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In this movie Ill how you how to delete and organize art boards from the Artboards panel. 

they are in regular alignment once again.
Ive saved my progress as 10-page jumble.ai.
Again, its found inside the 02_artboards folder.
The reason I saved these progress files, by the way, is just in case youre dropping in
on a single movie, and you dont have a progress file of your own.
Im going to start by getting my Artboards panel out of the way by clicking on this little
double-arrow icon there. Now switch back to the Artboard tool, and notice that Artboard 10 is selected in my case.Illustrator CS6
I want to show you couple of other options that are available to you.
If you go up to the Object menu, and you choose Artboards, youll get the submenu of commands,
including this one here Fit to Artwork Bounds.
And thats going to go ahead and expand the Artboard so it encompasses every bit of artwork
inside your document. And thats not the effect I want but I wanted to show you that the document is there. Ill go ahead and press Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z on the Mac, to undo that change.

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Here is another option thats available to you.
If you want to scale an artboard so it exactly encompasses the stuff inside of it, you double-click
on it, like so, Now you may ask me well, how is that artboard exactly encompassing that zero.
When youre working with Type inside of Illustrator cs6, the program is always consulting essentially
all the characters in that font.
A lowercase G, for example, would have a descender that comes farther down, and there might be
other characters that have ascenders that go higher up.
And the way you can confirm this is to switch back to the Black Arrow tool here, and then
Id just go ahead and click on the baseline of the zero, and notice that I get this big
bounding box and that bounding box shows me exactly how big Illustrator cs6 thinks that character is.
Im going to press Shift+0 in order to switch back to the Artboard tool, and Im going to
press Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z on the Mac, to undo that change.
Here is what I really want to do.
I want to go ahead and automatically arrange all of these artboards, and I can do that

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by once again going up to the Object menu choosing the Artboards command, and then choosing
Rearrange, and Ill get this dialog box here that features those same options that we saw
inside the New Document dialog box, so I can change the arrangement of my artboards if
I want to, but Im happy with the existing layout.
What I want is to have five columns instead of four so that Ill have five columns in two rows of course. Illustrator CS6 
And then Im just going to go ahead and increase the Spacing value as well to 1/2 inch like that.
So 1/2" meaning that you have the press Shift along with the quote key.
I do want to move the artwork along with the artboards so Ill leave this check box on,
and then Ill go ahead and click OK, and that takes care of my problems automatically.
And just so that you know, if I bring back up the Artboards panel which I can get by clicking on what is by default, this lowest icon here in this column of panels, and then
I click on whats known as the flyout menu icon in the upper-right corner of the panel.

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I also have access to the Rearrange Artboards command here, so a little more convenient many times and that brings up that same dialog box that we saw just a moment ago. All right, Im going to cancel out because I dont want to mess things up now that Ive gotten everything perfect. That is how you take advantage of automatic artboard
modifications here inside Illustrator CS6. 
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In this movie, Ill show you a couple ways to create new artboards, and Ill also introduce

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you to some artboard editing tricks that hinge on pressing the Shift and the Alt and Option keys.
Ive once again restored my 8-page newsletter.ai file.
I am going to switch over here to the Artboard tool.
One way to create an artboard is just to drag somewhere in an empty portion of the pasteboard,
like so. And lets say I want to create an artboard that completely encompasses all of the other artboards.
So Ive got a new artboard thats coming in automatically called Artboard 2.
I am going to click on the Name item up there in the Options bar, and Ill change this guy
to Uberboard lets say, and then press the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac.And we can now see that its artboard number 09, up here in the upper left-hand corner,
because after all, its the ninth artboard Ive created.
And we can see its named Uberboard as well.
Now lets say I want this big artboard to exactly encompass all the other ones with In this movie, Ill show you a couple ways to create new artboards, and Ill also introduce
you to some artboard editing tricks that hinge on pressing the Shift and the Alt and Option keys. Ive once again restored my 8-page newsletter.ai file.
I am going to switch over here to the Artboard tool. One way to create an artboard is just to drag somewhere in an empty portion of the pasteboard,
like so. And lets say I want to create an artboard that completely encompasses all of the other artboards.
So Ive got a new artboard thats coming in automatically called Artboard 2. I am going to click on the Name item up there in the Options bar, and Ill change this guy
to Uberboard lets say, and then press the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac. And we can now see that its artboard number 09, up here in the upper left-hand corner, because after all, its the ninth artboard Ive created. And we can see its named Uberboard as well.
Now lets say I want this big artboard to exactly encompass all the other ones with

