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Distributing objects and spaces between objects - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 Essential Training
Distributing objects and spaces between objects
We know that the Align panel allows you to align objects, but there's also another function available inside the Align panel, something called Distribute Objects. That allows you to distribute objects evenly across a certain area. For example, I'm going to take some of these icons and kind of get them a little bit closer to each other. And I'll move this one right about over here. I want all of these to be evenly spaced amongst each other. So what I can do is I can click and drag to select them and then use this button over here to distribute them by their centers. Notice now all the objects have centers that are evenly distributed across the selected area, or the bounding area. You see what Illustrator does is it takes the two objects that are the furthest away from each other and uses those as something called Key Objects and then takes all other objects that are in between them and distributes their centers evenly. This feature is kind of nice, but sometimes you want to have a very…
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Moving and copying artwork3m 55s
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Scaling or resizing artwork6m 47s
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Rotating artwork2m 44s
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Reflecting and skewing artwork2m 34s
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Using the Free Transform tool2m 15s
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Repeating transformations3m 39s
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Performing individual transforms across multiple objects2m 10s
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Aligning objects and groups precisely4m 27s
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Distributing objects and spaces between objects2m 39s
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