today thanks to a subscriber request I'm gonna show you guys how to design
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before we start this video on how to print stickers in adobe illustrator i
want to mention that this is to help those who want to set up this document
for themselves some printing agencies will set up document for you however you
can still use the tips in this tutorial today as these tips are relevant and
useful to know for any designer so create a new document dear illustrator
and use a scale of measurement that is either millimeter centimeters or inches
I'll explain why later this is absolutely crucial that use CMYK color
mode for print and also set the resolution to a high quality of 300 PPI
and I'm gonna choose a portrait layout for my stickers document and also we
don't need to use a bleed
let's say this is my sticker design here to lay everything out quickly easily and
professionally you need to grip all of the design
components together for your sticker with command or control G you can also
use the grip option at the top here if you didn't have you realize a per and
press command or control R you can right-click the rulers to change the
measurement values I'm gonna use centimeters as I want to make my sticker
an exact size that I can visualize in a print form so I'm gonna use five
centimeters from my design to make sure that is actually 5 centimeters we can
drag guides from the rulers and resize the design perfectly as we want once you
have the size of your sticker you're gonna want to add guides along each side
of the design and then bring the sticker a set measurement from the edge I'm
gonna use 1 centimeter as a spacer measurement for my print layout design
when ready hold down the alt/option key and click on try to duplicate everything
selected making sure is perfectly aligned and every one centimeter gap
between now here is a neat trick once you've copied the first sticker design
and the rulers hold down the command key or the control key and then press D over
and over again to duplicate it so when you have one row at the top of your
print document select everything carefully and then move them down
another one centimeter gap between the 1 centimeter gap ensures that when they're
cut out there is enough room to maneuver between each design so again like before
press command or control D to duplicate your stickers down the page
then go to view and hide guides if you've moved the stickers carefully
enough they will have been duplicated perfectly along your artboard
so before we print you can take the artboard tool and clean up the edges of
your print document in Adobe Illustrator
now we want to print a stickers so go to file save as and choose the PDF option
always choose the most recent version of Acrobat and then check the view PDF
after saving option the compression settings are often by default completely
fine as seeing as its design has no Blees we don't need to bother about this
section here if you have any fonts on your sticker design make sure that you
either embed them or your outline the typography and any warning as you can
see I'm done I hope you found at the last window here so once you've saved a
design Acrobat will open it for viewing
and you can zoom in to 100% to make sure everything looks crisp and clean
so there was today's tutorial on how to design stickers in adobe illustrator
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until next time design your future today peace