Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

One-on-One Installation and Setup

Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One is designed to function as an

integrated training environment. So before embarking on the les-

sons, I’m going to request that you install a handful of files onto

your hard drive:

• Lesson files used in the exercises (Around 200MB in all)

•

One-on-One Creative Suite color settings (Best workflow CS5.csf)

• Custom collection of keyboard shortcuts called dekeKeys

•

The twelve lesson videos (if you want to view them offline; play-

ing them online doesn’t require any downloading)

•

QuickTime Player software (if it is not already installed and

you want to watch downloaded versions of the videos offline)

As you’ll see, these files are all available at www.oreilly.com/go/deke-

IllustratorCS5, with the exception of QuickTime Player, which you can

download from www.apple.com/quicktime.

I’ll also have you change a few preference settings. These changes

are optional—you can follow along with the exercises in this book

regardless of your preferences. Even so, I advocate these settings

for two reasons: First, they make for less confusion by ensuring

that you and I are on the same page, as it were. Second, some of Il-

lustrator’s default preferences are just plain wrong. So, welcome to

your first one-on-one style exercise:

1. Go to www.oreilly.com/go/Deke-IllustratorCS5. This is the

companion site for the book, where you can get all the supple-

mental materials you’ll need. It’s also where I’ll be posting

technical updates (in the event that Adobe makes significant

changes to Illustrator), bonus content, and other things I find

relevant. If you already have an oreilly.com account, you’ll be

asked to log in to the site straight away. If you need to create

an account (it’s free), you’ll be taken through that process and

returned to the companion page when you’re done.

2. Examine the table of contents. At the companion site, you’ll

notice that each lesson has an entry in the table of contents.

That’s where you’ll find each lesson’s complement of sample

files, archived in a separate .zip file for easier downloading.

Once you get those files on your hard drive, you can right-click

the .zip file and choose Extract All to create an unzipped folder

for each particular lesson.

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Preface

Stash the fi les somewhere convenient and memorable, so that

when I direct you to open one during an exercise, it won’t be

hard to fi nd. I suggest you make a Lesson Files-AIcs5 1on1 folder

on your desktop into which you drag those separate folders for

each lesson. If you follow this suggestion, the instructions I’ve

supplied at the beginning of each exercise will lead you right

where you need to go.

3.

Decide whether you want to watch the videos at the site or

offl ine. At the outset of each book-based lesson, I’ll ask you

to play the companion video lesson. These video lessons in-

troduce key concepts that make more sense when fi rst seen

in action. On the companion site, click the Watch button

next to the video you want, and it will play in a spiffy online

player (see Figure 3), which doesn’t require that you download

the movies or acquire a separate piece of software for playing

them. I think it’s a fairly nice experience, actually.

But if you have an unreliable Internet connection or you’d just

rather have the freedom of keeping the videos where you can

always get to them, click the Download button next to each les-

son to save them to your hard drive (and remember you’ll need

QuickTime to watch them if you choose that route).

P E A R L O F W I S D O M

The video lessons were crafted by the talented

folks at lynda.com. These high-quality videos are

not excerpts from other training materials but

created expressly to complement the lessons in

this book.

Watch online as

shown here…

or choose to download for

offl ine viewing

Figure 3.

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How One-on-One Works