From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep

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Guides - Illustrator Tutorial

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Guides

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In this video, we will be talking about features that can help us to work precisely in Adobe Illustrator. First up, let's see how we can work with guides. Now for guides, it is recommended to have the rulers visible. That's CMD or CTRL R on the keyboard or you can also select it from the properties panel. So once we turn them on, remember in the previous lesson we mentioned that by right-clicking on these can change the measurement units or we can also change them from the properties panel but more importantly if you click and drag onto the artboard you will be creating a guide if you drag from the horizontal ruler it will create a horizontal guide if you drag from the vertical ruler it will create a vertical guide however if you use the alt or option key you can actually create a guide in the opposite direction so I started dragging from the horizontal ruler but because I'm holding down the Alt or Option key it is actually creating a vertical guide and guides are used mainly to align…

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