From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
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Aligning points - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
Aligning points
- [Instructor] You can also align points when you're drawing or manipulating artwork. For example, here I may have hastily drawn this car roof and thought tilting it upwards just a little bit before I start actually building it out would be a good idea and it isn't. I want to take it back to being flat and, unfortunately, I'd closed it and opened it so undo is not an option. Just in case you were thinking, well undo it. I'm going to tap A on my keyboard to get the direct selection tool and then select those points and my alignment options there pop up. So you can see I could align them to top but, super surprised there, I've actually still got align to document turned on so I'll undo that and go ahead and choose align to selection and then I get those aligned. Now there is something to be had in terms of some distribution options that you can also do to space points out and also some horizontal alignments occasionally…
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