From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Illustrator
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Creating the document - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Illustrator
Creating the document
- [Instructor] So let's get started and create the document that we're going to be working with. You can go to the top level menu system and choose File, New, or if you want to, you can click on the button here that says, Create new, if you're seeing that. We'll go to the File menu here and create a new document. You can also use the shortcut Command N or Control N on Windows. And you should be presented with a new document dialogue that looks at something like this. I'm going to go to the Art & Illustration tab, and then to this poster option just here. Now I'm working in millimeters here, but if you want to work in inches or any other unit you choose, you can do so. And just so you know, if you are working in inches and I give a direction in millimeters, you can, for example, type the number required followed by mm. Here I'm typing in, and you'll see it converts across to the unit of measurement you're using. So you've…
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