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A document is the space in which you create artwork. In Illustrator, you can create documents destined for many different types of output. You start a new document by choosing a new document profile based on your intended output. Each profile includes preset values for size, color mode, units, orientation, transparency, and resolution. All use one artboard, by default.

For example, the Video And Film Document profile uses pixels instead of points, and you can choose a device-specific crop area, such as NTSC DV Widescreen, to create a document in the exact dimensions required, with video-safe guides in place to help you lay out your design for optimal viewing. You can create new Illustrator documents from a new document profile or from a template. Creating a document from a new document profile gives you a blank document with the selected profile’s default fill and stroke colors, graphic styles, brushes, symbols, actions, viewing preferences, and other settings.

Creating a document from a template gives you a document with preset design elements and settings, as well as content, such as cropmarks and guides, for specific document types, such as brochures or CD covers. You create a new document from the Welcome screen, or by using File >New.

To view the Welcome screen, select Help >Welcome. Sets the default preview mode for the document (you can change this at any time by using the View menu): • Default displays artwork created in the document in vector view with full color. Zoom in/out retains smoothness in the curves. • Pixel displays artwork with a rasterized (pixelated) appearance.

It does not actually rasterize the content, but displays a simulated preview, as if the contents were rasters. • Overprint provides an “ink preview” that approximates how blending, transparency, and overprinting will appear in color-separated output. Templates let you create new documents that share common settings and design elements.

For example, if you need to design a series of business cards with a similar look and feel, you can create a template with the desired artboard size, view settings (such as guides), and print options. The template can also contain symbols for common design elements (such as logos) and specific sets of color swatches, brushes, and graphic styles. Illustrator comes with a variety of templates, including templates for letterhead, business cards, envelopes, brochures, labels, certificates, postcards, greeting cards, and websites. When a template is selected via the New From Template command, Illustrator creates a new document with identical content and document settings as the template, but leaves the original template file untouched. Tech N9ne Everready Rar on this page.

• Set up the document window as you want it to appear in new documents you create from the template. This includes the magnification level, scroll position, ruler origin, guides, grids, crop areas, and options in the View menu. • Draw or import any artwork you want to appear in new documents you create from the template. • Delete any existing swatches, styles, brushes, or symbols, you don’t want to retain. • Create any new swatches, styles, brushes, and symbols, you want in the corresponding panels. You can also import preset swatches, styles, brushes, symbols, and actions from a variety of libraries that come with Illustrator. • Create any graph designs you want and add them to the Graph Design dialog box.

You can also import preset graph designs. • Set the desired options in the Document Setup dialog box and Print Options dialog box.

From Adobe Bridge, you can do any of the following: • Manage image, footage, and audio files: Preview, search, sort, and process files in Bridge without opening individual applications. You can also edit metadata for files, and use Bridge to place files into your documents, projects, or compositions. • Manage your photos: Import and edit photos from your digital camera card, group related photos in stacks, and open or import Photoshop® Camera Raw files and edit their settings without starting Photoshop. • Perform automated tasks, such as batch commands.

• Synchronize color settings across color-managed Creative Suite components. • Start a real-time web conference to share your desktop and review documents.

What you’ll learn in this Illustrator Tutorial: • Using template layers This tutorial provides you with a foundation for working with Adobe Illustrator templatelayers. It is the eighth lesson in the Adobe Illustrator CS6 Digital Classroom book.

For more Adobe Illustrator training options, visit AGI’s. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Template layers in Illustrator Template layers are locked, nonprinting layers that you can use to manually trace images. Template layers can come in handy when you want to trace a raster image by hand or you want to create artwork from the scan of a mock-up design. Template layers are dimmed so that you can easily see any paths you draw over the layer. When that illustration is placed in a layout application, like InDesign or QuarkXPress, the template layer does not show or print. Template layers can be created in two ways: The most common way to create a template layer is upon import, while placing raster artwork into Illustrator as a template.

Select File >Place. In the Place dialog box, select the artwork you want to import and select the Template check box in the lower-left corner; then press Place. The file is placed on a locked layer and is dimmed to 50 percent by default, so that you can clearly see any paths you draw over it. The second way to create a template layer is to convert an existing artwork layer into a template. Double-click a layer name in the Layers panel.

In the Layer Options dialog box that appears, select the Template check box and press OK. The layers icon in the Visibility column changes from the Visibility icon ( ) to a Template icon ( ), and the layer is automatically locked. If you convert vector artwork to a template layer, it will not be dimmed. Converting a layer to a template layer allows you to manually trace an image with ease. Try converting the Large Fish layer to a template layer and trace it manually, using any combination of the path and shape drawing tools.