Hi everyone, this is Anne for Graphic Design How To, and today we're going to be talking
about the Perspective Grid tool and the Perspective Selection tool and they kind of work hand
in hand.
So we'll go over a few ways to use both.
So let's get started.
Okay, so I'm here in Illustrator, I'm just going to create a new document.
And I'm going to come over to Print, and we'll choose Letter and Create.
First, we're going to open the Perspective Grid tool.
So when you click on this, this Perspective Grid will show up on your canvas.
Now if you want to turn this off, you can just hit SHIFT CMD I, or SHIFT CTRL I on a
PC to toggle that on and off.
And you'll see this little guy up in the corner.
That might be hidden if your screen isn't docked like this, but usually you'll see this
up here.
Now with this Perspective tool, we have the option of having one point perspective, two
point, or three point, and to get to that you can just Go to View > Perspective Grid.
You can also hide the grid and here's that keyboard shortcut.
But you can choose one point perspective, two point perspective, or three point.
Here's what one point perspective looks like.
two point, and three point.
I'm going to go ahead and put it back on the two point perspective, make sure that you're
clicked on your Perspective Grid tool, and you'll be able to see all of these little
handles that you can pull around.
Now this one is going to change the perspective.
For the bottom, you change the perspective with this lower one.
You can change your perspective plane by clicking this white one down here.
To make the side of your grid a little shorter or longer, you can pull on this diamond.
These outer circles will squeeze it and then these two little dots down here, you can actually
separate the two sides.
Maybe you're wanting to make a fence or something, I don't know.
So I'm going to align those back up again.
If you adjust this diamond down here at the bottom, it's going to change the number of
grid lines.
Once you get the grid the way you like it, if you find that you're using the same grid
a lot, you can go up here to View Perspective Grid, and actually save that as a preset.
And if you want to reset your two point Perspective Grid, you can just choose this, and it will
reset it to the original default.
So we'll start with that.
Now there are two different ways to use the Perspective Grid tool.
First is you can actually use your shapes to draw right on that grid.
So let's try that.
If I click on my Rectangle tool, I can drag in the selected area, which right now this
little icon is showing that 'blue,' this left side, is the selected area and everything
I draw will be kind of based on this area.
So if I draw a square here, it's going to follow that grid.
If I draw over here on the orange side, it's still going to follow that blue selection.
So I'm going to undo that one.
I'll click on this.
And we'll give this a different color.
You can draw with any of these shapes, and it'll match the grid.
So let's draw a star down here.
I'm holding SHIFT so it stays upright.
But you can see that it follows the grid.
Now, if I want to move this star around, if I hit V and move it, you'll notice it doesn't
change to the size of the grid.
So I'm going to undo and this is where the Perspective Selection tool comes in.
And the keyboard shortcut for that is SHIFT V.
So now we've got this selected.
So this just works as a selection tool just like this would, but it'll adjust to what
the grid is.
So if I move it down here, it's getting bigger and it's following the grid lines.
We'll just move it here.
And same with this, we can move it and it'll follow that grid line.
Now I'm going to go ahead and draw something over on the orange side.
So I'll click that up here on the icon, you have to make sure you have either Perspective
Selection tool, or the Perspective Grid tool selected in order to be able to do this.
So I'm going to get some red.
And we'll use the Polygon tool.
I'm going to hold SHIFT so I keep it in the same upright position.
If you're used to hitting V, you'll notice that it doesn't want to follow that anymore.
So just undo and hit SHIFT V. And then you can change the position on the grid.
And we'll turn it off and see how that looks.
Well, it's not very exciting.
So let's go ahead and create something that will make it a little more obvious what we're
doing.
We're going to get green....square and start right up here from the top.
And then I'll send to back.
Well, let's change this.
I'm going to change this to light green, and I'll click on this one over here to get back
on my blue sector.
I'm going to click this green & draw this side.
Okay, so I went a little too far down here, we'll have to use our SHIFT V Selection tool
to get this to move up.
We'll just pull this down.
And now we've got everything lining up fine.
I'm going to send this to the back.
Oh, that's terrible.
Let's change these to a little lighter color.
Okay, so now if we turn our grid off by hitting SHIFT CMD I or SHIFT CTRL I on a PC, you can
see that everything is perfectly aligned to that grid.
I'm going to hit CMD A and delete this because I really don't need that.
I'm going to hit SHIFT CMD I to bring that grid back.
And then I want to show you how to actually take flat graphics and assign them to a side.
So to do this, I already got a couple graphics prepared.
I'll just open those now.
So I'm going to put this on the left side.
I'm going to copy that and I'll make sure that upper part is clicked.
If you can't select it, you need to change your tool to one of the perspective tools.
So I've got this selected, I'm going to paste this in.
And then hit SHIFT V to get on your Perspective Selection tool.
And then hold SHIFT and drag it into place.
And now we can size this up.
Now we'll go grab the other one.
Let's copy that.
I'll hit SHIFT V to get on a perspective tool.
And then I'll click over here on the orange part, paste, hit SHIFT V, hold SHIFT, and
now we can resize that side.
And this is something that you'll need to play with a little bit.
Everything seems to be a little too close to this edge for my liking.
So we can use our Perspective Selection to kind of move this over...oops!
Let me pull this one a little bit this way.
I mean, you don't have to expand these or anything like that.
They're just regular shapes.
So you don't really need to worry about that.
And I think this tool is really great, just once you get the hang of it, but it takes
a little bit of time to really get it down and get those keyboard shortcuts too.
Alright, that's my video for this week.
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design tutorial.
Thank you!!!