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- [Instructor] In this movie,

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I'll introduce you to the artboards panel.

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Which allows you to manage your artboards,

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either in tandem with,
or independently of,

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the artboard tool.

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Now to get to the panel, you
go up to the window menu.

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Which provides access
to every single panel

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that's available to
you inside Illustrator.

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And it does so in alphabetical order.

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And you choose the artboards command.

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Now initially, your panel might
be a little bit too short,

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in which case you can scale it by

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dragging either this top boundary,

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or you can drag this bottom
border if you prefer.

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At which point, you'll
ultimately see a list

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of every single artboard
inside your document.

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Now I want you to notice something

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about the order of the artboards.

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The top artboard is actually
at the back of the stack,

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and the bottom artboard is in front.

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And so, for example, if I were to switch

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to the artboard tool, which I
can get by pressing shift O,

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and I grabbed artboard zero right here,

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and I dragged it to, say, this position.

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If I were to now click
on this little sliver

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of artboard six, I would
end up selecting it,

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as you can see here inside
the artboards panel.

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But if I were to click on
this part of artboard six,

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I would actually select artboard zero.

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And that's because even though it appears

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lower in the stack here
in the artboards panel,

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it's actually forward of artboard six.

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And so in other words, the
front most artboard there is,

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is going to be artboard d, right here.

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And to show you what that looks like,

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I'll go ahead and select it,

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and I'll drag it on top of artboard eight,

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and now notice if I click on
this portion of artboard eight,

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I do indeed select it.

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But if I click on this portion,

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I end up selecting artboard d instead.

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So always remember the top artboard

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is actually at the bottom of the stack.

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Alright, now just as you can
select multiple artboards

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out here in the document window,

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you can select multiple artboards

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inside the artboards panel.

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To select a range of artboards,

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click on one and then
shift click on another.

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So notice because I
clicked on artboard two

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and shift clicked on artboard zero,

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I end up selecting all the
artboards in between as well.

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If you want to select non-adjacent
artboards, for example,

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if I wanted to add artboard
d to the selection,

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I would control click on it.

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That would be a command click on the Mac.

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And you can see that
all of these artboards

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are selected here inside
the document window,

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and that's because my
artboard tool is active.

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However, I could press
the escape key to exit

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the artboard editing mode,

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and return control back
to the black arrow tool,

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and yet all of these artboards will remain

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selected here inside the artboards panel.

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Alright now I want to get
rid of a few artboards,

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and then move the other ones around.

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So I'm going to click on artboard nine,

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and shift click on artboard zero.

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And then I also want to
select artboard c and d,

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so I'm going to control,
or command, click on those.

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That's going to be a
control click on a PC,

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or a command click on a Mac.

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And then you just want to drop down

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to this little trash can icon,

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and click on it in order
to delete those artboards.

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And notice you don't get a warning message

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asking you if you really
want to delete the artboards.

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The reasoning being
that you're not actually

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deleting the content of those artboards.

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So all of my characters
of type remain on screen.

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However, you do have the option
of undoing that deletion,

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just by gong up to the edit menu

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and choosing the undo command.

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Or you can press control
z, or command z on a Mac.

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However, I do want to get
rid of those artboards,

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so I'll redo that deletion
by pressing control shift z.

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That would be command shift z on a Mac.

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Now at this point I'll go ahead

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and hide the artboards panel for a moment.

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I could get rid of these
extra numbers and letters

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right here, such as the d.

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I could click on it to select it,

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and then I could press the backspace key,

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or the delete key on a
Mac, to get rid of it.

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But you may find that
there's times where you don't

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actually want an object to
be part of your illustration,

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but you don't want to
get rid of it either.

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It might have been
created by somebody else

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and you don't want to ruin their work,

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or you may want to keep it for later.

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In which case, you can
just move things off

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into this dark gray paste board here,

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and then you can retrieve them later.

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So this way they're not really officially

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part of your document,

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but they're not completely gone either.

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Alright now I want to take
these two artboards down here,

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and I want to resize them so
that they match the others,

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because right now they're
a little bit taller.

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And so I'm going to bring
back my artboards panel,

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which of course I could do
by going to the window menu

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and choosing the artboards command.

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Or, notice we've got this
little icon over here,

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in the far right side of the
screen, that reads artboards.

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And so this little icon, two pages,

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one portrait, one landscape,

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that indicates the artboards panel.

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And you can see the panel's
name by hovering over it.

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I'll just go ahead and click on that icon

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to bring up the panel,

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and then I'm going to
select artboards a and b

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by clicking on one, and
shift clicking on the other.

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And now if I want to
resize those artboards

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then I would click on this
little fly up menu icon

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in the top right corner
of the artboards panel,

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this item that looks like a
bunch of horizontal lines,

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and choose artboard options.

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So this is yet another way

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to resize artboards in Illustrator,

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and the reason to use this option,

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is when the artboard tool is not selected.

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So notice even though the black arrow tool

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is selected currently,

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as soon as I choose this command,

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Illustrator goes ahead
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the artboard tool and it shows
us the selected artboards

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here inside the document window.

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All the non-selected artboards are dimmed,

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at which point I'd go ahead
and select this bottom point

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in the reference point matrix,

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and then I would change this height value

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to eight double quote, so eight inches.

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And then when I press the tab key,

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Illustrator goes ahead and automatically

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converts those inches to points.

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At which point, I'll
go ahead and click OK,

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and notice the second I do,

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Illustrator resizes my artboards.

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So this is the before
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and this is after.

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And it returns control
to the black arrow tool

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up here at the top of the tool box.

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And that is my brief introduction
to the artboards panel,

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which allows you to manage your artboards,

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either in tandem with,
or independently of,

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the artboard tool.