0 1 00:00:00,281 --> 00:00:01,836 All right, welcome to the course. 1 2 00:00:01,861 --> 00:00:03,805 This is the Getting Started video. 2 3 00:00:03,930 --> 00:00:06,734 This, if I'm honest, is a bit boring, but hang in there... 3 4 00:00:06,767 --> 00:00:10,484 there's a few important details we need to cover before we get started. 4 5 00:00:10,641 --> 00:00:11,578 All right, let's go. 5 6 00:00:12,250 --> 00:00:14,046 To get started, the first thing is... 6 7 00:00:14,071 --> 00:00:17,040 you need to go download the 'Exercise Files'. 7 8 00:00:18,109 --> 00:00:20,984 There's a link on the screen here, go download those. 8 9 00:00:21,156 --> 00:00:24,242 Optionally, you might go grab the Cheat Sheet. 9 10 00:00:24,594 --> 00:00:28,609 It's at bringyourownlaptop.com There's a Resources tab along the top here. 10 11 00:00:28,844 --> 00:00:31,758 There is an Illustrator Cheat Sheet. So go download that. 11 12 00:00:31,783 --> 00:00:33,157 It's free, it's a PDF. 12 13 00:00:33,351 --> 00:00:36,132 Print it off, stick it next to your computer while we're working. 13 14 00:00:36,718 --> 00:00:39,395 Next thing to do is we're going to change our units... 14 15 00:00:39,420 --> 00:00:41,719 so, our measurements, like inches and centimeters. 15 16 00:00:42,031 --> 00:00:44,771 Confusingly, the new version of Illustrator... 16 17 00:00:44,796 --> 00:00:46,740 kind of deals with things a little bit differently. 17 18 00:00:47,466 --> 00:00:48,789 To explain that, under-- 18 19 00:00:48,814 --> 00:00:52,755 normally what you do is, you go to 'Illustrator CC', 'Preferences', 'Units'. 19 20 00:00:52,937 --> 00:00:55,302 This is on a MC, if you're on a PC, it's under 'Edit'... 20 21 00:00:55,343 --> 00:00:56,966 and 'Preferences' down the bottom here. 21 22 00:00:57,310 --> 00:01:00,576 So if I go into here, and change my units, and say, I'm going to use... 22 23 00:01:00,849 --> 00:01:02,888 inches, or millimeters, or pixels. 23 24 00:01:03,419 --> 00:01:05,185 This doesn't really matter anymore. 24 25 00:01:05,888 --> 00:01:07,490 If it feels good, you can click on inches. 25 26 00:01:07,584 --> 00:01:10,334 Basically what happens is, when I create a new document... 26 27 00:01:10,715 --> 00:01:12,329 this thing over here, really-- 27 28 00:01:12,354 --> 00:01:15,067 you can see, pixels is up even though I picked inches. 28 29 00:01:15,092 --> 00:01:19,271 Why is that? It uses the last units you used. 29 30 00:01:20,022 --> 00:01:24,202 The document that I created previously was in pixels, so it just used pixels. 30 31 00:01:24,227 --> 00:01:26,489 If I made something now, and changed it to inches... 31 32 00:01:26,514 --> 00:01:27,897 it would by default be inches... 32 33 00:01:27,937 --> 00:01:30,538 the next time I open up this window. So that's how it works. 33 34 00:01:30,937 --> 00:01:33,562 Another thing to be aware of, if I go to 'Web'... 34 35 00:01:33,749 --> 00:01:35,648 you'll notice it just switches it out to pixels. 35 36 00:01:35,673 --> 00:01:37,592 So you just got to keep an eye on this every time. 36 37 00:01:37,624 --> 00:01:39,811 You can switch afterwards, it's no big deal... 37 38 00:01:40,312 --> 00:01:42,429 but when you're going to Print... 38 39 00:01:43,234 --> 00:01:46,976 and Mobile, and all these other ones, it really wants to be a different size. 39 40 00:01:47,343 --> 00:01:49,624 So just go change it here. 40 41 00:01:49,929 --> 00:01:53,202 Let's say I make a Print document, but I want it to be inches... 41 42 00:01:53,726 --> 00:01:54,734 click 'Create'... 