In this lesson you'll learn how to work with multiple documents in Illustrator
and understand a few key considerations that are specific to illustrator
compared to other Adobe programs. So if you want to follow along, go ahead and open
up a couple of the support files. I've opened up chad.ai and streetlights.ai
And you'll notice as you open them they do become tabbed up at the top by default
and we can pull those off the tab if we want. We can just click and drag down
just like in Photoshop or some of the other Adobe programs and then they become just
floating windows, right, and then you can click the other one, pull it off there.
Now, when you click and drag these around, one thing to take note is if you want to move
things from one to the other,
for example, if you wanted to take this illustration here, you know, a part of it and
put it over there, you can. You don't have to worry about specifically it being on a layer.
We do have a layers panel in Illustrator but it's a little bit different
than in Photoshop. We'll go over that in a different lesson, but it's more object-based
software program than, for example, Photoshop. So in Photoshop you have to be
on that layer and you click and drag that element over to the other one. On this one I can
just use the selection tool and just select one of these things or you can click and drag
around a couple of the elements like that and then click and drag it over and then
it places that over there. So now it's this element is over here that was over in
the other document, and of course you can minimize these, you can maximize them to
full screen. You can restore them by clicking the little middle area and
X to close them out. Now if you want these in a specific area, let's just tab
them up to the top again. If you just click and drag them up to the top, when it adds it,
a little blue outline. That's just telling us, it's going to tab it up to the top again.
And then if you go to Window, I'm going to pull this down a little bit so we can see.
If you go to Window, and then there's of course workspace
like from the other lesson, but there's also
Arrange. So there's Float in Window, Float All in Window so they'll all float out
like we just had manually, or you can tile them. Or you can just, up at the top right here,
click that and go to Arrange Documents and then you've got a couple of options.
Consolidate All. That just consolidates them to the tab
so if I pull these off
and go to Consolidate All, it will tab them all automatically up at the top and
there's a couple of other options. Tile All in Grid if they're a bunch of one's open.
Tile All Vertically, Horizontally, Two-Up and so on. So if I click one of those,
now it just has them both up here in kind of a tile fashion since there's two of them.
Now of course we can go to File, Open, and open another document
or you can go to File, Place and you
could place, for example, just choose this one here, and click Place and it will
place it into one of the other documents. Alright. So you can take elements from
another document, in fact all the elements, and then place them into
another document by going to File, Place as well.
So that's working in multiple documents in Photoshop. I'll see you in the next lesson.