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How to accurately space objects in Illustrator
From the course: Creative Quick Tips
How to accurately space objects in Illustrator
Hello, there. And welcome to another installment of Creative Quick Tips. My name is Justin Seeley. And this week, we're going to be talking about spacing options inside of Adobe Illustrator. Now, exactly, what do I mean by that? Well, what I mean by that is, how much space you generate when you move objects around in Illustrator with your keyboard. By default, it's one pixel. But that's not really helpful in some cases. For instance, I do a lot of website design and website mockups and I like to sort of simulate the actual margins, padding, spacing and all that kind of stuff that I'm going to have when I create the actual working website some time down the road. The issue I run into with that is the fact that if I have two objects like these two blocks right here lined up on top of each other. If I want 30 pixels of space in between them, I have to hit my mouse 30 times in order to get that amount of space in between them because the default is set at one pixel. Wouldn't it be nice if…