Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

10. Add a folder to the Favorites panel. One of the most helpful

bits of navigation the Bridge provides is the ability to add your

folders to the Favorites panel. Let’s add this ability now since

you’ll be accessing the lesson fi les regularly throughout the book:

• In the folder tree under the Folders panel, navigate to the

desktop, which should be at the top of the list; click to se-

lect it. In the content browser, you should see the folder

Lesson Files-AIcs5 1on1 (along with whatever you have on

your desktop).

•

Switch from the Folders tab to the Favorites tab in the

top- left panel.

•

Finally, drag the thumbnail for the Lesson Files-AIcs5 1on1

folder from the content browser to the Favorites panel.

Now you have a shortcut to the lesson fi les directly from your

Favorites panel. Those are the basics of the Bridge; close it or

send it to the background as you see fi t, and return to Illustrator.

Setting Up a New Document

Just about every program lets you create new fi les—if they didn’t,

they would soon be extinct. But Illustrator lets you specify a slew

of settings when you create a document, giving your artwork a solid

frame in which to sit, ready to take on the world.

The goal of this exercise is to create a new document. For the sake

of example, we’ll create a document with a single square artboard,

suitable for use as a CD cover. (In the exercise

after this one, we’ll learn how to add addi-

tional artboards, even after the fi le is created.)

1.

Choose the New command. Choose

File→New or press Ctrl+N (-N on the

Mac). Illustrator displays the New Docu-

ment dialog box, as in Figure 1-9.

2.

Give your document a name. Ever help-

ful, Illustrator highlights the fi rst option,

Name, so you can hit the ground run-

ning. Change the name to something like

“CD Cover.”

3.

Choose a profi le. Illustrator comes with a

set of seven basic document profi les, each

geared toward a different end product.

Figure 1-9 .

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Setting Up a New Document