WEBVTT 00:00.420 --> 00:00.830 All right. 00:00.830 --> 00:02.000 Welcome to the course. 00:01.990 --> 00:07.560 This is the Getting Started video this if I'm honest is a bit boring but hang in there there's a few 00:07.560 --> 00:10.690 important details that we need to cover before we get started. 00:10.740 --> 00:11.030 All right. 00:11.040 --> 00:11.820 Let's go. 00:11.820 --> 00:12.360 All right. 00:12.360 --> 00:17.420 To get started the first thing is you need to go and download the exercise files. 00:17.420 --> 00:19.670 And so there is a link on the screen here. 00:19.680 --> 00:21.250 Go download those. 00:21.270 --> 00:25.090 Optionally you might go and grab the cheat sheet. 00:25.110 --> 00:26.700 Bring your own laptop dot com. 00:26.700 --> 00:28.930 There's a Resources tab on the top here. 00:28.950 --> 00:30.750 There is an illustrator cheat sheet. 00:30.750 --> 00:36.360 So go download that it's free it's a PTF printed off stick it next to your computer while we're working. 00:36.360 --> 00:39.450 All right so the next thing to do is we're going to change our units. 00:39.450 --> 00:42.430 OK so our measurements like inches and centimeters. 00:42.480 --> 00:46.800 Confusingly the new version of Illustrator kind of deals with things a little bit differently. 00:46.800 --> 00:52.870 So to explain that and normally what you do is you go to illustrate a CC preferences units. 00:52.980 --> 00:53.910 And this is on a Mac. 00:53.910 --> 00:57.200 If you're on a PC it's and it and preferences down the bottom here. 00:57.390 --> 01:02.430 OK so if I go into here and I change my units and I'm say I'm going to use inches or millimeters or 01:02.430 --> 01:03.450 pixels. 01:03.600 --> 01:05.250 This doesn't really matter anymore. 01:05.280 --> 01:05.900 OK. 01:05.970 --> 01:06.590 Feels good. 01:06.630 --> 01:11.490 You can click on inches but basically what happens is when I create and you document this thing over 01:11.490 --> 01:15.210 here really you can see pixels is up even though I picked inches. 01:15.210 --> 01:16.260 Why is that. 01:16.260 --> 01:19.510 It uses the last two units you used. 01:19.560 --> 01:24.250 So the document that I created previously was in pixels so it just use pixels. 01:24.250 --> 01:28.860 If I made something now and change it to inches it would by default be inches the next time I opened 01:28.860 --> 01:29.790 up this window. 01:29.790 --> 01:31.070 So that's how it works. 01:31.080 --> 01:36.060 Another thing to keep aware of is that I get a web notice that it just switches it out to pixels so 01:36.060 --> 01:37.400 you just got to keep an eye on this. 01:37.410 --> 01:39.950 Every time you can switch afterwards it's no big deal. 01:40.070 --> 01:40.370 OK. 01:40.390 --> 01:46.050 But you know when you're going to print K and mobile and all these other ones a really wants to be a 01:46.050 --> 01:47.070 different size. 01:47.070 --> 01:48.610 OK so just. 01:48.790 --> 01:49.920 Just go and change it here. 01:50.070 --> 01:53.440 Let's say I make a print document but I want it to be inches. 01:53.480 --> 01:53.750 OK. 01:53.760 --> 01:56.690 Click Create and let's say it's not what I wanted. 01:56.760 --> 02:02.010 I was doing millimeters with nothing selected over here this is the really easy way to do it you can 02:02.010 --> 02:04.260 go and change it in here quickly. 02:04.260 --> 02:04.490 All right. 02:04.500 --> 02:09.690 Another thing I want you to do is up the top here and you probably set to essentials right so it probably 02:09.690 --> 02:11.220 looks a little bit different from mine. 02:11.220 --> 02:15.390 I'm going to go on the show click Receptus angels because this is like out of the box what it looks 02:15.390 --> 02:16.610 like now. 02:16.620 --> 02:19.120 I love that little control bar on the top there. 02:19.200 --> 02:23.700 And most people did it kind of just turned off this version and they kind of replaced it with the properties 02:23.700 --> 02:26.600 panel which I love but I also like Taba. 02:26.760 --> 02:28.780 So for this course I'm going to turn it on. 02:28.920 --> 02:35.280 OK so where the essentials can give me a window and just make sure this control on top is actually up 02:35.280 --> 02:35.650 there. 02:35.790 --> 02:36.080 OK. 02:36.110 --> 02:37.720 Because it's just Pandy. 