If you enjoyed this tutorial you may also like our Illustrator tutorials on loading and saving color swatches, creating an SVG, and making a seamless pattern. In this tutorial well be going over how you can quickly resize your artboard in Illustrator for using the Artboards Tool. Your artboard will then fit to the edges of your design. Select Object > Artboards > Fit to Artwork bounds. Next, fit your artwork to the artboard size. Create or resize your artwork to your desired size. When using artboards you may need to adjust the sizing to fit your artwork.

Double-click to the right of an artboard name to fit. Once you have amended your sizes, select OK to apply the changes. Add and delete artboards in the document by clicking the appropriate buttons at the bottom of the panel. Large canvas allows you to accommodate more artboards than the default. You can also choose the specified units in Feet, Meters, Yards, or Feet & Inches. Here, you can change various features of the artboards. To ensure that the new document is created with a larger canvas use the following settings in the New Document dialog: Specify the artboard size of more than 227 inches (default canvas size). You can open individual Artboard Options by selecting the artboard icon on the right of your artboard name.Īlternatively, select the burger menu in the top right of the Artboard panel, then select Artboard Options. You can also click and hold shift to select more. This video will show you:How To Fit your artboard to your artwork in Illustrator so you won't have to export the artboard with your artwork. If you hold down Shift while youre doing it as well, so you got to start dragging. Within this panel you can select individual artboards. Its a good way of making duplicates of Artboards along with the art work.

If the panel is not in your right toolbar, select Window > Artboards. Let us begin by opening your artboards panel. Step 1 - Open and select artboards to resize Resizing single or multiple artboardsĪrtboards can be easily resized whether you have one or many.

For my artwork, I am using the Irene Florentina from Font Bundles. In this tutorial we will take you through 2 processes of how to change the size of your artboard in Adobe Illustrator.

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