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