Lesson 2: Getting to Know the Workspace	Lesson 3: Illustrator CS5 Essentials
Starting up Opening Illustrator Choosing a workspace Opening a file The document window Using Artboards Navigating multiple artboards Using the new Artboards panel Creating New Artboards Switching screen modes Changing your view Preview versus Outlines Zooming and scrolling Scrolling with the Hand tool Changing views with the Navigator panel The Tools panel Using tools and panels The Control panel Moving the Control panel Panel groups and the dock Custom workspaces Saving workspaces Using the Manage Workspaces dialog box Customizing keyboard shortcuts Custom shortcuts Saving shortcut sets Deleting shortcut sets Self study Review	Starting up Using the shape tools Repositioning and visually resizing the rectangle Finding or changing the shape’s dimensions using the Transform panel Rotating and shearing using the Transform panel Constraining a shape Entering exact dimensions Selecting artwork Helpful keyboard shortcuts for selections The selection tools Using shape and transform tools to create artwork Using the transform tools Adding a fill color Entering a shape size in the Transform panel Viewing in Outline view Rotating the shape Changing the color of the triangles Using layers when building an illustration Creating a new blank layer Cutting and pasting objects Creating bubbles Cloning the bubble group Repeating a resize transform Moving objects from one layer to another Self study Review
Lesson 4: Adding Color	Lesson 5: Working with the Drawing Tools
Starting up Basics of the Appearance panel Changing colors Adding Effects Creating a colorful illustration Using Live Paint Converting the artwork to a Live Paint group Applying Live Paint to the group Adding a symbol to your artwork Expanding the symbol Saving swatches What is a Global Color? Selecting the Same color Saving a set of colors as a group Creating a color group from selected colors Using the Color panel Adding Pantone (Spot) Colors Adding Pantone colors Self study Review	Starting up Working with the Pen tool Drawing straight lines Drawing curved lines Drawing hinged curves Drawing curved lines to straight lines Drawing straight lines to curved lines Manually tracing images Placing an image as a template Other drawing tools Using the Line Segment and Arc tools Using the Pencil, Smooth, and Path Eraser tools Using the Eraser tool Editing existing paths Adding and removing points Refining a curve Cutting and joining paths Working with Live Trace Using the tracing presets Understanding tracing options Expanding Live Traced artwork Working with Live Paint Creating a Live Paint group Setting Gap Detection options Using the Live Paint Bucket tool Using the Live Paint Selection tool Combining shapes using the new Shape Builder tool Combining the shapes Subtracting with the Shape Builder tool Creating the Fish Eyes Self study Review
Lesson 6: Exploring Additional Color Options	Lesson 7: Working with and Formatting Text
Starting up Taking a look at the finished illustration Adding a tonal values with gradients	Starting up Formatting type Paragraph formatting Formatting imported type Paragraph and character styles Advanced techniques with text Text on a path Warping text Text in a shape Creating outlines Check spelling Find and Replace Self study Review
Lesson 8: Organizing your Illustrations with Layers	Lesson 9: Working with Symbols
Starting up Getting to know the Layers panel Using layers to organize your illustrations Using the Layers panel to make selections Creating new layers and moving items between layers Template Layers Self study Review	Starting up Cleaning out the symbol library Creating symbols Editing symbols Importing a symbol library Using the symbolism tools Editing nested symbols Replacing symbols Self study Review
Lesson 10: Using Effects and Transparency	Lesson 11: Exporting and Saving Files
Starting up Working with the Appearance panel and effects Applying effects Editing effects Using graphic styles Creating and saving graphic styles Applying and modifying graphic styles Working with object transparency Working with multiple opacity Working with blending modes Saving and importing graphic styles Applying graphic styles to layers and symbols Self study Review	Starting up Saving using the AI file format Saving an illustration with layers Make a template layer Using the Transform Effect Duplicating a Stroke Saving different versions of the logo onto separate layers Expanding appearance Save the first version Using Live Paint Using the Color Guide panel Saving the third version Using Recolor Artwork Saving a layered PDF Integration with other applications Exporting for Photoshop Integrating with InDesign Integrating with Flash Integrating with Premiere and After Effects Saving as EPS Save for Web & Devices Making a Flash animation Exporting a Flash animation Self study Review
Lesson 12: Advanced Blending Techniques	Adobe Illustrator CS5 New Features
Starting up Using the Blend Tool Applying a gradient Applying Radial Gradients Applying gradients using Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh options Adjusting the Mesh Revisiting Blend Options More mesh work Overlapping images Applying a gradient mesh using the Mesh tool Finishing up with the Mesh tool and automatically adding a Highlight Using the Symbol Tools Creating a symbol Modifying a Symbol’s appearance Self study Review	Starting up Getting into perspective Defining the grid Changing the plane Using the Perspective Selection tool Creating shapes with the Shape Builder tool To combine shapes To delete shapes To divide overlapping shapes New Brush Controls Advanced drawing controls Artboard panel Pixel grid alignment

