Operation Manual

Setting up a New Document 15
Setting up a New
Document
An Illustrator document consists of one single-page artboard that can be up to
227 square inches.
When you start Illustrator, the Welcome screen lets you access your recent
documents or choose a new type of document for your choice of media. If
you’re working on a video project, choose the Video And Film prole and select
a size such as NTSC DV. Your color mode will be set to RGB and your artboard
will automatically show the format’s dimensions with guides for video and title-
safe areas. If you’re working on a web project, choose a New Document Prole
for the web to automatically set raster resolution to 72ppi and color to RGB.
Print proles default to CMYK color and oer a range of popular artboard
setups including preset raster-eects resolutions. You can also save your own
custom proles that specify setup parameters such as artboard dimensions,
swatches, brushes, styles, and color spaces.
To create a new document, you can also choose File > New and choose a New
Document Prole depending on the intended use of your illustration. As noted
above, the New Document Prole will correctly set dimensions, units, color
mode and raster eects parameters based on the prole selected. Any of these
settings can be modied to suit your needs.
You can change raster eects settings at any time by choosing Eects >
Document Raster Eects settings.
When you create a new document, you can
determine size, units of measurement, and
orientation of the artboard. You will also be
prompted to choose a color mode.
The Illustrator Welcome screen—your
starting point for a new project.