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Creating custom perspective guides - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Creating custom perspective guides
In this final exercise I am going to show you how to create your own poor man's perspective grid. Now this is going to be of use to those of you who know a thing or two about perspective drawing. You're going to find this terribly helpful, I should think, I do, on a regular basis. Those of you who don't like perspective drawing or don't understand it, feel free to skip this exercise, although it's very easy to perform, the steps I'm about to show you. So you might want to hang in there, I'm going to go ahead and zoom out of my illustration. And by the way, I have saved my modifications as 3D rotations.ai. Now Illustrator CS5 includes a perspective grid tool that automates the process, and I've actually drawn a grid in advance, and you can check it out if you like by dropping down to this new tool here in side of Illustrator CS5. The perspective grid tool, which has a keyboard shortcut of Shift+P, and if you just click on that tool you'll see the perspective grid that I've set up for…
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The earliest dynamic functions1m 10s
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The gradient-intensive illustration5m 26s
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Creating a multi-color blend7m 39s
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Establishing a clipping mask3m 34s
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Reinstating the mask colors9m 7s
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Editing blended paths6m 50s
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Adjusting the number of blended steps6m 49s
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Using the Blend tool4m 33s
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Blending between levels of opacity7m 32s
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Editing the path of the blend6m 22s
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Adding a custom path of the blend5m 4s
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Placing one mask inside another8m 33s
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Blending groups and adjusting the speed6m 1s
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Rotating objects in 3D space10m 21s
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Creating custom perspective guides8m 31s
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