Creating and using custom views

- [Instructor] When you're working on a document, especially when it's got a lot of things going on in it, it can be somewhat laborious to zoom in and zoom out to the same place and get exactly to the same location as you were working previously. And Illustrator has a mechanism to help you with that. For example, here in the document that I'm working on, I've got a small industrial area starting up in the top right-hand corner.

And what I'm going to do is zoom in on that. I'm going to hold down the command key and the spacebar and then just drag across that, like so, to zoom in, as I did in the earlier movie on navigation. And you'll see that here we are at the offices of Tonycorp, and I'm going to select this graphic on the top here and I'm going to change its color, so I'll move into the properties panel here, click Fill, we'll investigate this in more detail later, and I think I'll choose a nice blue color there, like so.

I want to see how that looks in the whole document, so I'm going to view the whole document again, command zero, control zero, and of course, on the PC, and have a look at that. And no, blue's not really cutting it for me just there, so I need to zoom in again. And I'm sure you get the idea, it's taking me a few steps to do this. So you can save particular views and jump back to them really quickly. So here, now that I'm zoomed in at this level, let's go the View menu and come down to this New View option here, and then give this a name.

So I'll just call it tonycorp sign, just there, like so, it doesn't have to be one string of letters (laughs) I just did that accidentally. I'll hit OK and now I've got that saved as a view. So if I zoom out, like so, and then go to the View menu and down to tonycorp sign, you can see I'm zoomed in on that immediately. In fact, in the file I'm using, if you have access to this one as well, there are a few different things here. There's Launch, which is where I started the movie on navigation.

And there's also Door Notes, so there's a couple of little Easter eggs inside of this file that remind you of some of the shortcuts there. And then there's Circus Note, for example. And there's one other for you to find and add your own view to. They are a very, very useful thing to have. As you get more advanced, you can even attach keyboard shortcuts to go to particular views. But for now, as long as you know they're there, they can be very useful, especially working on a larger document, such as this.