- Art boards are what I would consider
as a top level organizational element.
And they make complete sense.
If you're working on a project to include all
of the elements of your project inside of one file
rather than having support around several different files.
So in here, I've got some fairly simple elements
for the purpose of instruction, a few different art boards
down here containing different elements for an exhibition.
Then I've got the front of an exhibition pass here
the back of an exhibition pass.
This is ready for something like Instagram
and this would be ready for a 1080p elements just there.
Now, if I use the shortcut command zero
that takes me to the, current art board option command
or alt+ctrl+0 takes you out to all of the art boards.
Now there is a tool to manage
and create and delete your art boards.
You access it with the shortcut shift+o
Okay.
That takes you to the art board tool or it's
down at the bottom of the toolbox just here and with that
you can select your art boards,
should you need to do so you can move your art
boards around.
Now notice here that the artwork has moved along
with the art board, most of the time, exactly what you want.
And that's because
of this small button here in the control strip.
If I go ahead and select this art board again
and turn that off, I can then move the art board like so
and the artwork just sits out here
on the pasteboard and it may be that you want to do that
if you're using the old tool option key
to drag a new copy
of the art board
they can all be named and indeed should be named.
It helps to do that.
You can see here that I've got header BG there,
event title header BG fade.
Pass front, pass back, art board five, which needs a name.
So I'll click on that and give it a name.
So I'm just going to call this Insta just here.
Insta 1080 is what I should really call it there.
There you go.
And I'll go to this header BG copy.
And I'm going to call this header BG GS
for gray scout could be whatever you like.
And the 1080p already has a name.
Okay. I'm going to make sure that I re enable the move
and copy artwork with art board option next.
I'll forget later on and go to copy something.
And then there we are.
You can select art boards
by either clicking on them and then holding
down shift and clicking on subsequent art boards.
You can also drag, but what you have to do first
if I just click away from this is you have to hold
down shift and click, that tells the art board
tool that you want to drag select.
And if I drag across the art boards now, whoops, a daisy.
I forgot to keep hold of the shift key.
So I'm going to hold down shift
and click and then drag like so
and you can see those art boards are selected.
Now new, in this version of illustrates it just so you know
is the ability to copy and paste these between documents.
That was a much asked for feature.
So you can now do that.
If you've got something like this an event set up
when you want to move it onto the next project
just copy and paste to save you, doing a save as
or reinventing the wheel as it were.
The art balls can be changed in size
either by dragging like so, so you can change them this way.
If you need to
or you can choose from a bunch of preset sizes.
For some reason here
mine is drawing off the top of the screen.
That's just a bug because this is an early release
of this particular version of illustrator.
And you can also enter coordinates, the name.
You can go
to the art board options to do some of that stuff as well.
And although I can't show it to you because of this glitch
with the menu, if you've got some artwork selected
in that list, right at the very top
of course it would be is the option to fit the art board
to the selected artwork.
There is actually a panel for art boards
and it should be in the default essentials layout.
But of course, and I'm sure you know this by now.
If it's not there, let's say it together.
It's in the window menu.
There you go.
Okay. So here we can see all of our art boards
and this is another reason why naming things is a good idea.
We can reorder them from here.
Should we need to do so, so interesting
that that's art board five, the one that didn't have a name
or could actually do that right now.
So if I call that one Insta 1080
just there and hit return, I've got it.
Okay. So I can move those things around as desired.
I think I'm going to move that down one from there.
And as you just saw, if I double click on something
then it takes me to that particular art board.
So they are a navigational tool as well.
Although you can also do that
from the bottom of the document area here.
And in fact, right at the beginning of the course
we will have actually done that.
Okay. So to organize them more cleanly
on the pace board
if I just view all of them using option command zero
that would be, alt+ctrl+0 on windows.
Okay. What I can do is go
to the fly out here and choose to rearrange all art boards.
I can also click this small icon
at the bottom here and thinking about it.
That's actually closest.
So we'll do that.
Then I can determine how these are going to be laid
out so you can lay them out in rows.
like so, or columns or a straight line
either across or down.
I think I'll go down
with this one in a column. For the spacing here,
I'm going to give it a good chunk.
So I'm going to get 40 millimeters just here
move the artwork with the art board.
Yes, please and hit okay.
And there you go.
That's all organized
and you'll see it follows the pattern that is in here.
So here's the header
and there's the Instagram one just there
the pass front, pass back.
And there you are, that easy to keep your art boards
nicely organized.