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Creating a thumbnail sketch template in Illustrator

Creating a thumbnail sketch template in Illustrator

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

Creating a thumbnail sketch template in Illustrator

- Hi there. Welcome back to Creative Quick Tips. My name is Justin Seeley. In this installment, we're going to be taking a look at Adobe Illustrator, and specifically how to create a thumbnail sketch template inside of Adobe Illustrator. You might be wondering exactly what a thumbnail sketch template is. Well, it's basically a way for you to quickly, and easily, create thumbnail sketches using an actual piece of paper. I know, that sounds a little different. But, I'm going to show you how to do that inside of Illustrator. It's actually, really cool. What I'm going to do is go to the File menu, and choose New. We're going to make sure that this is set to the Print preset, and that we're working with a Letter-sized document. This is, of course, providing that you want to print it on a Letter-sized sheet of paper. You can choose any of the print presets to work with yours. I'm just going to choose Letter, and hit OK. Once I do that, what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab the Rectangle…

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