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a margin of an inch all the way around.
Id start by reducing the size of the artboard, so Im dragging the corner handles until they
snap into alignment with the top left corner of page 1, and the bottom right corner of page 8.
Then Ill go up here to be Options bar, and Ill set the Reference Point back to the center,
Ill expand both the Width and Height values by clicking first on the far right side of
that Width value, and then I will enter + 1in, which will give me an additional inch.
But thats not really what I want, if I want an inch all the way around, I need two inches,
so Ill go and change that value from 1 to 2, like so, and then press the Tab key.
So the remarkable thing is I can not only do simple math in Illustrator, but I can also
do that math using different units of measure.
So in this case, for example, with the H value, Im adding 1212 points to 2 inches, and then
I press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac, to accept that change.
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The difficulty when youre working this way is getting to the other artboards, because
Illustrator considers artboard 09 to be in front of 1 through 8.
If I try to click on 1 to select it, I wont end up selecting it.
Instead, Ill create a new artboard. It just comes in at this arbitrary size.
You can see the Width value is 312.
27 points, where is this coming from? I have no idea, but obviously its not what we want.
Two ways to get rid of this artboard or any other existing artboard, when its selected
you can just press the Backspace key here on the PC, or the Delete key on the Mac, or
notice that theres this little closed box right there.
If you click on the X in the upper right- hand corner, then you close the artboard, which
is to say you delete it.
All right, what I want to do though as I was saying is select Artboard 01.
So here is how that works.
To cycle through artboards that are on top of each other, you press the Alt key or the
Option key on the Mac, and you click.
And thatll go ahead and select Artboard 01 instead.
What if I want to create a new artboard inside of an existing artboard, like I want to create

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this little tiny artboard inside of Artboard 2? If I were to just start dragging in order
to draw a new artboard, I wouldnt draw the artboard, instead I would move the existing artboard.
So Ill press Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z on the Mac, to undo that movement.
Heres what you do instead, you press the Shift key, and you drag.
Now notice, as long as I have the Shift key down, I go ahead and create an artboard with
the proportions of the other artboards inside this image.
If I dont want to constrain the proportions, then I would release the Shift key as I am drawing the artboard.
So you just need to press it right at the outset of the drag in order to create that
new artboard, like so.
What if you want to duplicate an artboard? Well, if I want to move it of course, I just drag.
If I want to duplicate it, I press and hold the Alt key or the Option key on a Mac.
Notice that gives me that little clone cursor there, because Im seeing two arrow heads,
one on top of another.
Then you drag while the Alt or Option key is down, and you go ahead and create a duplicate of that artboard.

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You may ask, didnt I just say a moment ago that when you press the Alt key or the Option
key on the Mac, and you click on an existing artboard you cycle back to one of the other
ones, and thats true, if I were to Alt+Option-click, Id go and select Artboard 2 right through Artboards 09 and 11.
However, if you Alt drag, then you make a copy.
Finally, I want to show you how to copy not only the artboard, but the art thats inside
of it as well, and Ill demonstrate that using Artboard 04.
I want to select the artboard right away without selecting the bigger one, so Ill just Alt-click
or Option-click on it so that I cycle right to it.
Then you go up to the Options bar, and you click on this icon Move/Copy Artwork with
artboard to turn it back on, and now you go ahead and Alt-drag or Option-drag that artboard,
and youll copy both the Artboard, and the number 04 inside of it, along with.
And that friends is how you create and copy artboards with the help of the Shift as well
as the Alt and Option key. Illustrator CS6

Changing the size and shape of artboards in Illustrator CS6


In this movie, I will show you how to change the change the shape and size of your artboards.