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Starting up

Before starting, make sure that your tools and panels are consistent by resetting your workspace. See “Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS5 Preferences” on page 3.

You will work with several files from the ai01lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure that you have loaded the ailessons folder onto your hard drive from the supplied DVD. See “Loading lesson files” on page 4.

See Lesson 1 in action! Use the accompanying video to gain a better understanding of how to use some of the features shown in this lesson. The video tutorial for this lesson can be found on the included DVD.

The project

In this lesson you will create a comp (rough design) of a web page using some features that have been around for years, as well as new features recently added to Adobe Illustrator CS5.

1 Launch Adobe Illustrator CS5.

2 Choose File > Browse in Bridge or press the Go to Bridge button () in the application bar at the top of the workspace.

By pressing the Go to Bridge button, you launch a separate application called Adobe Bridge. Bridge is an indispensable application that acts as the central command center for all your CS5 Suite applications and helps you to organize your Adobe Illustrator projects. You can use Bridge to help you easily locate files. With Adobe Bridge, you can see a preview of every file within any folder.

3 Once Bridge opens, navigate to the ai01lessons folder within the ailessons folder that you copied to your computer and double-click ai0101_done.ai to open it. If an embedded Profile Mismatch dialog box appears, leave it at the defaults and press OK. The artwork for a rough design of a web page appears. You can keep this completed file open for reference, or choose File > Close to close it. If you are asked to save the file, choose No.

The completed rough design for a web page.

4 The Illustrator CS5 workspace is consistent with the other applications in the Creative Suite 5, which helps you to find the tools you need faster, no matter which application you are using.

5 For this lesson, you want to have multiple panels showing at the same time. To make sure that you can follow the lesson more easily, choose Window > Workspace > Essentials, or click on the Essentials button in the upper-right of the application bar.

Setting up the artboard

You will set up the artboard to create your comp for a web page.

1 Choose File > New. The New Document dialog box appears. Type ai0101_work into the Name text field.

2 Choose Web from the New Document Profile drop-down menu. By choosing the Web preset your default colors, patterns, and gradients are built from RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) colors.

3 Make certain that 800 x 600 is selected from the Size drop-down menu, and verify that Pixels is selected in the Units drop-down menu. Press OK; the new document is created. The document window contains a blank artboard, which represents the region that contains printable artwork.

Choose Web from the New Document Profile drop-down menu.

Creating the background

You will now create the fundamental shape that will be used as the background to the web page. You will use two separate shapes and then combine them using the new Shape Builder tool ().

1 Click on the Rectangle tool in the Tools panel to select the Rounded Rectangle tool () and click once on the artboard, the Rounded Rectangle dialog box appears.

In order to enter exact values, you are clicking and releasing on the artboard. If you accidently drag, the Rounded Rectangle dialog box will not appear. If the Rounded Rectangle dialog box does not appear press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Mac OS) to undo your last step and try clicking again.

2 Enter 615 into the Height text field, 515 into the Width text field, and 209 into the Corner Radius text field. Press OK.

