SVG Export in Adobe Illustrator
Lesson 56 from: Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud: Essentials for Creating ProjectsBrian Wood
SVG Export in Adobe Illustrator
Lesson 56 from: Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud: Essentials for Creating ProjectsBrian Wood
Lesson Info
56. SVG Export in Adobe Illustrator
Lessons
Class Introduction
01:23 2What is Adobe Illustrator?
06:24 3Explore the Interface
11:45 4Create and Save New Documents
07:03 5Zoom and Navigate
07:23 6Working with Artboards
18:11 7Introduction to Layers
18:53 8Rulers and Guides
09:05Shapes and Drawing
45:27 10Aligning and Combining Shapes
15:31 11Pen Tool
30:59 12Manipulating Stroke and Fill
14:39 13Creating and Editing with Color
17:36 14Painting with Gradients
10:36 15Getting Started with Patterns
08:11 16Adding Text To Your Document
08:43 17Formatting Text
11:35 18Strokes and Variable Strokes in Adobe Illustrator
16:55 19Rotating Objects in Adobe Illustrator
08:42 20Effects and the Appearance Panel in Adobe Illustrator
10:58 21Adding Photo Images in Adobe Illustrator
12:43 22Working with Linked Content in Adobe Illustrator
10:14 23Packaging your Project for Handoff in Adobe Illustrator
04:28 24Best Formats to Save Your Files
14:35 25Select Like a Pro: Layers, Groups, & Other Unique Tools
33:57 26Edit Paths Like a Pro in Adobe Illustrator
08:41 27Editing Paths: Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator
03:31 28Creating & Applying Brushes to Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
18:21 29Editing Paths: Knife & Scissor Tool in Adobe Illustrator
03:09 30Editing Paths: Join Tool in Adobe Illustrator
10:46 31Editing Paths: Isolation Mode in Adobe® Illustrator®
02:11 32Pen Tool Shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator
16:44 33Other Drawing Tools & Methods in Adobe Illustrator
07:05 34Transforming Techniques in Adobe Illustrator
05:35 35Shortcut to Reflecting Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
02:19 36Get to Know Your Appearance Panel in Adobe Illustrator
17:42 37Exploring Effects in Adobe Illustrator
10:01 38Work Smarter with Graphic Styles in Adobe Illustrator
04:50 39Color Inspiration in Adobe Illustrator
09:34 40Type Effects in Adobe Illustrator
11:18 41Masking Your Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
13:40 42Using Creative® Cloud® Libraries in Adobe® Illustrator®
15:47 43Capture Artwork with Creative Cloud Apps & Adobe Illustrator
12:21 44Tracing Raster Images in Adobe Illustrator
13:40 45Blending Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
12:47 46Using Symbols in Adobe Illustrator
10:47 47Using a Perspective Grid in Adobe Illustrator
09:05 48Crash Recovery in Adobe Illustrator
08:45 49GPU Performance in Adobe Illustrator
03:51 50Curvature Tool in Adobe Illustrator
06:49 51App Integration in Adobe Illustrator
11:52 52Creative Cloud Libraries in Adobe Illustrator App
04:42 53Shaper Tool in Adobe Illustrator
06:06 54Smart Guides in Adobe Illustrator
01:31 55Text Enhancements in Adobe Illustrator
02:11 56SVG Export in Adobe Illustrator
06:50Lesson Info
SVG Export in Adobe Illustrator
When we work with content these days, if were gonna work with websites, we're gonna work with apps, a lot of these different things, we use SVG a lot. SVG, I think I asked you already, what does SVG stand for, was it scalable vector graphics, right, yeah? If we save a file as SVG, which Illustrator can do, we can take it right to a website, for instance, and use it out there. It's gonna stay vector in the webpage. If we want to save out SVG, for instance, I'm gonna show you a kinda nice little trick to do this, we want to get the artwork that we want to save on its own artboard. I'll show you just a little couple of tips here. What I'm gonna do, I'm not going to do that, I'm gonna grab this whole thing. I'm gonna grab this whole thing and I'm gonna copy it and move it off to the side, I just hid some things, blocked some things and grouped it, I know I'm using shortcut keys, I'm sorry. I'm gonna drag this over here and duplicate it, there we go, we get the coffee cup. What I'd like to ...
