Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Course 3: Vectors: Smart guides
By Aarón Martínez
About the video: Smart guides
Overview
“In this unit, we will learn to activate the smart guides, which allow us to give a specific order and distances when working. ”
In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Smart guides, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 3: Vectors. Learn the different ways to digitize an image using vectors.
Partial transcription of the video
“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 3 LESSON 7 Smart Guides In this lesson we'll learn the importance of Smart Guides, that allow us to arrange and space out objects. Let's start. Smart Guides help us to work optimally and with a smaller error margin. We are going to create some shapes. The Smart Guides option is active by default. The Smart Guides are those purple or pink elements, in this case, a cross and a line, that help us align things to a figure or center, or to a specific point. In this case, the center of the circle coincides with this vertex. If I lower this point here, it will match exactly. Whe...”
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Course summary for: Course 3: Vectors

Aarón Martínez
By Aarón Martínez
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