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Aligning objects

Aligning objects - Illustrator Tutorial

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Aligning objects

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at our alignment options in Illustrator so that we can bring our bees here into some of sort line, then we can have a small chuckle for about four seconds while we say it's a bee line. There you go, joke over that, in fact, never even started. So I've selected all of the bees just here and that's perhaps the most important thing. If it doesn't know what to align to then you won't get much in terms of alignment. So I'm going to use the Align panel as it's presented in the Properties panel and I'm just going to choose here Vertical Align Center. And you'll see that all of their vertical coordinates are changed so that they are all in a line. I'll undo that and the other things won't come as a surprise. So Align Top aligns to the top most of those objects and Align Bottom does the opposite, as you'd expect. I'll undo that as well. Horizontal, almost exactly the same. So you might think…

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