Title: Manage Documents Assignments Outline
Course: WILSON MC - INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER GRAPHICS HYBRID > Section: Week 13 - Manage Documents

- INTRODUCTION TO MANAGE DOCUMENTS

Layers function as kind of a “meta stacking” element. Layers are stacked in front of or behind other layers; within layers, objects are stacked in front of or behind each other.

We live in a multimedia world, and Illustrator provides a wide range of options for print and digital output. The Save for Web dialog box in Illustrator has powerful tools for previewing and controlling output to the web and to other digital devices.

Illustrator artwork can also be organized into multiple artboards — in effect, allowing multipage documents in which each page has its own settings and dimensions. Multiple-artboard documents can be used, for example, to create a palm-card, a poster, and a web ad from the same artwork, using the same sets of saved color swatches and other document-wide settings.

Custom profiles, swatch libraries (libraries of colors and patterns), and templates are productivity tools.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- CHANGE view modes
- CREATE and manage layers
- WORK with multiple artboards
- PREVIEW web output
- WORK with custom profiles
- SHARE swatch libraries
- CREATE custom templates

ELEMENTS OF THIS LESSON INCLUDE:

- CHAPTERS
ILLUSTRATOR CS6: VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE

Using the book Illustrator CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide refer to the following chapters for Manage Documents:

Chapter 1: Create and Save Files

Chapter 13: Layers

Chapter 30: Preferences

Chapter 31: Print and Export

- PRESENTATION
  - View the 25-slide presentation on Manage Documents in MGLab to familiarize yourself with the basic concepts and the terminology.
- VIDEOS
  - Watch the following lesson videos in MGLab. As with the slide presentation, use the video content to expose you to the techniques demonstrated. You may need to re-watch portions - or all-  of a video for complex techniques.
    - 1 Working with Artboards
    - 2 Understanding Layers and Stacking Order