Adobe Illustrator Tutorial 3: Basic Font Effects, Copy and Pasting

http://screencast.com/t/m7rf1X20

Here's some better font effects.  I did a Gaussian blur.  I did a basic Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V which is a Copy + Paste, one of the most basic, useful, and common commands you will use.

Copy and Pasting an image allows you to create a drop shadow, a nice border, or some other three dimensional effect.

When you start seeing these larger three dimensional objects, you'll find many of them are just multiple layers, sometimes hundreds of layers, to create an effect of depth and dimension.  You'll see this copied in those new 3d Printers that print in three dimensions.

Copy and Pasting also allows you to save your work on separate layers so that you can have a copy of the original.  It may be better to just keep a separate copy of the file, as well as just using the Duplicate Layer command and then locking that layer in the background so that you can't accidentally erase it if you need to go back to the original.

This is sort of fun.  I've seen people charge $50 for lessons in Adobe Illustrator.

In class, they may spend a whole day teaching you how to copy and paste.

It really only takes a few seconds to learn, but a lifetime to master!