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[Treehouse presents]

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[Quick Tips][Aligning Objects in Adobe Illustrator][with Mat Helme]

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Hey, what's up—Mat Helme here with a Treehouse Quick Tip:

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Aligning objects in Adobe Illustrator CS6.

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After we open up Adobe Illustrator CS6 and create a new document,

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let's head over to the Tools Panel and grab the Rectangle tool and make a large rectangle.

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Then, let's grab the Ellipse tool and make a smaller circle than the rectangle.

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Then, let's grab the Star tool and make an even smaller star.

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Now, so we're not confused, let's change the color of these so they're all different.

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We can leave the rectangle blue;

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let's make the circle orange and the star yellow.

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Now, let's place these objects on top of one another like so.

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Now with these objects selected, you can see in the Control Panel—at the top—I have the Align Panel.

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Now, we can actually access this by going to the window, selecting Align,

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and then we get the Align Panel.

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Now, say if I want to make all of these objects align horizontally to the center,

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I simply select that, and you can see they all align.

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Now, if I wanted to align them vertically, I can do that as well.

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And you can see they all line up.

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Now say if I want to align them to the right side of the Art Board here,

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I can do that by going to my Align Panel, selecting Show Options, go to Align To,

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and select Align To Art Board, and then when I click Horizontal Align Right,

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you can see that it aligns all the way to the right of the Art Board.

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Now, if I want to align the objects to—say—a key object,

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I can do that by selecting all of them, go to Align To, Align To Key Object,

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and say if I select the circle, everything will now align left to the circle.

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Now, say if my objects are spaced out like so,

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and I want the star aligned to the left, the square aligned to the right, and the circle displayed in the middle,

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I can do this by selecting all of them, then selecting Align To Art Board, and then select Horizontal Distribute Center.

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You can see they all align perfectly.

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Now, if I want to align all of these objects—say—40 pixels from one another—

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because as you can see, it's not as even between the circle and square as it is between the circle and star—

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I can select all of them and select Align to Key Object, then make 40 pixels in the Distribute Spacing,

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and then select Horizontal Distribute Space, and you can see now they're all aligned from the star 40 pixels,

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and then the circle to square 40 pixels.

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This comes in real handy if you're creating—say—navigation for a website.

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Now, say I have a very large stroke on the circle of—say—black,

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and I want to left align all of these objects,

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you'll notice that it's not aligning to the end of the stroke; it's aligning to the actual object,

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and you can see this when we go to View and then Outline—

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it shows all of the paths, and it's correct—they are aligned—

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but we want to align it to the outside of that stroke.

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So, let's switch back over to the Preview mode, and then in our Align Options,

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we can use Preview Bounds,

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so what that's going to do is align everything to the edge of the stroke.

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Like so.

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And that is how we align objects in Adobe Illustrator CS6.

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