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Preferences and Panels

What I tend to do is make sure I have no document open whatsoever when you set a preference. Ah, lot of the preferences will stay there sticky built, you know, you create him and they just actually stay where they are. But a lot of times we we want every new document that gets opened up to look a certain way. And instead of doing that every time we open a new document, weaken set that with no document open and that becomes the default behavior for all new documents. Right? So there's certain things that weaken set as our just are standard. We get set a font that we want to use every time instead of it using whatever font is there last time I can tell it this is my default fund By setting the choosing, the type tool, which is over here in my type panel, and we'll go over the panels in just a second as well. Have a type tool here, and I can open up my type panel and most of my panels live under the window menu. So come down here to type and just choose character. So it's gonna open up my...

type panel here, right? So I can go ahead and I'm sorry. Can't set the default. This is one of those things that is in in design, and then I forget that it's actually not an illustrator. Cash would have been awesome if it was there, because I knew they introduced it in this last version. I'm sorry you can't set the development because it's always going to use the last thing that used because that's how illustrator works. It picks up what you had last and remembers that some of the other preferences under on the Mac it's under illustrator preferences and on a PC. It's under edit preferences, but everything else looks exactly the same. Gonna go to the general pain first. There's a lot of different things we can choose on and off, and by default show tool tips is on and what That is fine in a document, and I'm working along and maybe I just want to look a tool. If I hover over the tool, I get the little yellow boxes there and it tells me, is the pencil tool and this is the keyboard shortcut for it, and that's really nice. Especially if you're like me and sometimes I'm trying to go, what's the name of this tool? That's right. That's what it's called. So I can always remember the tool names but also gives me the tool or the keyboard shortcuts for that as well. So let's go back into my preferences panel back into general, and I noticed there was a keyboard shortcut for it. Commander Control K. So that's nice. You don't have to do the menu every time, but I can turn on the tool tips. So those air always there. I like those on by default. There are beautiful. I like those there because I like to just be able to see, like the little the keyboard shortcut. Er, what the name of a tool is. Some of the things we can do is we can turn on scale, strokes and effects, or we can leave that often. I'm going to show you that in a little while when we start working with shapes to show you the differences between the two. And I think this is one thing that drives people most insane also because you have to turn it on and off for each going forward. I turn this on now and it's fine. Then later, I need to turn it off. And it's just one thing that we play with all the time. A pen that converted add the word converted upon opening old files. This is nice, because absolutes actually and do that. This is nice because it tells you that you're changing it to the newer version, which, in the case of going to the 2014 c C. Versus the one that came out in January 2014 that's not a big deal. Those actually play nicely. Aiken. Save those backwards and forwards, no problem. But if I suddenly if I'm opening something that's from CS five or CS six, even if I don't upend that, it just automatically changes it and you're going to override it. But then I say is this adds converted to the title so you can see. And I think as we get more and more of these different versions, and for me, I have everything going back to see us four, mostly because I do training on all that. So for me, I love being able to see Oh, this is converted and it adds that it changes the name, so I don't overwrite the old one because of occasionally I need to go back and open it in the old version. So just a idea. Their units of measurement. So we talked about this when I said a print and it was still in Pike Ism points. And that's because by default, pikers and points has turned on. I believe it's and points. So my general ruler is where are my general tab is where I set the rulers. So I tell it that when I have rulers or what have measurements in a dialogue box? This is the unit of measurement that it's going to use, so change it to something that use inches, your stroke and type you could also use. I don't know why I would want strike strokes in inches. That would just be weird, I think, because I've always used points for how thick a stroke is, you know, four point stroke, also in type. I have no idea what my type in inches would even look like. I'm used to working in points right for that. So I go ahead and leave those, but you can change this here, so you don't have to change it every time. Of course. The other one is the interface down here, you know, user interface. So a couple versions back, they introduced the dark interface, right? So if you guys have been using it, it's actually gonna open up another document just so we can see behind it. What's what's gonna happen? So when I come down to the user interface and I tell it dark, I get that. And I know a lot of people love that for me. I have an issue with my eyes and that will actually give me an ocular migraine. So I have to keep it on the light. I do like that. I don't just have these four ticks anymore. You notice I have a nice slider, and I'm not really sure when that came in, cause I'm pretty sure in the beginning it was light, dark and medium, and that was it. And I love that. I can actually slide that because that's sometimes a little too bright. So I like backing off just a little bit. And