When designing an app or website, there will be consistent elements across the screens and pages—things like headers, footers, and more. To speed things up and make your job easier, you can save all kinds of artwork as symbols. In this video we’ll explore how to create and edit symbols.
- [Instructor] When designing an app or a website,…there will most likely be consistent elements…across your screens and pages,…things like headers, footers, and a whole lot more.…To speed things up and make your job easier,…you can actually save artwork as what are called symbols.…Symbols are reusable elements…that are stored in the symbols panel in a single document.…So, here in Illustrator, I've got 04_01_start open…and I'm going to zoom in over here to this content.…Suppose that we have a series of these portraits,…you know, these things, these icon holders, placeholders,…that are going to be used throughout the different sites…or the apps we're going to work on.…
Now, I want to be able to edit them…and make it so that we can edit them all together,…especially if we have a lot of different screens in our app,…for instance, or different screen sizes, etc.…Make it easier for us.…So, we can take existing artwork like this…and turn it into a symbol.…There are also symbols that come with Illustrator.…Now, this is a group of content,…
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2/16/2017- Setting up artboards
- Using guides, grids, and snapping
- Working with text and shapes
- Creating reusable artwork
- Formatting
- Organizing content
- Exporting assets
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Video: Using Symbols