today's video is all about showing you crucial and useful tips when working
with multiple designs and multiple artboards in adobe illustrator so yeah
today's aim is for you to learn at least one thing about a debut illustrator and
the starts let's first generate multiple artboards so I can show you the first
hip now the artboard tool is here and by holding down the alt/option key I can
click and drag to duplicate only the artboard but also the design on the
outboards now I'm gonna generate 6 in total and let's not worry about how
neatly they're laid out just now because I do have a tip later just for that so
the first step in today's video is for those of you who work with illustrations
or similar designs and you might want to make quick adjustments to your designs
to see how it actually functions in different layouts or different positions
and for the little space robot here we can take the puppet tool and then just
quickly adjust the hand or the arm orientation now this of course saves
time and it's just a nice way to visualize your designs in different ways
just be mindful that when you change the shape or the position of one part of
your design other areas might be affected too now I think more pins will
give you more precision when moving your designs of rounds and that was the first
tip today that just quickly shows you how to change multiple designs in
different positions just to test out different visual positions of your
graphic designs and the second tip is handy when you're using the recolor
method in Illustrator and so you can quickly alter an entire designs color
scheme and this means that we can take a single design so for example maybe a
logo and then we can test it out in various different color solutions often
when people head into the Edit color menu they will change a single color one
at a time which is an ideal for this situation at hand so what you can do is
to come into the recolor menu then go into edit and then click the link icon
this ensures that you change the entire designs color scheme as a whole now you
do have three options in terms of the color selection method itself and the
second tip is something I make good use of when lega designing and it's normally
towards the end of the process where I'm adding color to a final design solution
it's really quick and it's a good way to explore and test out different color
schemes across multiple artboards in Illustrator so which of the cartoon
robots do you prefer in terms of the color across the six artboards let me
know but let's now move on to the third tip today for working with multiple
designs and multiple artboards tip number three is a quick but a neat
function illustrator has built into it so when you go to save your document as
an AI file you have an option to save each artboard as separate AI files now
this can come in handy when sending multiple ai file designs to a client or
even to a fellow designer for that matter now you can type in and dictate
which artboards you want to save as separate ai files or you can just run
the entire selection to be saved this is one that you do want to keep in mind
because I feel it can come in handy at some point during your workflow as a
designer the fourth tip today is based around the untidy layer of my up words
that you can see on the screen right now I did mention this at the start the
video but if you come into this menu here you can arrange your artboards in
different layouts you can decide the orientation here but you can also type
in the spacing between each individual artboard the orientation you decide will
be a personal preference and of course it relates to your current workflow but
I do find this function to be useful and it just helps keep your workflow neat
and functional it is said that a messy workspace is a messy mind and so this
might be something you want to make use of in your graphic design workflow the
fifth tip in today's illustrator tutorial is one that many people might
know about but I really cannot leave it out of a video when we're discussing
multiple artboards so I do have two saves artboards and thus I have six
designs but what if I want to export each design
as an individual JPEG or PNG now illustrator has a function and as I said
exports which you can find in the window menu right here you need to grab a
single design together with command or control G and then just drag and drop
them into your export window when you have your designs loaded into the asset
export window it's just a case of deciding what file format and the other
technicalities and then just simply export to your destination each
individual design will be exported as separate web-based graphics which is
really really neat remember guys if you do want to keep expanding your awareness
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five different tips on using multiple artboards and multiple designs in adobe
illustrator I hope you learned something today but until next time guys design
your future today peace