- In this movie, I'll show you how
to cycle between the screen modes,
as well as how to hide and show interface elements.
And this is all about other ways to manage
your onscreen experience, as well as
show off your work to coworkers,
colleagues, clients, and so forth.
And then I promise, after this, in the next chapter,
we'll actually get down to the task of drawing.
Alright, so notice down here at the bottom of the Toolbox,
we have this icon that says Change Screen Mode.
If you click and hold on it, you'll see a popup menu
of three different screen modes that are
available to you in Illustrator.
I want you to also notice that if you hover above this icon,
you're going to see a keyboard shortcut of "F."
And that is for the word, "full," in the Fullscreen modes.
And when I say "F," by the way,
you just press the "F" key and nothing more.
Now, I want you to notice, before we do anything else,
that by default we're working in what's called
the Standard Screen mode, which means we're seeing
the menu bar, as well as the control panel,
all the title tabs as well
for these multiple open documents,
we have the Toolbox over here
on the lefthand side of the screen,
and we have the panels on the righthand side of the screen.
Also, everything is adjacent.
So we're seeing both the vertical
and the horizontal scroll bars in their entirety.
If I switch to the next screen mode by pressing the "F" key,
then notice that I hide all of the title tabs,
and my window now expands to behind the panel.
So notice that we're not seeing the
vertical scroll bar anymore.
And Illustrator's also allowing the document
to tuck behind the toolbox, which, in other words,
gives us more room to work.
I can even go ahead and lift the bottom of the panels
over here on the righthand side of the screen
so that we can see a little more of the document window.
Which again is great if you just want to maximize
how much room you have onscreen.
Now, you may worry that you're not seeing
any of the title tabs, but the fact is
you can still switch between the various open documents
by pressing "ctrl + tab" here on the PC,
or "command + ~" on the Mac.
And you may notice that these various documents
are no longer centered inside of the document window.
If you want to center them, of course,
all you have to do is press "ctrl + 0,"
or "command + 0" on the Mac,
and that will center the document
across the full width of your screen.
Alright, now for the big one.
If you press the "F" key again,
you're going to hide everything except for the scroll bars
and the Zoom and Artboard options
in the lower left corner of the screen.
So in other words, we're hiding the menu bar,
we're hiding the control panel, we're hiding the Toolbox,
and we're hiding the right side panels.
Which is great, again, for showing off your artwork.
So for example, if I press "ctrl + tab" or "command + ~"
a few more times in order to see
the welcome screen by itself, then I could press
"ctrl + 0" or "command + 0" on the Mac
in order to center the illustration,
and I could click inside the Zoom Value
and I could press the "up" arrow key
until I feel like I'm seeing exactly that portion of
the document that I want to see onscreen,
which I believe happens at about 66%.
And that way I can show off my artwork
without having any of the interface in the way.
Now, a lot of people get a little bit panicked,
especially at this point, with this trick, because,
"My goodness, how in the world
do I bring the interface back?"
Well, there's a handful of different ways.
First of all, you can just hover
where the thing that you're missing should be.
For example, if you move your cursor over
to the left side of the screen,
you're going to see the Toolbox,
at which point you could switch to a different tool,
like the Rectangle tool, and then if you like,
draw a rectangle inside of the document.
Which I'm not going to do,
I'm just demonstrating that it's possible.
And notice, as soon as you move your cursor away
from the Toolbox, it once again disappears.
The same is true of the right side panels.
So you can go ahead and hover over
the right side of the screen in order to
bring up those panels.
And then, you can go ahead and click on this Navigator icon,
the little ship's wheel here, in order to
bring up that Navigator panel.
You can even change its size.
You have to be careful here though,
that you don't move your cursor outside the panel,
because then the panel will disappear.
And now I'm going to press the "ctrl" key,
or the "command" key on a Mac,
and drag across David's eyes, let's say,
in order to zoom very far in.
And now notice as soon as I move my cursor
away from those panels, then the panels disappear.
Alright, but the real question is, how in the world
do we bring everything back?
How do we get back to the standard screen mode?
And the answer is, you have one of two options.
Either you can press that same key
that got you here in the first place, which is the "F" key,
or you can press that key that you would
naturally anticipate would get you out of a problem,
and that's the escape key.
And that's going to bring everything back up onscreen,
including my now open Navigator panel.
Which I'm going to go ahead and hide
by clicking on its ">>" icon.
Alright now, just a few more tricks here.
You can temporarily hide all of the panels,
including the Toolbox and the Control panel,
by pressing the "tab" key.
And the advantage of that is that you still have
the menu bar available to you,
and you've got your title tabs.
And you can still take advantage
of those options I was telling you before.
If you want to bring back the toolbox, you just hover
over here on the left hand side of the screen.
If you want to bring back the panels,
you hover your cursor over here
on the right hand side of the screen.
Now let's say you want to bring the panels back,
well again you press that same key
that got you here in the first place,
which is the "tab" key.
And just one more option, you can press "shift + tab"
in order to hide just the right side panels,
and leave everything up onscreen like so.
And then of course if you want to bring those panels back,
just go ahead and press "shift + tab" again.
I'll go ahead and press "ctrl + 0,"
or "command +0" on the Mac, and zoom in a little bit here.
You may wonder why, at the end of the last movie,
I was saying that this artwork fits so well
inside of this panel structure.
Well, there's one last thing that I'm going to do,
and that is, switch to the single-column Toolbox,
but clicking on this ">>" icon
in the upper left corner of the screen.
And now, if I press "ctrl + 0," or "command + 0" on the Mac,
you can see that things fit a little bit better anyway.
Now the one problem with switching screen modes
is that things like the color panel
have a tendency to expand.
If that happens to you though,
you can just drag on the bottom of that panel,
to give yourself room to work,
here inside the Layers panel.
And that is how you further manage your onscreen experience,
by cycling through screen modes,
as well as hiding and showing the interface.