42 43 00:01:54,759 --> 00:01:58,241 and let's say it's not what I wanted, I was doing millimeters. 43 44 00:01:58,374 --> 00:02:01,679 With nothing selected, over here, this is the really easy way to do it. 44 45 00:02:01,704 --> 00:02:03,898 You can go change it in here quickly. 45 46 00:02:04,145 --> 00:02:06,801 Another thing I want you to do is, up the top here... 46 47 00:02:06,895 --> 00:02:08,614 you're probably set to 'Essential's, right? 47 48 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,106 So it probably looks a little bit different from mine. 48 49 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:13,246 I'm going to go on 'Essentials', click 'Reset Essentials'... 49 50 00:02:13,278 --> 00:02:15,629 because this is like, out of the box what it looks like. 50 51 00:02:15,958 --> 00:02:18,841 Now I love that little Control Bar along the top there. 51 52 00:02:19,067 --> 00:02:21,934 Most people did, it kind of just turned off with this version. 52 53 00:02:21,959 --> 00:02:24,770 They kind of replaced it with the Properties panel, which I love... 53 54 00:02:24,926 --> 00:02:26,458 but I also like that top bar. 54 55 00:02:26,614 --> 00:02:28,661 So for this course I'm going to turn it on. 55 56 00:02:28,848 --> 00:02:31,731 So, with 'Essentials', we go to 'Window'... 56 57 00:02:31,756 --> 00:02:35,473 and just make sure this Control Bar on the top is actually up there. 57 58 00:02:36,484 --> 00:02:37,544 It's just handy. 58 59 00:02:37,569 --> 00:02:40,340 Now what you might do is, once you've kind of got your Properties... 59 60 00:02:40,372 --> 00:02:43,410 your Panels, the way you like, you can go save them. 60 61 00:02:43,512 --> 00:02:46,739 You don’t have to, but if you want to, you can go to 'New Workspace'... 61 62 00:02:46,887 --> 00:02:50,434 and you can see, they already have one called 'Dan', it's already used. 62 63 00:02:50,762 --> 00:02:52,880 I'm going to replace it. Click 'Dan'. 63 64 00:02:53,114 --> 00:02:56,840 Just means that if things go wrong later on I can go to 'Reset Dan'... 64 65 00:02:56,865 --> 00:03:00,145 and it goes back to this, and has a nice little Control Bar along the top. 65 66 00:03:00,505 --> 00:03:01,827 Now there's going to be some of you... 66 67 00:03:01,852 --> 00:03:05,818 who are using an older version of Illustrator. 67 68 00:03:07,028 --> 00:03:08,989 You can totally do it, pretty much-- 68 69 00:03:09,216 --> 00:03:12,076 pretty much everything is like one thing. The Puppet Tool, you can't do... 69 70 00:03:12,341 --> 00:03:14,921 but if you've got an older version of Illustrator... 70 71 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,942 it will work perfectly for 99% of this course... 71 72 00:03:17,967 --> 00:03:20,888 except, we're going to be using this Properties Panel a lot. 72 73 00:03:21,068 --> 00:03:23,552 And that didn't exist in earlier versions. 73 74 00:03:23,577 --> 00:03:25,810 So if you are, this thing won't exist. 74 75 00:03:26,224 --> 00:03:27,771 You'll have to do a lot more... 75 76 00:03:27,796 --> 00:03:30,716 of opening up here, and opening up the specific windows. 76 77 00:03:30,841 --> 00:03:33,107 So I'm going to 'Reset Dan' just to show you what I mean. 77 78 00:03:34,052 --> 00:03:37,763 If I grab my 'Type Tool' now, and draw stuff out, draw a box up... 78 79 00:03:37,943 --> 00:03:41,373 you can see, over here, I've got my Fill, my Stroke, and my Font... 79 80 00:03:41,669 --> 00:03:43,732 whereas if you're using a previous version... 