Hi, everyone.

Hey, in this video, we're going to do a quick tour around illustrator

and do some of the basics to get us going.

All right, first up, let's open up, file.

So with illustrator open, it's got a file.

It's going to open.

And I want you to find the exercise files that you've downloaded.

one thing, some times people try and open up the zip file that comes down.

You just need to double click that, okay.

And open it.

So in this case, I double click the thing I downloaded.

And this file has everything that I need in it.

Okay. If you don't know how to unzip double click it.

If you still can't do it, just Google unzipping on my computer.

You'll get it.

All right.

The file that I want you to, open is something called getting started.

So open up that one there.

It should look something like this.

Everyone's is going to look slightly different.

A couple of things I want us to do just to make sure that we're all the same

when we're walking through it.

Yours doesn't look too different from mine is up here at the top it says window.

Once you go down to workspace

and you should be on essentials, give that a click okay.

And then go back into here

and say Reset Essentials just so that everybody is the same.

It looks like mine. Hopefully.

Next thing is, is that some people are centimeters and millimeters.

People and other people are inches.

So with nothing selected.

So what I've done is I've got my black arrow.

This is kind of like the default thing that we normally go to as a tool.

click on the background in this gray area okay.

So that means you've got nothing selected.

And over here under the properties tab, depending on where you are

click on the properties tab.

And here it says units.

Look at that pick your unit of choice.

The next thing I'm going to do for this course is I'm going to make my UI bigger.

So everything's quite small.

I got a lot of space, but it's not good for these videos

because you need to see everything, and you might find this quite useful

if you find everything's just too small to read.

Okay, so go up to illustrator, go to preferences on a mac.

Okay.

If you're on a PC, it's in a slightly different place, isn't it?

Edit okay, and down the bottom here will be preferences.

So whichever one you want, I'm on a mac, so I'm going to go click on illustrator

and go to preferences and I'm going to find this one.

This is where is it. User interface.

That's it.

And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go

do I want it small medium or large I'm going mega large.

Just so that you can see it easy.

You pick the size you like. I'm going to have to restart.

It'll say you need to restart illustrator for this to work.

And I'm going to say okay, and I'll be back in a second.

There you go giant illustrator for your viewing pleasure.

Up to you. So I'm going to go back to File Open.

And actually I'm going to hit cancel.

I'm going to go to File Open recent.

There he is getting started handy okay.

So everything's bigger I'm pretty sure this will work for the course.

It's pretty ginormous.

But hey, the other thing that's going to change depending on when you start this

and what version of illustrator you have is this toolbar changes quite a bit.

They add bits to it, they move them around, they cut it down.

So, let's have a look at it.

So see these little dotted lines right down the bottom here okay I've got these.

Currently Illustrator or Adobe have decided that these are

the ones that are going to be really important.

And then they go, then we're going to move this one off and shuffle them around.

What you can do is if something's missing through this course and you're like,

hey, he's got this tool, I don't have it, or I have too many.

What you can do is click on this little dotted lines down here,

and there's all of the tools have ever made loads of them.

So I have a little look.

You might be like, oh, there's that one he's using.

Okay. The polar grid tool, which you're not going to use.

You can click on it. There you go.

Got the tool.

Click whole drag and you can kind of find a spot for it.

There you go.

Now you've got the polar grid tool I'm gonna drag it out.

If you do lose a tool it's probably in these little dots down the bottom here.

The other thing about the toolbar is that see this?

Depending on the size of your computer that you're using the monitor.

Okay.

Small little laptop, big screen.

It might be in single or double okay.

So see this little tiny

little chevrons here if you click them two columns, one column up to you.

I'm gonna leave mine one column.

Next thing is the page size.

So we call it pages.

Everyone calls it a page illustrator.

Call them artboards.

Okay, so pages are artboards.

I want to change the size of my artboard okay.

Page okay. To do that you've got a tool for it.

It's this one here okay. If I click on it okay.

And I have to describe that rectangle with little slashes off the side.

Here's the artboard tool. It just selected my app board.

I don't have to do anything.

And over here gives me things like what's the width, what's the height.

And you can go down here and say, actually, I want it to be like us letter,

but I want it to be portrait or landscape, okay.

Or I can just type it in up here.

I need it to be, I don't know, ten centimeters wide now.

Okay.

So that is how to change your page sizes.

I've gone and ripped mine.

I want to put mine back to that postcard size.

This gives me an opportunity for this tool.

So go up to edit and there's undo edit undo edit undo edit undo.

And you can click that like Mad Man.

you can go to edit and see the shortcuts here.

All the shortcuts are listed next.

What I'm going to Mac. So mine's command Z.

So I never go up to edit undo I just hit command Z repetitively to go back okay.

On a PC it's Control-C.

There you go. Undo further.

Another good point Mac versus PC.

You can totally do this course with either.

I'll try and give you the shortcuts for both of them the whole way through there.

Same same. There's no better using one or the other.

I'm using Mac for this course.

You can use PC, no problem.

Okay, a couple of the basic tools just so that we can get them out of the way.

there's the two errors at the top here.

There's I call them the black error and the white error

because that's what they are.

but there's the selection tool in the direct selection tool.

Okay. So we're going to start with the black arrow.

