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Using the Rectangular Grid tool

Using the Rectangular Grid tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the Rectangular Grid tool

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- [Instructor] All right, now I'm going to show you how to use the one line tool we haven't seen so far which is the Rectangular Grid Tool. And it's going to allow us to create these five layers of variably colored sky. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over to this guy right here. And I'm actually going to create yet another layer here by clicking on the guides layer, and I'll alt or option click on the little page icon at the bottom of the Layers panel to bring up the Layer Options dialog box. And I'll call this guy rect grid for rectangular, and I'll change the color this time to, let's say, Grass Green, and then I'll click OK. And I'll go ahead and turn off the other layers for the moment, just so that we can see what we're doing. And I'll go ahead and select the Rectangular Grid Tool. Now, it pretty much works just as you would think. It draws a rectangular grid like so. You can make it rectangular if you want to.…

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