There’s a bunch of tools to the left side of the screen. You can add a new page by clicking on the symbol boxed in dotted green, and change the size of each page by clicking the symbol boxed in solid To the right you can find layers (which I’ll get to later) and artboards:
Some of your toolbars might be in different places- I don’t remember where everything is docked with a fresh install so you’ll have to play around with it. Zoom in and out using ctrl+ – and ctrl+ +, and you can sideways scroll by holding ctrl as you scroll. This is what you should have after you click ok: I also like working in RGB mode – CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to the left of “Advanced” to get to that setting). “Number of Artboards” basically means number of pages, and you can add or remove Artboards after the document is created. You can name it but that doesn’t mean it’s saved anywhere- you can press ctrl+s after the document is made to choose a directory, save, and rename if you want. The first thing to do when you open Illustrator is to make a new document. Illustrator is basically MS Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label images, and make files to laser cut. Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to teach them how to use Illustrator so I’ve decided to write a blog about it instead of trying to find time to meet irl.
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