The selection tool. And it does what you think it does.

It's the main tool that you'll use.

You'll click on things okay. And move them.

So click it once and then click hold and drag with your mouse.

That is the selection tool.

Move stuff around his best buddy

that we use lots but not as much, is the direct selection tool.

This selects parts of

parts.

So let's click on this part.

Here you'll notice

that I'm going to actually we're going to jump to another shortcut.

actually no no no hold off on the shortcut stand.

And the direct selection tool means instead of moving this whole thing,

which it kind of can, you get all this other detail.

What means is let's click this top point.

Once he see it's kind of a dark blue.

And all the rest of them are white, I can click and drag that.

So direct selection kind of selects parts within a part okay.

Like little these they're called anchor points okay.

And you can click on this one click and drag it over so you get into the details.

So I'm going to hit undo. Hands up.

Who knows what the undo key is. good work.

Command on a mac, Ctrl on a PC and Z okay.

And going back those couple, you go, we're going to use these two loads.

If in doubt, you want the black to be on the black arrow.

It's like a default.

Not sure what tool to be in. Be in that one.

Now the shortcut I didn't want to give you is the zooming in and out.

Because there is a way there's a tool down here.

It's magnifying glass.

You can click on it and then you click once to zoom in.

Okay.

Hold down the option key in a mac, okay on a PC and click once to zoom out.

Okay I click twice okay. So let go of any keys.

Women option on a mac alternate PC and click to zoom out.

Nobody uses that. You can though.

There's no rules. But the shortcut is.

And I'm not going to go into too many shortcuts

because this is the essential course. Just the basics.

Okay is hold down command on a mac, control on a PC and hit the plus key.

Hey, you go in and then the minus key okay, so hold down

command on a mac, control on a PC plus a minus to zoom in and out.

There are many other ways to zoom.

If you know them, you're awesome.

Leave them in the comments so other people know the ones that you prefer.

If you do get lost like this, like I just did,

I was clicking away and I don't know where I'm at now.

You might be over here. You'll be like everything's gone.

Okay, to get back, okay, you can go to view.

Okay.

And there's this one called that, border window.

Okay.

That's the kind of get everything back on screen, and I'm lost.

Okay. So view

for artboard

two window, you can see the shortcut there I want to tell you that one.

But note let's save the shortcuts for a little bit later.

The other one you need is let's say we zoom in.

So what was the shortcut?

You remember command plus control Plus on a PC.

So we get down here like oh awesome. I just want to go there a little bit.

You can use these guys. See there's a little scrubber bars.

We know these ones right. Everyone knows these okay.

It's easier though to learn a shortcut.

Remember not too many.

Just the real ones.

Just the essentials we need. Okay.

Hold on the spacebar key on your keyboard.

Can you see my cursor changes from an arrow to a little hand.

We can click, hold,

drag around like it grabs it, grabbing, grabbing, clicking and dragging around.

Okay, that's how we navigate or drag these.

Next thing let's go to file and let's make a new document okay.

So file new and you can pick from this.

Just pick whatever's first in your whatever.

When you can see anything

everyone's will be a little different okay I'm going to pick us later.

And I'm going to man this UI is actually maybe too big.

I'm going to have to make it a little bit smaller.

cool.

Let's ignore that and let's go to create.

What happens in illustrator in most Adobe products is you end up with two tabs.

Look, this is the document that I made and this is the old thing I was working on.

You can have lots of them open,

and you can get between them by just clicking the tabs.

The last thing I want to show you

is where everyone gets lost really early in the course,

is something called isolation mode.

Okay.

So I'm going to go back to view and let's go to fit artboard to window.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to group a couple of things together okay.

And then show you where you're probably going to get lost okay.

So I'm going to go to my black Arrow. There is there.

You click this once okay I'm going to hold my shift key down on my keyboard okay.

And I'm going to click this once.

And I can select multiple things this way.

So I'm holding shift down the whole time just clicking a bunch of stuff okay.

And I can move. Oh what's that. I'm not sure what that is.

Let's ignore that.

And so what I've got them all selected.

I'm going to go to group.

So over here my properties panel is a group okay.

Or you can right click it. And there's a group.

They are grouped. Nobody's lost.

But if you're a double click

if you love double click and stuff okay, you will get into this area.

So if I click on this look it's one unit, but if I double click it,

everything else goes washed out.

And like I can click on this. It's not working.

I can work on this.

Okay. And little bits, but I can't work on this.

How do I get out?

The easiest way to escape isolation mode.

We'll do it properly later in the course, but just ahead. Anybody off?

If they do get stuck, you can double click the background.

Okay. That gets you back out of it as well.

Okay. Double click to get in that. Would like to get out.

Double click to get an or

sizzle arrow here you can go back and it just takes you out as well.

That's where you might get stuck.

I can go back a couple of errors.

Here we go all the way out.

It's called isolation mode.

It's to do with things that are grouped.

And if you double click stuff, you'll end up in there.

but that is it. boring.

Walkthrough. Done.

Let's get into some exciting making stuff in the next video.

in between videos, though, I'm going to make my UI a little smaller.

Look how drag indicators seem like a good idea, but I can't live this way

too big.

Let's find a middle ground and I will see you in the next video.

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