Making a Document (1)

EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript, and it's a very common file format for sharing vector graphics
between different print applications.
SVG, that stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and it's a method for sharing vector graphics on the web.

BLEED All the bleed is, is wiggle room. So, imagine that we're going to commercially reproduce this
document. Meaning, that I'm going to take it to a commercial printer. And I want the artwork to print all
the way to the edge of the trim size, that is the way the page is trimmed or cut. Then I need a little bit of
bleed, I need to extend my artwork beyond the trim size, so that I've got the wiggle room I need just in
case the registration's off a little bit. Notince that by default each one of the bleed values is linked together,
so changing any one of em is going to change all of em. I am going to change this first value to 0.25
which is a big bleed I have to say, but you know I want to be safe.

Unit conversion I'm kind of thinking the spacing value is going to be a little bit too high. I'd like to change it
to a quarter inch, but, let's say I don't know what a quarter inch is in points. Well all you have to do is dial
in 0.25 in, like that and then press Tab, it'll automatically convert to a different unit of measure or I could
even dial in millimeters if I want, 100 mm, for example, then press Tab and Illustrator goes ahead and
converts it to 283.46 Points.
Who would have known? But a quarter inch is probably closer to what I want. Another way to do it is to
dial in 0.25 double quote and then press the Tab key. Converts it over to eighteen points. So pretty much
anything you think you should be able to do, you can. There are so many different ways to indicate these
units of measure. I can even dial in a fraction if I wanted to. Like one third double quote. That will go
ahead and give me a third of an inch and that converts over to 24 point.
Advanced options CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and the key color black, which are the
inks most commonly used in commercial printing. RGB stands for red, green blue, which is acolor space
employed by your monitor. So typically it works like this. If you're creating a document for print, you want
CMYK. If you're creating a web graphic, something that's going to be displayed on a screen or an
illustration that you want to bring over into Photoshop or Flash,then you want to select RGB. I'm going to
stick with CNYK.
Preview mode: pixel for web and devices, overprint for commercial use
Align new objects to pixel grid best used for screen and web documents

Paste on all artboards alt ctlr shift v

Working With Artboards

Select an artboard on an artboard alt+ click

Draw an artboard on an artboard shift+click (release shift to cancel constraintment)
Duplicate an artboard alt+ drag (release alt when dragging to move)
Advancing through artboards shift + page down or page up
encompass an artboard to its content Double click
Rearrange artboards Object>artboards>rearrange
Change the 0 0 point in artboard mode double click corner
Change to global rulers view>rulers>global rulers

*Getting around in Illustrator*

Zoom a specific area space plus control(zoom in) plus alt (zoom out)
Alt dragging when in type tool

*Making line art*

Rulers snap to alignment shift+ drag
Double click on a ruler to create a guideline
Create two guides ctrl + drag from corner
Create guide near tickmark shift+double click
Constrain angle Shift + drag line tool
Flip arc f key
Reflect spiral press r
Make guides ctrl 5 (can be made from any shape)

*Drawing Geometric Shapes*

Draw elipse on the guides hold ctrl while dragging

*Compound Paths* = Paths that have hole inside of them

Add center to a star from attributes panel

Aligning to a split location use the move tool
Reflecting across an axis alt plus reflect tool (o)
General preferences ctrl+k
Hide edges ctrl+h
Repeat a shape using the tilde key~!

*Image tracing*
Higher resolution= better detail
hide right side of panels Shift tab
Use noise to eliminate details from the trace
Angle THRESHOLD almost ever 135 degrees work(simplify)
Shape builder tool used to fuse two completed paths together

*Scaling*
Trasnform each, very useful can be found under the object tab> transform

*Scaling anD rotating*

Use the rotate tool, very useful, alt clicking also sets another roatting point and this
works for the scaling wtool aswell

*DRAWING*

The Mighty Blob Brush increase size (left bracket right bracket)
Substract shape alt plus shape builder tool
Select while in blob brush mode hold ctrl
Add stroke from the appearance tab

*working with text*

Increment type with keyboard shortcut ctrl shift period or comma
Kerning ctrl plus arrow
Optical kerning resets the kerning

*the pen tool*

Press space to move a point while drawing with the pen tool
Switch to white or black arrow tool ctrl plus tilde while in pen mode
Cusp point press and holt alt when dragging with the pen tool
Convert anchor point tool very useful, cand be used to convert point to corner and
when dragging cvonvert them back to smooth corners
Outline a layer ctrl + click on the eye in the layers panel