today I'm going to show you quickly how
to use the grid tool in Illustrator also
why it's such an important tool to use
in graphic design
how's it going people every day is going
well I've had a lot of subscriber
suggestions for videos which is totally
amazing I'm slowly going to go through
them and today happens to be one of
those suggestions how to use the grid
tool in Illustrator illustrator the
vector based program taken into
consideration
it is best suited for technical and
geometrical drawing Photoshop works with
pixels and it's more of a digital
artistic platform generally speaking it
is true to best suits things such as
logo design and technical design and
because of that you have to want to use
grids to keep your designs equalized
symmetrical you will find the grid tool
located here
firstly you can click-and-drag to
produce a grid if you hold down the
click and press the arrow keys left and
right you add columns and if you hit the
arrow keys up and down you're going to
add rows still holding down the click
feed hit X and C on your keyboard you
can skew the columns to one side and
then if you hit V and F you can screw
the rows up and down
when we have made our grid you can then
change the stroke weight as we would
with any normal line illustrator you can
also change the color too
use the grid as a guide we must lock it
in place like so I'm going to show you
just how powerful the tool brittle is
for designing in the next section a more
accurate way to add a grid with the grid
tool is to double click the I bored with
your grid tool and then open your rows
and columns if you want every box equal
leave the skew settings alone I'm going
to make a simple geometric logo on the
fly and now it's not going to be an
amazing design it's just on the fly just
to show you how useful grids I look at
designing especially geometric logo
designs or symbols emblems are best
created with grids you can use the pen
tool to cut into your logo design like
so making sure that every single pilot
design aligns and matches
you can use the grids not only to draw
and create your logo designs you can
align other aspects of the design with
each other - finally you can unlock all
of your grids by going out the object
and I'm not cool and then you have
yourself a one symmetrical alignment
design if you found this tutorial on the
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