From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Document setup

Document setup

From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Document setup

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- [Instructor] Okay, it's time for us to start making our document. Now, just before we do, I'd like to mention one thing. My normal unit of measurement, because I'm in Europe is the millimeter and centimeter and so on. Right at the beginning, however, I'm going to be working in inches. Now, if inches is your normal unit of measurement, you can carry on using that, just when I'm typing in numbers, apart from points, which we'll be using with the type, but numbers, you can type exactly the same numbers followed by mm, and they will be converted across for you. Okay, so let's go ahead and start a new document. So File, New and Document or Command N, Control N. And you get this big dialogue like so. And we are going to enter all of our details in the side here. Now it is actually saying to me units, millimeters at the moment, you could change that if you wanted to. Okay, I'm going to type here in the width. I'm going to…

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