3 Use the Selection tool to reposition the new shape in the center of the artboard. No exact position is necessary.

Enter the values for the Rounded Rectangle. The result.

Access additional Swatch Libraries

Instead of using the default swatch colors available to you in Adobe Illustrator, you will access one of the additional libraries that are included with your installation of Illustrator CS5.

1 Click on Fill in the Control panel (at the top of the work area) and then click on the panel menu () in the upper-right of the Swatches panel that appears.

2 Select Open Swatch Library > Kids Stuff. A new Swatch panel appears named Kids Stuff.

Add the Kids Stuff colors.

Notice that the colors in the Kids Stuff panel are organized in named groups. You will learn about using and creating color groups in Lesson 4, “Adding Colors.”

The Kids Stuff panel.

3 Double-click on the folder on the left side of the Jelly Beans color group. This adds the group to the Swatches panel.

4 Make sure the rounded rectangle is still selected and then click and hold on Fill in the Control panel. Choose the Yellow (C=0, M=3, Y=75, K=0) color in the Jelly Beans color group. The fill color is applied to the shape.

Using the new Shape Builder tool

You will now use the new Shape Builder tool to combine two shapes to create your own unique shape.

1 Smart Guides offer assistance when aligning one shape with another and also tracking the size and position of your objects as you are creating them. Verify that Smart Guides are checked by looking under the View menu. If Smart Guides does not have a checkmark on the left, select it now.

2 Click and hold the Rounded Rectangle tool () and select the Rectangle tool (). Click and drag from the center of the rounded rectangle shape and release when the rectangle is flush with the bottom and right sides of the rounded rectangle. You are essentially creating the sharp corner that will be in the lower-right of this shape. The shape will also take on the yellow fill.

Click and drag to create a rectangle.

3 Using the Selection tool, Shift+click on the rounded rectangle shape. Both the rectangle and the rounded rectangle are selected.

4 Select the Shape Builder tool () from the Tools panel.

5 With the Shape Builder tool, click and drag from the larger rounded rectangle all the way down into the lower-right corner of the rectangle shape and release. The shapes are now combined into one shape.

Click and drag through the shapes. The result.

Creating the smaller combined shape

You will now create the smaller shape used on the left side of the page. You will create a new rounded rectangle shape so that you can visually set how rounded you would like the corners to be.

1 Click and hold on the Rectangle tool to select the hidden Rounded Rectangle tool.

2 Click and drag (but don’t release!) to start creating the new rounded rectangle shape. While dragging press the down arrow key repeatedly to reduce the size of the rounded corner. You might have to press the down arrow many times to see the difference. Keep in mind that this shortcut will not work if you release the mouse; it only works while you are initially clicking and dragging out the shape. Experiment by pressing the up arrow key (repeatedly) to increase the corner radius. Adjust the corner radius to a point where you are visually happy with it but do NOT release the mouse yet.

3 An exact height and width are not important for this shape. In the example in this lesson, the mouse was released when the measurement reached approximately 150 pixels in width and 100 pixels in height.

Press the down arrow key while dragging the rounded rectangle shape to reduce the corner radius.

It is best to avoid stretching the width or height of a rounded rectangle as you can distort the corners. If you need a wider or taller rounded rectangle, it is best to recreate it.

4 Select the Rectangle tool (), and (repeating what you did with the large background shape) click and drag from the center point down to the lower-right of the small rounded rectangle.

5 Select the Selection tool () and Shift+click to select the smaller rounded corner shape. Both the rectangle and the rounded rectangle are selected.

6 Select the Shape Builder tool (), and then click and drag from the rounded rectangle all the way down into the lower-right corner of the rectangle shape and release. The shapes are now combined into one shape.

Combine the newly created shapes.

7 Choose File > Save to save this file. In the Save As dialog box, leave the File name the same and make sure Adobe Illustrator (*.AI) are selected for the type and press Save. In the Illustrator Defaults window, leave the default settings and press OK. Keep it open for the next part of this lesson.

