Interface / Workspaces
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Workspaces are available to you so that you can customize how you interact with Illustrator so you can see the tools that you need to perform a specific task. Now, workspaces that you'll find by going to where it says Essentials and also by going to Window, Workspace, allow you to choose tools that as I mentioned earlier, help you to get things done more quickly. So if you just want to work with Web Tools, you choose Web. If you're going to do a poster or postcard, Typography is great for you. Even book covers. If you want to work with everything, keep Essentials open. You can also create your own workspace and manage your workspaces that you create. Now, I love to use this function because it allows me to have something that says I just want to focus on this instead of having everything. So I'm going to go ahead and choose Web and you'll notice that some of the tools go away but the web-specific tools now pop-up into place. So my color guide is here, the swatches for the web are here, symbols that I might want to use for buttons and icons are here. If I go to Typography, my type tools appear. So here's my Character Menu, my Paragraph Menu and everybody's ready to go. My Character Styles are here. So once again, a great way to work. I'm going to show you now how to create your own. I'm going to go to, let's see here, I'll go back to Essentials and I'm going to actually tear a couple of these guys off. I'm going to tear color guide off and I'll dock it to this one by going to the bottom and I'll tear off the swatches and I'll put it down here as well and I'm going to take brushes and get rid of that one. I'll take symbols and get rid of that one and then I'll dock these guys over here. I'm going to call this Colors. So I'll go to Window, Workspace, Save Workspace and I'll call it Colors. And I'll click OK. Now what I can do is see that I have colors up here and I can always go back to the other ones. So here's Essentials, here's Web, but mine lives up here. I'll click on Colors and there it goes. This is really great if you're doing comic book coloring or anything where you just want to see the colors and nothing else. Let's say you no longer wish to have this here. Well, I go back to Colors or anything in this list, choose Manage Workspaces, click on Colors and I can either rename it, I can duplicate it and what I can do is also delete it. So let's say I click on this right here. Now I have a Colors copy. I'll hit the Garbage Can, delete that one, click on Colors and delete that one and then say OK. So that's how you can use workspaces to create the way you want to work inside of Adobe Illustrator.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Illustrator CS4 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33974 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-35-1 |
| Release Date: | 2009-03-12 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 119 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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