Adobe Illustrator CS6 Part A

I've stopped doing my series on Salesforce.com but will return to that soon. In the meantime I am starting a series on Adobe Illustrator CS6 which is based on the Infinite Skills video training course I am doing at the moment on that program and I will write about what I learn from it. Illustrator was first put on the market in 1987 and was a program under a different name by a company called AX. It was eventually bought by Adobe and added to their arsenal of business software. One thing that has always been a feature of Illustrator and believe it or not it is even older than Photoshop but it is a vector based program. The current version integrates nicely with all the Adobe range and what vector based is drawings are stored as lines and drawing information. Photoshop stores images as pixels which means if you magnify an image it becomes pixellated or blurred. Illustrator doesn't have this program and was the first drawing software that didn't run like a CAD program and had this vector feature. If you click edit/ preferences/ general it takes you into the general settings which make the program work the way you want it to. There are other types of settings too. If you click type/ fonts it enables you to select a font and there is also a recent font button under that menu that simplifies finding a font you have recently used. On the control panel many of the buttons have pullouts where they open out with several buttons and there is a button you can click and drag it to drag all the buttons onto your workspace so they are constantly displayed. There is a panels button and the default one is essentials which mostly displays colors and brushes panels. Clicking on the this button and choosing one of the other names brings up other configurations of panels. You can drag these panels around the screen or workspace and there is a reset button that automatically returns them and returns it to the default. There is a kind of button near the top left that actually tells you what is selected and isn't a button. Generally according to what you click on the left in the control panel the buttons you can click on, on the right change. There is also a window button and under it are listed the taskbars which you can select or deselect as you need them. I will try and do this series daily.