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Import a sketch and embed it, then use that as the basis for drawing your shapes.
In this video, we're going to be importing
our sketch and embedding images.
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We're gonna be starting our logo design.
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Our logo is going to be for
a fictitious company called Pencil and Co.
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So let's go ahead and
create a new document.
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File, New.
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And make sure that your
profile is set to Web.
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I'm going to make my width 1080 and 1920.
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It can be anything you want basically, I
mean whatever the dimensions of your icon.
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I just like to have a little bit of space.
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Now hit OK.
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Very good.
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So now we're ready to go here.
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Let's go ahead and save this.
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Even though it's blank,
save it as Pencil_Logo.
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I'll hit Save.
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OK.
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And now What I want to
do is import my sketch.
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And this is a raster graphic.
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It's a jpg image.
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And those are treated a little
bit differently than vector.
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Though, you can bring raster
images into Illustrator.
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So we'll go up here.
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File, Place, here it is.
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Or, Shift+Cmd+P.
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Here is my pencil sketch.
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Place.
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Okay.
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And actually, I mean,
I could draw over this,
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but I'm not going to be using
this directly as my reference.
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It's more like just something
I'm gonna be looking at.
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So, I accidentally double-clicked and
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went into isolation mode,
I'm just gonna back out, okay.
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I'm going to drag my image
onto my canvas area,
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because it's just going to be a reference.
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I'll be drawing here in
the art board area, in vector.
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Right now when you import or
place an image, it links that file.
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So if I were to send this to a client
somewhere else, just this file,
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they would have a missing
pencilsketch.jpeg.
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So what I want to do is embed
this image into the file so
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wherever it goes I know that this
raster image will also be inside of it.
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The way you do that, go to Window, Links.
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You can see we have our pencil
sketch here, it's linked.
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And then you go up and
let me turn this off.
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Up here in the top right,
we have a little flyaway menu.
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Here we want to choose Embed Images.
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And if you had multiple images,
you could select them all at once.
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Embed.
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And there you go.
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And now, when I hit Save,
no matter where I open this,
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this image will be part
of this Illustrator file.
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Moving on, we will be drawing the logo.
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