From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Aligning objects as you draw or modify them

Aligning objects as you draw or modify them - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Aligning objects as you draw or modify them

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to align objects to the pixel grid as you draw or transform them, and as you may recall a transformation includes movement, scaling and so forth. Now, I've gone ahead and saved an updated version of this file, and so notice if I go to the View menu that Pixel Preview is turned on, and that's because this function is a saved attribute of the file, and so, if I were to go ahead and zoom in, once again, by control space bar or command space bar clicking and then I were to grab my Line Segment Tool and now crank the line weight value up to let's say eight points, just so that it's all together unambiguous, and I'll draw with the line tool while pressing the shift key in order to constrain the angle of my line to exactly horizontal. Notice, that I'll once again end up with that unnecessary anti-aliasing. Now, of course I can get rid of it by clicking on this align selected art to pixel grid icon on the far left side of the control panel, but…

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