today everything you need to know about the perspective grid tool in Adobe
Illustrator brought to you by cetera graphics so I'm gonna show you how to
use a perspective grid in DB illustrator and also a few tips and tricks along the
way so first and foremost here is a perspective grid tool in the tool bar
and if you hold on a click you're first going to open up the perspective grid
but also you're gonna see that there's a perspective selection tool below and
both of the shortcuts are given off to the right now firstly I know some of you
would have clicked this by accident many times in the past and maybe you can't
figure out how to actually remove it all you need to do is simply come up to a
view perspective grid and then hide the grid and also the shortcuts presented
here so for me it's shift command I and I will toggle the grid on and off now
the really important thing that we're going to be utilizing later in editorial
the perspective grid of widgets which is located here but for now I'm just going
to quickly show you the different handles and the perspective grid itself
so firstly the top anchor point here you can bring this down to change the
heights of perspective of the grid like so
but then you'd imagine that this one lowers the bottom perspective but that
doesn this actually changes the amount of squares that you have on your grids
to change the bottom perspective you must click this one here now the two
other handles off to the right and left here these actually break up the X and
the y axis and I personally don't really use these ever em ie when my workflow
when using the perspective grids and then these two handles here these change
how far your grid extends off into the distance and then finally here you can
actually change the perspective itself by sliding left and right but going back
into the perspective grid menu here there are actually quite a few settings
that are a bit off my screen but you can choose a one-point perspective grid at
two point or three points and these are actually premade grids so for example
here is the one-point perspective and also just a little bit off my screen
that you can't see you can actually save your grid as a preset so if you're
working on a specific design or project you might want to save the grid that
you've made and this will come in handy too
so how to actually use the grid to make shapes and designs like I said before
the widget is up here and this is really really handy you can see there's a blue
square highlighted so this basically means that anything that we designed
illustrate is going to automatically place it into this perspective center
here if we then toggle on to the right hand side on the orange designs and text
will be placed into this perspective here then finally the green is the upper
and the lower ones which will make sense later as I show you but also you can
actually press here which now means that any design you make so for example I can
take a square if I place a square here is just a normal square
illustrator sets the square to the contour of the perspective grid however
if you take text and you type in some text you are noticed that it doesn't
actually conform to the perspective grid and this is because with text like this
you need to take the perspective selection tool then take your text and
place it in like so you can also do this with shapes as well and you can actually
make designs on different artboard a different document then bring them on to
your perspective careers using the respective grid selection tool
also another setting that you might want to take into consideration is the snap
to grid and this is when you're drawing with the pen tool on the perspective
grid illustrators going to snap the points and the lines are better pass to
the lines on the grid now this can be handy for some situations but other
times it could be annoying so do be aware of this setting here and also
there's actually rulers that you can turn on and off as well so with
everything in mind that we just went over you can use the respective grid
here to make a kind of cuboid design so press M for the rectangle tool and then
choose your color or your fill and Stroke here then go ahead and choose a
destination for your shape to go onto the perspective grids so I'm gonna start
with the green top here which is this section of the widgets I'm gonna consume
in to make sure my shape is precise as you can see it's really that easy to
make a shape 3d fav in Adobe Illustrator
still with the rectangle tool selected if I actually do this
I can then create the the second side of my 3d shape and then finally let's go on
to the orange side now I can actually use a shortcut from earlier which on a
Mac is shift command I can I have three shapes which I can then adjust the color
and you know gradient or whatever I wish to do so I can imagine some lights
coming from from here it would make this society a bit lighter top might be dark
but still lighter than this side here
and there as you can see it's really that simple to make a perspective shape
in a 3d manner using the perspective grid in Adobe Illustrator make sure to
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