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Saving large layer previews

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Saving large layer previews

In this exercise, I am going to show you how to set things up, so you have nice big layers icons, every time you create a new document inside of Illustrator. Because by default that's not the way it is. I have gone ahead and saved my changes as Fussy guides.ai, because I went ahead and renamed my individual guides as you may recall. And I've saved that file into the 04_line_art folder. But now we are going to create a new document just so that you can see, even though I have got some nice big layers previews going on. That isn't the way it's going to be for the documents you create. So if you go to the File menu and choose New command or press Ctrl+N and Command+N on the Mac and then select Print as your profile or really anything else at this point and click OK. Why then you have these dinky panel icons and you can make them bigger by clicking on the flyout menu icon choosing panel Options and then entering a different value such as 60 what have you, click OK. Now it's big and…

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