All right.
Welcome to the course.
This is the Getting Started video this if I'm honest is a bit boring but hang in there there's a few
important details that we need to cover before we get started.
All right.
Let's go.
All right.
To get started the first thing is you need to go and download the exercise files.
And so there is a link on the screen here.
Go download those.
Optionally you might go and grab the cheat sheet.
Bring your own laptop dot com.
There's a Resources tab on the top here.
There is an illustrator cheat sheet.
So go download that it's free it's a PTF printed off stick it next to your computer while we're working.
All right so the next thing to do is we're going to change our units.
OK so our measurements like inches and centimeters.
Confusingly the new version of Illustrator kind of deals with things a little bit differently.
So to explain that and normally what you do is you go to illustrate a CC preferences units.
And this is on a Mac.
If you're on a PC it's and it and preferences down the bottom here.
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
pixels.
This doesn't really matter anymore.
OK.
Feels good.
You can click on inches but basically what happens is when I create and you document this thing over
here really you can see pixels is up even though I picked inches.
Why is that.
It uses the last two units you used.
So the document that I created previously was in pixels so it just use pixels.
If I made something now and change it to inches it would by default be inches the next time I opened
up this window.
So that's how it works.
Another thing to keep aware of is that I get a web notice that it just switches it out to pixels so
you just got to keep an eye on this.
Every time you can switch afterwards it's no big deal.
OK.
But you know when you're going to print K and mobile and all these other ones a really wants to be a
different size.
OK so just.
Just go and change it here.
Let's say I make a print document but I want it to be inches.
OK.
Click Create and let's say it's not what I wanted.
I was doing millimeters with nothing selected over here this is the really easy way to do it you can
go and change it in here quickly.
All right.
Another thing I want you to do is up the top here and you probably set to essentials right so it probably
looks a little bit different from mine.
I'm going to go on the show click Receptus angels because this is like out of the box what it looks
like now.
I love that little control bar on the top there.
And most people did it kind of just turned off this version and they kind of replaced it with the properties
panel which I love but I also like Taba.
So for this course I'm going to turn it on.
OK so where the essentials can give me a window and just make sure this control on top is actually up
there.
OK.
Because it's just Pandy.
Now what you might do is once you've kind of got your properties you know your panels in that the way
you like them you can go and save them.
You don't have to.
But if you want to you can go to a new workspace and you can see they already have one called Dan.
It's already used I'm going to replace it.
OK.
Dan just means that if things go wrong later on right I can go to reset Dan..
And it goes back to this and has a nice little control bar on the top.
Now they're going to be some of you who are using an older version of Illustrator.
OK so you can totally do pretty much pretty much everything is like one thing the puppet told him you
can't.
But if you got an older version of Illustrator it'll work perfectly for this like 99 percent of this
course except we're going to be using this propertys panel a lot.
And that doesn't exist in early versions if you ah this thing won't exist.
OK and you'll have to do a lot more of opening up here and opening up the specific windows.
So I'm going to reset Dan just to see what I mean.
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
and my font.
Whereas if you're using a previous version if you need to find it up the top here or you go to a window
and you have to turn on the type.
You can turn on the character panel.
So I'm going to use this because it's quick and awesome.
But if you like home and he's going to the appearance panel you just have a look what it's called and
then find it up here.
You will find a specific tab or a specific panel that will control that go.
Another thing just to cover is I've got some stock images that I use for this course and there's a mixture
of stuff that I've made personally.
And you're totally allowed to use that for your own portfolios and show people that you've done it.
OK.
And but in terms of the stock images you'll the very clear which are the stock images OK.
And basically any the photographs that look professionally done any hand-drawn sketches of mine but
you're not allowed to go off and start using without going and paying for the stock images.
OK so just be warned you can definitely go for this course and show people what you've done but you
can go and use them commercially afterwards.
OK but what you can do is there's a section in this course we can get free commercial use images just
watch out for those are some of your own images and then you can stop totally using a lot of this for
your portfolio.
Another thing to do is a new exercise files.
There's going to be well throughout this course I'm going to see it kind of projects for you to do a
sort of homework now there will be and I'll do it in the videos and explain it.
But there's one place in the exercise files where are you here.
OK.
There's a folder called class projects and it has a word doc in there plus all the images everything
you need to do those projects in one little piece.
Yeah.
Just so you know there are projects you don't have to do them obviously but there is a folder for them.
But I will describe them as we go through the door of course.
All right.
There is a boring video that we can skip on now and start making some stuff and illustrate.
Thanks for hanging in there.
Let's go and get started now.