Monday, January 26, 2015

Demonstration notes

- Creating a new canvas (document)
Press command+N to make a new document
Illustrator has 3 main areas:
Tool Box- the left-side area with your tools
Menu Bar
Panels

- Interface navigation, drawing tools (Illustrator's shapes & using the Pen Tool)
The Rectangle Tool(M)
To draw a rectangle with sharp edges click and drag
Ellipse Tool- you can make an an oval or circle
Polygon Tool- you can make a hexagon shape
Star Tool- you can make a star
Flare Tool- you can make a lens flare like in a camera


- Setting the Fill Color, and the Stroke Color
- Saving file formats (saving for Adobe Illustrator editing vs. Saving an image for the web)

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