Illustrator Smart Guides FULLY Explained In 5 Minutes

In todays Illustrator CC 2020 tutorial, you will learn some crucial tips when using smart guides, all in under 5 minutes.
The smart guides in Illustrator are a very handy resource, and they can help any designer maintain a level, flush and precise workflow. I feel that some designers do overlook the importance of smart guides, and other designers simply don’t understand how they work and integrate into the design process. So after todays tutorial, I hope that you better understand smart guides, and maybe you learned a few tips when working with them in Adobe Illustrator.

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[SatoriGraphics]

Coming this week I have more Ai content. but also graphic design content outside of Illustrator 👍

[stevenmuvunyi]

Going from zero design skills to someone I'm proud of thanks to Satori tutorials. Thank you so much!

[MacKenzieCrosby]

You are amazing. Thank you so much for providing things like this on your channel. You explain things so simply, thannk youuuu!! (Yay learning! hahah)

[NickEnchev]

You sound like Christopher Walken when you say "smart guides". Good video ;)

[jabdulbasit]

As always I love your videos. It's great that you have a variety of topics within your content. Outside of logo design these tip videos are very helpful for me. I've been using Illustrator for a few years and certain things have become natural to me but these tips and tricks have shown me faster and easier ways to execute a process. Thank you, peace and blessings!

[IsionIndustries]

Simple and Straight to the point! I love it

[samoglesby]

SIMPLE QUESTION HERE. I AM NEW TO THIS Ai AND WANT TO ASK HOW DO I ACTIVATE THE MAGENTA FLOATING GUIDES TO ALIGN OBJECT, TEXT, ETC OTHER THAN RULERS AND

[sanathkk]

Very useful information. Thank you so much! Brother

[rizkast]

As always very useful tutorial. Thanks

[liozkatz]

I have been meaning to ask you : Is your room really that cool and neat with all of this gradient new genrational style or that it's just a super cool editing of videos ? lol
seems like you're into a low key techno music and somehow this kind of lifestyle is integrated into your design. very cool.
I can see the relations between contemporary style, gradients, vivid colors but yet very slick and elegant the way this kind of techno music is delivered.

[me_Gustav]

My smart guides are working, but my objects are not snapping to actual 'guides' that run across the screen. Can't find a fix for it :(

[DarrenSmith]

Very useful information, believe Smart Guides are in Photoshop as well..

[EdwardSeeber]

Smart guilds is such a great feature even on photoshop it's helped me so much

[lukeMac]

I have smart guides on all the time, so useful.
Just wondering if the "snap to point" setting adds anything, or is it a deprecated alternative?

[hidayat]

The same process won't work snapping when creating TRIANGLE with the polygon tool. Please explain about this issue.

[MuhammadQasim-crzx]

Hey Tom!
I want to ask you guide me if can be a professional graphic designer without going to any institute and how long will it take?
Please and thanks in advance 😊

[anshulchoubey]

Sir can you tell me some best software for graphic designing in android phone because I have no pc

[TECsta]

Like where i am with this programme, like the way all my past computer design tools lead me here, like how this kind of precision had moved into my work years ago...

Moving onto shoptalk: I'm a continental designer therefore my creative flow is in MM (millimetres) however I recently noticed that although I set my artboard's measurements to mm there are other elements like the smart guides and keyboard increments that are configured in Inch? I.e. 0.238mm < thats inch talk man? it does has an confused effect on finer details that I've recently decided has to be sorted out? ⚠️

For instance i set out a pattern at 10mm its kern at 2mm, to duplicate (the Grid activated and set to mm) however it's near impossible (with the smart guides and keyboard increments set in Inch) to Alt drag this pattern to 24mm ahead and then Ctrl D, because it's always out by a tiny amount..

AND i kind of didn't want to make too many Preference changes to my desktop Ai at home, because if i get any studio work i know all there computers will just be running

🤔

[Hinge]

I cant snap objects if they are diagonal or 45 degrees how do I fix it?

[mmcl]

Hi! I've watched many great videos from your channel, wondering if you have any solutions (maybe a future video??) on how to deal with smart guides when you have a very complex drawing. Basically I wish that smart guides could ignore certain parts of a drawing, or vice-versa, only reference certain parts of a drawing. Thanks!