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Aligning points - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
Aligning points
- [Instructor] Of course, as you would probably expect you can use the alignment commands on anchor points and paths as well. Let's have a look at that because there are a couple of things to watch out for. So I'm going to select this anchor point on the left-hand side here and then I'm going to make my way across and up to the second of these two peaks. I'm going to hold down Shift and Click on the top anchor point there. Now, as it's the last anchor point I selected it becomes a key anchor, Okay? So if I go ahead now and choose to align to bottom here, it has to take that point up to the invisible bottom of that anchor point. Let me just undo that and I'll choose a line, Right? Okay, and it takes that point across like so. let me undo that and reverse it So I'll click on the point at the top of the peak first hold down, Shift and Click on the points at the bottom left. And now if I choose align left, it does that,…
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