Illustrator CS6 Tutorial

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Now let's say you want to magnify your illustration on screen, but none of the standard zoom increments are really working for you. For example, here I am taken in the illustration wide and if I press Ctrl+Plus, or Command+Plus on the Mac, then I'll zoom to 100%. And if I do it again, I'll zoom to 150% and then 200% and then 300% and so on. So we've got some pretty big increments going on and these are the exact same increments we get with the Zoom tool and with the other zooming techniques. I'm going to go ahead and press Ctrl+1, or Command+1 on the Mac, to zoom out to 100%. Illustrator cs6 If you want to dial in a custom zoom value then you can drop down here to this zoom option that's listed in the very bottom left corner of the document window. Click on it, and then instead of entering a value, which you can do if you like, but my preferred method of working here is to press the Up arrow key in order to zoom in increments of one so you have very t...

Today I am going to show the basic way to illustrator cs6 and image into vector. Basically, it is quite simple to illustrate CS6 an animat e rather than a real object. Its color tone is simple and easy to apply. It is a good practice method for the novice. This is the image that I am going to use, Princess Mononoke( one of my favourite characther of Ghibli’s product ). I think I watch it for not less than 10 times…okok! Let’s start then …  Before start in illutrator cs6 Tutorial , here is some tips for you to make the process faster and easier. * Ctr + C and Ctr + F = copy and paste into the original position but forward. * CTR + +/- to zoom in/out. Step 1 Image Into Vector in illutrator cs6 Open the image, double click on the layer and rename as img , checked the dim image=50% . Create a new layer and make sure it is below of the img layer. Pick the pen tool , start draw from the face area. We will only draw the outer line of the image. For the color, just...

In this movie, I am going to show you how to get around a document using the Page Up and Page Down keys. Now I am going to be throwing a lot of keyboard shortcuts at you this time. I am going to expect even the biggest shortcut fanatic to remember all of these. Just remember this Page Up and Page Down combined with any of the modifier keys, does something in Illustrator cs6 . So let's go ahead and zoom in quite a bit here, and then I'll press the Page Up key, and notice that I move almost a full screen upward. And then if I press Page Down, I move almost a full screen downward. If I want to move in smaller increments, then I press Alt+Page Up , this would be Option+Page Up on the Mac, or Alt+Page Down , this would be Option+Page Down on the Mac. What if I want to move to the right? Well, then I'll press Ctrl+Page Down , that's Command+Page Down on the Mac. If I want to move to the left, it's Ctrl+Page Up, or Command+Page Up . To move in smaller incre...

In this movie, I will show you how to scroll or if you prefer pan your Illustrator cs6 . And this comes in handy when you are zoomed in. So here I am zoomed in on a detail, but I want to be able to scroll around a little bit. Take a look at a different detail at this exact zoom level. You can take advantage of the scroll bars down here at the bottom and along the right side of the Document window. But the better way to work is to get the Hand tool. So if I switch to the Hand tool which has a keyboard shortcut of H, then I can just drag my Illustrator cs6 around as much as I like. Of course, you don't want to have to go running after the Hand tool every time you need to scroll. So here's a better way to work. I will switch back to my black arrow tool, and then I will press and hold the spacebar. Notice that gets me the Hand tool as long as the spacebar is down, and then I can drag the document as much as I want. Now, what happens though, if you've got live t...

In this movie I'll show you how to zoom with more control using the Zoom tool as well as In this movie I'll show you how to zoom with more control using the Zoom tool as well as a Special Scroll Wheel Trick. Now the problem with Ctrl+Plus, or Command+ Plus on a Mac, it is that you're zooming in on the center of whatever you are seeing on screen. And right now, the center of my screen is this dot at the top of the first colon and that's why I chose to draw my little bacteria there because after all, that's the dead center of the artboard. However, what if you want to zoom in on, let's say, a more appealing detail. Well, that's when you to take advantage of the Zoom tool. So I'm going to press Ctrl+Alt+0, or Command+Opt +0 on a Mac, this is a Zoom tool right there. If you're looking at the Single Column tool Box it's going to be the very last tool on the list. It has a keyboard shortcut of Z and if I select the tool, and then click on so...