02:37.740 --> 02:41.970 Now what you might do is once you've kind of got your properties you know your panels in that the way 02:41.970 --> 02:43.610 you like them you can go and save them. 02:43.650 --> 02:44.690 You don't have to. 02:44.820 --> 02:49.520 But if you want to you can go to a new workspace and you can see they already have one called Dan. 02:49.740 --> 02:52.010 It's already used I'm going to replace it. 02:52.020 --> 02:52.570 OK. 02:52.580 --> 02:56.920 Dan just means that if things go wrong later on right I can go to reset Dan.. 02:56.970 --> 03:00.600 And it goes back to this and has a nice little control bar on the top. 03:00.600 --> 03:06.030 Now they're going to be some of you who are using an older version of Illustrator. 03:06.110 --> 03:11.640 OK so you can totally do pretty much pretty much everything is like one thing the puppet told him you 03:11.640 --> 03:12.260 can't. 03:12.450 --> 03:17.640 But if you got an older version of Illustrator it'll work perfectly for this like 99 percent of this 03:17.640 --> 03:21.040 course except we're going to be using this propertys panel a lot. 03:21.180 --> 03:26.000 And that doesn't exist in early versions if you ah this thing won't exist. 03:26.020 --> 03:30.960 OK and you'll have to do a lot more of opening up here and opening up the specific windows. 03:30.960 --> 03:33.630 So I'm going to reset Dan just to see what I mean. 03:34.230 --> 03:40.200 OK if I grab my type 2 now and draw stuff out draw a box out you can see I've had my fill and my stroke 03:40.200 --> 03:41.810 and my font. 03:41.870 --> 03:46.950 Whereas if you're using a previous version if you need to find it up the top here or you go to a window 03:46.950 --> 03:49.350 and you have to turn on the type. 03:49.470 --> 03:50.770 You can turn on the character panel. 03:51.060 --> 03:54.590 So I'm going to use this because it's quick and awesome. 03:54.620 --> 03:59.520 But if you like home and he's going to the appearance panel you just have a look what it's called and 03:59.520 --> 04:00.680 then find it up here. 04:00.720 --> 04:06.170 You will find a specific tab or a specific panel that will control that go. 04:06.200 --> 04:11.540 Another thing just to cover is I've got some stock images that I use for this course and there's a mixture 04:11.540 --> 04:13.540 of stuff that I've made personally. 04:13.640 --> 04:19.140 And you're totally allowed to use that for your own portfolios and show people that you've done it. 04:19.140 --> 04:19.460 OK. 04:19.470 --> 04:24.860 And but in terms of the stock images you'll the very clear which are the stock images OK. 04:25.070 --> 04:30.170 And basically any the photographs that look professionally done any hand-drawn sketches of mine but 04:30.170 --> 04:35.980 you're not allowed to go off and start using without going and paying for the stock images. 04:35.980 --> 04:40.070 OK so just be warned you can definitely go for this course and show people what you've done but you 04:40.070 --> 04:42.180 can go and use them commercially afterwards. 04:42.230 --> 04:47.470 OK but what you can do is there's a section in this course we can get free commercial use images just 04:47.470 --> 04:51.920 watch out for those are some of your own images and then you can stop totally using a lot of this for 04:51.920 --> 04:52.850 your portfolio. 04:52.850 --> 04:55.690 Another thing to do is a new exercise files. 04:55.790 --> 05:00.680 There's going to be well throughout this course I'm going to see it kind of projects for you to do a 05:00.680 --> 05:05.760 sort of homework now there will be and I'll do it in the videos and explain it. 05:05.780 --> 05:09.350 But there's one place in the exercise files where are you here. 05:09.490 --> 05:09.680 OK. 05:09.680 --> 05:14.480 There's a folder called class projects and it has a word doc in there plus all the images everything 05:14.480 --> 05:17.930 you need to do those projects in one little piece. 05:18.160 --> 05:18.450 Yeah. 05:18.470 --> 05:23.060 Just so you know there are projects you don't have to do them obviously but there is a folder for them. 05:23.070 --> 05:26.210 But I will describe them as we go through the door of course. 05:26.240 --> 05:26.660 All right. 05:26.660 --> 05:32.110 There is a boring video that we can skip on now and start making some stuff and illustrate. 05:32.290 --> 05:33.560 Thanks for hanging in there. 05:33.560 --> 05:35.340 Let's go and get started now.