From the course: Illustrator for Web Design
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Document settings - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Web Design
Document settings
- [Lecturer] I wanna show you how you can optimize your document for Web based work. When you create a new Illustrator document the very first thing that you're going to be confronted with is the new document window. This is going to ask you a bunch a questions. The important thing here is that you know what you're designing for. Are you designing a Web page or a poster. Is your design going to be viewed mostly online or in printed form? In this case we're going to be focusing on the Web. Because Illustrator doesn't have the ability to create elastic layouts in terms of responsive design it helps to make sure that you think in terms of general sizes rather than actually targeting a specific size. You won't know what this design is actually going to look like or behave like when you get it into a browser since the browser can be a different width. So locking yourself into a physical pixel dimension can be a little bit frustrating. In Illustrator, you do have some tabs that are going to…
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