Illustrator A1 Assessment

1. Open illustrator
2. Click New File
3. Select Print
4. Change points to inches
5. Change width to 6 inches and height to 4 inches. ***Note that this is a standard postcard size
6. Click Create. To zoom to full screen Crtl-0
7. Save your file in onedrive with the name illCreateYourName
8. Draw a hexagon with a height of 3.5 inches and put it right in the center of the card
9. Change it to an octagon
10. Double click on the stroke color and change it to the color Cyan
11. Change to no Fill
12. It should now look the picture below:
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14. Draw a circle shape and put them on each corner on both sides of the octagon like the picture below:
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16. Use the shape builder tool to create the following shape from the previous shapes.
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18. Change the stroke color to Magenta
19. Change the stroke to 25pt
20. Draw the following shape using the pen tool
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22. Select everything that you have drawn so far and Group it
23. Get a white sheet of paper and write your name with a black pen
24. Take a picture of it with your iPad
25. Email the picture to yourself
26. Log in to your email and on the computer and download it
27. Move the file from the downloads folder to your computer apps folder in onedrive
28. Open the file with illustrator
29. Select the picture
30. Do an image trace and choose sketched art
31. Open the settings for Image trace and adjust the Threshold to what looks best for your signature. I used 170 for mine, but yours may look best with a different value
32. Click Expand
33. Double Click on your signature once
34. Select your entire signature but not the rest of the tracing
35. Group your signature
36. Copy it
37. Go back to your post card and paste it
38. Change the width of your signature to 5 inches. If the height doesn't also automatically change undo your width change and click on the chain link icon next to the width. Then change width again to 5 inches.
39. Move your name to the bottom of the card
40. Select the logo group and resize it and move it to the left side of the card like the picture below
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42. In the open space on the right of the logo and above your signed name create one of the following: A stick figure or a robot pointing to the logo that looks like it is saying check it out. For maximum credit use both shapes and the pen too to create the stick figure or robot. For a level 4 on this assessment go epic on this instruction
43. Save your changes
44. Save the file as a pdf with the name illcreatePDFYourName
45. Turn in the PDF file