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Large canvas

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- [Instructor] A couple of my friends are in the signage industry and they do things like vehicles and they also do big wall prints and things like that. And they've moaned to me for years and years and years about having to do calculations because of the limitations of Illustrator documents as it was then and then art boards. You know, I think it was around about eight feet by eight feet was the maximum, nowhere near big enough to wrap a van or a truck or a bus and so on. Well, the good news is now they can because the size of the art boards has gone up I think by about 100 times. It's really huge. The example you're seeing in front of you is a mural that I'm currently painting and this is actually done at size. Let's have a look, first of all, for the units here because if you ever visit this dialogue, you'll see there are some unfamiliar faces in here such as feet, feet and inches, yards, and then meters down at the…

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