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- [Instructor] Over the
course of this chapter

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we'll be creating this
illustration once again

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entirely from scratch,

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this time using Illustrator's shape tools.

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And while this project is
a little more challenging

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than the previous one I'm confident

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that you can pull it off.

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And we're going to start things off

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the same way we did in
the previous chapter

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by creating a new document
complete with center guides,

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which may make you wonder
if there's some way

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to save those upfront steps so you don't

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have to perform them over and over again.

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And the answer is to
create a template file

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as I'll demonstrate in this very movie.

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And so the first step is
to go to the File menu

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and choose the New command,

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or you have that keyboard shortcut

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of Ctrl+N or Cmd+N on the Mac.

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And notice if you've been
working along with me

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that you'll see your previous settings

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stored inside the new dialog box,

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but just to make sure that you
and I are on the same page,

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I'll go ahead and click
on Art & Illustration

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in the top left corner of the dialog box

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and then I'll change the name of this file

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to RGB with center guides.

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Notice that the units are set to Points,

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and so I'll go ahead and
change the width value to 1008

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and I'll tab to the height
value and change it to 672.

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And again these values just happen

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to work well for the
video and they also ensure

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that you and I will get the same results.

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Notice that the color
mode is set to RGB Color,

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which is exactly what we want.

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I'm just going to make one
change to the bleed values

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by taking them up to 12
points which is the same

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as one pica after which I'll
click on the create button,

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or you can press the enter key on the PC

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or the return key on the Mac.

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Alright next you want to
go to the Layers panel,

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and then click on the fly out menu icon

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in the top right corner of that panel

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and choose Panel Options
from the bottom of the menu.

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Next go ahead and select the other option

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and change that size value
to 60 pixels and click okay.

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Alright now go ahead and double click

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on the existing name of
that layer and change

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it to Guides and press the enter key

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or the return key on the Mac.

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Now to create the center guides,

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go ahead and press ctrl
+ r or cmd + r on a Mac,

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to bring up the rulers and
then press the ctrl key

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or the cmd key on the Mac and
drag from the intersection

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of those two rulers in the top left corner

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of the screen in order to
draw out two guidelines

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at the same time and then press ctrl r

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or cmd r in a Mac to hide those rulers.

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Now we need to unlock the
guide so we can center them.

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And you do that by going to the View menu,

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choosing Guides and
choosing Unlock Guides.

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Then armed with a black arrow tool up here

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at the top of the toolbox go
ahead and partially marquis

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both of those guides
like so and then click

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on the word Align and make sure Align To

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is set to Align to Artboard.

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Now if you have a bigger
screen you're going

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to see the align icons up
here in the control panel,

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but because my screen
is smaller I'm seeing

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them in a pop up panel.

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Either way you want to
click on this second icon,

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horizontal align center,
followed by this fifth icon,

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vertical align center in order

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to exactly center those guides.

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Now return to the View menu,

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choose Guides and choose Lock Guides

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in order to lock them down so you don't

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accidentally mess them up.

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Alright now I'm going to go
ahead and zoom in a little bit

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and now that I've
established a Guides layer

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I want to add a new
layer that I can draw on

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because after all the
purpose of the Guides layer

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is to hold the guides and nothing more.

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And so I'll drop down
to this little page icon

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at the bottom of the layers panel

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and I'll press the alt key
or the option key on the Mac

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and click on it in order
to force the display

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of the Layer Options dialog
box and then I'll just call

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this new layer Drawing and click okay.

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Alright now we want to save this document

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as a template and you do that by going

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to the File menu and
choosing Save As Template.

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At which point Illustrator
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direct you to its recommended folder

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which is deep inside the
system folder structure,

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and so what you want
to do is just go ahead

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and save the file by
clicking on the save button.

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Now it's possible
especially here on the PC

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that you're going to
get a privileges error.

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In which case you'll
either need to talk to your

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IT guy or one of your very
computer savvy friends

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in order to address that problem
just as I did, by the way.

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Or you can save this template
to a different location.

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But in my case I'll just
click save and because

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I've created this file
in advance I'll go ahead

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and replace it by clicking
on the Yes button.

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Alright now all you need
to do is close this file

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and then return to the File menu

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and choose New From Template,

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and that will take you back
to that exact same folder

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at which time you can
select the file and click

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on the New button or you
can just double click

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in the file in order to load
it as an untitled document.

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So notice that it's behaving
as if it's never been saved.

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And that's how you create
a time saving template

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in the RGB color mode
which is great for both

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local printing as well as screen graphics,

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complete with a couple of center guides

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and these generously
sized layer thumbnails

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here inside Illustrator.