Open a Template

Adobe was kind enough to provide many useful templates and a simple way to make use of them, so why not take advantage of it? If you need to design artwork for a CD, for example, choose File>New From Template. You should be directed to the templates folder (Illustrator CS2\Cool Extras\Templates), where you select from the various folders. In this example, we opened the template in the Extreme Sports folder called DVD Label.ait. A new, untitled document is created that contains all the artwork, ready to edit, and the original template artwork is untouched, ready for next time.