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Working with artboards

Working with artboards - Illustrator Tutorial

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Working with artboards

- One way you can look at Artboards is almost like pages, but elements is a better idea. So for example, with the file in front of me, what I've been tasked with here in my imaginary tasking world is that I've been asked to produce some sale day stickers with an individual date on each one. And each one of these is going to be exported as a separate graphic, so it makes sense for me to do them on artboards because that way, I can control the file naming of the end result at the same time. Let's switch to the Artboard tool by holding down Shift on the keyboard and then tapping O for Oscar, and you'll see that the currently selected artboard, or the currently active artboard is selected. So when you work with artboards, you can name them individually, so you can see in the name field up here in the control strip and also over here in the Artboards panel, and it's a good idea to do that because if you use any of the export…

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