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- [Instructor] In this chapter,

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we'll be creating this icon using

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the simplest of drawing
tools inside of Illustrator,

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which are the line tools.

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And I've set up this project

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so that you can follow along with me

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even if you don't have
access to the exercise files.

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And I would be delighted
if you would follow along

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from the very beginning to the very end,

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because that way, you will get
the most out of this chapter.

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In this movie, I'll show
you a few different ways

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to create guides, which are
non-printing snapping guidelines

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here inside Illustrator.

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So, the first thing you want to do

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is go to the File menu and
choose the New command,

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or you can press control
+ N here on the PC

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or command + N on the Mac.

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And I'm going to go ahead and
switch to Art & Illustration.

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And the great thing about this
option is that it allows you

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to create a graphic
that might go anywhere.

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So you could end up printing it,

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or it might go to the web, or
a device, or what have you.

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And that's because the color mode

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for Art & Illustration is set to RGB.

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Now, you might figure
CMYK is better for print,

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which it is if your final job

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is bound for a commercial printer.

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But if you're working
with a local printer,

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by which I mean an
inkjet or a laser printer

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in your home or office, then
RGB is the better way to work.

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Because after all, those kinds

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of printers expect RGB documents.

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Alright, now I'll go
ahead and name this guy

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Factory guides, let's say.

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And then I'll make sure that my units

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are set to Points, and
I'll dial in a Width value

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of 1008 points and I'll change
the Height value to 672.

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And the reason I'm going with these values

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is that they just happen to work very well

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for our videos and they ensure

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that everything will work
the same for you as well.

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I'm going to leave the
number of Artboards set to 1.

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We don't need any Bleed, because
we're not creating artwork

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to the absolute edges of the artboard.

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So all you need to do at this point

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is click the create button, or
press the enter key on the PC

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or the return key on the Mac.

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Alright, now notice
here on the Layers panel

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that our Layer thumbnail
is extremely dinky.

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Now, if you went ahead and created

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the One-on-One workspace,
then you should see

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the Layers panel up on screen.

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If you don't, then go to the Window menu

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and choose the Layers command.

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But do not choose that command

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if it has a check mark in front of it,

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because that will hide the panel.

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Then what we want to do
to make this layer larger

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is click on this fly-out menu icon

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in the top right corner of the panel

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and then choose Panel Options
from the bottom of the menu.

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Now, you could go with Large,

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but that's still going to
deliver a very small thumbnail.

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So what I prefer to do is select Other

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and crank this value up to, let's say,

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60 pixels, and then click OK,

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and we get this nice large thumbnail here.

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Now I'll rename this
layer by double-clicking

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on its existing name,
and then just entering

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the word guides and
pressing the enter key,

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or the return key on the Mac.

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And by the way, if you feel like you need

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a little more horizontal room
inside your Layers panel,

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then you can drag this
vertical bar right here

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over to the left.

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Alright.

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Now, you typically create guides

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by dragging them out of the rulers.

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And so to make the
rulers appear on screen,

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go to the View menu, choose Rulers,

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and then choose Show Rulers.

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Or you have that standard
keyboard shortcut

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of control + R, or command + R on the Mac,

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which will both show
and hide those rulers.

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And notice, as soon as
you choose the command,

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you'll display a horizontal ruler

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up here at the top of the document

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and a vertical ruler
on the left-hand side.

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Now, you can create a guide

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just by dragging out
of the rulers like so.

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And as you might expect, dragging
from the horizontal ruler

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creates a horizontal guideline,

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dragging from the vertical ruler

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creates a vertical guideline.

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Now notice these little
tick marks right here.

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If you want to align with a tick mark,

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then just begin dragging and then press

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and hold the shift key, and then notice

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how you go from one tick mark to the next.

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And because I'm dragging
at a horizontal guide,

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I'm measuring my ticks
on the vertical ruler.

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Now let's say you want to create

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a guide at a specific location,

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and so I'm going to press
the control + spacebar keys.

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That's command + spacebar on the Mac.

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And I'm going to zoom way in

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until I get to a zoom ratio of 3200%.

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And notice that I'm seeing
this area between 378 and 381.

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And so let's say I want to create

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a guide right there
between these two values.

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Then I would double-click on the ruler.

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And if you double-click
on the horizontal ruler,

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you'll create a vertical guide.

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If you double-click on the vertical ruler,

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you'll create a horizontal guide.

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If you want that guideline to line up

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with one of the tick marks, then press

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the shift key and double-click.

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And notice, even though
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slightly to the left of 381, I create

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a vertical guideline
exactly at that position.

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Alright.

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Another thing you could do is drag

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from a ruler, and then,
if you press and hold

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the alt key, or the
option key, on the fly,

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you'll rotate that guideline 90 degrees.

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So even though I dragged
from the horizontal ruler,

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because I have the alt or option key down,

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I'm creating a vertical guide.

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You can do this same thing by dragging out

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of the vertical ruler and
then pressing and holding

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the alt or option key to
create a horizontal guide.

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And while that's not something I do

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on a regular basis, it is an option.

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And then finally, you can create

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two guidelines at the same time.

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And you do that not by
dragging from the inner section

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of the two rulers,
because, as you may recall,

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that's going to change the
location of the 0,0 point.

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Instead, you press and
hold the control key,

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or the command key on the Mac,

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and drag from that inner section.

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And notice that give me both a vertical

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and horizontal guideline
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Alright.

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Now if I press control + 0,
or command + 0 on the Mac

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to zoom out, you can
see that we've got a ton

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of very tightly spaced guidelines.

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That's not a problem, because
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by going up to the View
menu, choosing Guides,

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and then choosing Clear Guides.

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And that will get rid

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of all of the guides inside the document.

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Alright, now let's say I want to establish

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two guidelines, one
horizontal and one vertical,

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right in the center of the artboard.

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In that case, you would start off

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by pressing the control key,
or the command key on the Mac,

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and dragging from the
inner section of the rulers

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and dropping two guidelines into place.

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Doesn't matter where you put them.

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Then press control + R,
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in order to hide the rulers.

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Now you want to unlock the guidelines

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by going up to the View
menu, choosing Guides,

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and then choosing Unlock Guides.

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If this command reads Lock Guides,

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then they're already unlocked

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and you do not need to choose the command.

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In my case, though, I'll
choose Unlock Guides.

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And then, armed with the black arrow tool

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up here at the top of the toolbox,

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I'll marquee these two guides like so,

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just by dragging around them.

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And you can see that goes
ahead and selects them.

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Then I'll click on the word Align

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up here in the control
panel, and I'll change

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this Align to option to
Align to Artboard, like so.

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And by the way, if you
have a larger screen,

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you're going to see your align icons

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up here in the control panel.

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But in my case, they appear

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in this pop-up panel, at which point

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I'll click on this icon,
horizontal align center.

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And then I'll click on this guy
here, vertical align center,

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in order to center those guides, like so.

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Alright.

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The final step, just to make sure

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you don't mess things up in the future,

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is to go up to the View
menu, choose Guides,

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and then choose Lock Guides in order

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to lock those guides down like so.

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And now I'll just go ahead and press

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control + 0, or command + 0 on the Mac,

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in order to center my document on screen.

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And that's how you create two guidelines,

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one horizontal and one vertical,

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right through the center of your artboard.