Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles - Adobe Illustrator CC - page 535

Getting started
In this lesson, you'll enhance the design for a web page by applying appearance attributes
and graphic styles to the type, background, and buttons. Before you begin, you'll restore the
default preferences for Adobe Illustrator CC. Then, you will open the finished art file for this
lesson to see what you'll create.
1. To ensure that the tools and panels function exactly as described in this lesson, delete
or deactivate (by renaming) the Adobe Illustrator CC preferences file. See “ Restoring
default preferences ,” on page 3 .
2. Start Adobe Illustrator CC.
Note
If you have not already downloaded the project files for this lesson to your
computer from your Account page, make sure to do so now. See “ Getting
Started ” at the beginning of the topic.
Note
If a color profile warning dialog box appears, click OK.
3. Choose File > Open. Locate the L13end.ai file in the Lesson13 folder in the Lessons
folder that you copied onto your hard disk, to view the finished artwork. Leave the file
open for reference, or choose File > Close.
The design for the completed web page includes several graphic styles and effects,
including gradients, drop shadows, and other graphics. This lesson contains a fictitious
business name, made up for the purposes of the project.