With the Selection tool, click to select the basketball hoop with net below the artboards. You will use these to make sure that an object is a certain distance from the edge of the artboard. When moving objects with Smart Guides turned on (View > Smart Guides), measurement labels appear next to the pointer and display the distance (X and Y) from the object’s original location. Next, you will use Smart Guides to move content. With the upper-left point of the reference point locator ( ) selected in the Control panel, change the X value to 0 and the Y value to 0. You may need to either zoom out or scroll over and down to see it. Select the group with the “City Arena” text in it below the artboards. In the Artboards panel, select the artboard named Back to make it the active artboard. The content should now be precisely positioned on the artboard, since it was the same size as the artboard to begin with. If they do not appear, you can click the word “Transform” to see the Transform panel, or you can choose Window > Transform. Then, change the X value to 0 and the Y value to 0.Īgain, depending on the resolution of your screen, the Transform options may not appear in the Control panel. With the Selection tool ( ), click to select the large background shape on the left, below the artboards (see the next figure for which shape).Ĭlick the upper-left point of the reference point locator ( ) in the Control panel. Click the artboard with the guides on it (the artboard named Front) to ensure that it is the active artboard (check the origin of the rulers and make sure that 0,0 starts in the upper-left corner of the artboard). You should see content off the bottom edge of the artboards. Press Command+– (Mac OS) or Ctrl+– (Windows) (or View > Zoom Out) three times to zoom out. Next, you’ll add content to the backgrounds of two artboards and then position that content precisely. You could use the alignments options, like you saw in Lesson 2 “Techniques for Selecting Artwork,” but you can also use Smart Guides and the Transform panel to move objects to exact coordinates on the x and y axes and to control the position of objects in relation to the edge of the artboard. Global rulers set the ruler origin at the upper-left corner of the first artboard, or the artboard that is at the top of the list in the Artboards panel, no matter which artboard is active.Īt times, you may want to position objects more precisely-either relative to other objects or to the artboard. 
Artboard rulers, which are the default rulers that you are seeing, set the ruler origin at the upper-left corner of the active artboard. There are two types of rulers in Illustrator: artboard rulers and global rulers. As you can see, the 0 point on both rulers corresponds to the edges of the active artboard. By default, the ruler origin is in the upper-left corner of the active artboard. The point on each ruler (horizontal and vertical) where the 0 appears is called the ruler origin. Notice that the 0 (zero) for each ruler is always in the upper-left corner of the active (selected) artboard. With the Selection tool ( ) selected, click each of the artboards and, as you do, look at the horizontal and vertical rulers. Choose View > Rulers > Show Rulers, if you don’t see the rulers.Next, you will create a few guides based on ruler measurements so that later you can more accurately align content. Guides are non-printing lines created from the rulers that help you align objects. They appear at the top and left in the Document window and can be shown and hidden. Rulers help you accurately place and measure objects. For the remainder of the lesson, you will transform content using a variety of methods and tools. Objects can be transformed using the Transform panel, selection tools, specialized tools, Transform commands, guides, Smart Guides, and more.
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Transforming content allows you to move, rotate, reflect, scale, shear, and either free distort or perspective distort objects.
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