I can tell it to Matt that the canvas matches the easier interface. If not I can just make my canvas that background white. That's too much white for me. So again, that's just a nice preference, so that if you have an issues, a lot of people love the dark interface, and I'm not sure why. But, uh, again, it's a preference for a reason, right? So go ahead and set that as well. And one of them that drives me crazy are the guide colors. So we're gonna work with guides, smart guides and things like that. And by default, the guide color is this bright cyan color. While on here, sometimes it's hard to see, but I can choose from any of the built in ones that air here. Or I can click custom on, go ahead and play with the color wheel and just decide what color I would like them to look so I can change my guides to that. If I'd wish. Let's just drive this in and drop it. Come on, all right, or don't let it. There we go. I just want to say OK, the other thing is, I like that you can choose it by crayon color. Who doesn't love picking cran colors right? So I love that. But I also like that because if I use the slider for this and then I decide I want my other guides to be the same color. I'm never gonna hit that same color again. That's pretty difficult like this, cause these air actually named colors looking saying greats, tangerine, close that up. And now my guides are tangerine color. Instead, I can also choose to have my guides be dots. This is kind of nice, because sometimes having all those guides kind of gets in the way. But if you have too many guides and their dots, sometimes trying to figure out which line they're connected to is also very difficult. So again, total total preference. And then we've got what's called a grid a background grid. We can change the color of that as well. Right now it's grey. I can choose how often I want a thick grid line. So I want one every inch and I want it broken into eighths of an inch. So this is great. If I decide I want to have a grid turned on, some would say, Okay, well, actually turn on the grid and then I think is when we turn on these options, I can do this on, um, a particular item or the particular the art board itself. So in this case, I just want to work with dartboard stuff like guides in grids. So I'm going to right, click or control Click on the page. And I have options here for the guides so I can go ahead and show the grid, show my grid. So that's what we just created. If we zoom in a little bit, we can see that. So I've got these thicker lines, those air, the grid increments of an inch that we set. And then I also have a division every eighth of an inch. So if you're you know that type person that needs to have everything gritted outlined out, that's great. I rarely use the grid myself, but it's nice to have it there. I can also hide and show my grids are my guides. Excuse me and also rulers. So I talked about putting rulers and inches. That's great. I don't have any rulers. Why not? Well, if I say show rulers now, I actually have rulers along the top on the sides and the nice thing is the rulers go for each art board. So if I open up, let's open up that template that we had with the multiple layouts Come back down here to business cards. We open those up and I turn my rulers on commander control are to turn those on each time I select an art board. Soon as I select over here. If we zoom in, we can see that my zero point is right there. If I come over here and click on this our board, this art board gets a little bit of an outline now. And if I go up, I've got zero there and zero here. So it changes the zero point the origin point for each of my art boards while I have multiple art boards in here. If I select this one here, it's a little hard to see. But this this one here is selected. If I go up to the View menu and I fit my our board in the window and of course zooms in on that one particular art board, the other option that I have is to fit all in window. So I see all my heart boards all at once. So learn those keyboard shortcuts because you'll use those a lot. Especially. You have something like this and you're trying to work in a small my new part of this design. You might want to zoom in on that particular art board. That's our commander control. Zero zooms in and command option or control Ault. Zero zooms in or keeps all of them in the window. You have again 30 art boards. You don't want to actually have those. I'll fitting in the window. All right, great, Erica, before we get back started, I did have a question in here from New Delhi. Can you explain what canvas means? So just for those folks who are just starting the canvas, the canvas, there's kind of like I'm not exactly sure of all the terminology that there I call this an art board or a paste board. And I think that's because I started in Page Maker and Cork and now in design. And so the canvas is everything that we paint on but used to just call the campus because in Illustrator, you just had one canvas to work with. That was it kind of like a photo shop. You've got one. I don't know if they call it campus. We've got one window, one item toe work with. Whereas now there's this canvas and on the canvas I have these individual art boards. Which are these individual items? Which kind of work, like pages soas faras What specifically is the canvas? Whether they continue the count, that just as the items where you're putting items or the page where you're putting items on or the whole entire thing, I refer to it as the whole entire thing. I've got a canvas with four heart boards on it. Thank you. Any other questions on? Okay, that's good. All right, Cool. Keep going. Them. So we've changed the guide colors. We've changed the we've added multiple our ports. We turned on our keyboard shortcuts so we can see those. Um, we don't talk a little bit about these panels. So, like I said, panels are everywhere. You've got this panel along the top. First of all that comes in here, and it basically duplicates other panels. So, for instance, when I