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Clearing guides and arching eyebrows - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Designing Your Own Online Avatar
Clearing guides and arching eyebrows
In this movie, we'll get rid of the center guide that's running down the middle of the artwork, because, after all, we don't need it anymore. And we'll also arch the eyebrows, which is a pretty simple effect to pull off, but very important as well. So, I'll go ahead and switch over to my illustration so far and you may figure it's a simple matter to get rid of this guide by going up to the View menu choosing Guides and then choosing Clear Guides. But, you can see, the command is dimmed and if you run into this, the reason is probably a locked layer. So, notice that this field layer is locked at the bottom of the layers panel and it's the layer, if I twirl it open, it's the layer that contains the guide. So, if I want to get rid of that guide, I need to turn off the lock. In order to unlock that layer. And then I could just drag the guide to the trash if I wanted to, like that. Or, I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+Z, or Cmd+Z on the Mac, to undo that deletion. You can also go up to the…
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