the ability to have multiple art boards was something that was introduced in adobe
illustrator cs4
this is really handy because it allowed you to create different variations of a
design
all in one document so for instance if I was designing a logo
I could have the color version of that logo on this art board and a grey scale
version of that logo on this art board
the cool thing about that is both of um are still in one
Illustrator file but they have their own separate art boards which means I can
print um separately I can save um separately
et cetera in this tutorial video we're gonna talk about
how to first create those art boards and then how to edit them
and explore them after the fact so
on this document I have two art boards and I got these by going up to file new
and changing the settings for whatever that art board I wanted it to be
500 by 500 pixel
and it has a five pixel bleed all the way around and I change my number
of art boards here so I can do a ton of different art boards
and then this is the way that they will be shown or laid out
on your actual document page so I'll go ahead and hit cancel that's I got those two
art boards
so now what do I do what if I want a third art board or what if I want art boards
of varying sizes or
what if instead of 500 pixels by 500 pixels
I wanted my art board to be the size of an iPhone screen well
in order to change these art boards you need to go to the art board tool
now as you can see it kinda gets a little bit greyed out
and the options bar up here has a bunch of different options for you to create new
art boards so if I hover around
this grey area which is what we call the canvas and click and drag
this will allow me to create a new art board and as I'm dragging you can see it
changes the width and the height
so it can show you what size you're creating that art board
the minute you let go it turns into an art board that has the same bleed
that my original art boards had to delete that art board
I can click the trash can icon up here so for
each of these art boards I can give um a unique name instead of the generic
art board one
so let's say this was my color logo and this art board two
was the grey scale version of that logo grey scale
okay so for each of these art boards we have a couple different view options you
can move
the art work as you move the art board so if you needed to move it around
up down left right for whatever reason it'll move the artwork with it
and then I can show the center mark and that's gonna allow me to
properly place my artwork and then I can use the different cross-hairs
and then I can show the video save areas if I'm designing something for
video
when it comes to resizing
this actual art board and wanting to know what size it is what color mode
it's using
you can go to this art board Options dialog and this is showing that
has a width and height of 500 pixels what orientation it's in
and you can show those different cross marks as well so let's say I wanted to create
a couple more art boards
for that logo how would it be shown on a mobile device how would it be shown
on a I pad what not if I select this art board
and then hit new as I hover around you can see it's the exact same size as my
first two art boards
and I can kinda line it up using the guides and I can create a perfectly
sized version of that art board
but what happens if I want this to be a custom size
now I can drag these if I wanted to
but illustrator does something really handy it allows you to use these
presets so let's say I wanted to see what it would look like
on an iPhone so that's the automatic size of an iPhone
and let's say I wanted this one to be an iPhone or let say I want to create a new
iPhone
but for this one I'll just pop it right here for now
and move over for this one I want to see what it looks like maybe in landscape
view
so that's allowing me to create all these art boards that may be show
my logo for the regular stand-alone logo what it'd look like on a device what
it'd look like on a website what it'd look like
on a business card and I can use these presets to create those custom sizes
last but not least you can change the xy coordinates in the width and
height up here
but mostly you just gonna wanna work by moving them around yourself
so I'll delete these extra art boards
and that's the basics of working with an art board now you can hit escape on your
keyboard to get out of that
or if you're in the art board tool or you can click the regular selection tool
to get out of that as well