From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Illustrator
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Creating a modular grid - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Illustrator
Creating a modular grid
- [Instructor] Now just before we continue, it's probably a good idea for you to save this file. And I just did with mine, because it's like muscle memory. I just did it automatically. You can do it by going to file, save, or command S or control S, and you'll get a dialogue like so. You can then choose where that's going to go. Now I saved mine already, so I'm actually just going to click through this and replace the file that I had. You won't get that particular part. You'll then get this Illustrator options. It will always go with the most recent version available to it. So the version you're actually working in, okay, or the nearest one to that, and you can click through that and hit okay. Now we're ready to carry on. If we go to the layers panel again, what we're going to do is add a new layer using the icon at the bottom of the panel. Okay, and then we'll double-click on its name, and we're going to call…
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Adding the print area3m 22s
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Creating a modular grid3m 47s
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Creating a color theme3m 43s
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Drawing the divider5m 2s
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Choosing fonts2m 47s
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Using area type4m 28s
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Create type hierarchies5m 5s
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Rotating and scaling area text3m 14s
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Challenge: Type1m 48s
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Adding images4m 38s
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Using Image Trace5m 21s
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Recoloring artwork1m 51s
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Changing the blending1m 58s
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Create a clip group2m 53s
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Placing an Illustrator file1m 51s
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Creating custom shapes7m 9s
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Challenge: Tweak the layout2m 6s
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