


You can do whatever you want to with this shape. You can move it around, you can change it. Simply select your group and double click on that shape that's gonna isolate the shape. How do I get in and edit one of these shapes without having toe on group Simple. Let go with a touch wheel and now I can move these all around. The center you notice is going to be constrained because that's my shift key right there. That way, when I scale these things, Aiken, scale them all together. My contextual menu allows me to group in right there. I'm gonna kind of move these together, and I congratulate all of them together with my selection tool and move them all around. All right, so we've been working with our basic shapes here. So a little bit of patients and we'll get to it, All right, But we're gonna show you some of the other tools in here as we go.
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And we're going to show you how to convert these shapes into a guide here once we get down to our object menu here. So how do we get a guide? Well, interestingly enough, we can take any shape, any line that we draw, and we can actually turn these things into a guide. Where's our guides? Where is our guy? We have no rulers on here. Turn off the snap to grid right there and you can turn off your grid and then turn off your snap to grid Right there. You can also turn on your snap to grid, so if you're drawing shapes and you want to snap to the grid to make sure it's going to be perfect, then you could go in, snap everything to the grid and be able to draw your icons, your alignment, whatever it may be by using the snap to grid feature nice and handy. In here, you can control your spacing and the number of subdivisions here with that, and change your grid structure. By turning on the little grid button, you can change the color of your grid lines and the way you see your grid with just your solid lines or all your divisions subdivisions. If you're used to working on a grid, you can also turn your grid on here. And space are objects very nicely together here. Smart guides will also allow us to go through. Top bottom, middle right center whatever you want and keep those all together very easily.

Īir Nice to be able to go in and very quickly Select your objects, line them up with each other.

Okay, you can turn off your smart guides and then just move these all around so you don't get those But the smart guides. So in this case, the center of the object I'm dragging is aligning to the object up above, or the edges or the centers or bottom left, right and snapping to each other. What does that actually dio? But when we select a shape that allows us to see these guides that show up when we dragon object. We had our precision panel where we can turn on, are snapping here and are smart guides by default. Our grids are guides and are smart guides here. Okay, but it's part of the pen tool, so we're gonna get to that here. Okay, so right now there is no specific line tool that you may be used to an illustrator. Where's our line tool? What's going on with our line tool? What? We're going to show you that because it's actually part of the pencil tool. The one thing that's missing from this whole thing.