change to the type tool, I get some type options as well up here because it says, Hey, you're working with type. Let's have some type show up there. So any time I worked with a different tool, it changes. Ifit's changed to something actually changes. Will. The type tool is the one that does the most. When I change, it says, Oh, here's some stuff that specifically has to do with the tool that you've just chosen and that is called the control panel, and that's under the window menu in the window. And it's not not here. It is control, so I can turn that on and off and again I could turn that off and gives me more room to work with, and that's great. But again, I don't have that. Now I have to open every panel individually, so the control panel is great. The next one is the tool panel, and it sets off to the side. And the great thing is, well, I move something over like this. I have more room toe work with in this particular window that's here. All right, staying open. Open that up A swell. I can also choose to work in an application frame. What's happening right now is I have this sort of floating window. I move this tool and then I have to move the window open and drag it out to make it larger toe work. But what I could do instead is I can come down under the window menu and choose application frame, and it kind of ties it all together. You know, kind of snapped it up. They don't have that floating window with the tabbed objects in there. But the great thing is, if I grab something like my toolbar and I drag it over like this little blue line, it docks it off to the side and pushes that over. So it always gives me the most amount of space toe work with inside my application. If I were to drag out these panels over here, you nurses panels are all icons. If I grab this kind of dragon hold, it's a little tricky. It just sometimes doesn't work right away. If I drag it out, I suddenly have the names of all the file are all the panels as well, But you notice what it's doing, its shortening, my art board, my my canvas, if you will. It's shortening that up my space that I have to work in, and that's fine when I let go, but I want to go ahead and make sure you get it back in that window again. But the nice thing is, I can I don't have to keep rearranging everything by having that application window on. Yes, something that you can do with no document open so that it will be this way every time you would set the application. Yet you said the application frame with no document open that just becomes how that it's like this. So then yes. So then once you close everything up when you open it, it automatically opens it into the tab documents and snapped, sort of together there. Absolutely. Someone closes up for right now, shortened these back up here, these panels. So we're gonna go ahead and talk about some of the panels that are here. And like I said, the panels all live under the window menu and the tool box or the tool panel is there by default, you know is it doesn't have a check, which is where it's over here. It says default. But I can also create new tool panel and I can create smaller panels of my tools. So all the tools that I use all the time I can create in their own little floating tool panel. So it's a new tools panel and I'll give it a name. I'll call it something like mine, Right. Those are my tool panels. They're gonna say OK, and now I've got this little floating tool panel I congrats tools from the tool panel and drop them in this mini floating one so that I don't have to find them every time. Because if you're like me, you can't remember where all the tools live. So back up and show you why that is. Some of these have these little, teeny, tiny little black triangles underneath. Um, what happens is when I click and hold on them, I see that I have other options underneath. And for me, I can't remember where the life paint bucket lives at all. Just lives under the shape builder tool. But I forget that. So if I want to use them all the time, I can click and hold Bring up the live paint bucket tool. I can grab that tool and just drop it on this little short just drop in on this little plus it's not. Let me. Let's click on the plus here. We're tries again. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna open this up quick and hold, and because it's not let me drag it out of here. I'm gonna go over to this little bar on the right side. You see that kind of turning gray? If I click that once now, I've got a floating to a panel that is concerned made up of these three tools that were here. But I don't want all those three. I just wanted that life paint bucket gonna grab him and drag him into the low plus here. So now I have him sitting in his own little panel. I can do the same thing. I congratulate even more. Let's grab him down and I'm gonna grab Let's grab this guy as well. Oh, come on. This is the joy of working in a new version because my plus is entirely missing. I wanted to add some more tools. It's not letting me, Let's just drive next door. There we go. The plus is gone so I can grab and maybe I want the pencil tool. I would probably never put these in the same tool panel, but I'm just putting them together and say, Let's have all of those So now I know that they're always there. I could close this guy up. He's actually just the guy that we created from that. So I have this one here. But the great thing is that still lives under my window menu under tools. There's my panel. So if I close it up because I don't need it for this project when I need it next time and come in here and choose that and that's going to be by user so anytime it's not connected to this, document it all. Any time I go to work on a job and I wanna have those four tools in that panel, I could just go ahead under the window menu under tools and choose that particular tool, Doc. So I kind of like that because sometimes you're working with drawing stuff. Sometimes you're working with text stuff, and you just don't want to have toe find world. These are a lot of these