everybody welcome to another illustrator cs6 tutorial
my name's buddy Blackford today we're gonna start going over Smart Guides
and basically what smart cards are is there
temporary guides that pop up when you start dragging stuff along
an you're able to use MS like a snap to
can I think so they la the show up our
along a anchor points and edges and things like that
so what you need to do to get started here is
open up or create a document that has
multiple layers or multiple objects in it
and now each of these dogs I've got here is on its own
little air so we've got I
that going out here and once you get that done go ahead and
select your selection tool and then go ahead and click on that one of your
objects
and start dragging it now you can see these green lines that are popping up
now those are actual actually your Smart Guides
an the Smart Guides they appear when you start clicking and dragging
and they disappear when you let go up the
actual mouse button so as you can see there moving along
now there's a couple cool things I can tell you about using Smart Guides
the first thing is there's a hockey
day you can use to show and hide
the Smart Guides and that is a
control you so the whole press Control you right now
should have had the smart guide switch is pressed it and I move this along and
now you don't see em
at the smart answer ninety you then go ahead and do that
you can also I'm do it by going up the View menu go to view
and then Smart Guides on here right here and that way I just turned them back on
and these I like to keep them on because they help me a line things quickly
now effect click and drag
notice where the
lines are at are arm
show wake up they're just there on random
spots to not really random but they're at different spots
various om areas I love my
dock that I'm moving around if I go ahead and i holed up control
it's going to always use the center of the object here
and and that way you can line things up with the center
I can line up at the center the stock
and right now this is China lined up at the center about lying down there
I can line up with the center at the mustache that pink mustache down there
so holding down control will
I get you the Center
a liar and going on there and then as well on a Mac if you're using a Mac
that's going to be the command key so control and command
are interchangeable on Mac and and Mac and PC
now we have the
ability to adjusted the Smart Guides
and change the color
remove that little box and stuff like that so let's go ahead and
figure how to do that go it's in the Preferences SoCal appear to your menu
bar and go to Edit
preferences and then Smart Guides
is the one that we wanna go to we can change the color here
and then
there's all these different check boxes that are going on here got alignment
guides
and that displays the guides along the center and the edges
objects it can go along are barred or can go along the bleeds as well
and we've got anchor anchor and path labels
and that's just gonna display the path that intersection an anchor point for
mation
soul like to wear the little axes are when you're dragging around
whoops sorry about that forget that that's going to make that big
annoying noise so the next thing that we got is
object highlighting and this highlights objects below the pointer
as drag and we've got measurement labels
and you can us like this 30 selected
if you want to display the two are optional location
I'm that the information we've got transformed tools here
and if you wanna slight their display the information when you scale a roti
or sheer yeah objects and I haven't gone over those yet
but I'm you can kinda getting idea of how the what I work
and we got construction gets and when you select this
it displays guides as you try new objects
and you can specify the up points
here so pretty much
ninety degrees and 45 degree angles
when your drying diesel help you I be able to figure out
were what a 90 degree angle is and what a 45 degree angle as
I'm when you're trying it'll show up as a smart guide
that way he can drop perfect angles if you think I am a join 30 degree angles
and go hence set that and then there are custom angles
ice like this and we got our custom angles down here
and then
now we got snap intolerance and I'm
that's how close to object to head has to be before snaps to the guide
so that's a their
are objects here so let's go ahead and try some things will change this to
magenta and I'm not a cop measurement labels
an OK an now when I'm dragging
pillow boxes are showing up and I got a different color
so if you're working in um
in a project and a lot a year things are bright green
you might want to change it to you a different color so that
your guides aren't the same color as your
your project so that's pretty much it on
Smart Guides now you guys know all about them and how to use them correctly and
everything
and go ahead into the preferences and uncheck and
and I'm go ahead and mess around with things so you can figure out what's
going on
and what they do so thanks a lot for watching and everybody hope you have a
good day