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The Welcome screen - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 Essential Training
The Welcome screen
When you first launch Adobe Illustrator, you're presented with this screen that's called the Welcome screen. In fact the default setting for Illustrator is that this Welcome screen appears anytime there are no other documents open inside the program. If you are really not interested in seeing this screen each time you work with Illustrator, you can choose this option on the bottom over here called Don't show again. However before you decide that you don't need this Welcome screen and you dismiss it forever, take a brief moment to learn some of the things that it does. Besides the bright and cheery orange bar across the top of it, you might find it useful as you use Illustrator day-to-day. On the right side of the Welcome screen is an area called Create New. This contains a list of something called new document profiles. Illustrator can be used for a variety of different tasks and can create artwork that will be distributed across multiple mediums. However, each of those mediums may…
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