0 1 00:00:00,008 --> 00:00:03,695 Hi there, in this video we're going to set the defaults... 1 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,751 for the Swatches in Adobe Illustrator. 2 3 00:00:06,930 --> 00:00:08,703 We'll also set the default font... 3 4 00:00:08,728 --> 00:00:10,782 get rid of Myriad 12 point... 4 5 00:00:11,008 --> 00:00:13,008 we'll change everything we need to. 5 6 00:00:13,033 --> 00:00:15,032 We'll even turn off that pesky hyphenation. 6 7 00:00:15,422 --> 00:00:17,656 All right, let's go do that now in Illustrator. 7 8 00:00:18,211 --> 00:00:19,789 First up, it can be a pain... 8 9 00:00:19,921 --> 00:00:23,289 I'm using Illustrator, it's called Illustrator 22, right? 9 10 00:00:23,828 --> 00:00:26,773 Under 'Illustrator', 'About', this is version 22. 10 11 00:00:27,229 --> 00:00:30,268 It's also called CC 2018. 11 12 00:00:30,293 --> 00:00:32,737 It should work for everything, this version, and up. 12 13 00:00:32,956 --> 00:00:35,760 Earlier versions, you might-- it gets really tricky... 13 14 00:00:35,785 --> 00:00:40,260 so if it doesn't work for you, you might have to go search the net... 14 15 00:00:40,393 --> 00:00:41,706 and it gets complicated. 15 16 00:00:42,768 --> 00:00:45,589 For us though, it's partially complicated, not that hard. 16 17 00:00:45,862 --> 00:00:47,628 So what we're going to do is, we're going to-- 17 18 00:00:47,653 --> 00:00:49,816 at this Welcome screen, we're going to create a 'New Document'. 18 19 00:00:50,823 --> 00:00:52,674 Basically what we need to do is... 19 20 00:00:52,699 --> 00:00:54,164 we can't just do it for the whole program... 20 21 00:00:54,189 --> 00:00:57,128 we need to do it for Print, Web, and Mobile. 21 22 00:00:57,253 --> 00:01:00,182 Basically for me, I do most of my stuff in Print and Web. 22 23 00:01:00,714 --> 00:01:03,151 So you just need to change these two defaults. 23 24 00:01:03,417 --> 00:01:05,089 So we'll do Print. 24 25 00:01:05,182 --> 00:01:07,534 In Print, what we need to do is... 25 26 00:01:07,559 --> 00:01:09,823 go to this 'More Settings' option down the bottom here. 26 27 00:01:10,737 --> 00:01:15,158 And once that opens, we need to go to where it says 'Profile', drop that down. 27 28 00:01:15,464 --> 00:01:17,643 We'll only go to the one that says 'Browse'. 28 29 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,493 Really what we're just doing here is... 29 30 00:01:19,518 --> 00:01:21,136 just locating where these things are kept... 30 31 00:01:21,628 --> 00:01:24,175 because on a PC, and Mac, they're different. 31 32 00:01:24,479 --> 00:01:27,893 So if I drop this down, it tells me, this is where the Profiles are kept. 32 33 00:01:27,918 --> 00:01:30,784 So we need to dig this out, that's the hard bit. 33 34 00:01:30,961 --> 00:01:33,516 Adjusting the Fonts and Swatches is easy. 34 35 00:01:35,235 --> 00:01:38,117 You can get lost, there's a couple of versions of Library. 35 36 00:01:39,148 --> 00:01:42,508 So there's a Library down at this level, so you need to really make sure. 36 37 00:01:42,533 --> 00:01:44,922 So maybe take a screenshot of this now... 37 38 00:01:46,078 --> 00:01:48,360 or if you're using a PC, take a screenshot of your screen. 38 39 00:01:48,688 --> 00:01:51,813 Just notice, you got to go here, here... 39 40 00:01:52,016 --> 00:01:53,227 All the way through to this. 40 41 00:01:53,375 --> 00:01:55,727 I'll show you how to get there. 