why I'm going to finish things off
by going up to the View menu,
and choosing Fit All in Window.
Which will go ahead and center all eight art boards
once again, on screen.
And that's one of what must be a hundred-billion
different ways you can modify a new document
here inside Illustrator.
In the next movie, I'll show you how to save your changes.