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Adjusting your 9-slice scaling guides - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Adjusting your 9-slice scaling guides
In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to adjust the guidelines that are associated with 9-slice scaling, so that you get exactly the results you're looking for. I've saved my progress as 9-slice scaling.ai. I went ahead and undid the last step that I performed in the previous exercise. So that we're back to our original combination of the arrow and the tip bar. And it's called Arrow and tip down here at the bottom of the symbols panel and I do have 9-slice scaling turned on. I'm going to go ahead and drag this guy up a little bit so that I can scale it once again. You may recall that once I start scaling this graphic it's scaled in a very bizarre way, but I want to examine what's going on for moment. I'm going to pressed Ctrl+R or Command+R on the Mac to bring up my rulers. Then I'm going to drag a guideline down to right there, because that's where the break in the action is happening. Illustrator is strangely adding another point right there at that location. And that's…
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How symbols work1m 2s
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The power of symbols5m 1s
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Creating new symbols6m
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Enabling the new 9-slice scaling4m 24s
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Adjusting your 9-slice scaling guides6m 54s
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Previewing and acquiring symbols4m 12s
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Finding a symbol and creating an instance4m 13s
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Duplicating and replacing instances4m 19s
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Breaking a symbol link and envelope fidelity5m 26s
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Distorting and expanding a symbol4m 54s
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Updating an existing symbol definition3m 40s
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Recoloring a symbol definition4m 13s
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Applying a basic "local" color adjustment5m 20s
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Applying a more elaborate local color adjustment5m 4s
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Laying down a random symbol set5m 35s
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The eight symbolism tools6m 55s
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Editing selected instances4m 11s
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