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[ 73 ]Tip: Do you want to
just see one artboard
at a time in the Layers
panel? Click on one
of the artboard layer
groups in the Layers
panel, then click on
the drop-down menu
at the top left of the
panel where it says
“Kind,” and select
Artboard in the drop-
down list. Now when
you click on any of the artboards in your document, you’ll
only see the content for that artboard in the Layers panel.
WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO WITH ARTBOARDS?
You can actually create different-sized artboards in a
single document, and it’s easy to set up. You can resize
an artboard using its transform handles. Just click on
the artboard name so it’s active; otherwise, you may
end up scaling the image inside it. The Options Bar at
the top shows the dimensions, which are adjustable, of
the currently active artboard. Also, with the Artboard
tool selected in the Toolbar, you can click-and-drag out
a new artboard at any size anywhere in the document.
Artboards are so versatile.
And this is where the true power of artboards comes in
for me. Because we aren’t restricted to just Web and mobile
designs, we can use artboards for comparison artwork.
Oftentimes, when I’m working on a document, I want totry out different effects or type. With artboards, I can design
these variations side by side, and when I’m done, I can either
delete the ones I didn’t use, or pack them all up in a PDF to
send to a client using File>Export>Artboard to PDF. If you
choose Multi-Page Document in the resulting dialog, it will
place each artboard on its own page in a single PDF.
Here’s an example of an A5 flyer design we could be
working on that has three options for images and fonts.Artboards ©Adobe Stock/: (1) Robert Hainer; (2) yuryimaging; (3) Konstantin Yuganov