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8. If the Advanced options aren’t visible, click the arrow button to the left of
the word Advanced.

9. Make sure the Color Mode is set to CMYK and the Preview Mode is set
to Default.
CMYK is the standard color mode for printing, and RGB is the standard color mode for
digital distribution. You learn more about color and color modes in Project 2: Balloon
Festival Artwork.
Don’t worry about the other Advanced options for now. You will learn about those in
later projects when they are more relevant.

Note:

Our screen shots show
10. Click OK to create the new file. the Macintosh operating
system using the
In the resulting document window, the letter-size “page” (or artboard) is represented by
a dark black line. As we explained in the Interface chapter, the panels you see depend Application frame. If
on what was done the last time you (or someone else) used the application. Because you’re on a Macintosh
workspace arrangement is such a personal preference, we tell you what panels you need system and your screen
to use, but we don’t tell you where to place them. doesn’t look like our
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.

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