From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Preparatory steps

Preparatory steps

From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Preparatory steps

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- [Instructor] Now at this stage in a project like this, what we need to do is to organize the information that we have. So of course we have these things inside of the file. We know about the images we have. We've got the logo just there. And we've got the text, and it's that that I'm going to make visible here in Illustrator by turning that on in the layers panel. And I'm also going to click in the region just to the far right of that, just past that circle that you can see there to select that text, because I don't want to remove it, I just want to borrow some of it. So I'm going to copy that out of there. So command + C or control + C, and then going to lock and hide that layer, make my BG layer active. And in fact, I think what I'll do is add a new layer above that. Let's just go ahead and call that copy, just there like so, and then paste down that text. Now we can do a few things with this. So what we…

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