do, is I'd like to take that and save that as SVG. A couple ways we can do this. We can actually create a brand new artboard and keep it on there if we want, that's pretty easy. I can actually go to the artboard tool and just draw a little artboard, for instance, like this and it's white on white which is just great, I'm gonna make that a little different color, and I'm not going to make that a little looking color, I'll fill that with the blue, that way we can see it. What I can do now, this is actually a nice little tip, I can take selected art, if I want to take that artboard, I'm gonna fit it right around the object, because if we have web objects, a lot of times, we want them to right to the edges. If I go to the artboard tool right now and select it, there is a command up here under presets called Fit to Selected Art or Fit to Artwork Bounds. I use Fit to Selected Art a lot, it's gonna fit it exactly to the artwork. Now, what I can do is I can save that out of here. There are two ways to save as SVG, if I come under File, I'm gonna come up here and you're gonna see that we have Export as SVG and we have Save as SVG. I'm gonna choose Save As and come down here and you'll see for the format we have SVG, you're gonna see two kinds, just don't use SVG Compressed, I don't even want to explain it, just don't use it. Basically, it's a gzip compression on the server, which, not all servers have, it won't be able to work with it, just to be safe, just save it as SVG and go out and say we're gonna use artboards and we have to tell it which artboard, otherwise, it's gonna make a big old file with all that design out there. I'm gonna say this is artboard two, that was artboard two, right. I'm gonna put it on my desktop and I'll save it. This is actually kinda of an older method for doing it, it's still in here, this is why I want to show it to you, because some people still use this in their workflow, but there's a new way to export SVG or save as SVG and I figure we'd do this because, you can see right up here, use File > Export, give it a try. If you use SVG, unless you're locked into this specific dialog box, which you have in your workflow already, use File > Export, it's a much better SVG file, I'll just click Try. If you screw up and you do Save, just click Try and it'll just take you right over there. Now it's gonna say, "Oh, let's go Export". SVG, basically just code, but what it's gonna do, it's gonna save styling, it's gonna save a lot of different things, it's gonna, if there are any fonts in there, it's gonna try to preserve them as best it can, we gotta be careful with fonts in SVG. Down here, the biggest thing, these two things, Minify and Responsive, Minify just means make it as small as you can. In the past, we saved SVG, I would have to go and take the file and make it smaller somewhere else, it's code and it's a pain, just keep that checked. Responsive means this. Anything you put it in it's gonna be a big if it, I'm gonna click Ok, this is gonna be ridiculous, you guys, this is gonna be a white shape on a white background for a browser, I'm gonna go in and change some of these again. I just realized, I was just like, I'm gonna change one, it's not gonna work, let me just change a few other of these just so you can see them, come on, there we go, you notice I'm kinda switching in here to a line mode, that'll look a little bit better. Now I'm gonna export it, I'm gonna go to File > Export, we did save as before, but I'll do export this time, put it on my desktop, I'm gonna save it as SVG, use the artboards, two, export, sorry, I'm running through that, kinda quick I know, same exact dialog we just saw, I'm trying to get back to the same place, I have to put a different color in, I click Ok. There we've got it, it's a lot to show you, it's pretty cool. I'm gonna go to Chrome, open up a new browser window and I'm gonna take that thing and I'm gonna drag it in here, there we go, maybe I should just open it, it's fine, SVG, and there we go. This is in a browser, take a look and you're gonna see, perfectly scalable, perfectly vector, nice and clean, ready to go, pretty neat. That is actually a dot SVG file that we can use, it's still vector, the browser doesn't need plug-in, nothing with it, pretty easy to create and there it is right there, there's the SVG file. Hopefully, that helps with some of the new stuff, kinda gets you looking once you go back you can take a look at some of it. This has been a lot of stuff, I think, and you guys, you've been troopers, I've gotta be honest, you've been amazing, keeping up and working and Brian, I think my third part has been watching these guys follow along getting shots at their computers and it just shows that, these guys, some of them knew a little bit of Illustrator, some none, in this two-day workshop you can really go from zero to in two days if you follow along, you do the exercises, you look at the project file. Thank you, really really well done. and practice. Thank you for joining us, CreativeLive, we'll see you next time, thanks very much. (clapping)
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KATIE Y
I am a pretty computer literate person but an Ai beginner i.e. I am completely new to the Creative Cloud/Adobe Illustrator. (This is also the first time I've used CreativeLive.) I think this course it is fantastic. The pace is good as is the content which progressed logically and covers all the basics you'd hope it would. The course is 2 full days' worth of material but it is broken down into segments so you can revisit or skip through as you need to. The presenter is really personable and easy to watch (even for me, a Londoner!). I would also say I think it is pretty good value for money -- I am currently enrolled on a part time course, basically doing the same sort of stuff, and I have to say this is better and a bit cheaper! I definitely recommend it to you!
jackflash
A brilliantly designed course. it's almost magic. It's everything you hope for in a follow-along software class. Brian Wood has engineered it so that you start on a project that just needs basics, and then you move on to more & more complicated projects, and almost without realizing it you've learned Illustrator. This doesn't just happen -- Wood has clearly put a LOT of effort into creating this course. Here's one trivial example: he doesn't overload you with a lot of keyboard shortcuts right at the beginning -- you start with the actions themselves, using the (admittedly tedious but easy) pulldown menus, and then after you're comfortable with what you're doing, he'll throw in the shortcut. It may seem obvious, but so many instructors feel they have to give you an extensive foundation of definitions, shortcuts, interfaces, etc., before you ever do anything. Good stuff to know, but you'll never remember it. Wood has you up and working almost immediately. And he's a joy to listen to, at a perfect pace. Highly recommended.
Philippe LIENARD
Top course. Very well explained, clear, good examples, pleasant teacher. I like it and recommend it. One suggestion, it would be nice to have a detailed table of content of the course in the material. For instance, it took me quite a while to find back the part of the course where how to make a gear was explained.
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