- [Instructor] In this movie,
I'll show you how to create and duplicate artboards
using the artboard tool, and as things stand now,
you can only create one artboard at a time,
but you can duplicate as many artboards as you like.
And so, I'm going to start things off by creating a new number,
which I'm going to do by clicking on the eight,
with the black arrow tool,
and then I'll go up to the edit menu
and choose the copy command,
or you have that standard keyboard shortcut
of control c here on a PC, or command c on the Mac.
Now, I'll go ahead and scroll over to the right,
using my horizontal scroll bar,
and then I'll return to the edit menu,
and choose the paste command,
or you have that industry standard shortcut
of control v here on the PC, or command v on a Mac,
which goes ahead and pastes that number
in the center of the screen.
Alright, now I want to surround this number
with a new artboard,
and so I'll go ahead and switch to the artboard tool,
which you can get by pressing shift o,
and then, you have a few different ways to work.
One is to just drag with the tool like so,
and assuming that your smart guides are turned on,
you'll see the size of your artboard represented
in that heads up display,
down into the right of your cursor.
So, that's one way to work.
Another way, I'll just go ahead and press control z,
or command z on the Mac to undo that artboard,
is to drag from the center of the number, for example,
and then as you're dragging, press and hold the alt key,
or the option key on the Mac,
and that'll draw your artboard from the center outward.
But, note that you need to keep the alt or option key down,
if you release the key mid-drag,
then you'll go ahead and draw your artboard
from one corner to another.
Alright, so I'll go ahead and press the alt key,
once again, that's the option key on the Mac.
If you want to constrain the portions of your artboard,
to match the proportion
of your previously selected artboard,
in our case artboard eight but,
they're all really the same size,
then you want to press and hold the shift key.
So at this point I have both the shift and alt keys down,
if I were working on the Mac, I'd be pressing
both the shift and option keys.
And then, when you release, you'll create your new artboard.
Alright, there's a couple of other different ways to work.
Go ahead and press control z, or command z on the Mac
to undo that change, and I'll just click on the eight.
Now, in my case, that's not doing anything
but deselecting artboard eight,
down and to the left of the new eight,
and so if that happens to you,
just go ahead and click again,
in order to create an artboard that's auto-sized
to that selected number.
And, by the way, the reason it's so much taller
than the number is because it needs to allow room
for the ascenders and descenders
associated with many of the different characters
included with this font.
Alright, I'm going to undo that artboard,
and we'll see the last way to work,
which is to click on this little page icon,
up here in the control panel.
Now, whenever you see page icons inside Illustrator,
that means you're going to create something new.
And because we're working in the artboard mode,
that's going to create a new artboard.
And so notice, as soon as I click on that icon,
I create a new artboard next to the previously selected one,
which is artboard eight.
Alright, I'm going to scroll up a little bit,
using the vertical scroll bar,
over here on the far right-hand side of the screen,
and then I'll go ahead and drag this top handle upwards,
in order to scale that new artboard like so.
Alright, now notice for some reason,
even though Illustrator is acknowledging
that it's the ninth artboard,
and we can tell that because we're seeing an oh nine
in this little title tab here.
But the program is automatically
naming this artboard, artboard 11.
If you want to change that, go up here to the name option,
once again in the control panel, click inside of it,
and then enter, in my case, artboard nine, let's say,
and then I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on a Mac, and that goes ahead and
automatically updates that title.
Alright, now let's say I want to change my eight to a nine,
then I could just switch to the type tool,
which looks like a capital T here in the tool box,
and that'll go ahead and take me
out of the artboard editing mode,
as well as change my cursor to a little I-beam,
and now I'll drag over the eight,
and enter a nine in its stead,
and then I'll press the escape key,
in order to exit the text entry mode.
Now let's say I want to center that nine on the artboard,
then, notice this align option up here on the control panel.
Go ahead and click on it to bring up the align panel,
drop down to this align to option,
in the bottom-right corner, click on it,
and change it to align to artboard,
and then, go ahead and click on the second icon
in the first row, which reads horizontal align center,
and that will center the number nine as we're seeing here,
after which point you can just press the enter key,
or the return key on a Mac, to hide that align panel.
Alright, now let's say we want to duplicate artboard nine.
In that case, I'd go up to the view menu,
and choose the zoom out command,
just so I have a little more room to work,
and now, I'll scroll over to the left,
by, once again, dragging inside this horizontal scroll bar
at the bottom of the screen, and then,
I'll switch to the artboard tool,
again, you can get that by pressing shift o,
and what I'm going to do this time is,
instead of dragging this artboard,
which is just going to move it to a different location,
in which case I'll press control z, or command z on the Mac
to undo that change,
you'll want to press the alt key,
or the option key on a Mac,
which will change your cursor to a double arrowhead,
at which point you can drag that artboard,
let's say, way over here to the left,
in order to create a copy of it.
And because I'm seeing that horizontal magenta smart guide,
I am dragging this artboard exclusively horizontal.
And because I had the alt or option key down,
I'm creating a duplicate of that artboard
as we're seeing right here.
Now, another way to work
is to absolutely constrain your drag,
if you want to drag exclusively horizontally or vertically,
and you do that by adding the shift key.
And I'll repeat that operation by once again,
alt or option dragging that artboard,
and so, as you can see, I have a double arrowhead cursor,
which is showing me that I'm going to create a duplicate,
and then if I were to add the shift key,
so I have both the shift key and alt keys down
here on the PC, or the shift and option keys down on a Mac,
then I constrain the angle of my drag to exactly horizontal.
And thanks to the fact that this icon is turned on,
move/copy artwork with artboard,
I am copying the number nine along with artboard nine,
which now has the name of artboard nine copy.
Which of course you could change if you like,
and so I'm just going to go ahead and click inside this guy
and change it to artboard zero, let's say,
and then I'll select my type tool,
which once again looks like a capital letter T,
and I'll drag over the nine and change it to a zero,
and press the escape key to accept that change.
Alright now, as I said, you can duplicate
as many artboards as you like.
And so, let's say I want to duplicate artboards
five, six, seven, and eight,
then I would go ahead and switch to the artboard tool,
once again, and then I would click off that first artboard
to deselect it, and then I would go ahead and shift drag,
in order to partially marquee, as you're seeing here,
artboards five through eight,
so that goes ahead and selects that entire range.
And now I'm scrolling down
just by using the scroll wheel on my mouse,
after which point, I'll press the alt key,
or the option key on a Mac, and drag these guys down,
and if I want to constrain the angle of my drag
to exactly vertical this time around,
I'd add the shift key.
So here on the PC, I have both the shift and alt keys down,
on a Mac, I would be pressing
both the shift and option keys.
Alright, now I'll just go ahead and press the escape key,
in order to exit the artboard editing mode,
and return control to my black arrow tool,
after which point I would go up to the view menu,
and choose fit all in window,
in order to see all 14 of my artboards onscreen.
And that is how you create and duplicate artboards
using the artboard tool here inside the most recent version
of Illustrator CC.