All right, now I don't really need that artboard, so I'll just go ahead and press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of it and notice that gets rid of the artboard without getting rid of any of any of the actual objects inside your illustration. And that's going to resize that new artboard to include everything inside the document. You go to the object menu, choose artboards and then choose fit to artwork bounds. And I'll draw a new artboard so that we can see method number four, which is easily the most obscure method. All right, I'm going to undo those last couple of modifications again by pressing Ctrl + Z or Command + Z on the Mac. And so if you double click on any object, you're going to resize the artboard to match. And you do that by not clicking on the number zero because that's going to create a new artboard, but instead double clicking on it. Method number three is to resize the artboard to exactly match the artwork. click on it, and then I could go ahead and choose a preset such as the letter size page if I like, or I could go with an iPhone six which surprisingly is much larger. And now, I'll go up to this item on the left side of the control panel, which currently reads custom. Another way to work is to select an artboard just by clicking on it and all of these methods by the way, work whether one artboard is selected or multiple artboards. Now the other methods are going to go a little quicker here. So, I'll go ahead and move these guys down because if I make these artboards too tall, then they'll start to include the numbers above them. So, I'll go ahead and undo that modification and I'll just drag this top handle upward like so, so that the artboards are taller, but they're not any wider and I might not want them to be quite this tall. And as a result, I'm no longer aligned with the type and that's as things stand now Illustrator's not equipped to scale artwork and artboards together. And notice, that I'm scaling with respect to the opposite corner in this case. So, if I click off the artboard in order to de-select it and then, I shift marquee these bottom guys right here, then I could drag a corner handle in order to scale all four of these artboards. That's going to be shift and option on the Mac and perhaps surprisingly this works with multiple artboards as well. So, in this case I have both the shift in all keys down. And then, if I add the Shift key to all that, then I can constrain the aspect ratio while scaling with respect to the center. And the same goes if I were to alter option drag the top or bottom handle. Incidentally, then I'm moving both sides either away from each other or inward. If I just want to scale a couple of sides, I could drag a side handle and notice if I go ahead and press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac and keep that key down. And so notice when I have the Alt key down or the Option key on the Mac and I drag a corner handle, I am scaling all four sides. That's going to be the Option key on the Mac. If I want to scale the artboard with respect to its center, then I would press and hold the Alt key. All right, I'm going to undo those modifications as well because notice when I drag specifically a corner handle, I'm resizing the artboard with respect to its opposite quarter. It could be a side handle or a top or bottom handle as well. Then, you can press and hold the Shift key as you drag any handle by the way. That is you like the relationship between the width and the height of the artboard, which is known as the aspect ratio, incidentally. Now, let's say you're happy with the artboards proportions. All right, that's looking a little messy to me, so I'm going to go ahead and undo all those modifications by pressing Ctrl + Z or Command + Z on the Mac as many times as it takes to get back to my original artboard. And assuming that your smart guides are turned on, you'll see the width and height of your artboard inside that heads-up display. Now, the most obvious method for scaling an artboard is to drag, either a corner handle as I'm doing in this case or either a top or bottom handle or one of the side handles. Specifically, I changed these numbers in the lower artboards to letters and so I'm ganna start things off here by switching to the artboard tool, which you can get by pressing shift + O and then I'll click on artboard 9 and I'm going to drag it down a little bit so that I have more room to work and thanks to the fact that my move slash copy artwork with artboard icon is turned on, that went ahead and moved the 9 along with the artboard. Now you can see I've made some slight modifications to this document. In this movie, We'll take a look at the various ways you can resize artboards using the artboard tool and it turns out there's five different methods in all.
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