Applying color and effects

You will now apply a different color and use the Zig Zag effect on just the stroke of this shape. Using the Appearance panel you can apply a different effect to either the stroke or fill, offering more options for you to create unique artwork.

1 Select the new combined shape and then click on Fill in the Control panel and select the green (C=60, M=0, Y=81, K=0) color that is included in the Jelly Beans color group.

2 Click on the Appearance icon in () the panel docking area, or choose Window > Appearance to show the Appearance panel.

3 Using the Appearance panel verify that you have a one point black stroke around the shape. If not, click on Stroke color (right in the Appearance panel and select Black, and then click on the Stroke Weight drop-down menu to the right and change the value to 1.

Make sure that you have a 1-point black stroke.

4 Click on Stroke in the Appearance panel, and then choose (from the main menu) Effect > Distort and Transform > Zig Zag. The Zig Zag dialog box appears.

Using the Zig Zag effect you can apply a zig zag effect with sharp corners or points, or smooth waves. In this example, you will create a smooth wavy effect.

5 In the Zig Zag dialog box, check Preview.

• In the Size text field, enter 5.
• Type 4 in the Ridges per segment text field.
• Select Smooth in the Points section of the dialog box.
• Press OK.

The stroke is now wavy, but the fill in the shape remains unchanged.

Add an effect to only the stroke. The result.

Cloning the small shape

You will now clone (or copy) the shape two times and then apply different color to each shape.

1 Make sure that the smaller shape you just created is selected.

2 Select the Selection tool and then position your cursor over the smaller shape the you created.

3 Hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), when the double cursor () appears, click and drag down to create a copy of the original shape directly underneath itself. Don’t worry about alignment or position. That will be addressed in a later step.

4 Repeat the same process to clone a third shape underneath the second.

Hold down the Alt/Option key The result. and drag.

5 Select the middle shape and then locate the Fill box in Appearance panel. Click the arrow that appears on the right of the Fill box and select the purple (C=35, M=70, Y=0, K=0) color in the Jelly Beans color group.

Use the Appearance panel to change the fill color.

6 Select the bottom shape and then click the arrow that appears on the right of the Fill box and select the orange (C=0, M=66, Y=85, K=0) color in the Jelly Beans color group.

The artwork at this stage.

Aligning and distributing the shapes

You will now align and distribute the shapes.

1 Use your Selection tool () to Shift+click and select all three shapes.

2 Click on Align in the Control panel, or select Window > Align to show the Align panel.

3 Select Horizontal Align Left from the Align Objects row.

4 Click on the Vertical Distribute Center button in the Distribute Objects row.

Align and distribute the shapes.

The shapes are now aligned and distributed.

5 With all three shapes selected, click on Transform in the Control panel. The Transform panel appears.

Next you will position your shapes.

6 With all three shapes selected, click on the upper-left corner of the reference point (in the upper-left corner of the Transform panel, and change the X value to 35 px, and the Y value to 105 px.

Set the position for the three shapes.

7 Select the large shape (background) and type 92 in the X text field and 42 into the Y text field. Ignore it if the value changes slightly after you have entered it.

Set the position for the background shape.

8 Choose File > Save to save this file. Keep it open for the next part of this lesson.

Adding Text

Next, you will add text to your comp, as well as to the tabs that you have already created.

1 Select the Type tool () and click on the artboard where you won’t accidently click in an existing shape. By clicking (and not dragging, you do not limit the width of your text area.

2 Select Character in the Control panel at the top of the work area. The Character panel appears.

3 Change the size of your text to 48.

4 Type Rufus’s What’s Happening.

Change the font size. Type text.

5 With the Type tool still active, press Ctrl+ A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac OS) to select your text.

If you work on the Windows platform you can select the Font family name that appears in the Set the font family text field of the Control panel and then press the down arrow. By pressing the down arrow you cycle through your font list in your system. You also see the font applied to your selected text. Press the Up arrow to go up the list. Keep in mind that his feature does not work in the Mac OS.