80 81 00:03:43,873 --> 00:03:45,739 you can either find it at the top here... 81 82 00:03:45,764 --> 00:03:48,084 or you go to 'Window', and you have to turn on... 82 83 00:03:48,287 --> 00:03:50,560 under 'Type', you can turn on the 'Character Panel'. 83 84 00:03:50,950 --> 00:03:54,106 So I'm going to use this because it's quick and awesome... 84 85 00:03:54,131 --> 00:03:57,231 but if you're like, "Oh man, it's going to be Appearance Panel". 85 86 00:03:57,786 --> 00:04:00,582 Just to have a look what it's called, then find it up here. 86 87 00:04:00,607 --> 00:04:04,918 You will find a specific tab, or a specific panel that will control that. 87 88 00:04:05,784 --> 00:04:07,603 Another thing just to cover is-- 88 89 00:04:07,628 --> 00:04:10,433 I've got stock images that I used for this course. 89 90 00:04:10,592 --> 00:04:13,358 There's a mixture of stuff that I've made personally... 90 91 00:04:13,506 --> 00:04:16,771 and you're totally allowed to use that for your own Portfolios... 91 92 00:04:16,796 --> 00:04:18,725 and show people that you've done it... 92 93 00:04:20,061 --> 00:04:22,428 but in terms of the stock images... 93 94 00:04:22,453 --> 00:04:24,772 they're very clear, which are the stock images. 94 95 00:04:24,943 --> 00:04:27,998 Basically, with the photographs that look professionally done. 95 96 00:04:28,023 --> 00:04:29,826 Any of the hand drawn sketches are mine... 96 97 00:04:29,928 --> 00:04:32,023 but you're not allowed to go off and start using... 97 98 00:04:32,048 --> 00:04:35,740 without going and paying for the stock images. 98 99 00:04:37,029 --> 00:04:38,758 Just be warned, you can definitely do it for this course... 99 100 00:04:38,783 --> 00:04:39,795 and show people what you've done... 100 101 00:04:39,820 --> 00:04:42,068 but you can't go and use them commercially afterwards. 101 102 00:04:42,186 --> 00:04:44,021 But what you can do is... 102 103 00:04:44,062 --> 00:04:45,320 there's a section in this course... 103 104 00:04:45,345 --> 00:04:47,178 where you can get free commercial use images. 104 105 00:04:47,203 --> 00:04:49,608 Just switch it on for those, or some of your own images... 105 106 00:04:49,633 --> 00:04:52,608 and you can start totally using a lot of this for your Portfolio. 106 107 00:04:52,748 --> 00:04:55,529 Another thing to do is, in your Exercise Files... 107 108 00:04:55,623 --> 00:04:57,091 there's going to be-- 108 109 00:04:57,116 --> 00:05:00,202 well, throughout this course, I'm going to say, projects for you to do. 109 110 00:05:00,326 --> 00:05:01,584 Sort of homework. 110 111 00:05:01,670 --> 00:05:03,499 Now, there will be-- 111 112 00:05:03,999 --> 00:05:05,671 I'll do it in the videos and explain it... 112 113 00:05:05,696 --> 00:05:08,506 but there's one place in the Exercise Files. 113 114 00:05:09,397 --> 00:05:12,897 There's a folder called Class Projects, and it has a Word Doc in there... 114 115 00:05:13,022 --> 00:05:17,451 plus all the images, everything you need to do those projects in one little piece. 115 116 00:05:18,295 --> 00:05:21,342 Just so you know, there are projects, you don’t have to do them, obviously... 116 117 00:05:21,553 --> 00:05:22,990 but there is a folder for them. 117 118 00:05:23,023 --> 00:05:25,920 I will describe them as we go through the tutorial course. 118 119 00:05:26,091 --> 00:05:27,843 All right, that is a boring video. 119 120 00:05:28,421 --> 00:05:31,935 We're going to skip on now and start making some stuff in Illustrator. 120 121 00:05:32,203 --> 00:05:33,422 Thanks for hanging in there. 121 122 00:05:33,447 --> 00:05:35,383 Let's go and get started now.