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- [Instructor] In this
movie, I'll show you

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how to create a new
document inside Illustrator.

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And this new document can be
a single-page illustration

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or it can contain multiple
pages, as we're about to see.

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Now, there are two ways to approach this.

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If you're not seeing the start screen,

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then you can just go up to the File menu

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and choose the New command,

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which has a very standard
keyboard shortcut

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of Control + N here on the
PC, or Command + N on the Mac.

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If you are seeing the start screen,

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which I can bring back by
clicking on this workspace option,

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which reads Essentials by default,

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and choosing Start from the menu.

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Then you have the additional
option of clicking

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on the Create new button, which retains

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that keyboard shortcut, once again,

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of Control or Command + N.

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Either way, you'll bring
up the recently revamped

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New Document dialogue box.

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Now initially you're
going to see thumbnails

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for the most recent kinds
of files you've created,

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which are not many in my case.

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But notice you also have
these additional groups

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of presets listed along
the top of the screen.

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So for example, if you
want to create a document

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that matches the screen
for a mobile device,

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you can click on the word Mobile,

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and then click View all Presets.

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And notice that we're
seeing there iPhone6,

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as well as the Surface Pro, and so forth.

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Now, as things stand now, this is actually

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getting to be a pretty old list.

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Where phones are concerned,

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we're really only missing
that switch hook model

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that George Bailey used
in It's a Wonderful Life.

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And meanwhile, I'm not sure how Adobe

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is going to handle
non-rectangular developments,

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such as the notch at the
top of the iPhone 10,

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but it's an ever moving target,

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so your options may be
different than mine.

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And if you scroll down,
using the scroll wheel

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on your mouse, you can also select

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one of these templates from
the Adobe stock library,

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many of which are free.

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Other options include Web, Film and Video,

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and everyone's destine
independent favorite,

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Art & Illustration, which we'll be using

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quite a bit in the future.

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But for the sake of demonstration,

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I'm going to switch to print,

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which allows me to select
standard paper sizes

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such as letter, A4 and so forth.

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And now I'm going to create
a custom blank document

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by first changing the name here.

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And by the way, this is
just a temporary name

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for your document.

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You don't actually decide the file name

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until you save the file to disk.

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Now notice that by default,
at least here in the States,

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the unit of measure is set to points.

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And I'll explain what's going
on there in the next movie,

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but for now, I'm going to
switch that unit to inches.

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Now I want to draw your attention
to this Artboards option.

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That determines the number of
pages inside your document,

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which may make you wonder
why in the world Illustrator

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calls pages artboards.

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Well, there are two reasons.

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First of all, the whole notion of pages

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is locked into a paper size,

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whereas artboards can
be any size you like,

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so that you can trim your artwork

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to a custom paper size for
commercial reproduction,

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or you can specify a device
resolution, and so forth.

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The other reason is that each
and every artboard inside

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your document can be a
different size and orientation.

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And we'll see what that looks
like in the next chapter,

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but for now, I'm going to change

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the number of Artboards to six.

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I also want to dial in a custom page size.

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So I'll select the Width value,

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and I'll change it to six,

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and then I'll tab to the
Height value, by tapping

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the Tab key, and I'll change
it to eight inches, like so.

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Now that ends up giving
me a vertical orientation,

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as indicated by this portrait icon.

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If you want to switch your
Artboards to horizontal,

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then click this landscape icon, instead,

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in which Illustrator goes
ahead and automatically

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swaps the Width and Height values.

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That's not really what I want, however,

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so I'll go ahead and
switch back to portrait.

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Now notice these bleed settings.

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The bleed allows you to
print beyond the edges

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of a piece of paper.

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So when you're commercially
reproducing a document,

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you can actually create
an image that's bigger

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than the trimmed page.

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And so the bleed gives you
the extra wiggle room you need

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for borderless printing.

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And so what I'm going to do is
click one of the up arrow icons

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associated with Top,
Bottom, Left or Right,

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and because the link icon is turned on,

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all the values are changing in kind.

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And I'm going to click one of
these up arrows a second time

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so we have a bleed of a quarter inch,

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which frankly, gives us
more than enough room

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to go borderless.

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And now I'll go ahead and
click the Create button,

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or again you can press the
Enter key here on the PC,

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or the Return key on the
Mac, in order to bring up

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your new document, complete
with a total of six artboards.

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All right, I want to center
the document on screen.

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So I'll go up to the View menu

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and choose Fit Artboard in Window.

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Now, actually I want to see all the pages,

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so I'll go back to the View menu

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and choose Fit All in Window, like so.

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And now I want you to know
what we're looking at here.

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Notice that each artboard
has a black or gray boundary,

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as well as a red one.

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The black or gray boundary represents

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the actual artboard
size, so in other words,

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this white area right here
measures six inches wide

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by eight inches tall.

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And so if we had to commercially
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then the commercial printer

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would trim the pages accordingly.

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This red boundary represents the bleed.

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And so that way you can
draw beyond the boundaries

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of your artboard, and everything inside

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this bleed area will print,

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it'll just get trimmed away.

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So again, when you hear
bleed, think borderless.

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And by the way, you can tell
which artboard is selected

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by the appearance of this
black boundary right here.

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So notice if I click in
the next artboard over,

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its boundary turns dark, while
the first one turns gray.

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And that just gives you
an admittedly subtle sense

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for which artboard is selected
at any given moment in time.

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You can also see the number
for the artboard down here

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in the bottom left corner of the screen.

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So currently, my second
artboard is selected.

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If I were to click on that first one,

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then that value changes
from two back to one.

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And that, folks, is how
you create a new document

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here inside the most recent
version of Illustrator CC.