live. There's a lot of different tools that live underneath those hidden tools that someone close that up. So that's one way to find the tools that air there. Click and hold. And then again, if you want those to be floating, click this little bar on the right. Just click it once and suddenly you have your own floating tool panel. You could even say that if you wanted to. That could be your new tool panel. That's right there. Just go and name it. That and we've got that panel ready to go. Make sense. All right, that's the tool panel. Now let's look at all these panels that are over here. We're not gonna go over each one, but I'm gonna talk about how they're group together. So again, I'm gonna hold and try and drag over. Sometimes it just takes a second for toe move. And if you're like me, these icons don't mean a whole lot to write. So sometimes when I look at this, I can never remember what this one is. Why, for the life of me, I can't remember it. I just can't. So for me, I tend to actually keep my tool panels about like that so I can see part of the name but they're not taking up too much space. But I can kind of get an idea of what things are. I can't remember. This is the Layers panel. I can actually see that over here, but right now, their little icon buttons. My other option is to click this little double headed arrow that's up here and it says expand panels. I'm gonna click on that, and suddenly I have tabs and this is kind of nice, except again, it takes up a lot of room. But as I click on each item, I've got a full tab ready for me to look at. And as they've collapsed from down here at the bottom, when I click on it, it kind of expands it up a swell. So again it could be either overwhelming or very helpful. And that's what I like is that they give you the options. If you want to see all this, that's great. I think if I saw that the first day I used Illustrator or any adobe product, I would probably close up the application and run away screaming. That's just too much, right? But the buttons somehow seem kind of friendly, right? So when you open it, that's what you see, even if you don't know what they mean. I don't feel like they overwhelm me, right? I feel like I could probably figure out what these mean. Let's open these up a little bit more so and right now they're in groups, you know. So I have color, color guide and cooler all the other. Those will have to do with color. And I've got swatches, brushes and symbols. This is what's called a workspace, the way it's set up, the way it's put together. And those were put together by Adobe. They're just there when I open up the program, these are ones that they think I'm going to use, and in groupings they think is you know how they should be grouped together. But I can go ahead and change that if I want, so I'm gonna go up. Over here is a little pull down menu right now. It says my name on it. It might say automation or might say essentials. I believe essentials is the first thing that it opens up with. If I choose one of these workspaces and these were built in, Erica is not I actually created that one, but the rest of our there there, built in. If I say okay, I'm gonna work with essentials. Let's click on that. It gives me a different grouping of, um, panels that air there. Maybe I just want to work with web now a whole different grouping. You notice these air, these air tabs and these air icons So again we can build those as complex is we want them to be, and then I can save them in such a way that I could get back to where I had them. So, for instance, if I click on Erica, it puts it back the way I had it, you notice it, put it back to the way I left it, which was partially pulled open. But that might not be how it was when I actually created that. So I could come back again under this button and say, Reset that, and it puts it back to exactly how I had it. So how do we do that? We open up tabs that we like and panels that we like and put him in such an order, and then we save them. So we don't have to think about that all the time. So, for instance, I might go over to the window menu and let's open one that we don't have open. It's open graphic styles and it's just flying. It opened here, actually did already have it popped it out from the side. So when I choose one of these, you notice it pops out the tab from the side. When I say is when I hit it again, it goes away. Keeps everything nice and neat tucked off to the side. So it's I grabbed this one and I want graphic styles by itself floating over here so that it's always just I don't have to find it over on the right side. I'm gonna put it on the left side. I congratulate panel by its tab and just drag it and drag it over here. Which is what would happen if I had opened one that we didn't actually have. Ready open CSS properties. Pretty sure I don't have own rights. That one's just open and floating so I can go ahead and put them together off to the side, and then I can save this workspace. Maybe I decided This is exactly how I want all my panels to be. Go up to the workspace menu and say, Save works with your new workspace. We'll call this just demo one will say Okay, and now if I switch to something else we switched to Erica and we re set that back to the default. And then I say, Now let's go over to demo one. Those panels air there again. So it's a great way to keep everything like I say organized so that you have everything where you need it. If I want these to be together, you notice some of these air nested together. When I click one of these, I can see that all three of these are nested together in a group because for whatever reason, I've decided they need to be grouped together. They make sense to be together. If we decided graphic styles and see us as properties needed to be together in some alternate universe, I congrats the panel by its tab. Just grab that and drag it across until I get this little blue outline, hopefully can see that the whole panel is outlined in blue and I let go and now I've created this group. If I