From the course: Creating Icons with Illustrator
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How to correctly set up a document - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Creating Icons with Illustrator
How to correctly set up a document
- [Instructor] Let's go over the basic settings, for creating a new document for print or web output. Here from within Adobe Illustrator, I'll click the create new button to create a new document. Let's start out by creating a print document. So what you can do is just click the print tab at the top of the screen, and you can choose from any of the basic settings that you have here. Now, I personally like to set my own settings here. So what you can do is you can just, for example, take a letter size paper. You can change the unit of measurement to whatever you like So this could be for example inches but some people like to use points. It kind depends on your personal style as well. So in this scenario, I'll just use inches. And I can make this a landscape type document. One artboard is enough for now. Notice that this comes with CMYK color, higher resolution raster effects if you were to use them, and a default preview…
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