From the course: Illustrator for Web Design
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Artboards - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Web Design
Artboards
- [Instructor] I'm gonna show you how you can set up multiple artboards to use in Illustrator. This is a great feature, because you can be working in one file and include layouts for small, medium, and large screen designs. You could even include layouts for multiple pages. I'm gonna go into Illustrator and I'm gonna create a New document. I wanna start working on my small or mobile-based layout. Now the layout that I wanna use is not listed in the presets, so I'll just go ahead and make my own. I'm gonna have a 480 Width by a 2,000 pixel Height screen. I'll set it to Pixels. I'm just gonna create one artboard. And I'll just verify that my Color Mode, Raster Effects, and Preview Mode are set to the settings that I like to work with. I'll click Create. And as you can see, it's going to create the artboard based on the specifications that I input. Now we're going to be creating a small, medium, and a large screen layout. If we come over here to the Artboard panel you can see it's gonna…
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