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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By : Clint Balsar
Book Image

Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By: Clint Balsar

Overview of this book

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based art tool for visual creatives. It is an industry-standard tool that helps you take a design from concept to completion, including the process of peer collaboration and client feedback. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll begin to build confidence as you master the methods of successful illustrators in the industry by exploring crucial tools and techniques of Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn how to create objects using different tools and methods while assigning varied attributes and appearances. Throughout the book, you’ll strengthen your skills in developing structures for maintaining organization as your illustration grows. By the end of this Adobe Illustrator book, you’ll have gained the confidence you need to not only create content in the desired format and for the right audience but also build eye-catching vector art based on solid design principles.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Reviewing the Necessary Knowledge
4
Part 2 – Advanced Illustrator Methods
10
Part 3 – Real-World Applications

Drawing using Snap to Glyph

With the addition of this more recent option, you now have several additional techniques for alignment related to type. If you already make use of Smart Guides, then this will feel very familiar to you. If you are not yet using Smart Guides, I would first recommend you explore their use. You will find them by going to View > Smart Guides. This will turn on interactive guides that will assist you with the alignment of objects. Similarly, Snap to Glyph will allow you to align (or snap) elements to different parts of your type (glyphs).

The Snap to Glyph options are located at the bottom of the Character panel:

Figure 7.19 – Snap to Glyph options

Figure 7.19 shows the options in icon form. The following list helps to describe these options from left to right:

  • Snap to a specific glyph: Right-click on a glyph and select Snap to Glyph to view glyph-based guides. After creating or moving an element in relation to the...