Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Art 141 May 6

Mostly a work day today.

Jocelyn went over the following:
Illustrator

grids
draw a rectangle
select the grid -> Object -> path -> split into grid

guides
View -> show rulers
click on ruler and drag onto canvas

alignment
Window -> Align

 linked text boxes
If the text within a text box exceeds the bounds of the text box a red plus symbol appear near the bottom left of the text box
To continue the text in a duplicate text box...
click on red plus sign -> click on any place on the canvas
To continue the text in an existing text box
click on red plus sign -> move cursor to existing text box -> wait for the cursor to changes shape to a link symbol -> click

clipping mask
place an image on the canvas
create a new path
make sure path is above the image
select both image and path
click Object -> clipping mask -> make

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