Using 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,…