From the course: Introducing Illustrator
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Resizing and adding artboards - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Illustrator
Resizing and adding artboards
- [Teacher] In this movie, I'll show you how to change the size of an artboard, as well as how to add artboards to a document. Which I think is safe to say, works very differently than you might think. And so here I am looking at that blank document that's sized to match an iPad Pro. And so the first step is to switch back to the Selection tool up here at the top of the toolbox. Which brings me back to my black-arrow cursor, which as I said, allows me to select whole objects inside Illustrator. It also brings up a bevy of context sensitive options here inside the Properties panel, including the Documents Setup button, which you might reasonably expect, allows you to change the size of the document. But notice if I click on that button, the only size values affect the bleed. And that's because any bleed you might enter is going to affect every single artboard inside the document, hence, Documents Setup. Alright, so…
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