The first thing to do before anything would be to create a new document. This is done by going to file on the top toolbar and click where it says new. You chose what you want to call it in the name bar and the size you want it as in the "size" box. To finish with the options, press "OK".
The layer menu is selected on the toolbar on the right and from here you can create a new layer, select the layer you want, if you want to hide the layer, delete a layer, or lock a layer to stop edits being made to it.
There's also pen and pencil tools which are on the left hand toolbar and the symbols look like what the objects do in real life. The curve on the left is the pen mark and the curve on the right is the pencil mark. These two lines act in the same way when created.
You can individually edit all the different points on the line of both the pen and pencil line with the direct selection tool. The symbol is represented as a white arrow. This is not to be confused with the selection tool which is a black arrow for more general and basic editing.
Text can be made with the clicking anywhere on the page after selecting the "T" on the left hand side toolbar. Once the text is typed and selected, the colour of it can be changed with the colour menu on the right hand toolbar. Not only this, the collection of colours can be altered which the swatch colour selection in the bottom right button on the menu.
The edit the individual parts of the text, the text needs to be right clicked with the selection tool. You then click on create outlines.
From here the parts of the text can be stylised to look almost any intended way
If unsure about what swatch /colour collection to use. It's a good idea to look on the colour guide for similar colours to a given colour a see which colours compliment it.
To vectorise* an image, you click on the arrow next to live trace and click tracing options once the image is selected.
Then chose the types of colour you want to show on the image once it's vectorised and click trace once your sure about the different options.
Here's what the colour vector of the picture looks like.
*vectorise meaning to make a image made up of pixels into an image which doesn't lose quality when zooming into it of stretching it.
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