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Moving and modifying artboards in Illustrator CS6

In this movie, I will show you how to modify a document by moving its artboards to different locations. Illustrator CS6 Tutorial Video This works a little differently inside Illustrator than it does inside other programs. Quite a bit differently than you would reasonably think as well but once you come to terms with it makes a fair amount of sense. Working inside of a document called 8-page newsletter.ai, it's found inside the O2artboards folder. Notice if you go up here to the File menu, you have a Document Setup Command, that allows >Moving and modifying artboards in Illustrator CS6  you to modify the existing document. The keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Alt+P , or Command+Opt +P on the Mac, I will go and choose the command. Notice that we have a whole slew of options that we did not see in the new Document Dialog Box , and we're missing a lot of those options as well, we have no control over page size. The only options that we have that are the same these Blee...

close all open in Illustrator CS6

In this movie I'll show you how to close multiple Illustrations in a single operation. And the reason this is variable is because most folks don't know the feature exists. And there are times we are cleaning up for the day, and you just want to get everything off your screen and feel a sense of accomplishment. Now I want you to notice in passing here that I have Three Illustrations open, and I've made slight changes to every one of them. Just so that Illustrator will generate a Warning when I try to close the file. Now one way to close all Illustrations is to click on the Close button for the Application which on the PC is located in the upper right corner. However, that will quit the program that's just the same as going to the File menu and choosing either the Exit Command here on the PC or the Quick Command on the Mac. Now if you're working on a Mac, you may see all of your Open Documents as Tabs inside of one big document window with a light gray title bar,...

How to Create Vector in Illustrator CS6

Final Product  Vector in Illustrator CS6 What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial I will take you through the steps and techniques of creating a golden compass. For this tutorial I’ve used just Adobe Illustrator CS6 . Let’s get stared! Step 1 Create Vector in Illustrator CS6 Create a circle (width 367px) with fill color and no stroke by using the Ellipse Tool (M). Make sure to press Shift while you create it so you get a perfect circle and apply a radial gradient, as shown in below. Step 2 Create Vector in Illustrator CS6 Let’s start with the markings. Create a rectangle (L) at a width of 0.688 and height of 13.044 – towards the upper side of the circle and replicate it towards the lower side (hold the Alt + Shift while you select and drag the upper one downwards). Step 3 Create Vector in Illustrator CS6 Select the rectangles using the Selection Tool (V) . Group them together and align the two of them and the circle both horizontally ...