- In this chapter, we'll take a look at a few ways
to align and distribute objects.
To align objects is to arrange them
into even rows or columns.
To distribute objects is to space them apart
equal distance from each other.
Illustrator handles both operations in very much
the same way as other graphics and design programs
with two important exceptions.
One, if you want to align one object to some others
without that first object moving.
You need to make it a key object
by clicking on it a second time.
And two, you can distribute objects by a specified
amount of space which changes
the positions of all selected objects.
Over the course of these movies,
we'll take this wildly disorganized collection of objects
and turn them into this structured file right here
and in the end, we'll add these extruded edges to the boxes
as well as these credible cash shadows.
Who would think align and distribute could be so cool?
You would, by the end of this chapter.