- Throughout this chapter I'll be showing you
how to create this graphic,
and I'll be doing so in a way that
requires no sample file.
All you need is Adobe Illustrator to get
exactly the same results that you see onscreen.
Now as I demonstrated in the previous chapter,
creating the logo was not actually
a linear process
so what we are about to do is only possible
with the benefit of hindsight.
And so what we're going to do in this movie
is create and customize a new document.
So the first thing you want to do,
once again inside Illustrator,
is to go up to the File menu and choose
the New command,
and then go ahead and change the profile
to Basic RGB.
So even though one of the versions of
this document will be a two color print job,
we're best off working in the RGB space
because it's a lot more flexible.
That way we can create backlit versions
of the logo, screen versions, and so forth.
Alright, now I'm gonna change the size
of the document,
and this is very important if you want to
get the same results,
make sure that your units are set to Points,
and then change the Width value to 964,
and change the Height value to 672.
We do not need any Bleed, by the way,
for this document.
We only need one Artboard,
and then if you go ahead and twirl open Advanced
here by clicking on the little triangle,
you'll see that the Raster Effects
are set to 72 PPI,
that doesn't matter, we're not going to have any,
and that Align New Objects to Pixel Grid
is turned off.
Very important.
And then, go ahead and click Okay in order
to create that new file.
Alright, the next step is to make your Layer
previews a little bigger by going to the Layers
panel fly-up menu right there,
and by the way your Layers panel may be in a
different location, in which case you can
bring it up.
You can bring up any panel inside Illustrator
by going to the Window menu and choosing
the Layers command.
Anyway, in my case I'm just gonna go ahead
and click on the fly-up menu icon
or the Layers panel,
and I'll choose Panel Options,
and then I'll turn on the Other radio button,
and set my size to 60 pixels and click OK
because otherwise you're gonna get
very small thumbnails.
Alright, now I'll go ahead and rename this guy.
Let's say Base shapes because this is where we're
going to put all of the shapes in our logo.
And just to keep things separate I'm gonna
relegate the guides to an independent Layer,
and I'm gonna create that Layer underneath
the active Layer by pressing the keyboard
shortcut Control, Alt, L, or
Command, Option, L on the Mac, L being for Layer,
and then I'll go ahead and rename this guy, Guides.
And I'm gonna change the color.
You can go your own way here,
but I'm gonna change the color to brown,
and then I'll click OK.
Alright, now I wanna create a new Guide,
a new vertical center Guide,
on this Guide's Layer,
and I'm gonna do that by pressing Control R
or Command R on a Mac, to bring up the rulers
as we are seeing right here,
and then just go ahead and drag out from
the left-hand vertical ruler,
into the Artboard like so,
in order to create a vertical Guide
at any old location.
It doesn't matter where.
And then you can go ahead and press Control R,
or Command R on a Mac,
to put the rulers away.
Now go up to the View menu, choose Guides,
and if you see a check mark in front of
Lock Guides, choose the command to turn it off.
Then, go ahead and marquee your new Guide like so
using your black arrow tool,
which is the default tool inside of Illustrator.
And now, go up to the horizontal control panel
at the top of the screen,
click this guy right here,
and note that by default it is set
to Align to Selection.
You want it to be set to Align to Artboard.
And then, go ahead and click this icon,
Horizontal Align Center, in order to center
the vertical guide inside of the Artboard like so.
Then, click off the Guide to deselect it.
Make sure, by the way, that the Guides Layer
is active because we do want to relegate
all of the Guides to that Layer.
And then, return to the View menu, choose Guides,
and choose Lock Guides to turn it back on.
And then notice if I try to marquee that Guide
I cannot select it.
And then the final thing you want to do,
at least where this movie is concerned,
is click on the Base Shapes Layer
in order to activate that Layer
here inside the Layers Panel.
And now that we've created and customized
our new document,
we're ready to begin work on the logo
starting in the next movie.