- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you
how to create a new document inside Illustrator.
And this new document can be a single-page illustration
or it can contain multiple pages, as we're about to see.
Now, there are two ways to approach this.
If you're not seeing the start screen,
then you can just go up to the File menu
and choose the New command,
which has a very standard keyboard shortcut
of Control + N here on the PC, or Command + N on the Mac.
If you are seeing the start screen,
which I can bring back by clicking on this workspace option,
which reads Essentials by default,
and choosing Start from the menu.
Then you have the additional option of clicking
on the Create new button, which retains
that keyboard shortcut, once again,
of Control or Command + N.
Either way, you'll bring up the recently revamped
New Document dialogue box.
Now initially you're going to see thumbnails
for the most recent kinds of files you've created,
which are not many in my case.
But notice you also have these additional groups
of presets listed along the top of the screen.
So for example, if you want to create a document
that matches the screen for a mobile device,
you can click on the word Mobile,
and then click View all Presets.
And notice that we're seeing there iPhone6,
as well as the Surface Pro, and so forth.
Now, as things stand now, this is actually
getting to be a pretty old list.
Where phones are concerned,
we're really only missing that switch hook model
that George Bailey used in It's a Wonderful Life.
And meanwhile, I'm not sure how Adobe
is going to handle non-rectangular developments,
such as the notch at the top of the iPhone 10,
but it's an ever moving target,
so your options may be different than mine.
And if you scroll down, using the scroll wheel
on your mouse, you can also select
one of these templates from the Adobe stock library,
many of which are free.
Other options include Web, Film and Video,
and everyone's destine independent favorite,
Art & Illustration, which we'll be using
quite a bit in the future.
But for the sake of demonstration,
I'm going to switch to print,
which allows me to select standard paper sizes
such as letter, A4 and so forth.
And now I'm going to create a custom blank document
by first changing the name here.
And by the way, this is just a temporary name
for your document.
You don't actually decide the file name
until you save the file to disk.
Now notice that by default, at least here in the States,
the unit of measure is set to points.
And I'll explain what's going on there in the next movie,
but for now, I'm going to switch that unit to inches.
Now I want to draw your attention to this Artboards option.
That determines the number of pages inside your document,
which may make you wonder why in the world Illustrator
calls pages artboards.
Well, there are two reasons.
First of all, the whole notion of pages
is locked into a paper size,
whereas artboards can be any size you like,
so that you can trim your artwork
to a custom paper size for commercial reproduction,
or you can specify a device resolution, and so forth.
The other reason is that each and every artboard inside
your document can be a different size and orientation.
And we'll see what that looks like in the next chapter,
but for now, I'm going to change
the number of Artboards to six.
I also want to dial in a custom page size.
So I'll select the Width value,
and I'll change it to six,
and then I'll tab to the Height value, by tapping
the Tab key, and I'll change it to eight inches, like so.
Now that ends up giving me a vertical orientation,
as indicated by this portrait icon.
If you want to switch your Artboards to horizontal,
then click this landscape icon, instead,
in which Illustrator goes ahead and automatically
swaps the Width and Height values.
That's not really what I want, however,
so I'll go ahead and switch back to portrait.
Now notice these bleed settings.
The bleed allows you to print beyond the edges
of a piece of paper.
So when you're commercially reproducing a document,
you can actually create an image that's bigger
than the trimmed page.
And so the bleed gives you the extra wiggle room you need
for borderless printing.
And so what I'm going to do is click one of the up arrow icons
associated with Top, Bottom, Left or Right,
and because the link icon is turned on,
all the values are changing in kind.
And I'm going to click one of these up arrows a second time
so we have a bleed of a quarter inch,
which frankly, gives us more than enough room
to go borderless.
And now I'll go ahead and click the Create button,
or again you can press the Enter key here on the PC,
or the Return key on the Mac, in order to bring up
your new document, complete with a total of six artboards.
All right, I want to center the document on screen.
So I'll go up to the View menu
and choose Fit Artboard in Window.
Now, actually I want to see all the pages,
so I'll go back to the View menu
and choose Fit All in Window, like so.
And now I want you to know what we're looking at here.
Notice that each artboard has a black or gray boundary,
as well as a red one.
The black or gray boundary represents
the actual artboard size, so in other words,
this white area right here measures six inches wide
by eight inches tall.
And so if we had to commercially reproduce this document,
then the commercial printer
would trim the pages accordingly.
This red boundary represents the bleed.
And so that way you can draw beyond the boundaries
of your artboard, and everything inside
this bleed area will print,
it'll just get trimmed away.
So again, when you hear bleed, think borderless.
And by the way, you can tell which artboard is selected
by the appearance of this black boundary right here.
So notice if I click in the next artboard over,
its boundary turns dark, while the first one turns gray.
And that just gives you an admittedly subtle sense
for which artboard is selected at any given moment in time.
You can also see the number for the artboard down here
in the bottom left corner of the screen.
So currently, my second artboard is selected.
If I were to click on that first one,
then that value changes from two back to one.
And that, folks, is how you create a new document
here inside the most recent version of Illustrator CC.