From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Illustrator

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Adding the print area

Adding the print area - Illustrator Tutorial

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Adding the print area

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- [Instructor] We're going to have a margin around this poster with elements that just spill off into that margin. It's known as breaking the frame when you do that. So we're going to draw essentially the color print area of our document. To do that, tap M on your keyboard, that will get you the rectangle tool. And if you look over in the toolbox, you'll see that it is highlighted. Now, using the sketch as a guide and only as a guide, just a rough guide, just click and draw a rectangle across, like so. Once you've done that, what we're going to do is we're going to actually come across to the layers panel here, which if it isn't open, you can just click on the icon just there, or go to the window menu and choose it. And then this small icon here, toggles the visibility. So we're going to turn that off for a second so we can see how our shape sits. Now the sketch is only a guide and not accurate. So we can see here…

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