Illustrator CS6 Tutorial

In this movie, I will show you how to modify a document by moving its artboards to different locations. Illustrator CS6 Tutorial Video This works a little differently inside Illustrator than it does inside other programs. Quite a bit differently than you would reasonably think as well but once you come to terms with it makes a fair amount of sense. Working inside of a document called 8-page newsletter.ai, it's found inside the O2artboards folder. Notice if you go up here to the File menu, you have a Document Setup Command, that allows >Moving and modifying artboards in Illustrator CS6  you to modify the existing document. The keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Alt+P , or Command+Opt +P on the Mac, I will go and choose the command. Notice that we have a whole slew of options that we did not see in the new Document Dialog Box , and we're missing a lot of those options as well, we have no control over page size. The only options that we have that are the same these Blee...

Illustrator is an exceedingly flexible program. It lets you create a single piece of artwork or a multi-page design. Only Illustrator has a special word for pages, it calls them artboards, because each artboard is less a page, and more a digital canvas. Within a single document, each artboard can be any size you want, and you can spread the artboards out anywhere, all across your desktop. This isn't page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, this is artboard 1, artboard 2, artboard 3, artboard 4, really whatever you want. In this chapter, I show you how to create artboards wherever you like, even if it means creating artboards inside other artboards. And then I show you how to clean them up so that all the artboards fall into perfect alignment. You can work however you like, Illustrator knows its job is to keep up with you.

In this movie I'll show you how to close multiple Illustrations in a single operation. And the reason this is variable is because most folks don't know the feature exists. And there are times we are cleaning up for the day, and you just want to get everything off your screen and feel a sense of accomplishment. Now I want you to notice in passing here that I have Three Illustrations open, and I've made slight changes to every one of them. Just so that Illustrator will generate a Warning when I try to close the file. Now one way to close all Illustrations is to click on the Close button for the Application which on the PC is located in the upper right corner. However, that will quit the program that's just the same as going to the File menu and choosing either the Exit Command here on the PC or the Quick Command on the Mac. Now if you're working on a Mac, you may see all of your Open Documents as Tabs inside of one big document window with a light gray title bar,...

First draw out a chart with the Pie Chart tool. First you put in the information for your chart, or import it from an excel file: Your chart will look like this at first. (You might have a legend, too.) I prefer colored charts instead of the grayscale default Illustrator makes. Using the white arrow select a slice and choose a color from your swatches to change it. To make your chart 3d, select it first with the black arrow. Then go to Filters>3D>Extrude and Bevel. Use the settings in the example below: Now your chart should look like this. You can pull apart and edit the individual slices with the white pointer tool. Since the title of my information is about mutations, I’ll draw some mutations on the different slices, starting with the dark purple. I drew the hand and shadows around it on a separate layer with the pen tool. I also locked the chart layer while I was doing this. I drew the eye on the same layer with the pen tool. Adobe Illustrator CS6...