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Perspective Grid tips and tricks - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Perspective Grid tips and tricks
I've saved my progress as Initial house grid.ai and in this exercise I am going to pass along a few tips and tricks for working with perspective grids, because there is a heck of a lot of bells and whistles going on here and there is a few top secret hidden tricks as well. Now I have set up my grid. It's visible on-screen and I've selected the Perspective Grid tool. Now note that you can hide the grid at any point in time when one of the grid savvy tools is selected. So that is to say, if the Selection tool is active, which is not a grid savvy tool, and you try to click on that little close box above the widget, nothing happens. It just ignores you and that's ridiculous in my opinion, but that's the way it works. However, if you switch to one of the grid savvy tools like the Rectangle tool and then you click on the little close box, then the grid goes away. As soon as you click on the Perspective Grid tool which is also of course grid savvy, so you can click the close box with it as…
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Perspective is all about real life1m 44s
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Assembling an isometric projection8m 5s
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Introducing Illustrator's Perspective Grid6m 8s
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Drawing a basic perspective cube8m 1s
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One-point, two-point, and three-point perspective8m 25s
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Creating automatically scaling box labels4m 41s
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Setting up a Perspective Grid6m 45s
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Perspective Grid tips and tricks6m 39s
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Drawing and editing a perspective shape5m 20s
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Shifting between planes on the fly5m 24s
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Creating a freeform shape in perspective7m 8s
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Working with perspective symbols8m 57s
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Matching perspective with the Shear tool2m 50s
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Rendering an off-plane path in perspective5m 7s
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Replicating symbols in perspective8m 12s
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Mass-modifying perspective instances2m 56s
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Adding and editing perspective text5m 37s
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Duplicating perpendicular shapes7m 17s
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Adjusting multiple shapes on a single plane4m 48s
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Creating a perspective column9m 23s
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Duplicating a series of perspective paths3m 20s
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