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[Treehouse presents]

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[Quick Tips][Learning the Workspace in Adobe Illustrator][with Mat Helme]

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Hey, what's up—Mat Helme here with a Treehouse Quick Tip:

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Learning the Workspace in Adope Illustrator CS6.

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When we first open up Adobe Illustrator, we will notice that the application is broken up into panels.

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All the way at the top, we have our Application Bar,

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where we are able to switch workspaces very easily.

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Directly below the Application Bar, we have the Control Panel.

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The Control Panel displays the options for the currently selected object.

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All of the boxes to the right are called Panels and can be displayed wherever you wish by selecting them and moving them.

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This comes in handy when you're working on a specific project.

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This panel can also toggle out.

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Say if we want to pull out brushes, we can do that very easily by selecting the tab, holding, and then dragging it out.

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Now, say if I want to take brushes and put it next to gradient, I can by—

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again—selecting the tab and dropping it in.

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All the way to the left we have our Tools Panel.

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Think of this as like your toolbox.

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Each one of these tabs that has an arrow below it

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you can select, hold down, and see all of the tools within that panel.

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It's almost like it's a tool drawer to your toolbox.

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Simply select the arrow to the right to release it, and you can pull out that drawer.

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Then, directly in the middle we have our Document Window or our Canvas;

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this is simply where all of our artwork is displayed.

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Below that, we have our Status Bar;

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this displays information and has navigation controls such as zoom and scroll.

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And that—my friends—is Adobe Illustrator CS6 Workspace.

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For more in-depth tutorials and projects using Adobe Illustrator CS6,

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head over to Treehouse and treat yourself to a gold membership; you deserve it!