Illustrator CS4 Artboards
The new Artboard features in Illustrator CS4 have been long awaited by some, but there is plenty here to assist every Illustrator user. New options include the ability to create a document with up to 100 separate artboards. They can be of differing size and orientation. Each artboard can be exported to its own file. Also, the new artboard tool has more options for organizing your workspace in Illustrator CS4.
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Pingback by Illustrator CS4 Announcment Round Up | Vectips | September 23, 2008 @ 10:40 am
[...] in. He also has video tutorials showing off these features over at Lynda.com. Layers magazine has additional coverage showing off the artboards (multiple pages) in action. As I mentioned yesterday, come to Missoula [...]
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Sheryl,
Thanks for this great tutorials and easy to follow. Please keep up the great works and looking forward for more of your tutorials in the future.
I really that the videos are downloadable because the screen that display on this website is very small. Please consider that option for the future.
Thanks,
Comment by Tom Viengvilai | September 23, 2008 @ 10:00 pm
Hi, me parece excelente el video, lo voy ha recomandar
Comment by Victor Medina | September 26, 2008 @ 8:08 pm
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Comment by winrembo | October 6, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
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Comment by TeenceHop | October 7, 2008 @ 1:54 am
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Comment by ethedehew | October 8, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
is magnifique… que padre… ya quiero tener este software
Comment by ale | October 8, 2008 @ 5:56 pm
So Illustrator incorporates more of things Freehand use to do.
Comment by shoegazer | October 10, 2008 @ 10:48 am
These tutorials are greate and give a good support to the designer. so i like to say in my life this is the first time i knew how to create manr art boards in illustrator. fantastic tute.
SARANGA
Comment by Saranga Asith | October 17, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
Is there any way to change the number/order of the pages before exporting to a pdf?
Comment by Daniel Bipes | November 12, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
>Is there any way to change the number/order of the pages before exporting to a pdf?
No, there is not (perhaps this would make a good feature request for CS5
). The artboards are not technically “pages.” You can, however, rearrange pages in Acrobat after you’ve created the PDF.
Comment by Cheryl Graham | November 14, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
Cara ótimo isso tutorial do illustrator!!! Aqui no Brasil poucas pessoas trabalhão com o illustrator principalmente aqui na Amazônia!!! Hehehhehe
Quem pode ajudar-me add ae!!
rafablues81@hotmail.com
Man this great tutorial in Illustrator! Here in Brazil a few people Work with Illustrator especially here in the Amazon! Hehehhehe
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Comment by Rafael Amazônia | December 22, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Dear Cheryl,
Your tutorial was elegant and eloquent. Brilliant! Blew all my artboard demons away! Your explanatory powers are incomparable. Thank you.
Comment by Dilip Mukerjea | December 27, 2008 @ 10:09 am
Aldus FreeHand > Macromedia FreeHand > Adobe illustrator CS4
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Comment by Wuj Tarabuk | February 7, 2009 @ 5:07 pm
Hello,
I am new new new to this world of adobe. I have been playing and designing web headers and some logos in photoshop 7.0 and cs-2. I have now just gotten the c-s4 suite. I have no clue even how to start. Can you recomend the best place to start with an on-line learning school for someone who reallys knows nothing about the whole thing? I learn fast, but need to start with basic and I mean really the basics.
I would appreciate your help so much and I thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Val
Comment by Val Newell | March 18, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
With the CS4 crop tool you could mark out an area and then use the ’save for web’ tool for image optimisation, etc. How do we do that now Export provides no options for optimising jpgs, or setting transparency.
Comment by Sara Lever | March 24, 2009 @ 9:49 am
Hi Cheryl, We just acquired CS4 and I love the artboards. Can I change the numbered order of them somehow? It seems to save them in the order I created and added them.
Thanks,
Rita
Comment by Rita | April 24, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
Cuando abra uno en español.=(
Comment by Gio | May 14, 2009 @ 1:33 am
Pronto.. vamos a tener algo pronto!
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Comment by RC | May 14, 2009 @ 10:00 am
A great site for some of my graphic staff.
Comment by ProjectCenter | May 30, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
The artboards feature is really giving me headaches. I was used to export all my jpegs via the “Save for web…” function where you have a visual preview of the exported file, in CS3 it always opened only the crop marked area in that window, now with the artboards implemented the function opens the whole document space which basically renders it useless.
Comment by dag. | June 5, 2009 @ 9:03 am
Dag - In “save for web” window, go to the “image size” tab and check “clip to artboard”
Comment by Nate | June 17, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
Very well explained. I had questions in how create new artboards inside a already open document and you showed how simple it was.
Thank you very much
Comment by RaphaelDDL | June 22, 2009 @ 9:55 am
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