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Placing artwork onto your artboards

Placing artwork onto your artboards - Illustrator Tutorial

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Placing artwork onto your artboards

Now we've got all of our master elements set up in our application mock-up. And so, now it's time to start making this look like an actual app by deploying all of these things across all of the different screens that we have. So first things first, I'm going to double-click on profile setup over here in my Artboards panel. I'll just move this over and dock it so that we have all three panels that we really need. The Layers panel, Symbols panel, and Artboards panel. And what I'm going to to do is just start dragging out symbols onto this artboard so that we can make this look like a realistic app. So, first thing's first, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to clear the art board off. Because I've already created the symbol from this element down here, so I don't really need it anymore. And I'm just going to start building it from the ground up. So I'm going to first take the background color element, drag it out, and then we will position it on screen, something like that. And then…

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