Smart Guides are brilliant and if you aren’t using them turn them on by hitting Apple U or Ctrl U on Windows. The shortcut is Apple 5 or Ctrl 5 on Windows. To do this draw the shape or path as you would normally do then go to View > Guides > Make Guide. This means you can use a rectanlge, circle or hand-drawn path as a guide. You can use any pretty much any path to make a guide. Guides are not just limited to ruler lines though.
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You can hide and show guides using Apple or Ctrl on Windows which can come in useful if you want to see your artwork without the guides. If it doesn’t work the guides are probably locked so make sure you unlock them. If you want to delete a guide simply click on it with the Direct Selection Tool (Shortcut V) and hit delete. Deleting guides is also different from Photoshop. If not you should be able to move your guides around. If guides are locked then there will be a tick next to it. To be able to move guides you need to unlock guides. Normally guides are locked by default so if you try and click hold and drag on a ruler as in Photoshop it won’t work. Moving guides isn’t always like Photoshop however. To align your guides with a point in the ruler hold down shift and it will snap to the points on the ruler. To create a guide simply click hold and drag (just as you would in Photoshop). If you are working on the web you will probably want the dimensions to be pixels so right click on the ruler and chose pixels. To show rules hit Apple R or Ctrl R on Windows. Here's a short overview of the options and how Smart Guides can take it a step further.Įstimated reading time: 3 minutes Table of contents Last updated Saturday, Illustrator 101 - Guides and Smart Guides Guides help you to line control objects and paths easily in Illustrator. Illustrator 101 - Guides and Smart Guides | George Ornbo
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