Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

One-on-One Installation and Setup

Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One is designed to function as an

integrated training environment. So before embarking on the les-

sons, I’m going to request that you install a handful of files onto

your hard drive:

• Lesson files used in the exercises (Around 200MB in all)

•

One-on-One Creative Suite color settings (Best workflow CS5.csf)

• Custom collection of keyboard shortcuts called dekeKeys

•

The twelve lesson videos (if you want to view them offline; play-

ing them online doesn’t require any downloading)

•

QuickTime Player software (if it is not already installed and

you want to watch downloaded versions of the videos offline)

As you’ll see, these files are all available at www.oreilly.com/go/deke-

IllustratorCS5, with the exception of QuickTime Player, which you can

download from www.apple.com/quicktime.

I’ll also have you change a few preference settings. These changes

are optional—you can follow along with the exercises in this book

regardless of your preferences. Even so, I advocate these settings

for two reasons: First, they make for less confusion by ensuring

that you and I are on the same page, as it were. Second, some of Il-

lustrator’s default preferences are just plain wrong. So, welcome to

your first one-on-one style exercise:

1. Go to www.oreilly.com/go/Deke-IllustratorCS5. This is the

companion site for the book, where you can g