From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep

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Placing assets

Placing assets

To open an existing document in Adobe Illustrator you can either go to the file menu and choose open or open recent files. You can also access the open feature from here on the left and the recent files from the main home screen and you can preview these in thumbnail view or as a list. You can even filter the recent files by typing in something let's say skater in this case we could very quickly find that document that we had in the previous lessons and if we switch to your files here on the left we will be able to find all of our Illustrator cloud documents. The extension for these are AIC and the main advantage of saving any project in this format is that it will allow you to open them on any device anywhere you are without having to take the file with you on a hard drive. As their name suggests they are stored in the cloud we can also see the little cloud icon next to them and it's important to mention that in case you are opening a cloud document it might take long if you haven't…

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