everybody welcome to another illustrator cs6 tutorial
my name is buddy placard today we're going to be using
rulers and we're gonna learn how to use them
and view them correctly soul rulers
are located on the horizontal and vertical sides at the document
so you can see them here and in the way that you put the rulers on you go to
view rulers and then you either click Hide rulers
if they're on a cute 1 I'm of or show rulers if you want them on
and as you can see the hockey
workers control are right there
and I'm we are able to
change the units and everything for the rulers but let's get talking about what
they are used for
so they serve several purposes I'm first fatherly measure the width and height of
the active image
will you please guide on a screen to control the place now
other image elements so I can bring this guy down here
and now there's a guide get this out of the way
I don't know why but I every time but it got down a kind of annoys me sometimes
when I don't wanna use in a and get rid of it
and they also create markers that file your screen as you move
so if you look on the top right now rate directly
above my mouse you can see that there's a line there
and if I moved to the left you can see that there's also a line there
and the shows you where your om
your cursor is so you can put things that direct points
now one thing that we're gonna need to know
is worthy ruler origin it's and that starts we are boards
and it finished rehear 0 and 0
that's where they are and you can see that's where it says intersect that's
where the ruler origin it's
and it doesn't just say intersected just the ruler or gin
it says a any intersection intersecting points but that's where the ruler origin
as it's good to now
that term
so the origin usually appears up in upper left corner where the rulers
intersect
say no so another thing that we need to do is be able to use these points
our User the ruler in a
way that we can understand the measurements
so let's go to edit and inns go to our preferences
and let's go two units now
what we want to change here is the general
now we won head-on whatever you're using to measure owl
you're ill share project if you're making some type
0 blueprint and you need to everything to be in inches
and go ahead news there and if you needed to be in pixels
he is set to I like to use pixels because most other things I work and use
pixels
so that's why i like two years all right now let's get a little bit into
what we've got not to use to work with rulers
so this is called a horizontal ruler bar on the top
and unlocked is the particle ruler bar if I ever
star mention in OC I just remember those and
remember their control our turns on and off your rulers
right if you wanna changer are
board rulers to a global ruler then on we can go up here to view
rulers and
change the global rulers and go back
mars the rulers again rulers
changed our border rulers them access here you see how their 0
are there 0 was different in a different area so let me
move around this image with the hand tool here and you can see that the ruler
is moving around with the airport let me change this to
you and then rulers
change the global rulers an are moved this around
and you can see there the horizontal one is sticking with
Dr are poured but the vertical is a lot different
you can see down here 0 it's out here so
that's a little bit different it still moves around with it but there are
different places
ask our what change it back to
are poor the next thing I wanna go over is the video
rulers go to view rulers
and video rulers and another not move mmm
rulers enter animated or anything like that nurtures rulers adderall on this
side to help you with your
video I'm so if you're doing something
for video and you need these rulers that's what's going to be four and
that's how it's going to help you out
closer easier to use and they started 0-0
here and disco to the end now if you wanna change where your ruler origin is
come up here to this corner where there is this a square
here where the two rulers intersect and click in drag
who click and drag you look at this plus sign
now you can see you can set the ruler or gin any point to you really what
I can see that the zeros here and here now
if you want to reset their just double click on it and I'll go back to where
the
really or Janice so that's how you do that and
now you've got now you know how to do that let me show you the guides real
quick
after over on top religious click and drago
and you'll be able to bring out a guide so
there's how you use the guides you
on a guide you can also moved around again
and that's helpful
and to
hide guides just right click on the guide in it hide guides
now they're gone Alex
I'll go ahead and bring those guides back let's go to view
guides show guides and bring them back down
see can seem a little better my guide
doesn't wanna artel
that's what is locked okay let's go to guy interview guides and
its locked guides you can make a so you're not able to move them
which helps when you start moving stuff around and you don't want to
accidentally grab a guy to move around
we had in the perfect position so that's what lack ads for that are just gonna
show you
and we have clear guides here cook their and now the guides are gone for good
so that's how user guides
use those to line up objects perfectly using your ruler
om in you can use your mouse poop these guides that are appeared these a
icons are markers I mean
and that they'll help you figure out where you need to put points as well
so thanks for watching this tutorial that's all I have for you on drillers
and guides
so I'm thankful that you watch thank you i watch more
and comes out the video if you liked it so have a good one everybody