Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

Figure 4-3 .

Placing, Entering, and Editing Text

In the fi rst exercise, we’ll start with the basics: getting text

into Illustrator and editing it for content once it’s in your

artwork. As we move through the lesson, I’ll demonstrate

progressively more sophisticated ways to manipulate type,

but we’ve got to start somewhere.

1. Open a piece of artwork. Navigate to the

Lesson 04 subfolder inside the Lesson Files-

AIcs5 1on1 folder. Inside you’ll fi nd an Il-

lustrator fi le called Early poetry.ai. This poem is so

named not because it was one of my fi rst forays into

metered verse; I wrote it when my eldest son was very

young and had a penchant for removing his socks.

You should see artwork like that shown in Figure 4-3.

2. Hide the Type layer. Bring up the Layers panel by

pressing F7 (or choosing Windows➝Layers). This

document has two layers, Type and Card. In the next

few exercises, you’ll be recreating the Type layer, so

click the

icon to hide the layer.

P E A R L O F W I S D O M

If you examine the Card layer (you can twirl it open by

clicking the

arrow), you’ll notice only three objects in the

layer

—

two socks and a rectangle labeled scribbles. All the

strokes and fi lls you see on the Card layer are created by live

effects, which I cover in Lesson 10, but you can check them

out by selecting the scribbles object and viewing the effects

in the Appearance panel. You ...