From the course: Illustrator Draw: Working Mobile
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Perspective from image layers
From the course: Illustrator Draw: Working Mobile
Perspective from image layers
- [Instructor] It's possible to establish a perspective grid from an imported image. Very clever feature. What I'm going to do here in this brand new document is I'm going to tap the background because I like to leave my drawing layer above to actually work on. And then I'm going to tap to add a new image layer. I'm then going to choose something from my Creative Cloud files, and premium subscribers will have access to this file in their exercise files. You can of course work along with anything suitable though, of course. And I'm going to open that. And then when it comes into the import and transform dialog here, of course, just as before, I can resize that and do whatever else I need to do it. But here I'm going to tap Create Grid. And it analyzes the image and works out where the vanishing point should be and where the horizon line is and draws me this fab grid over the top. I can tap Done, and then the grid is there and persistent. I don't need to see the image there. I'm going…
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