8 Choose Type > Font to choose a font you would like to use. In this example, the font name Ravie was selected, but you can use any font you wish. If you do not see the font being applied to your text, make sure your text is still selected.

7 Choose File > Save to save this file. Keep it open for the next part of this lesson.

Applying the Warp effect

In this next exercise, you will apply the Flag warp effect to your text.

1 Choose the Selection tool (), and click on the text area you just created to make sure it is active.

2 Choose Effect > Warp > Flag, the Warp Options dialog box for the Flag warp appear.

• Check Preview.
• Type 50 into the Bend text field.
• Type 40 into the Horizontal Distortion text field.
• Press OK. The Flag warp is applied.

Apply the Flag warp.

3 With the warped type area still selected, click on Fill in the Control panel and select RGB Red from the Swatches panel that appears.

Change the color of the text to Red.

Depending upon the font that you have selected, you might have to increase or decrease the size of your text. If you want to resize your text, follow this next step.

4 Make sure that the text area is selected (with the Selection tool) and press Ctrl+Shift+< (lesser than) or > (Greater than) (Windows), or Command+Shift+< or > (Mac OS) to visually decrease or increase your font size.

If you would rather, you can grab any corner of the visible bounding box and click and drag (Hold Shift key to maintain proportions) to resize the text area.

Resize the text if necessary.

Adding text to the small shape areas

In this next exercise, you will create text for the smaller shapes.

1 Select the Type tool (), and then click on Character in the Control panel, change the Font size to 24, and then click on a blank area on the Control panel to put the Character panel away.

2 Click on the Align Center icon in the Control panel to center the text that you are about to enter.

Center the text.

3 With the Type tool, click on a blank area on the artboard, and type Kids.

4 Switch to the Selection tool () and position the text over the top shape.

5 Click on Fill in the Control panel and select White.

Change the font color to white. The result.

6 With the Selection tool still active, Hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) keys and click and drag the text (in one motion), so that it is approximately the same location in the second shape. If you must nudge the text, press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Mac OS) to undo and try to move clone the text to the right position in one movement.

7 Press Ctrl+D (Windows) or Command+D (Mac OS) to repeat the transformation and place another copy of the text in the third shape.

The comp at this stage.

8 Switch to the Text tool () and select the text in the middle textbox. With the text selected, type Teens. The Kids text is replaced with the word Teens.

9 Change the text in the third textbox to Families.

The comp after the text has been replaced.

9 Choose File > Save to save this file. Keep it open for the next part of this lesson.

Distorting a shape

In this section, you create the green shape that appears behind the image of the dog in the comp.

1 Select the rectangle tool and click once on the artboard. When the Rectangle dialog box appears, type 250 for the width and 300 for the height, and then press OK.

2 Click on Fill in the Control panel and select the green color (C=60, M=0, Y=81, K=0) in the Jelly Beans color group. The green color is applied.

3 Using the Selection tool reposition the new rectangle in the lower-right of the background.

Create a green rectangle. Position on the artwork.

4 Click and hold on the Scale tool () to select the hidden Shear tool ().

5 With the Shear tool active click on the middle of the bottom edge and drag slightly to the left. This skews the shape. No exact increment is necessary.

Select the Shear tool. Click and drag to the left.

You will now apply the zig zag effect to this shape.

6 With the rectangle still selected, click on the Stroke color in the Control panel and select None. Make sure that you are not selecting Stroke in the Appearance panel.

7 From the main menu choose Effect > Distort and Transform > Zig Zag. The Zig Zag dialog box appears.

8 In the Zig Zag dialog box, enter the following:

Turn on Preview

Size: 10

Ridges per Segment: 4

In the Points section choose Smooth

Press OK.

9 Click on Opacity in the Control panel, and either click and drag the slider to the left, or type 50 to change the opacity to 50%.

Apply the Zig Zag effect, and change the opacity. The result.

10 Choose File > Save to save this file, keep it open for the next part of this lesson.

Importing an image

In this section, you import the dog image, as well as some of the other images you will use in the comp.

