a lower-body welcome to another exciting illustrator cs6 tutorial
today we're going to learn about aligning and distributing
objects and what that pretty much means as their
when you align something you're going to
put them up together in relative to
the page or it in relative to each other on
such as trying to like line up everything in a straight line or
something like that or
putting everything to the right of the page or whatever
and a distribution means the
the amount of space in between ET's objects when
their next to each other so
let's go ahead and start out by going over
what we need to I have set up first media line panel
and you need to go to window and online
and I'll bring the panel up now when you probably open is probably not gonna look
like this
are gonna look some moral admitted to
I'm gonna look some more like
this and this is where you gonna get
so the first thing you know you wanna do an ox fine why is
click on EU's preview bounce and you want to have that checked because
it takes into consideration op the objects affects
or the like the stroker some like that and since I have a stroke on here
I love about 5i think get five points
it's gonna take that into consideration once aligning if you don't
and east are aligning think they might star overlapping
and that's probably doubt you walk so
the next thing you want is show options click on that and just gonna
give you these extra options here distribute spacing and a line to
and I'll go over those now I've feel like illustrator should just have these
RT on there and not make you show the options
does appear a newer user not gonna think I'm going up here in going to show
options you can I think its some elsewhere like you got a set up stuff
but it's not just giving you extra options that should be there already
so if we take a look at the panel we've got a line objects
and we've got horizontal left
horizontal line Sanner and right and these are horizontally aligning
parts and then we got vertical-align: top
vertical align center and vertical align bottom the next thing we have
distribute objects we've got distribute top
to serve you senator and so on just like the other thing
but these are distributing so if you want
to star go ahead and select the objects
now for aligning you gotta have at least two or more objects and when you
distribute you wanna
I at least three or more objects list are aligning
thanks first thing we're gonna do is was click on a horizontal
aligncenter you can see there now
everything has been aligned in the center alright
their overlapping the next thing was click on vertical align center
and it takes in thick coat to consideration the Space Center has been
for and now everything is both all lined and the center
on top of each other if you wanna do that that's what you can have
I'm not really too sure to many reasons why you might wanna do have
everything on top of each other but if you had but if you are doing something
unique guy like
four different size circles and you want them on San
in front hurt inside of each other but they are all a
different sizes then and there might be something you
you'll you do and I'll go and I don't do that at the and show you what I was
talking about
I edit it controls the a couple times
let's check out our distribute objects and
if we click on vertical distribution center just watch how the abject smoke
%uh they're not moving at all let's try vertical
horizontal distribution center there we go thats I was looking for
now it has distribute them equally on
vertically are horizontally my bad
and they got these a you get they've got these
op.cit each other so on align objects the horizontals on the left
and the verticals on the right under distribute the particles on the left and
horizontals on the right
thanks for trying to messes up
Adobe thanks re: now for you want these are all together
we got a star aligning these up a little better
so we want to get these into a straight line is basically what we're trying to
do
so lets a use this
aligned to button so we want it
have these %ah was clicked this as well
a line to selection it's like this one
most like to moscow a line to
selection and when you slide
the EC that there is a nice huge outlined here
and I we can start aligning things to do that i press horizontal that's not what
I wanted
on vertical there we go now everything is in a straight line
and then overused the disturb you
Center everything will be distributed evenly
now go ahead and mess around with everything
we've also got distributes spacing if you wanna star space and things out
think we're gonna use horizontal
here and we space things out even more
news click on any stars do in the diggity Jake
here so go ahead and mess around with the whole entire
the whole thing that we've got going on here and
and and I think that serve for aligning
now you guys can mess with the lining on your own so I don't have to go through
everything but i wanna show you that low
at checkout talking about so we'll do it with
will do with the the polygon here
was gonna do
Kate the polygon a few times alright
and
make these varying sizes
want bigger alright mas let them all
an hour conners at these and
and a align them and that's what I was talking about you wanna make something
like that
and that's when he would use the different alignments
they can see their 10 the object has banned
hidden in the back see you would do something like
what's figure which ones hidden by clicking on these eyes
so this last one here is the one that said
when Ryan click on that and we're just gonna move it up
and now it shows so
that's the way you do if any things like hidden is bringing up back to the front
but I wanted to show you guys and a show you a couple
practical uses for it and how
NY you might want to use a line at the strip you so thanks a lot for watchin
Everybody
have a good day