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Rock-Solid Alignment using Anchor Points | YourTutorialsBox.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:12:30 +0000

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By: Rob Cubbon – freelance graphic designer

Rob Cubbon – freelance graphic designer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:14:43 +0000

Love this site, the freebies, and the tutorials. I got into this method of aligning, curiously, through Quark!
Annoyingly, Quark only uses the top left corner as an anchor point of an object (doesn’t give you the 9 choices in InD and Illy) and puts the 0,0 of the page top-left (not bottom-left in InD and Illy). Thank god I hardly ever use Quark anymore!

By: Andrew Fleming

Andrew Fleming — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:41:01 +0000

I would’ve thought you would’ve put in more time explaining how this could truly be mindblowingly useful, like aligning two objects in amazing ways rather than to learn how to stick something on the corner of the artboard. Just my two cents.

By: WWE Game

WWE Game — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:30:36 +0000

Hey!…Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin..holy Wednesday

By: Piyal

Piyal — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:06:48 +0000

Thanks. Nice tips

By: Coghill Cartooning

Coghill Cartooning — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:34:37 +0000

I wish Illustrator would snap object edges to guides even when moving them by grabbing from the Fill area; I’m not one for aligning with the numeric entries.

And while I’m complaining, the align to preview bounds feature shouldn’t take drop shadows into account IMO. But then again, I am sure there are situations where I’d complain if it didn’t do this.

By: vladimir

vladimir — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:52:57 +0000

this is all very slow and not really efficient method comparing to Corel Draw aligning system. Is there any keyboard shorcuts in Illustrator for aligning two objects or directly to artboard?
for example in CD only one keyboard key is enough to center the object on artboard …

By: Rene Martin

Rene Martin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:43:32 +0000

Yeah if you master InDesign you learn how to work on this, if you want to learn more about it just look up some InDesign books for explanation.

Still I was thrilled learning about this

By: Ben Leivian

Ben Leivian — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:00:59 +0000

Very nice bittbox. One of my favorite features of the palettes is the ability to calculate math within the fields.

For example, if you wanted to create a duplicate circle from the upper-left, to the upper-right corner, enter x:[0px + 400px], hold the option key and press return.

If you would like your circle to be a third as big, enter w:[215px / 3], hold option and command (constrain proportions) and press return.

You can also mix different units of measurements (72px or 1in or 1p0 or 25mm, etc.) and it will convert on the fly.

By: Paige

Paige — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:36:06 +0000

Great post. This is an excellent way to manipulate individual anchor points too!

By: Evan Rusackas

Evan Rusackas — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:13:45 +0000

Another similar feature which I use incessantly are the “Smart Guides” (View menu, or Command-U on a mac). Then when you mouse over an anchor point, it alerts you as such. If you then drag it to another object edge or anchor point, it lets you know you’re aligned, and snaps into place. You can also add/modify guide angles and snap tolerance for this in Illustrator’s preference. I can’t live without it :)

By: Esben Thomsen

Esben Thomsen — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:16:32 +0000

FINALLY!

Been missing illy on this blog for sooo long! Nice to see you are back with the vector curves, I was very worried and didn’t knew who to call.

There are millions of PS sites, but only one vector – keep that spot and i’ll send you love all day long :-)

Seriously Mr. Bitt this was missed, thank you for coming back on track

E.T

By: Gabe

Gabe — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:19:26 +0000

You had me at “control freak bliss”, great post! I’ve struggled with aligning objects in patterns, this technique will be really helpful. Much better than my old technique of “zoom in really far and drag the object to where I think I want it.”

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:37:51 +0000

The Transform, Align and Pathfinder tools are my favourites!

By: prayas

prayas — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:37:09 +0000

Nothing new but as the Photoshop 101 before a usefull trick to some. This has always been working in INdesign and Illu too.

Keep on posting these little tricks. Even experienced use don’t know all of them.

P..:

By: Vagelis

Vagelis — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:30:57 +0000

Hey that great tips there for alignment!!!

Thank you v;ery much !