Adding and removing artboards

Adding artboards

When creating a new document, you can automatically create your first artboard using the settings in the New Document dialog.

Once you have a document open, you can add additional artboards in different ways:

• using the original document's dimensions—perfect for creating multi-page documents
• using preset sizes—perfect for device-specific designing
• using the current selection's dimensions
• at a custom size
• by copying or duplicating other artboards

Removing artboards

Artboards can be deleted from your project at any time. Any objects placed on the artboard will be deleted as well.

To create a new document with an artboard:

1. From Affinity Designer's Home screen, tap the plus icon.
2. Choose New Document.
3. From the dialog, adjust settings according to type of deliverable.
4. Select the Create Artboard option.
5. Tap OK.

To add artboards at preset dimensions:

1. (Optional) With the Move Tool, select one or more objects.
2. From the Document Menu, select Artboards.
3. On the context toolbar, from the Preset pop-up menu, select:
   • Document—to add an artboard at the current document's canvas dimensions.
   • Selection—to add an artboard at the top of the layer stack at the same size and position as the selected object(s).
   • any other preset—to add another artboard at a device-specific preset's dimensions.
4. On the context toolbar, tap Insert Artboard.

To add custom size artboards:

1. From the Document Menu, select Artboards.
2. Drag on the pasteboard.

To copy or duplicate an artboard:

• With an artboard selected, do one of the following:
  • With two fingers held down, drag the artboard to be copied to a new position.
  • From the Edit menu, select Duplicate.

To remove a selected artboard:

• On the Layers Studio, tap Remove.