Day 3 - Introduction to Illustrator
Adobe TV has a great collection of videos for learning Illustrator. I started with the "Essential Tasks" section of videos. They're a little tedious, but best to start with the basics.
A few new things I learned:
Illustrator uses vector graphics, which means they're totally scalable.
Common uses of Illustrator: logos, website mock-ups, other graphic projects.
The Control Panel is the top section-- aka "options bar"-- and it changes based on what you have selected inside of the document, or what tool you're using.
Things that are important to understand: panels, artboards, layers. Luckily, these are similar to the functions in Photoshop, so they're not too difficult to pick up on. Artboards are unique, because Illustrator has multiple artboards in a single document. That's helpful if you want multiple versions of things, like logos. You can hold option and drag the artboard in order to make a copy of it, as explained in the video. Cool!
Double clicking = isolation mode.
Illustrator viewing modes-- the artwork usually opens in "Preview" mode. "Outline" mode hides the appearance of the artwork, and instead only shows the paths of the artwork.