In this movie, I will show you how to zoom in and out in Illustrator cs6 . . And the idea is this, sometimes you are going to want to magnify portions of your illustration in order to fine-tune adjustments, and other times you are going to want to zoom out so that you can take in your entire artwork at a time. I am working inside of a document called Welcome again.ai found inside the 03_navigation folder. If I go up to the Window menu and choose Artboards command, you can see that this document contains a total of six Artboards. So we have the central Welcome screen, and then we have renderings of a bunch of paint tool cursors. These are the new paint tool cursors in Illustrator cs6   and then finally I have got this big Artboard that contains everything. I just wanted you to see that because these Artboards will become important in a moment. In the meantime though, you zoom in and out from an Illustration right here located in the View menu. Now notice that each one...

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Illustrator CS6 Tutorial Video All right, so the first thing that we are going to look in, in this chapter is the new dark interface, and I'm a big fan. Very much like the new dark interface in Photoshop CS6 , but the great thing about it, in my opinion, is that it allows me to focus in on the Illustrator cs6 . without being distracted by all the screen folders. And Illustrator cs6 . takes it even farther than Photoshop does, by darkening dialog boxes, and other screen folders. Now, there's a few exceptions to this rule on the Mac, on a Macintosh side of things, you got a bright menu bar, you can't do anything about that, because Adobe doesn't have control over the menu bar. And if you're your illustration inside of a floating window, then you'll see a bright title bar for that window as well, and you may see elements of applications running in the background, as well as the finder desktop and so forth. If you would rather have Illustrator cs6 . ...

Illustrator CS6 Tutorial Video This chapter is all about getting around in Illustrator cs6 . , magnifying your artwork, panning to another location, and managing your workspace. I spend nine movies on this topic, which is a lot, for the simple reason that there's a lot to know. I want you to be able to move around inside Illustrator cs6 . without even thinking, because that's how everything about the program is going to make sense. Better still, you will be able to focus less on the mechanics of the software and more on the task of creating great artwork. Allow me to help you feel at home in Illustrator cs6 . .

In this movie, I'll show you how Artboards and Rulers interact with each other inside Illustrator cs6 . I have saved my progress as Nice and tidy.ai. I'm going to once again switch to the Artboard tool, and then I'll bring up my Rulers by going up to the View menu choosing Rulers and then choosing the Show Rulers Command. And what that does is it shows me about the Horizontal Ruler at up the top of the screen and the Vertical Ruler over here on the left-hand side. And we can see that the unit of measure is points and the reason we can see that is because they're very dinky units. Illustrator cs6 . If you wanted to switch out the unit of measure the easiest option is to right-click on either one of the Rulers, and then choose a different unit, such as Inches, and then both Rulers will update in kind. Now notice this 00 point right there, so there is a 0 point for the Vertical Ruler, and there is a 0 point for the Horizontal Ruler. I am going to go ahead and ...

In this movie I'll how you how to delete and organize art boards from the Artboards panel.  they are in regular alignment once again. I've saved my progress as 10-page jumble. ai. Again, it's found inside the 02_artboards folder. The reason I saved these progress files, by the way, is just in case you're dropping in on a single movie, and you don't have a progress file of your own. I'm going to start by getting my Artboards panel out of the way by clicking on this little double-arrow icon there. Now switch back to the Artboard tool, and notice that Artboard 10 is selected in my case. Illustrator CS6 I want to show you couple of other options that are available to you. If you go up to the Object menu, and you choose Artboards, you'll get the submenu of commands, including this one here Fit to Artwork Bounds. And that's going to go ahead and expand the Artboard so it encompasses every bit of artwork inside your document. And that's ...