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Working With Imported
Artwork |
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| Contents: |
| Rulers
and Guides, Layers,Tracing
an Image |
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| Rulers
and Guides: |
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| Illustrator can display
rulers in both the horizontal and vertical direction. They
are useful when you need to accurately place objects on the page,
or when you need to line up imported documents. |
| Whenever you scroll or
zoom the rulers will adjust accordingly. |
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show or hide the rulers choose View>Show Rulers or View>Hide Rulers |
| Note: To set the unit
of measurement for the rulers choose File>Document Setup and choose
the unit of measurement from the pop up menu. |
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| Ruler Guides are
straight horizontal or Vertical lines created by the Ruler that will
further help you to align objects on a page. |
| Hint: Guides are
a great way to set up a alignment lines across both the length and
width of the page, allowing you to align objects in "boxes" |
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create a Ruler Guide you need to have your rulers showing. Then you
simply place the pointer in either of the rulers and drag. Drag from
the top ruler down for horizontal guides, and from left to right for
vertical guides. |
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| Layers |
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| Layers are useful because
they allow you to organize your work into levels that can be edited
or viewed separately. Once you create your layers you can work with
them in various ways. They can be duplicated, reordered, merged, removed
and flattened. |
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For more about the way
you can use , refer to the layers section of the Photoshop tutorial. |
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