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Copy and paste options with Artboards - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 Essential Training
Copy and paste options with Artboards
With Illustrator CS5, Adobe has given us a few new copy and paste options that work very well when using multiple artboards. Let's take a look at these. I am going to create a new print document, and I'll specify about four artboards with spacing about 18 point. And I'll choose this option for layout Arrange by Row. In fact, you know something, let's actually use one of these options of grid. Let's do Grid by Row. I'll have two columns set up, and I'll click OK, and we can see that I now have four artboards inside of my document. I am going to create some artwork. I am going to take a regular rectangle and draw it just about right over here, and I'll give it a yellow fill because yellow is my favorite color. And I'll show you that maybe I want to take this piece of art and right now exactly in the same position that it's in I want to paste it onto this art board so it appears in the exact same position on this artboard. Now, normally, when I copy a piece of artwork by pressing…
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Contents
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The importance of modifier keys1m 52s
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Drawing closed path primitives11m 38s
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Drawing open path primitives5m 47s
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Understanding anchor points3m 43s
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Drawing straight paths with the Pen tool7m 37s
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Drawing curved paths with the Pen tool9m 47s
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Drawing freeform paths with the Pencil tool5m 33s
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Smoothing and erasing paths3m 8s
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Editing anchor points7m 21s
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Joining and averaging paths10m 9s
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Simplifying paths4m 55s
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Using Offset Path2m 16s
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Cleaning up errant paths2m 32s
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Applying color to artwork5m 57s
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Creating process and global process swatches8m 54s
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Creating spot color swatches3m 19s
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Loading PANTONE and other custom color libraries4m 49s
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Organizing colors with Swatch Groups3m 31s
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Finding color suggestions with the Color Guide panel4m 24s
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Loading the Color Guide with user-defined colors3m 6s
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Creating gradients with the Gradient panel8m 12s
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Modifying gradients with the Gradient Annotator4m 37s
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Applying and manipulating pattern fills5m 33s
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Defining your own custom pattern fills9m 13s
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Applying basic stroke settings5m 22s
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Creating strokes with dashed lines3m 41s
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Adding arrowheads to strokes2m 45s
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Creating variable-width strokes4m 35s
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Working with width profiles2m 36s
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Turning strokes into filled paths3m 49s
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Moving and copying artwork3m 55s
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Scaling or resizing artwork6m 47s
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Rotating artwork2m 44s
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Reflecting and skewing artwork2m 34s
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Using the Free Transform tool2m 15s
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Repeating transformations3m 39s
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Performing individual transforms across multiple objects2m 10s
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Aligning objects and groups precisely4m 27s
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Distributing objects and spaces between objects2m 39s
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Printing your Illustrator document3m 26s
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Saving your Illustrator document6m 39s
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Creating PDF files for clients and printers7m 30s
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Exporting Illustrator files for use in Microsoft Office1m 4s
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Exporting Illustrator files for use in Photoshop2m 31s
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Exporting artwork for use on the web3m 3s
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Exporting high-resolution raster files54s
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