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Aligning and distributing

Aligning and distributing - InDesign Tutorial

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Aligning and distributing

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- [Instructor] One of the signs of professional design is the precision and consistency of how you align your objects on the page. So, let's take a look at some great tricks for ensuring your objects line up. First, let's open the Pages panel and I'll double-click on page five to jump to it. We have three images here that I want to align, and as we drag one of them, you'll see these little lines flash on and off the screen. Those are Smart Guides, and they make life so much easier. For example, let's drag this until we see a magenta line appear. That means it's centered on the page. If I drag up a little bit, you'll see some green lines appear, too. Those green lines along the top, middle, and bottom of this object and the one to the left means those two objects are aligned. Now, check it out. Let's drag this other object until it aligns with the others, but now, if you squint, you can also see two little double-headed…

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