Adobe® Illustrator® CC Digital Classroom®
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The Adobe® Illustrator® CC Digital Classroom lets you create artwork for a variety of uses. Illustrator’s drawing tools let you take advantage of many ways to control color, text, and artwork in your designs. Illlustrator provides you with ways to express your creative ideas and experiment with the presentation.
The Adobe Illustrator CC Digital Classroom helps you get up-and-running right away. You can work through all the lessons in this book, or complete only specific lessons. Each lesson includes detailed, step-by-step instructions, along with lesson files, useful background information, and video tutorials on the Digital Classroom website: www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/illustratorcc—it is like having your own expert instructor guiding you through each lesson while you work at your own pace. This book includes 14 self-paced lessons that let you discover essential skills, explore new features, and understand capabilities that will save you time. You’ll be productive right away with real-world exercises and simple explanations. The Adobe Illustrator CC Digital Classroom lessons are developed by the same team of Illustrator experts who have created many official training titles for Adobe Systems.
Before you start the Adobe Illustrator CC Digital Classroom lessons, you should have a working knowledge of your computer and its operating system. You should know how to use the directory system of your computer so that you can navigate through folders. You also need to understand how to locate, save, and open files, and you should also know how to use your mouse to access menus and commands.
Before starting the lessons files in the Adobe Illustrator CC Digital Classroom, make sure that you have installed Adobe Illustrator CC. The software is sold as part of the Creative Cloud, and is not included with this book. Find more information about the Creative Cloud at www.adobe.com/CreativeCloud. You can use the free 30-day trial version of Adobe Illustrator CC available at the adobe.com website, subject to the terms of its license agreement.
Before starting the lessons in the Adobe Illustrator CC Digital Classroom, make sure that your computer is equipped for running Adobe Illustrator CC. The minimum system requirements for your computer to effectively use the software are listed below and you can find the most current system requirements at http://www.adobe.com/products/Illustrator/tech-specs.html.
As with most software, Adobe Illustrator CC is launched by locating the application in your Programs folder (Windows) or Applications folder (Mac OS). If you are not familiar with starting the program, follow these steps to start the Adobe Illustrator CC application:
Register your book at www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/illustratorcc to gain access to your lesson files on any computer you own, or to watch the videos on any Internet-connected computer, tablet, or smart phone. You’ll be able to continue your learning anywhere you have an Internet connection.
When you start Adobe Illustrator, it remembers certain settings along with the configuration of the workspace from the last time you used the application. It is useful for you to start each of the Adobe Illustrator lessons in this book using the default settings so that you do not see unexpected results. You can use the following steps to reset the Adobe Illustrator CC preferences.
In order to reset your preferences you will need to quit Illustrator and locate the preferences. In Windows and the Mac OS these are in two separate locations. If you are working on a Windows system you might need to change the folder’s view settings in order to find the preferences. Keep in mind that when you reset your preferences you lose saved colors, styles and other preferences that might be important to you. If you wish to save your preferences, rename them instead of deleting them; Illustrator will create all new preferences if it cannot locate the appropriately named folder.
In Windows, you might have to change your folders to show Hidden folders.
To restore custom settings, Quit Adobe Illustrator, and then delete the new AIPrefs file and restore the original name of the previous AIPrefs file.
The Adobe Illustrator CC Digital Classroom book includes files that accompany the exercises for each of the lessons. These files are available for download at www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/illustratorcc. You can download all the lessons at one time or you may choose to download and work with specific lessons.
For each lesson in the book, the files are referenced by file name. The exact location of each file on your computer is not used, as you might have placed the files in a unique location on your hard drive. We suggest placing the lesson files in the My Documents folder (Windows), at the top level of your hard drive (Mac OS), or on your desktop for easy access.
The www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/illustratorcc site provides Adobe Illustrator CC Digital Classroom book readers with video tutorials that enhance the content of this book. The videos use the popular Silverlight player for viewing on your desktop or notebook computer, or use iPad-compatible video if you are using an iPad to read an electronic version of this book. Most other ePub devices are not optimized for playing video, and you should use a notebook, desktop, or tablet computer for viewing the video tutorials if you are using a dedicated e-reader such as a nook, Kindle, kobo, or Sony e-reader. An internet connection is necessary for viewing the supplemental video files.
The videos enhance your learning as key concepts and instructions are discussed by the book’s authors. The video tutorials supplement the book’s contents, and do not replace the book. They are not intended to cover every item discussed in the book, but will help you gain a better or more clear understanding of topics discussed in many lessons of the book.
The Digital Classroom series goes beyond the training books. You can continue your learning online, with training videos, at seminars and conferences, and in-person training events.
Comprehensive video training from the authors are available at DigitalClassroom.com. Find complete video training along with thousands of video tutorials covering Illustrator and related Creative Cloud apps along with digital versions of the Digital Classroom book series. Learn more at DigitalClassroom.com.
The authors are available for professional development training workshops for schools and companies. They also teach classes at American Graphics Institute, including training classes and online workshops. Visit agitraining.com for more information about Digital Classroom author-led training classes or workshops.
Expand your knowledge of creative software applications with the Digital Classroom book series. Books are available for most creative software applications as well as web design and development tools and technologies. Learn more at DigitalClassroomBooks.com.
The authors of the Digital Classroom seminar series frequently conduct in-person seminars and speak at conferences, including the annual CRE8 Conference. Learn more at agitraining.com and CRE8summit.com.
Visit digitalclassroombooks.com to access resources for educators, including instructors’ guides for incorporating Digital Classroom into your curriculum.