- Hey, gang. … This is Deke McClellan. … Welcome to "Deke's Techniques." … Today we're inside my favorite vector-based drawing program, … Adobe Illustrator, … in which I'll show you how to align graphic objects … to point type. … That is display type that aligns … to a tiny one dimensional point. … This is new behavior, by the way. … As things stand now, … it's turned off by default, … which doesn't make any sense to me. … But hey, I'm just a tiny one dimensional video trainer, … which is why I'm going to show you not only how … to turn on this very helpful feature, … but also exactly how it works. … All right, … let's see how graphic objects have aligned … to text objects in previous versions of Illustrator. … This is the way it still works by default … inside Illustrator 2021 and moving forward. … I'll go ahead and click on this type to select it. … Then I'll Shift + click on this dashed line right here. … Now let's say I want to align that line … to the top of the text. … Well then I need to establish the text as the key object …
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3/30/2021Released
1/13/2011Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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