From the course: Illustrator: Designing with Grids and Guides
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Work with the GuideGuide plugin - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Designing with Grids and Guides
Work with the GuideGuide plugin
- [Instructor] I want to tell you about a plugin for Illustrator called GuideGuide. It's available at guideguide.me. And, in certain instances, it can make adding guides to your artboard a lot more convenient. So, as I've mentioned, there are some limitations of working with guides in Illustrator. Let's take a look at what GuideGuide can do for us. I'm in a blank, letter-size document. As I've mentioned, there is no dialog box in Illustrator where you can specify the size of your margins for your artboard, but we can do this with GuideGuide. So, let's say that I want a half-inch margin. I can just come and plug those values in. For my columns and my rows, typically, I would draw myself a rectangle on the page and then go to Split Into Grid to create my columns and rows. But I can just plug in the values right here. I'll have three and five, respectively. And I'll also tab down to the Vertical Gutter field and the Horizontal Gutter field and have a quarter inch for both of those. At…
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