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Modify artboards

Modify artboards

There's a couple of important things to remember when it comes to scaling an entire artboard for instance in this case we have this illustration as a single artboard within this document and if I use the command or control A shortcut that's going to select everything that's in this document and we can see there's a couple of layers here in this case we have three layers and if I start changing the size of this and hold down the shift key it's not going to scale the artboard only the illustration components within that artboard and of course we can even move this outside of the artboard if we wanted to however if I want both the artboard and the illustration to be scaled up or down we can do that by selecting the artboard instead of the illustration so let's shift O that's the artboard tool and from the properties panel you want to make sure that both the move and scale artwork with artboard are enabled so these features should be turned on and then you also want to make sure that you…

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