- [Instructor] In this movie we'll take a look
at the advanced settings that are available to you
when creating a new document, which are now relegated
to the More Settings dialogue box.
And so I'll start things off, as usual,
by going to the File menu and choosing the New command,
or you have the keyboard shortcut of Control + N on a PC,
or Command + N on a Mac.
And I'll go ahead and select this first item
in the Recent list, which brings up that document
that measures six inches wide by eight inches tall,
with a total of six artboards.
And I'll go ahead and give it a name as well
of 8-page newsletter.
Now let's say I want to change the way
the artboards are arranged inside the document.
In that case, I would click on the More Settings button
in order to bring up the legacy-style new document
dialogue box, which now goes by the name More Settings.
And as you can see here,
in addition to this number of artboards value,
I can control how the artboards are arranged.
So the default setting of Grid By Row
goes ahead an sets the first three artbaords across the top,
and the next four artboards across the bottom
of the larger document.
But I could arrange them vertically instead.
And notice as soon as I select this icon,
this option right here changes from Columns to Rows.
Or I could put all of the artboards
in a single row or a single column.
And I can change the direction of the layout as well.
All right, I'm going to reset this final icon
to the Right-to-Left Layout.
And I'm going to select Grid by Row
and I'm going to change the Number of Artboards to eight.
At which point setting them in three columns
doesn't really make any sense
because eight is not divisible by three.
So we'd have an extra artboard down at the bottom.
And to account for this, I'll go ahead
and correct my Columns value up to four.
I can also set the amount of space between my artboards.
And so notice that my units are currently set to inches.
I'll just go ahead and change this value
to 1/3, that is one third, and then when I press the tab key
Illustrator converts that value to a decimal.
But as I say, I'd rather work with points, so I'll go ahead
and change that unit setting to points, like so.
Now I want you to drop down here to these Advanced options,
which are preceded by this triangle.
This is known as a twirly triangle in the trade
and that's because it twirls a group of options
closed or open, like so.
At which point we'll see three new options,
starting with Color Mode.
And notice that we have CMYK and RGB.
CMYK is named for the four process color inks
associated with commercial printing, and the letters
stand for cyan, magenta, yellow, and the key color black.
RGB gives you the primary colors of light,
which are red, green, and blue.
And so typically the way you work is if you're creating
a document that you want to reproduce
with a commercial printer, then you choose CMYK.
If you're creating a document for the screen,
whether for the web or a device, then you go with RGB.
Now I'm seeing this little warning icon
because Illustrator's telling me that I've selected
a different profile than is normally associated
with the print document, which is where I started.
That doesn't really matter, though,
you can always go your own way
but I am going to switch back to CMYK for now.
Our next option is Raster Effects
and raster is just another word for pixels.
And so your raster effects are anything that gets converted
to pixels on the fly, which include drop shadows
and other soft, blurry effects.
Notice by default it's set to High, which 300 ppi,
but you can take it as low as Screen which is 72 ppi.
Now that's a pretty outmoded standard, by the way.
Today's device screens range between 200 pixels per inch
up to 300 and even higher.
72 pixels per inch hearkens back to the very first
Macintosh computers back in 1984.
However, the advantage of going with screen
is that your drop shadows and other raster effects
render much more quickly, where if you leave this option
set to high, they may render very slowly indeed.
Which is why I typically split the difference
by going with Medium, which gives you plenty of pixels
to once again pull off drop shadows and other soft effects.
Next we have Preview Mode
and you have two alternate options, Pixel,
which is designed for screen graphics,
and what Illustrator is going to do in that case
is display the graphic as it would really print
on a screen, so you'll see pixels
just the way you would inside Photoshop.
Overprint allows you to preview what it looks like
if you print cyan ink on top of magenta, for example.
But you really don't need to worry about this option.
Just go ahead and leave it to default
because if need be, you can always change the Preview
on the fly inside Illustrator,
as we'll see in future chapters.
All right, I also want you to note that you can switch
to a different profile any time you like.
For example, I could select Art & Illustration,
in which case I'm going to upset all of the settings
I've applied so far, but that's not really a problem
because I can dial in those values so easily
just by changing the number of artboards to eight.
I'll go ahead and press the tab key a couple of times
to advance to the spacing value, and I'll set that,
once again, to 1/3 so that is one third,
double quote for inches, press the tab key
and Illustrator converts that to points.
You can nudge a value from the keyboard
by pressing the up arrow key, as I'm doing here,
or the down arrow key, in order to increase
or decrease that value in increments of one.
Then I'll select the Width value and change it
to 6", for six inches, and I'll tab to the Height value
and change it to 8", and Illustrator goes ahead
and converts those values to points once again on the fly.
Then I'll select this Top Bleed value,
notice that they're all linked together.
You can unlink them if you like, but generally
it's okay for all your bleed values to be the same.
And I'll change this first guy to 1p6,
that is one pica, six points, and notice,
that goes ahead and converts all those values to 18 points.
I'll change the Color Mode from RGB to CMYK.
The warning does not matter at all.
And then I'll change the Raster Effects to 150 ppi
and I'll click on the create new document button
in order to create a document that contains eight artboards
that are arranged in a total of four columns
and two rows.
And that's how you take advantage
of the advanced new document settings
that are now arranged in the More Settings dialogue box
here inside the most recent version of Illustrator CC.