1 Choose File > Place, the Place dialog box appears. Navigate to the ai01lessons folder and select the image named rufusdog and press Place. The image is added to the center of the artboard.

2 Using your Selection tool (), click and drag to position the dog over the sheared green rectangle in the lower right of your page.

3 Then, click and drag a corner of the bounding box outward (while holding the Shift key) to enlarge the image of the dog.

Resize and reposition the image of Rufus.

Creating the pseudo horizontal image scroll

In this section you create a new layer so that you can more easily create and manipulate the parts that make up the horizontal image scroll. You also place additional images, as well as symbols to create the final artwork.

1 If the Layers panel is not visible, choose Window > Layers. The Layers panel appears.

2 Hold down the Alt key (Windows) or the Option key (Mac OS) and then click the Create New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers panel. By holding down the Alt/Option key you are presented with the Layer Options dialog box before the Layer is created.

3 Type Image Gallery in the Name text field, leave the other options at their defaults and press OK. A new layer named Image Gallery appears.

4 In the Layers panel, click on the Toggles Lock area. It is the blank area, to the right of the visibility icon () A lock icon appears indicating that you have locked the initial layer that holds the background.

5 Select the Rectangle tool (), then click and drag to create a rectangle above the dog image you placed, no exact positioning is necessary. Keep an eye on the size values that appear, and release the mouse when the rectangle is about 200 pixels wide by 75 pixels high. If you would rather, create a rectangle at any size and then enter the values into the Transform panel.

6 Select White from Fill in the Control panel at the top of the work area.

You will now place the three images that will represent images in a scroll bar.

7 Choose File > Place and select the image named kids.psd. Position the kids image in the left side of the newly created rectangle.

Create a rectangle and then place the kids.psd image.

8 Choose File > Place and select the Teens image. Position that in the center of the white rectangle.

9 Choose File > Place for the third and last time. This time select the image named family.psd and then position it on the right side of the rectangle.

10 Using the Selection tool (), position both the first (kids) and last (family) images on the left and right side respectively. You are essentially setting up the bounding area from which you will align and distribute the three images.

11 Shift+click to select all three images, and then choose Window > Align to show the Align panel.

12 Choose Vertical Align Top from the Align Objects row and Horizontal Distribute Center from the Distribute Objects row.

Determine the settings for converting The result. the raster scanned image to a vector image.

13 Choose File > Save. Keep this file open for the next part of this lesson.

Adding symbols

Symbols are an extremely useful feature that all users should be familiar with. Not only can you use symbols as easily accessible (and affordable) clip art, but you can store your own art, such as logos and other frequently used artwork, as symbols so that you can reuse them easily. In this example, you take advantage of symbols to build the navigation arrows in the image gallery.

1 If the Symbols panel is not visible, choose Window > Symbols now.

2 From the panel menu (in the upper-right of the Symbols panel) select Open Symbol Library > Web Button and Bars. A new panel appears, named Web Buttons and Bars.

3 Scroll to locate the symbol named Bullet7 – Grey and select it, then click and drag it to the left of your image gallery. If it helps, choose Small List View from the Web Buttons and Bars panel menu.

4 With the Bullet7 symbol selected, double-click on the Rotate tool (). The Rotate dialog box appears.

5 Type 180 into the Angle text field and press OK. The symbol is now rotated and is pointing to the left.

6 Drag another Bullet7 – Grey symbol to the right side of the image gallery.

7 Use the Selection tool and Shift+click to select both of the new symbols, then click and hold the Shear tool () to select the Scale tool ().

8 Double-click on the Scale tool; the Scale dialog box appears. Type 50 into the Uniform Scale text field, and then press OK.

9 If necessary you can select the new Bullet7 symbols and use the arrow keys to nudge the arrows into place. You can also select both arrows and use the Align panel to Align the centers or tops of the symbols.

10 Switch to the Selection tool and press Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac OS) to select all the artwork on the Image Gallery layer. Reposition the image gallery so that it is above the dog image.