41 42 00:01:56,024 --> 00:01:57,492 I'm going to close that down. 42 43 00:01:57,931 --> 00:01:59,468 It's basically what we use that for. 43 44 00:02:00,485 --> 00:02:03,593 I'm going to go into 'Finder' here, and show you how to find it. 44 45 00:02:03,625 --> 00:02:07,593 So, go to any folder; documents, desktop, doesn't matter. 45 46 00:02:07,771 --> 00:02:10,274 And if you hold down the 'Command' key, and click on this... 46 47 00:02:12,235 --> 00:02:13,104 whatever it says at the top... 47 48 00:02:13,129 --> 00:02:14,554 it kind of tells you where you are in the world. 48 49 00:02:14,579 --> 00:02:15,688 So we're partially where they are... 49 50 00:02:15,713 --> 00:02:18,516 we're in HD, we're in Users, we're in My Name... 50 51 00:02:18,820 --> 00:02:20,110 and we're in Documents. 51 52 00:02:20,150 --> 00:02:21,875 But I want to go to this one here. 52 53 00:02:22,024 --> 00:02:24,079 And there should be a folder in here called Library. 53 54 00:02:24,961 --> 00:02:28,422 Problem is that Macs like to hide that from you. 54 55 00:02:28,447 --> 00:02:30,492 You got to go and change Permissions, and stuff. 55 56 00:02:30,517 --> 00:02:32,758 You don't want to do that, the sneaky trick is... 56 57 00:02:32,783 --> 00:02:34,930 on 'View Finder', go up to 'Go'... 57 58 00:02:35,071 --> 00:02:37,531 hold down the 'Option' key on my Mac... 58 59 00:02:37,556 --> 00:02:39,297 and you can see, if I just toggle it on and off... 59 60 00:02:40,297 --> 00:02:41,501 the Library just appears. 60 61 00:02:42,415 --> 00:02:43,813 It's a little sneaky trick to get him. 61 62 00:02:45,133 --> 00:02:46,821 So, I'm in the right place now. 62 63 00:02:47,008 --> 00:02:49,367 I'm in 'Library', now we're going to follow the rest of that. 63 64 00:02:49,392 --> 00:02:52,311 And it was 'Application Support', it was 'Adobe'. 64 65 00:02:52,701 --> 00:02:55,029 We worked on version 22, you might be on a later version... 65 66 00:02:55,508 --> 00:02:56,969 whatever that version yours is... 66 67 00:02:57,493 --> 00:02:58,876 the highest number is going to be the one. 67 68 00:02:59,094 --> 00:03:00,766 I'm using 'English US'. 68 69 00:03:01,047 --> 00:03:02,500 And we're trying to find... 69 70 00:03:03,204 --> 00:03:05,813 we're going to do this one, and this one. 70 71 00:03:06,117 --> 00:03:08,305 Basically we're going to go change these, and we're going to save them. 71 72 00:03:08,453 --> 00:03:12,180 You can go off and do that now, but together, I'll show you the long way. 72 73 00:03:12,422 --> 00:03:15,469 You can see there, our kind of Profile, I'm going to open up 'Print'. 73 74 00:03:19,902 --> 00:03:21,878 And in here, what I'd like to do is... 74 75 00:03:21,903 --> 00:03:23,124 anything you change in here... 75 76 00:03:23,149 --> 00:03:25,426 most of the things you change in here will now be your default. 76 77 00:03:25,996 --> 00:03:29,230 If you want your default for Fill color and Stroke color to be different... 77 78 00:03:29,263 --> 00:03:31,428 you could say, actually I want that from now on... 78 79 00:03:31,453 --> 00:03:32,687 whenever I'm making a document. 79 80 00:03:33,050 --> 00:03:34,699 The big one you came for is Font. 80 81 00:03:35,222 --> 00:03:38,004 I'm going to click once, and 'Myriad Pro'. 81 82 00:03:38,343 --> 00:03:41,488 I'm going to change it to something else, you can change it to anything. 82 83 00:03:42,418 --> 00:03:45,105 If you're following along in this course, I love the old Museo. 