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I have gone ahead and restored the saved version of 8-page newsletter.ai found inside the 02_artboards folder.
 Now the first thing I would like you to do, just to make sure that you and I are on the same page, is to go up to the View menu, and make sure that the Smart Guides command is turned on.
 If you see a check mark everythings good, if not go ahead and choose the command, you also have the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+U and Command+U on a Mac.
 What Smart Guides do is they allow you to align objects inside of your illustrationsas well as artboards on the fly.
 Next step, of course, is to switch to Artboard tool, you can get by pressing Shift+O, or you can just click on it here inside the toolbox.
 But before I do that, I want you to notice something.
 At this point, you can see that page 1 is active because it has a black outline, whereas page 2 or Artboard 2 if you prefer is not selected nor or any of the others, because they have gray outlines.
 If you click on lets say Artboard 4, you can see that it gets the black outline because
its now active and the others are inactive.
Youll also see a number 4 down here in the bottom left corner of the window.
Illustrator goes ahead and numbers Artboards automatically, in the order you create them.
You can override that however that I will show you in a later movie.
Now I will go ahead and switch to the Artboard tool and notice that Artboard 4 is highlighted.
So I just want you to see that artboard thats selected in a standard mode also become selected here inside Artboard mode.
I am going to go ahead and switch back to Artboard 1 by clicking on it and notice that
you have these handles that are surrounding the Artboard.
If you drag one of the handles then you will resize Artboard on the fly and see those green lines, those are the Smart Guides.
So I have got one Smart Guide on the far right side of artboard and another down there at
the bottom thats showing me that I have a center intersection.
So I know that Im exactly aligned to the right side of pages 2 and 6 as well as the

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center of the bottom row of artboards.
Now, I am going to drag this bottom handle down until I get alignment with the bottom
of those artboards, and I now have this large artboard that includes 1, 2, 5, and 6 and
has independent artboards inside of it for 2, 5, and 6, which can be a very useful way
to work if you want to have one larger artboard that includes all the artwork inside of a
document, for example, as well as independent artboards for each item.
Its a great way to organize and control the output of your artboard.
You also have some options that are available to you up here in the Options bar.
Notice that I have these orientation icon, so I can switch from Portrait to Landscape
just by clicking on it.
You can also select from preset artboard sizes, such as the popular page sizes letter here
Illustrator CS6in States and A4 in Europe and elsewhere.
Ill go ahead and select A4 for now.
You also have numerical control over the size and location of your artboard.
Lets say, I want to go ahead and switch mine back to 6x8 inches.
I would go ahead and highlight Width value, and you can do that, by the way just by clicking
on the letter next to it.
So Ill click on the W, and Ill change it to 6 in, and then press the tab key, and Ill
change the Height value which is now active to 8 in order to reset the size of that page.
Notice however, that Illustrator went ahead and resized the artboard with respect to its
center, and thats because the center reference point is selected up here in the Options bar.
If I want to position the artboard with respect to its upper left corner, I go ahead and click
on the upper left point inside of that reference matrix, and now Ill change the X value to 0,
and then Ill tab to the Y value and change it to 0 as well, and that gos ahead and restores
the original location of the page. In order to accept the work just press the Escape key
in order to return to the Black Arrow tool.

