Starting with Illustrator, problem with background and artwork

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Hi. I am using Illustrator 2018.First of all, i want to say that i never used Illustrator (or something similar) before. I am watching many video tutorial about this program, but i have a simple problem. When i first open a project (1920x1080 without changing anything) i see this :These are my questions :- How can i remove the green grid that shows pixels- How can i remove all the green lines- How can i have a gray background with the artboard (an empy 1920x1080 file) with a white background?For understanding what i mean, watch this tutorial Flat Design Astronaut - Illustrator tutorial - YouTube He start with a simple blank artboard with a gray background, not as i do.About the gray background, i already did some research and i choosed the "as the brightness of the user interface", but when in the creation of the project i select "None" in the transparency grid options, i have thisThanks you for helping me.

Ton Frederiks · Accepted Answer

> In your example it should not matter, because you are prparing for square pixel video. In other cases Illustrator uses a different size

Could you please explain better this? For 16:9 video aspect ratio (youtube default one) so 3840x2160,2560x1440,1920x1080,1280x720 etc.. i will have no problems, just using the profile "Web" and adjusting the width/height of the artboard as the resolution, right? But these are not square pixels resolution as you said, are they?

Thanks again for your support.

The aspect ratio (16:9) you are mentioning is about the screen size.

Pixel aspect ratio is something different. If the videoformat uses non square pixels, you will get distortion if you don't compensate for that.

YouTube video always uses square pixels.

From the Help files:

Video And Film Document

Provides several preset video- and film-specific crop area sizes (note that the Artboard option changes to Crop Size for this profile). Illustrator creates only square pixel files, so to ensure that the sizes are interpreted correctly in video applications, Illustrator adjusts the Width and Height values. For example, if you choose NTSC DV Standard, Illustrator uses a pixel size of 654 x 480, which translates to 740 x 480 pixels in video-based applications.

pixxxelschubser · Answer

Hi lordprot​,another simple way to change an already existing document with video preset into "normal" RGB-Document in three stepsAt first your document looks like this:---------------------------------------------------Step 1uncheck the video rulerStep 2uncheck transparency gridStep 3uncheck all green guides (two ways possible)to---------------------------------------------------Done:Have fun

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