83 84 00:03:45,730 --> 00:03:46,799 I'm going to use that. 84 85 00:03:46,824 --> 00:03:50,714 Probably when I'm working, I use 10pt a lot more. 85 86 00:03:50,832 --> 00:03:52,792 Now I want to go change a lot of other things... 86 87 00:03:52,817 --> 00:03:55,261 but as a trainer I really need to keep everything by default. 87 88 00:03:55,286 --> 00:03:59,362 So I'm just going to save myself some time now by not changing too much. 88 89 00:04:00,214 --> 00:04:02,519 We're only half way there, right? So you've changed the fonts... 89 90 00:04:03,433 --> 00:04:07,683 and go to 'Window', 'Type', and go to 'Character Styles'... 90 91 00:04:07,708 --> 00:04:10,075 and basically this is the kind of default Character Style... 91 92 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:11,722 for maybe, you type anything new. 92 93 00:04:11,996 --> 00:04:14,581 You can see, it's got a '+' there to say you've adjusted it... 93 94 00:04:15,550 --> 00:04:18,097 and all you need to do is go to this Burger menu... 94 95 00:04:18,230 --> 00:04:20,293 when you find Character Style, that '+' goes away. 95 96 00:04:21,183 --> 00:04:22,605 If I save this document now... 96 97 00:04:23,972 --> 00:04:26,589 let's do it, delete that guy, save it... 97 98 00:04:27,543 --> 00:04:28,527 close it. 98 99 00:04:28,894 --> 00:04:30,668 'File', 'New'. You're ready? 99 100 00:04:31,464 --> 00:04:32,839 It's going to get cool. 100 101 00:04:32,864 --> 00:04:37,066 Print any of these, covers anything under Print. 101 102 00:04:37,589 --> 00:04:39,285 So I'm going to use this, click 'Create'. 102 103 00:04:39,605 --> 00:04:41,636 Grab my 'Type Tool', click once. 103 104 00:04:42,246 --> 00:04:43,800 It's Museo Sans, it's 10pts. 104 105 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:50,152 Couple of other things we want to change. 105 106 00:04:50,177 --> 00:04:51,464 I'm going to close that down. 106 107 00:04:51,489 --> 00:04:53,308 Other little shortcut while I'm here... 107 108 00:04:53,550 --> 00:04:54,769 if you get this one to here... 108 109 00:04:54,794 --> 00:04:56,129 if you hold down, on a Mac... 109 110 00:04:56,154 --> 00:04:58,292 this is Mac only, unfortunately, PC people... 110 111 00:04:58,332 --> 00:05:02,065 hold down 'Command' key, and click the first letter of 'S', 'C', or 'D'. 111 112 00:05:02,278 --> 00:05:04,169 It's the shortcut, I hit 'D' for don't save. 112 113 00:05:04,419 --> 00:05:05,692 I don't know why I love that shortcut. 113 114 00:05:06,146 --> 00:05:09,638 I'm still on Print there, you can go to 'File', 'Open Recent', same one. 114 115 00:05:10,474 --> 00:05:14,622 I'm going to change a couple of things, Hyphenation, goodbye buddy. 115 116 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,942 If I grab a box, it hyphenates by default. 116 117 00:05:17,388 --> 00:05:19,802 So I'm going to go to my Paragraph Window. 117 118 00:05:20,138 --> 00:05:22,997 So, under 'Window', 'Type', I'm going to open up 'Paragraph'. 118 119 00:05:23,349 --> 00:05:25,505 I'm going to say, Hyphenate, don't do it by default. 119 120 00:05:26,396 --> 00:05:29,169 Weirdly the box that I drew is like the first box ever. 120 121 00:05:29,481 --> 00:05:31,388 It doesn't hyphenate, let's change it. 121 122 00:05:31,413 --> 00:05:33,318 There it is, Hyphenation, turn it 'off'. 122 123 00:05:33,989 --> 00:05:35,771 What we need to do now is adjust. 123 124 00:05:36,494 --> 00:05:38,846 Very similar, the Paragraph Styles. 124 125 00:05:39,161 --> 00:05:40,989 So there's a normal Paragraph Style. 