decide I want a group or a tab not in there, just grab it and drag it out. That's talking. Nest those together. I can also stack them if I wanted. I grabbed this. Just go to the bottom. So I get just that blue line Now they're stacked together as well. Maybe I always want them to travel together. I don't want to, you know, maintain three different together, but I don't like them nested. I want him stacked in a row. And where this comes in handy is if I want to double click, I can shorten up all of those. They just become this great little panel that sits off to the side again. I don't need to find it over here by icons. Aiken, grab it that way. So it's actually double click and expand all these, and I'm gonna nest these so they're together. And now I want thes over on the side, but I want them together. If I grab one, you don't pulls it apart. If I want them to stay together, I hold on the option or the old key and grab them. And now they move together. Now when I bring them over here to the panel, I have a couple different options. You know, I have a vertical blue line on the left side of the icons. Hopefully can see that right by the scroll bars. If I do that, it's gonna nested along the side. Like when I did Web essentials. And somewhere there were different columns. I go far to the right. It will put it to the right. But I really wanted Was I sort of wanted to nest it in between these groups, if I have. If I have put him here, I'm just below this stroke hopefully conceded. I have nothing left to point with you and I both my hands taken up by that I could drop it in between those two items, or I can drop it in between the groups so I can see that that Linus sitting on the dividing line between those two groups, I'm gonna drop that right there. So now what I've done is I've created this group. Let's zoom in on that. I see I've created that group. There's my CSS properties and there's my graphic style. So I've created that group together. So again, it's just a visualization. I keep them together. I keep all my text stuff together, got my character, My paragraph and fire was using character styles and paragraph styles. I probably group those all together as well, and this is open type. So I've got all my fonts, stuff, my type, stuff all in one place. So I know where to find that. So if at any point I'm tired of switching here and I'm working with a lot of text over here, I can just options are all click on that group and pull it out and either work with it by buttons or expand it. So I could then, you know, work on my type over here and not have to keep going across my screen. I know that sounds like that's really hard work. Oh, my gosh, you have to go all the way across your screen. But seriously, if you're making 30 changes in 10 minutes, that's a lot of mousing, right? So for me, I like to pull my panels out places where I needed throw him back in. At the end of the day, I can always come back here and say, Reset that workspace, right? Or go switch back to my other work space and reset that. Put it all back to the default. That makes sense. All right. Was there panels and work spaces. I'm gonna show you one more thing, and then we'll probably take some questions. Closed these up here. I'm going to open up a sample here and one of the things that I meant to show you and I will show you now we did talk about it a little bit. Was the whole vector versus Raster. And I just want to say that I have a sample of that. So let's come in here to Vector versus Raster. And there's that Africa map again. So we looked at the top. We've looked at this. This is the illustrator file. I can see that I can move and I can see all those individual pieces that make up that particular map. The great thing about this being vector and again vector just means it's being mathematically, you know, it's being mathematically figured, mathematically drawn. I've put two points and it's created the segment between the two. Everybody remembers that from math, right or we've all blocked that out. We have that. And then as I change the angle, it re figures it mathematically. And that's why we can make it as big as possible because it's just going to keep doing the math. It's a computer. It's what it does if I zoom in on that. So I'm holding them. The commander of the control key and the space bar key to zoom in. I'm zooming in on this text and I can see that it's crisp and clear, right? I mean, it looks Jaggi. That's the hand that Thea you know, the style that they're working with. So as I zoom in and I can see how crisp and clear those edges are, However, if I go to this image, this image is a raster image. So I've just got a Photoshopped version of that. I can see that that's the difference between the raster and the vector. So raster rast arises, and we have a certain amount of dots and I've blown up those dots. Therefore I really, you know, distorted and shown the dots. So just want to show that I'm sorry that was a step backwards, but just to show the difference between Raster and Vector but I want to do is look at this last mode that illustrator has. And here's just some random objects, these objects. I've done a little bit of three D We're not gonna do three D. We did some three D in the essentials classes here, and I've just got this item that has, like, two strokes on it. We'll talk about that, and I've got this with a blue Phil and a dash stroke and a solid stroke and just have a lot of, um, attributes or items applied to this particular objects. But one of the things that we can look at an illustrator will see that everything has a core base to it. When we start out, I start drawing the shapes and just a little while working with the pen tool. And so, in this case, I use the pen tool to draw this line. And then I added stuff to it. I added attributes to it, did the same thing here. I drew ah shape, and then I made it three d. And here I drew a circle and I did stuff to it, right, so what I want to show you, though, is by default. Your view menu is set to preview now. It