Tips, tricks and tutorials for Illustrator
What are they, why are they, and how do you use them?
Simply put, they are layers that are visible on screen as you’re working with your file but won’t print. I use them mainly to create margins that I can snap to with smart guides (that’s a whole other post…) I also use them as a place to hold elements of my art that I’m working with bits and pieces of. Things to eyedropper and such…
A nice, detailed look at the Align Panel.
A sneaky backdoor that will crash Illustrator if you use it wrong (or occasionally, right) so save everything before you use this trick. My old buddy Mike from Apple Water creative reminded me of this one we used to use when deciding which size choke warning needed to be on toy packages. Read More…
Just a followup to the previous post linking to those scripts – here’s where to install them: Read More…
I use some of these (particularly the round one corner script) daily. Very helpful to have around. If you poke around, he’s also working on making some of them into live effects (so you could keep them editable) but so far he’s only able to do so for CS3 on the WIndows platform.