1. Setting Up Basic Assets

Lesson Overview

The way you set up your documents and create your assets will affect how easily and efficiently you can design your work. This lesson will introduce you to some important skills and concepts:

• Organizing your work in Adobe Bridge

• Drawing expressively with the Bristle Brush in Illustrator

• Refining a vector graphic in Illustrator with the Blob Brush tool

• Setting up multiple Illustrator artboards for design variations

• Drawing in perspective in Illustrator

• Removing a background in Photoshop Extended

• Removing unwanted objects in Photoshop Extended

• Creating a 3D object in Photoshop Extended

You’ll probably need between one and two hours to complete this lesson.

In this lesson, you’ll be working ...

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