Getting started

In this lesson, you'll enhance the basic design for a Web page by applying appearance attributes and styles to the page's type, background, and three buttons. Before you begin, you'll restore the default preferences for Adobe Illustrator. Then you will open the finished art file for this lesson 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 L9end.ai file located in the Lesson09 folder inside the Lessons folder within the AICIB folder on your hard drive. The artwork in this file ...

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