From the course: Lettering Comic Books with Illustrator
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Getting ready to letter - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Lettering Comic Books with Illustrator
Getting ready to letter
- Now that you know what software you need hopefully you have it all installed and ready to go. So let's get an Illustrator file prepared for lettering by placing the scanned artwork, drawing guides for bleed, trim, and safe areas. And providing a job box with title, page number, and contact details. So I have got Adobe Illustrator open, let's get started. First thing we are going to do, go to File, New just to create a new document. Default settings are fine, hit OK. Now you may notice over here to the right that the palettes are not the standard Illustrator default palettes, I've customized them quite a bit. I have got layers up here at the top, I've got stroke, color, appearance, I use a lot. Character obviously for type and the path finder palette. These are the ones I like to use and I've saved them here in the comic lettering work space. So the first thing we are going to do is import some artwork to work over. Going to go to File, Place, go into the exercise file Script and…
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