Hi there, in this video we're going to set the defaults... 1
for the Swatches in Adobe Illustrator. 2
We'll also set the default font... 3
get rid of Myriad 12 point... 4
we'll change everything we need to. 5
We'll even turn off that pesky hyphenation. 6
All right, let's go do that now in Illustrator. 7
First up, it can be a pain... 8
I'm using Illustrator, it's called Illustrator 22, right? 9
Under 'Illustrator', 'About', this is version 22. 10
It's also called CC 2018. 11
It should work for everything, this version, and up. 12
Earlier versions, you might-- it gets really tricky... 13
so if it doesn't work for you, you might have to go search the net... 14
and it gets complicated. 15
For us though, it's partially complicated, not that hard. 16
So what we're going to do is, we're going to-- 17
at this Welcome screen, we're going to create a 'New Document'. 18
Basically what we need to do is... 19
we can't just do it for the whole program... 20
we need to do it for Print, Web, and Mobile. 21
Basically for me, I do most of my stuff in Print and Web. 22
So you just need to change these two defaults. 23
So we'll do Print. 24
In Print, what we need to do is... 25
go to this 'More Settings' option down the bottom here. 26
And once that opens, we need to go to where it says 'Profile', drop that down. 27
We'll only go to the one that says 'Browse'. 28
Really what we're just doing here is... 29
just locating where these things are kept... 30
because on a PC, and Mac, they're different. 31
So if I drop this down, it tells me, this is where the Profiles are kept. 32
So we need to dig this out, that's the hard bit. 33
Adjusting the Fonts and Swatches is easy. 34
You can get lost, there's a couple of versions of Library. 35
So there's a Library down at this level, so you need to really make sure. 36
So maybe take a screenshot of this now... 37
or if you're using a PC, take a screenshot of your screen. 38
Just notice, you got to go here, here... 39
All the way through to this. 40
I'll show you how to get there. 41
I'm going to close that down. 42
It's basically what we use that for. 43
I'm going to go into 'Finder' here, and show you how to find it. 44
So, go to any folder; documents, desktop, doesn't matter. 45
And if you hold down the 'Command' key, and click on this... 46
whatever it says at the top... 47
it kind of tells you where you are in the world. 48
So we're partially where they are... 49
we're in HD, we're in Users, we're in My Name... 50
and we're in Documents. 51
But I want to go to this one here. 52
And there should be a folder in here called Library. 53
Problem is that Macs like to hide that from you. 54
You got to go and change Permissions, and stuff. 55
You don't want to do that, the sneaky trick is... 56
on 'View Finder', go up to 'Go'... 57
hold down the 'Option' key on my Mac... 58
and you can see, if I just toggle it on and off... 59
the Library just appears. 60
It's a little sneaky trick to get him. 61
So, I'm in the right place now. 62
I'm in 'Library', now we're going to follow the rest of that. 63
And it was 'Application Support', it was 'Adobe'. 64
We worked on version 22, you might be on a later version... 65
whatever that version yours is... 66
the highest number is going to be the one. 67
I'm using 'English US'. 68
And we're trying to find... 69
we're going to do this one, and this one. 70
Basically we're going to go change these, and we're going to save them. 71
You can go off and do that now, but together, I'll show you the long way. 72
You can see there, our kind of Profile, I'm going to open up 'Print'. 73
And in here, what I'd like to do is... 74
anything you change in here... 75
most of the things you change in here will now be your default. 76
If you want your default for Fill color and Stroke color to be different... 77
you could say, actually I want that from now on... 78
whenever I'm making a document. 79
The big one you came for is Font. 80
I'm going to click once, and 'Myriad Pro'. 81
I'm going to change it to something else, you can change it to anything. 82
If you're following along in this course, I love the old Museo. 83
I'm going to use that. 84
Probably when I'm working, I use 10pt a lot more. 85
Now I want to go change a lot of other things... 86
but as a trainer I really need to keep everything by default. 87
So I'm just going to save myself some time now by not changing too much. 88
We're only half way there, right? So you've changed the fonts... 89
and go to 'Window', 'Type', and go to 'Character Styles'... 90
and basically this is the kind of default Character Style... 91
for maybe, you type anything new. 92
You can see, it's got a '+' there to say you've adjusted it... 93
and all you need to do is go to this Burger menu... 94
when you find Character Style, that '+' goes away. 95
If I save this document now... 96
let's do it, delete that guy, save it... 97
close it. 98
'File', 'New'. You're ready? 99
It's going to get cool. 100
Print any of these, covers anything under Print. 101
So I'm going to use this, click 'Create'. 102
Grab my 'Type Tool', click once. 103
It's Museo Sans, it's 10pts. 104
Couple of other things we want to change. 105
I'm going to close that down. 106
Other little shortcut while I'm here... 107
if you get this one to here... 108
if you hold down, on a Mac... 109
this is Mac only, unfortunately, PC people... 110
hold down 'Command' key, and click the first letter of 'S', 'C', or 'D'. 111
It's the shortcut, I hit 'D' for don't save. 112
I don't know why I love that shortcut. 113
I'm still on Print there, you can go to 'File', 'Open Recent', same one. 114
I'm going to change a couple of things, Hyphenation, goodbye buddy. 115
If I grab a box, it hyphenates by default. 116
So I'm going to go to my Paragraph Window. 117
So, under 'Window', 'Type', I'm going to open up 'Paragraph'. 118
I'm going to say, Hyphenate, don't do it by default. 119
Weirdly the box that I drew is like the first box ever. 120
It doesn't hyphenate, let's change it. 121
There it is, Hyphenation, turn it 'off'. 122
What we need to do now is adjust. 123
Very similar, the Paragraph Styles. 124
So there's a normal Paragraph Style. 125
I say 'Redefine Style', and that will be off by default. 126
I'm not doing mine now, just because. 127
I know it works, you've seen it work, for Character Styles... 128
but because I'm a trainer, I have to kind of keep everything same as yours. 129
Other things you can do here... 130
is you can do your Swatches in this window. 131
So, in here, I'm going to delete that. 132
What I'll do is, I'll leave Hyphenation 'on'. 133
Let's go to our Swatches Panel, so 'Window', let's go to 'Swatches'. 134
And you might just bin everything... 135
just have black, white, maybe a few colors... 136
maybe some brand colors that you're using. 137
You can import colors from logos here. 138
All you need to really do is... 139
make sure that your Swatches Panel is how you want it. 140
Let's say that you don't use this fantastic Fill. 141
Pattern Swatch. 142
You can go into here, I'm going to delete it, forever. 143
I'm going to make a new Swatch. 144
First of all I'm going to pick a color. 145
Now I'm going to add it as the Swatch. 146
Give it a name, I'm going to turn mine off... 147
not being Global, and not in my Library, just because. 148
Just want it to be a basic Swatch. 149
Now if I save the document, close it... 150
I go to 'New Document' window, anything under 'Print'... 151
click 'Create'; A4 even. 152
Can you see, there's my cool Swatches. 153
That one's gone, and that one's there now. 154
It doesn't back date. 155
So it doesn't go back to old documents and adjust the Swatches. 156
It's a really personal thing in Illustrator... 157
where these Swatches are attached to their ai file... 158
and have been embedded in there. 159
But anything new, that can be changed. 160
That's true of Type as well... 161
so any new documents will be Museo... 162
but any previous document, that kind of Character Style's stuck in there. 163
So, old documents, boo, new documents, yes. 164
All right friends, that is how to reset... 165
your default Font and Swatches in Adobe Illustrator. 166
All right, let's get on to the next video.