Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 6

Organizing Your Illustrations

IN THIS CHAPTER

Using ruler and custom guides

Working with the Transform panel for placement

Changing ruler origin

Rearranging, hiding, and locking objects

Masking objects

You can create incredible effects in Illustrator, but if don’t keep your content neat and aligned you can create a design nightmare. By learning the tricks to using rulers, guides, and grids, you can also create your artwork faster. In this chapter, you focus on organizational tricks that save you time and make your artwork look professional.

Setting Ruler Increments

Using rulers to help accurately place objects in an illustration is not difficult, but not knowing how to use them effectively in Illustrator can drive you straight over the edge.

To view rulers in Illustrator, choose View ⇒ Rulers ⇒ Show Rulers or press Ctrl+R (Windows) or ⌘   +R (Mac). When the rulers appear, their default measurement setting is the point (or whichever measurement increment was last set up ...