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In this movie, Ill show you how I created the document that you see before you on screen. Ill give you a rough sense for what you can do in Illustrator and also give us a chance to save our changes in the very next movie. The name of the file is 8-page newsletter. ai is found inside the O1makedoc folder, and you can see that Ive label each of my artboards with these big numbers. And each one of the numbers is exactly centered on the page. I am excited to show you how I did that because its a really cool technique. So I am going to starts things off by going up to the Select menu and choosing the All Command, or you can press Ctrl+A, or Command+A on a Mac, thats going to select all eight of those numbers. And then Ill press the Shift key and Click on the 1 in order to deselect it, and you can see that is no longer selected because its baseline is disappeared. And the baseline is the imaginary line upon which all text sets, so in other words we have everything but the 1 selected. And I am going to press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac, in order to get rid of everything.
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And Im take this one is just could want to them to move them to an arbitrary location.  So lets start things off by centering the one, and you do that by going up to the Control panel at the top of the screen, go over here to the right-hand side, and youll see word Align, go ahead and click on it. And then well go and change is Align to Option from Align to Selection to Align to Artboard. And now Ill click on each one of these Middle Align Icons both Horizontal Align Center, and then Vertical Align Center. and then Vertical Align Center. So I am going to press Shift Down arrow--lets say two times--in order to nudge the number downward. Now Ill go up to the Edit menu, and Ill choose the Cut Command or press Ctrl+X, or

Command+X on the Mac. In illustrator cs6 you To go ahead and move that one to the clipboard, and now Ill go up to the Edit menu and choose one of the coolest commands inside the software paste on all artboards which has a gigantic keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+ Alt+V, or Command+Shift+Opt+V. And then well go ahead and paste that number onto every single page. And all you have to do is switch to the Type tool, which I can get by pressing the T key. But I should say here you may notice that on your toolbox the T is further down. Thats because youre working with a Single Column toolbox, and you can switch between them by clicking on this whole Double Arrow Icon. I have to work with a Double Column toolbox because my screens not tall enough to accommodate all of the tools otherwise.  Now I am going to switch to the Type tool, and then its just a matter of selecting each one of these numbers and changing it to a different number. So Im selecting all the ones and changing them, of course, to 2 through 8. And now Ill just switch back to my Default tool which Illustrator CS6 with this tutorial calls the Selection tool I just call it the Black Arrow tool because after all it is a black arrow. And that is how you construct a quick and dirty document here in Illustrator cs6 Tutorial.

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

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 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