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- [Instructor] In this
movie we'll take a look

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at the advanced settings
that are available to you

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when creating a new document,
which are now relegated

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to the More Settings dialogue box.

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And so I'll start things off, as usual,

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by going to the File menu
and choosing the New command,

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or you have the keyboard
shortcut of Control + N on a PC,

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or Command + N on a Mac.

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And I'll go ahead and
select this first item

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in the Recent list, which
brings up that document

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that measures six inches
wide by eight inches tall,

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with a total of six artboards.

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And I'll go ahead and
give it a name as well

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of 8-page newsletter.

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Now let's say I want to change the way

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the artboards are arranged
inside the document.

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In that case, I would click
on the More Settings button

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in order to bring up the
legacy-style new document

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dialogue box, which now goes
by the name More Settings.

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And as you can see here,

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in addition to this
number of artboards value,

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I can control how the
artboards are arranged.

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So the default setting of Grid By Row

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goes ahead an sets the first
three artbaords across the top,

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and the next four
artboards across the bottom

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of the larger document.

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But I could arrange
them vertically instead.

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And notice as soon as I select this icon,

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this option right here
changes from Columns to Rows.

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Or I could put all of the artboards

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in a single row or a single column.

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And I can change the direction
of the layout as well.

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All right, I'm going to
reset this final icon

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to the Right-to-Left Layout.

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And I'm going to select Grid by Row

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and I'm going to change the
Number of Artboards to eight.

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At which point setting
them in three columns

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doesn't really make any sense

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because eight is not divisible by three.

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So we'd have an extra
artboard down at the bottom.

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And to account for this, I'll go ahead

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and correct my Columns value up to four.

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I can also set the amount of
space between my artboards.

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And so notice that my units
are currently set to inches.

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I'll just go ahead and change this value

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to 1/3, that is one third, and
then when I press the tab key

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Illustrator converts
that value to a decimal.

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But as I say, I'd rather work
with points, so I'll go ahead

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and change that unit
setting to points, like so.

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Now I want you to drop down
here to these Advanced options,

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which are preceded by this triangle.

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This is known as a twirly
triangle in the trade

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and that's because it
twirls a group of options

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closed or open, like so.

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At which point we'll
see three new options,

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starting with Color Mode.

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And notice that we have CMYK and RGB.

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CMYK is named for the
four process color inks

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associated with commercial
printing, and the letters

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stand for cyan, magenta,
yellow, and the key color black.

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RGB gives you the primary colors of light,

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which are red, green, and blue.

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And so typically the way you
work is if you're creating

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a document that you want to reproduce

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with a commercial printer,
then you choose CMYK.

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If you're creating a
document for the screen,

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whether for the web or a
device, then you go with RGB.

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Now I'm seeing this little warning icon

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because Illustrator's
telling me that I've selected

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a different profile than
is normally associated

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with the print document,
which is where I started.

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That doesn't really matter, though,

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you can always go your own way

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but I am going to switch
back to CMYK for now.

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Our next option is Raster Effects

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and raster is just
another word for pixels.

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And so your raster effects are
anything that gets converted

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to pixels on the fly,
which include drop shadows

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and other soft, blurry effects.

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Notice by default it's set
to High, which 300 ppi,

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but you can take it as low
as Screen which is 72 ppi.

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Now that's a pretty outmoded
standard, by the way.

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Today's device screens range
between 200 pixels per inch

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up to 300 and even higher.

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72 pixels per inch hearkens
back to the very first

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Macintosh computers back in 1984.

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However, the advantage
of going with screen

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is that your drop shadows
and other raster effects

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render much more quickly,
where if you leave this option

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set to high, they may
render very slowly indeed.

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Which is why I typically
split the difference

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by going with Medium, which
gives you plenty of pixels

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to once again pull off drop
shadows and other soft effects.

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Next we have Preview Mode

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and you have two alternate options, Pixel,

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which is designed for screen graphics,

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and what Illustrator is
going to do in that case

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is display the graphic
as it would really print

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on a screen, so you'll see pixels

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just the way you would inside Photoshop.

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Overprint allows you to
preview what it looks like

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if you print cyan ink on
top of magenta, for example.

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But you really don't need
to worry about this option.

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Just go ahead and leave it to default

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because if need be, you can
always change the Preview

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on the fly inside Illustrator,

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as we'll see in future chapters.

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All right, I also want you
to note that you can switch

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to a different profile any time you like.

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For example, I could
select Art & Illustration,

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in which case I'm going to
upset all of the settings

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I've applied so far, but
that's not really a problem

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because I can dial in
those values so easily

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just by changing the number
of artboards to eight.

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I'll go ahead and press the
tab key a couple of times

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to advance to the spacing
value, and I'll set that,

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once again, to 1/3 so that is one third,

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double quote for inches, press the tab key

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and Illustrator converts that to points.

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You can nudge a value from the keyboard

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by pressing the up arrow
key, as I'm doing here,

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or the down arrow key,
in order to increase

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or decrease that value
in increments of one.

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Then I'll select the
Width value and change it

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to 6", for six inches, and
I'll tab to the Height value

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and change it to 8", and
Illustrator goes ahead

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and converts those values to
points once again on the fly.

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Then I'll select this Top Bleed value,

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notice that they're all linked together.

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You can unlink them if
you like, but generally

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it's okay for all your
bleed values to be the same.

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And I'll change this first guy to 1p6,

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that is one pica, six points, and notice,

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that goes ahead and converts
all those values to 18 points.

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I'll change the Color
Mode from RGB to CMYK.

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The warning does not matter at all.

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And then I'll change the
Raster Effects to 150 ppi

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and I'll click on the
create new document button

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in order to create a document
that contains eight artboards

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that are arranged in a
total of four columns

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and two rows.

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And that's how you take advantage

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of the advanced new document settings

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that are now arranged in the
More Settings dialogue box

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here inside the most recent
version of Illustrator CC.