If you would like to input the exact values that are used in the example, go to the X and Y text fields on the Control panel, makes sure the upper-left reference point is selected and enter the X value of 420 pixels and the Y value of 125 pixels.

The image gallery.

12 Choose File > Save. Keep this file open for the rest of the lesson.

Adding lines of text

In this section you create the wavy lines that are meant to represent body copy on the web page comp. When creating a rough draft of a web page, it is a good idea to use graphics to represent the look and feel of text without adding actual content.

1 If the Layers panel is not visible, choose Window > Layers.

2 Verify that Layer 1 is still locked, and then lock the layer named Image Gallery.

3 Hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click on the Create New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers panel. The Layer Options panel appears.

4 Type Textblocks in the Name text field and press OK. By creating a separate layer for the text art you have the opportunity to turn off the visibility, or delete the layer if you want to add actual content.

Create a new layer for the textblocks.

5 Click on the Stroke color box in the Control panel and choose Black.

6 Select the Line Segment Tool () and position your cursor in-between the Kids graphic and the image gallery, then click and drag until you see the smart measurement guide indicate that the line is approximate 175 pixels long. You can also type 175 into the Width text field of the Transform panel. If it makes it easier, you can hold down the Shift key to keep your line segment straight as you drag it.

Create a new line segment.

7 With the line segment still selected, choose Effects > Distort and Transform > Zig Zag. The Zig Zag dialog box appears. This time you will use the Zig Zag filter to represent body text with squiggly lines.

8 In the Zig Zag dialog box, enter the following:

Size: 3

Select Absolute.

Ridges per segment: 45

Points: Smooth

Press OK.

Zig Zag the line segment. The result.

You will now clone this line segment.

9 Choose the Selection tool and then hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key and click and drag down. Hold down the Shift key as you are dragging to keep the line segment aligned with the original. You are cloning the line segment, so make sure that you have enough space between the lines to look like rows of text.

Clone the line segment.

10 Press Ctrl+D (Windows) or Command+D (Mac OS) to repeat your last movement, or transformation. Another line segment appears beneath the second. Continue pressing Ctrl/Command+D until you have a total of 8 line segments. If you spaced them out too much or not enough, simply drag reposition the last segment, then select all of the line segments and click on Vertical Distribute Center in the Align panel.

Duplicate the line segment for a total of 8 lines.

11 Select the top line segment, and choose 3 pt from the Stroke Width drop-down menu in the Control panel.

Change the top segment to 3 pt.

12 Select the last three line segments and hold down the Alt/Option key and drag down, so that the cloned lines start at about the top of the Families artwork.

Clone the last three lines down further on the page.

13 Select the top line in the newly create group of line segments and change its width to 3 pt.

14 Choose File Save. Keep this file open for the next part of this lesson.

Creating the Zip code textbox

You will now add a simple graphic that will represent a user input textbox.

1 Select the Rectangle tool () and press D. This assures that you are back at the default color of a black stroke and a white fill.

2 Click and drag a small rectangle beneath the first block of text. Exact position is not necessary. You can visually adjust any of the elements on this page to fit your needs.

Create a rectangle for the input textbox.

3 Click on Stroke color in the Control panel and choose Grey R=204, G=204, B=204. Verify that the stroke is 1 pt, if not; select 1 pt from the Stroke Weight drop-down menu.

4 With the rectangle selected, press Ctrl+2 (Windows) or Command+2 ( Mac OS) to lock this shape.

5 Select the Type tool () and click on the inside left side of the rectangle

6 Click on Fill in the Control panel and select Grey R=153, G=153, B=153.

7 Click on Character in the Control panel change the following:

• Font Family: Verdana
• Font Size: 11

8 In the Control panel, click on Align left.

9 Type Enter Zip.

10 Press Ctrl+Alt+2 (Windows) or Command+Option+2 (Mac OS) to unlock the rectangle shape that you locked in step 4. Use your Selection tool to reposition the text, or rectangle.

The final design. Your version my have slight variations in positioning and text.

11 Choose File > Save.

Congratulations! You have completed the Jumpstart lesson.

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