Getting started

In this lesson, you'll transform parts of a logo to use in three pieces of artwork to create a letterhead design, an envelope, and business cards. Before you begin, you'll restore the default preferences for Adobe Illustrator; then you'll open a file containing a composite of the finished artwork to see what you'll create.

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To ensure that the tools and palettes function exactly as described in this lesson, delete or deactivate (by renaming) the Adobe Illustrator 10.0 preferences file. See “Restoring default preferences” on page 4.
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Start Adobe Illustrator.
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Choose File > Open, and open the L6comp.ai file in the Lesson06 folder, located inside the Lessons folder within the AICIB folder on your hard drive. This file contains ...

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