In this movie, I will show you how to modify a document by moving its artboards to different locations. Illustrator CS6 Tutorial Video This works a little differently inside Illustrator than it does inside other programs. Quite a bit differently than you would reasonably think as well but once you come to terms with it makes a fair amount of sense. Working inside of a document called 8-page newsletter.ai, its found inside the O2artboards folder. Notice if you go up here to the File menu, you have a Document Setup Command, that allows

>Moving and modifying artboards in Illustrator CS6

 you to modify the existing document. The keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Alt+P, or Command+Opt +P on the Mac, I will go and choose the command. Notice that we have a whole slew of options that we did not see in the new Document Dialog Box, and were missing a lot of those options as well, we have no control over page size. The only options that we have that are the same these Bleed values, and the option to change the unit of measure. We do have this button right here called Edit Artboards, and you can either click on it,

Illustrator CS6 Tutorial Video which will take you to the Edit Artboard mode or going Cancel out of this dialog box. You also have the option of selecting the Artboard tool, so you have to switch tools in order to edit the Artboards, and this tool has a keyboard shortcut of Shift+O. Im going to go ahead and click on it in order to switch to the Artboard mode. And notice now that the active Artboard is highlighted, and I can drag it to a different location to move it, and this area back here on which the Artboards rest, this area of gray is known as the Pasteboard, or you sometimes see it called the Canvas as well inside of Illustrator. I prefer Pasteboard, however, because you can move objects into the Pasteboard if you want to get them off the printed pages just to keep them around for later. Notice up here in the Options bar, we have this icon that says Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard, and by default its turned on.

Illustrator CS6 Tutorial Video So that means if I drag this Artboard with a 1 in it, the one moves along as well, and now that if I put Artboards in this location, it thinks that the 2, 5 & 6 are part of the gang, and I would move them along with. Now I have got the 3 & 7 involved and ultimately I could get all the numbers on to this one Artboards if I like.Illustrator CS6 Tutorial VideoOf course, theres no reason to do that Ive made a mess of this document, which is why its fortunate that Illustrator not only provides an Undo command but it also provides you with multiple Undos. And you perform the Undos either by choosing this first command from the Edit menu or by pressing Ctrl+Z on the PC, or Command+Z on the Mac.

 And Ill just keep pressing that keyboard shortcut until I get my pages back to where they were. Another option for restoring the appearance of your Artwork is to go up to the File menu and choose the Revert command. Now my case revert is dimmed and thats because I went ahead and undid everything that Ive done since opening the document. So, go ahead and redo the last operations by going up to the Edit menu and either choosing the Redo command, or you can press Ctrl +Shift+C, or Cmd+Shift+C on the Mac. And again, weve got multiple redos as well.

So if I press Ctrl+Shift+C, or Cmd+Shift+C, again, then I go ahead and remove the 1, 2, 5, & 6. Now lets say I want to get back to the original version of this Artwork. Go up to the File menu and choose the Revert command, or you have a keyboard shortcut of F12. When I choose this command I get a warning that tells me hey, youre about to lose everything youve done that you didnt save associate with this document. And this is not an undoable operation. So, its something of a defcon if you really messed things up. This is a command to take care of things, and then you click on the Revert button everything goes back to the way was you notice up here in the Edit menu, the Undo command is dimmed because as I say reverting is not undoable, so take care with that one. Now lets say you want to move in Artboard but you dont want move the contents of that Artboard. You want to everything stay where it is.

Then you go to the Options bar and turn off Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard, and then you drag the Artboard any where you like and notice that the contents of that Artboard never move along with it.Illustrator CS6 Tutorial VideoThats how you move in Artboard either with or without the Artwork. Just remember, anytime you want to change your Artboards, whether youre moving them or changing their size as well see in the next exercise. You want to go ahead and switch over to the Artboard tool which you can get by pressing Shift+O. To leave the Artboard mode, you either switch to any other tool here inside the toolbox, or you just press the Escape key, which will take you back to your last used tool which in my case is the Black arrow.Illustrator CS6 Tutorial Video

In this movie, I will show you how to zoom in and out in Illustrator cs6..

