Setting up your artboard and workspace.

Let's open Illustrator. Once the

Illustrator welcome window opens, click

new file. A new document popup window

will appear. From this window, you have

the option to create a blank document.

Or if you click through the tabs, you

can choose from pre-made templates. For

the purpose of this video, we're going

to create a blank document. Now in the

Inesign module, we created a print

document. So I'm going to choose print

in Illustrator as well. This is because

I'm creating graphics that I'll import

into my Inesign file. So I want the

color modes of both the Illustrator and

Inesign files to match. I'm going to

change the unit of measurement to inches

so that it's something I'm familiar

with. And I can also choose between

portrait or landscape. Click create.

With Illustrator open, you'll notice

that the interface is similar to

Inesign.

The main difference is that instead of

pages, we have what's called an

artboard. Right now, I only have one,

but I can add new artboards using the

artboard tool, which you can find over

in the left toolbox. The arrangement of

the artboards on the screen is free

form, meaning you can place them

anywhere you want and rearrange them.

This is different from Inesign where the

pages are sequential. You can also size

artboards individually so each one can

be its own separate size. For example,

if you were creating social media

graphics, you could have artboards that

are sized for the different platform

requirements.

Over on the right side is the artboards

panel. And here you can change the names

of all of your artboards.

Just like in Inesign, I can change how

the workspace is arranged. I suggest

that you choose from one of the preset

workspaces by going to window workspace

and selecting automation.