Utilizing artboards

Artboards allow you to have multiple documents within a single (folder) document. This can be useful for organizing images for your social media content, elements, images, and designs for websites, storyboards, comic books, and more.

Each artboard is rectangular and can be rearranged, resized, or swapped with other artboards. Web and app builder programs such as Sketch, XF, and Figma also use artboards. They are used for brainstorming ideas, especially for mapping out the plans to build a website, showing how it will be used and organized.

The following screenshot shows an example of using artboards across different social media platforms for my multimedia project, Remembering Flash:

Figure 2.21 – Artboards used for social media

To access artboards, go to the top left toolbar, click and hold the Move tool arrow, and move across to Artboard Tool in the submenu that appears.

Once the artboard tool is selected, create a...