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9. Click Create to create the new file.
In the resulting document window, the letter-size “page” (or artboard) is represented by Note:
a dark black line.
Our screen shots show
The color of the pasteboard (the area around the artboard) defaults to match the the Macintosh operating
brightness of the user interface. You can change this setting to show a white pasteboard
in the User Interface pane of the Preferences dialog box. system using the
Application frame. If
As we explained in the Interface chapter, the panels you see depend on what was you’re on a Macintosh
done the last time you (or someone else) used the application. Because workspace system and your screen
arrangement is such a personal preference, we tell you what panels you need to use, but doesn’t look like our
we don’t tell you where to place them. screen shots, choose
In our screen shots, we typically float panels over the relevant area of the document so Window>Application
we can focus the images on the most important part of the file at any particular point. Frame to toggle on that
As you complete the projects in this book, feel free to dock the panels, grouped or option.
ungrouped, iconized or expanded, however you prefer.

The name you
defined appears in
the document tab.

This is the
artboard edge.

The artboard area
is white.

The area outside the
artboard is gray.

Note:
Feel free to work with
whatever workspace

10. Choose File>Save As and navigate to your WIP>Camping folder. settings you are most
comfortable using as you
If you assign a name in the New Document dialog box (as you did in Step 5), that name complete the projects in
becomes the default file name in the Save As dialog box.
this book.
The dialog box defaults to Adobe Illustrator (.ai) format, and the extension is
automatically added to the name you defined.

Note:
Press Command/
Control-S to save a
document, or press
Command/Control-
Shift-S to open the Save
As dialog box.

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