And the idea is this, sometimes you are going to want to magnify portions of your illustration
in order to fine-tune adjustments, and other times you are going to want to zoom out so that you can take in your entire artwork at a time.
I am working inside of a document called Welcome again.ai found inside the 03_navigation folder.
If I go up to the Window menu and choose Artboards command, you can see that this document contains
a total of six Artboards.
So we have the central Welcome screen, and then we have renderings of a bunch of paint tool cursors.
These are the new paint tool cursors in Illustrator cs6  and then finally I have got this big
Artboard that contains everything.
I just wanted you to see that because these Artboards will become important in a moment.
In the meantime though, you zoom in and out from an Illustrationright here located in the View menu.
Now notice that each one of them has a keyboard shortcut.
I find that folks fall into a couple of different categories where shortcuts are concerned.
They either love them and they use them all the time that would be me, by the way.
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Thats why I mentioned them as I am going through these movies. Other folks just hate them especially when they are first trying to come to terms with a piece of software.
So tell you this you can use keyboard shortcuts or not but I do recommend that you at least
learn these shortcuts here.
Because that will help you move more quickly through the software, also it allows you to
spend less time on focusing on the mechanics of Illustrator and more time and energy on your artwork.
So if you want to zoom in, you can choose the Zoom In command as I am doing here but you are better of using the keyboard shortcut which are easy to remember Ctrl+Plus, or Command+Plus
on the Mac, and you can see that thats zooming me in incrementally.
If I want to Zoom Out, I press Ctrl+Minus, or Command+Minus on the Mac, and again that
zooms me out incrementally.
Notice that I am viewing the Illustration right now at 100%.
Now extensively, this is  Illustration showing you Artboard at the sizable print.
However, it is not really accurate and the reason is Illustrator is assuming your screen
resolution is 72 pixels per inch which dates way back to those old 1984 Macintosh boxes,
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that just isnt the case anymore.
Your screen is more likely to have a resolution in a neighborhood of 100 to 120 pixels per
inch, in which case the Artboards is actually going to print larger than it appears at 100%.
So thats just something to bear in mind.
Now if this were a program like Photoshop, and we kept zooming in from 100% then we would
get bigger and bigger pixels, but  Illustrator cs6  is working with vectors, and it is rendering
those vectors to your screen on the fly and as a result we get greater and greater detail
as we zoom in, and you can see that you can zoom in all the way to 6400%, which is a sufficient
level of magnification to see a large bacteria, which is why I have gone ahead and drawn a
little bacteria, right here an  Illustration.
Thats how big the largest bacteria are.
So Illustrator really allows you to hone in on that detail.
Now if you want to return to the 100% percent view at any point in time, you just
Ctrl+1, or Command+1 on the Mac. 
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  You may also remember from the previous chapter that if you want to zoom in on a specific
Artboard, all you have to do is double-click on that Artboard here inside the Artboards panel.
Another way to work, if I press Ctrl+Alt+0, or Command+Option+0 on the Mac, to go all the way out and take in my entire artwork at a time.
I can click on any one of these Artboards to make it active, and then press Ctrl+0, or Command+0 on the Mac, to zoom in on it, and just as with double-clicking on an Artboard,
here inside the Artboards panel, Ctrl+0, or Command+ 0 goes ahead and fits the Artboard on the screen.
And incidentally, if you ever need to refresh your memory on the shortcuts, all you need
to do is go up to the View menu and check out these five commands right there. These are the shortcuts that Ive mentioned.
Ctrl+Plus, or Command+Plus to Zoom In, Ctrl+Minus, or Command+Minus to Zoom Out, Ctrl+0, or Command+0
to fit the Artboard in the window, Ctrl+Alt+0, or Command+Options+0 on the Mac, to fit everything,
the entire document inside the window, and then Ctrl+1, or Command+1 on the Mac, to go
to the Actual Size which is the 100% view. And thats how you zoom in and out from an Illustration. from the keyboard inside Illustrator cs6 

In this movie, Ill show you how Artboards and Rulers interact with each other inside Illustrator cs6.