125 126 00:05:41,114 --> 00:05:43,966 I say 'Redefine Style', and that will be off by default. 126 127 00:05:44,138 --> 00:05:46,037 I'm not doing mine now, just because. 127 128 00:05:46,062 --> 00:05:49,270 I know it works, you've seen it work, for Character Styles... 128 129 00:05:49,295 --> 00:05:53,504 but because I'm a trainer, I have to kind of keep everything same as yours. 129 130 00:05:54,192 --> 00:05:55,974 Other things you can do here... 130 131 00:05:55,999 --> 00:05:58,825 is you can do your Swatches in this window. 131 132 00:05:59,435 --> 00:06:02,278 So, in here, I'm going to delete that. 132 133 00:06:03,021 --> 00:06:06,442 What I'll do is, I'll leave Hyphenation 'on'. 133 134 00:06:08,651 --> 00:06:11,786 Let's go to our Swatches Panel, so 'Window', let's go to 'Swatches'. 134 135 00:06:12,177 --> 00:06:13,698 And you might just bin everything... 135 136 00:06:13,723 --> 00:06:15,684 just have black, white, maybe a few colors... 136 137 00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:17,521 maybe some brand colors that you're using. 137 138 00:06:18,020 --> 00:06:20,567 You can import colors from logos here. 138 139 00:06:21,310 --> 00:06:22,532 All you need to really do is... 139 140 00:06:22,557 --> 00:06:24,739 make sure that your Swatches Panel is how you want it. 140 141 00:06:24,764 --> 00:06:28,614 Let's say that you don't use this fantastic Fill. 141 142 00:06:29,542 --> 00:06:30,331 Pattern Swatch. 142 143 00:06:30,356 --> 00:06:33,401 You can go into here, I'm going to delete it, forever. 143 144 00:06:35,354 --> 00:06:36,667 I'm going to make a new Swatch. 144 145 00:06:37,495 --> 00:06:39,456 First of all I'm going to pick a color. 145 146 00:06:40,784 --> 00:06:42,354 Now I'm going to add it as the Swatch. 146 147 00:06:42,713 --> 00:06:44,544 Give it a name, I'm going to turn mine off... 147 148 00:06:44,569 --> 00:06:47,323 not being Global, and not in my Library, just because. 148 149 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:49,440 Just want it to be a basic Swatch. 149 150 00:06:49,776 --> 00:06:52,221 Now if I save the document, close it... 150 151 00:06:52,893 --> 00:06:55,565 I go to 'New Document' window, anything under 'Print'... 151 152 00:06:58,417 --> 00:07:00,307 click 'Create'; A4 even. 152 153 00:07:00,792 --> 00:07:02,182 Can you see, there's my cool Swatches. 153 154 00:07:02,823 --> 00:07:04,885 That one's gone, and that one's there now. 154 155 00:07:05,385 --> 00:07:06,721 It doesn't back date. 155 156 00:07:06,746 --> 00:07:10,737 So it doesn't go back to old documents and adjust the Swatches. 156 157 00:07:10,970 --> 00:07:12,780 It's a really personal thing in Illustrator... 157 158 00:07:12,805 --> 00:07:15,245 where these Swatches are attached to their ai file... 158 159 00:07:15,270 --> 00:07:16,736 and have been embedded in there. 159 160 00:07:16,761 --> 00:07:18,421 But anything new, that can be changed. 160 161 00:07:18,928 --> 00:07:20,655 That's true of Type as well... 161 162 00:07:20,771 --> 00:07:22,756 so any new documents will be Museo... 162 163 00:07:22,781 --> 00:07:26,319 but any previous document, that kind of Character Style's stuck in there. 163 164 00:07:26,344 --> 00:07:29,218 So, old documents, boo, new documents, yes. 164 165 00:07:29,499 --> 00:07:31,785 All right friends, that is how to reset... 165 166 00:07:31,810 --> 00:07:34,749 your default Font and Swatches in Adobe Illustrator. 166 167 00:07:35,148 --> 00:07:36,711 All right, let's get on to the next video.