doesn't show that it says outline, outline is the other option. So so that change that it will change to that outline view mode. So the preview mode shows not just the core, the base, the item that I created, but all the attributes as well. And for the most part, that's probably how we wanna work, right. We want to see what we've done to the items we've created, but an outline mode. I can look at just the base or what I call the skeleton and the items that I actually created before I added attributes. So when ahead outline, that's what those things were consistent of. So I drew a line a path, and I can work with it. I concede my points. I drew that line and then I added all that stuff onto it. That three dimensional one is basically a three sided shape. I just did that and I added three dimensional artwork to it, rotated around and did all the shading and all that great stuff. And this circle is just a circle. I drew a circle. And then I added fills and strokes and did all that stuff to it as well. When I use this is when I'm trying to manipulate something. For instance, if I'm the preview mode and I'm trying to grab this if you noticed, I have to. Actually, the nice thing is, when I roll over it, I can see the outline of it. But if I want to move this, I can't. I gotta actually grab that. I got to know where that is, where I want to make it bigger. I can't grab it over here and try and make it bigger. I have to grab it over here and make it bigger. And also, I have to actually be able to see. So sometimes we have a lot of objects piled on top of each other, especially it's great to be able to turn on the outline and say, Okay, I just want to move this. I'm not working with three dimensional stuff. I just need to move it. And maybe I'd like to make it just, you know, slightly larger. I was gonna grab that, make it larger and work. Not in that preview mode will come back into preview and see what happened with that, right? So just being able to switch back and forth between those two modes just visually lets us either see all this stuff we've added or not. If you're on an older machine lot on how old you can have your machine now with the the new versions. But I know it's a lot of times before, I used to get a lot of lag and I would turn that into preview mode so that when I'm moving items or adding a lot of shading or three dimensional things like that, I would put it in preview mode. I mean yet, and I'm not preview mode. Sorry an outline mode so I could work in just the basic structure of that. But right now it's mostly just so I can see how things were made, especially when other people give me items. I look at it and think, I do not know what I'm looking at here. If you turn them on, you go. Oh, I see. It's three simple shapes that's easy. I can work with that that way. So those air, the viewing modes, any questions from you guys at all. I know it's basic. We're just learning to get around the environment and learn what we're doing inside the environment. Anything from the Internet. Well, Erica, I would love if you could maybe just do a brief review ale. Brazilian says America Review how to set up the documents and work spaces with the guidelines that we see now. She was quick, little sure, absolutely get to where we are. So we want to create a document new document. So we just want to give it a name. And again, the biggest thing is the profile where we working print Web video and the reason we do that again so that we know what size we can start with and some of the constraints that we have of that particular working environment. So I'm working with print, and I know that I'm working in color mode seem like a I could change that rgb. But again, RGB has a larger color spectrum, and then we run into problems. If we are actually going to print, we're trying to print colors that can't be duplicated in that pick the sizes. I could go ahead and put in any size. I want one thing I didn't mention, you know, since his points, it's automatically working points with print, Even though I've set up my my preference is to be inches. Any time you're entering value in a value box, you can actually work with some other unit of measurement. So in this case, I know that it needs to be 8.5 inches someone to 8.5 I n and hit tab. Now it's still going to keep it in points because I'm working in points. I can say 11 there and hit Tab. So it's changing for me There is. Well, I want to choose my units that are here sees inches actually a bleed. We need to have a bleed amount. If we're having texture, images come right to the edge of the page. If or not we don't need to bleed amounted. Also, we leave that open. So that's basically how we create a new document. That was they wanted the new document stuff, right? Okay, great. So yeah, so that actually basically what I do is go through and set that up. I can always go back and make changes afterwards, but I don't want to have to. I can choose number of our ports. I'll just go ahead and make multiple our boards here. We're gonna work with our boards in just a second as well or in the second segment. So we come in here and look and I can say, OK, I have four art boards and it also asks me how many columns of art boards So, you know, before we had looked like three columns. Um, I can have that as well. And again, keep in mind. Actually, I'll stick with to keep in mind. It is going to give me four are bird boards at the letter size. I can always change them later. So again, it just depends if you know you're gonna have for our ports. Sure. Make them here and then make changes to the size later. You can also pick and choose how it's gonna flow, whether it's going to go across first or it's gonna go down first or straight across or straight down again. I don't worry about that much because I can always change it later. All right, so I'm gonna go and save that. And when I open that up. I now have. Those four are boards ready to go and again there in a nice, neat grid and stood me trying to draw them out and line them up later.