Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Course 1: Getting Started: Our first document
By Aarón Martínez
About the video: Our first document
Overview
“In this unit, we will start with Illustrator. We will see how to configure the features of our document, selecting CMYK color mode, which we use for print files, and an A4 format. You will see how easy it is to start using it!”
In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Our first document, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1: Getting Started. Introduction to Adobe Illustrator, its interface, and basic tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 1 LESSON 2 Our first document In this lesson we'll create our first document, we'll assign a CMYK color mode and we will use an A4 print format. Let's begin. First we open Illustrator. I will use Creative Cloud version 19. Our splash screen is loading, and after it loads we have the first screen. Illustrator welcomes us and shows us some predefined formats to start working. In this case, we have A4 and postcard, which is a printing format and it's in millimeters. Then we have web and mobile formats, which are in pixels, for generating templates or mobile applications. And...”
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Course summary for: Course 1: Getting Started

Aarón Martínez
By Aarón Martínez
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