Adobe Illustrator CS6 Part I

This is the 9th installment in my blog post series on Adobe Illustrator CS6 which is based on what I learn on the video training course by Infinite skills on this software. We'll start off with text and paragraph formatting found on the typography toolbar. You can change things like font, style and size and if you are familiar with Microsoft Word this will be a doddle. The font names often have a t to signify truetype or an a to signify adobe type font. Truetype is often used on web pages. Generally the space between your text is 20 % but sometimes people use double space ie for a test to accommodate a tutor's comments. This is normally set to auto. You can define CSS styles where you apply settings to text and name and store to apply it to other text. This saves you lots of work. You can select text and just apply the settings from that text to other text. You work with the paragraph styles and character styles dialog boxes in doing this. If you double click of the style names in the dialog boxes you get a dialog box comes up with a whole myriad of options you can apply. When you put text in a container a + box signifies the text has over run. Usually you create a second container and click and drag the + box to it to connect that container and the over running text is displayed in that container. The eyedropper will apply a color you select even from a photo. There are text effects under effect like roughen. There are illustrator and photoshop effects and they always retain the vector characteristics. There used to be filters that were permanent and you couldn't undo and were destructive to shapes. Thee aren't used in the program anymore. Effects by contrast aren't permanent and can be undone.