I have saved my progress as Nice and tidy.ai.
Im going to once again switch to the Artboard tool, and then Ill bring up my Rulers by
going up to the View menu choosing Rulers and then choosing the Show Rulers Command. And what that does is it shows me about the Horizontal Ruler at up the top of the screen
and the Vertical Ruler over here on the left-hand side.
And we can see that the unit of measure is points and the reason we can see that is because
theyre very dinky units.Illustrator cs6.
If you wanted to switch out the unit of measure the easiest option is to right-click on either
one of the Rulers, and then choose a different unit, such as Inches, and then both Rulers will update in kind.
Now notice this 00 point right there, so there is a 0 point for the Vertical Ruler, and there is a 0 point for the Horizontal Ruler.
I am going to go ahead and put a couple of guides at those locations by dragging out from the Vertical Ruler, and I am going to press the Shift key as I drag in order to.
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I have snapped into Alignment with 0 on the Horizontal Ruler, and Ill Shift-drag down
form the Horizontal Ruler in order to snap into Alignment with the 0 point there on the Vertical Ruler.
So thats our 00 point right now. Used to be the 00 point was at the upper left corner of the First Artboard but that was
before I went and made all of these Modifications.
The reason I am showing you this couple of reasons just want you to see, whats going on.
Artboard 10 is still selected and notice were seeing this X and Y coordinates. And if I go ahead and change Reference Point to the upper left point there, then Ill see
Illustrator cs6.that the pages 24 is .25 inches to the right of and 8.92 inches down from that 00 point.
If I wanted to move this Artboard into alignment with the 00 point, Id start by turning off
that move copy Artwork with Artboard Option, because I want to move just the Artboard lets
say, then Ill change the X value 0 and the Y value to 0 as well and that snaps it exactly into alignment.
Illustrator CS6 Tutorial VideoNow press Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z, a couple of times in order to reinstate the position of
that Artboard because I say thats not what I want to do when I do want to do is I want
to go ahead and move the 00 point into exact alignment with the top left corner of Artboard 10.
Well one way to move the 00 point is to go ahead and drag from the upper left corner where the two Rulers intersect each other, and then you can just drop that 00 point in
the place, and now my 00 points right about there, as you can see, in the Horizontal and Vertical Rulers.
If you want to snap into alignment with an Artboard however, you just double-click on that point, and now notice the 00 point is aligned with the upper left corner of Artboard 10.
If I wanted to be aligned with the upper left of Artboard 1 instead, Ill go head and click
Illustrator cs6.on Artboard 1 and double-click on that Ruler Intersection Point up there in the upper left-hand corner.
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I dont need those Guides anymore.
So Ill go to the View menu choose Guides and then choose the Clear Guides command to get rid of them.
One more thing I wanted to know about Rulers when youre working inside the Artboard mode, you have whats known as Global Rulers which are aligned to all the Artboards. So in other words, we have 100 point, thats aligned to the upper left-hand corner of the
first Artboard and all the other tick marks are aligned to that point, regardless of which
of the artboards is selected. Compare that to the behavior when were out of the Artboard mode, I am going to press the Escape key here in order to switch back to my black arrow tool.
And now notice that my 00 point appears at the upper left corner of Artboard 3 when Artboard 3 is active.
If I were to click on Artboard 2, then Id switch 00 point to its upper left corner, and so on.
So each and every Artboard has its own independent Ruler System. Thats the way it works in every application out there however you can switch this behavior
inside of Illustrator cs6.. By going up to the View menu Rulers Command, and then notice this guy change to Global
Rulers Ctrl+Alt+R, or Command+Opt+R on the Mac.
And that will go ahead and switch you to Uniform Global Ruler System regardless of which of the Artboards is selected.
So notice, I am clicking on different Artboards here and that is not changing the behavior

here inside Illustrator cs6..