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Aligning as a group

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Aligning as a group

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- We've looked at the alignment options for aligning paragraph text, but what if we want to align a composition of point text. Here I have three lines of type, each exists on its own layer. And I now want to arrange this relative to my canvas. Let's say I want to align it all to the left of the canvas. I'll press command or control A to select the canvas, and then I can use my alignment tools up here. I'll need to select all three of the layers, and then when I click on align left edges, this happens. You see, it completely disrupts the arrangement of the type. So in order to maintain the arrangement of the type, I first of all need to put these type layers into a group. With them selected, I'll press command or control G, and they are now in a group, and I can now click on align left edges, and I get the result that I want. Another point that I want to make, I'm now going to go back to center alignment. And in this case, that arrangement is perfectly mathematically centered on my…

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