Adding guides. To add guides to

artboards, we first have to turn on the

rulers, which by default are hidden. Go

to view rulers and select show rulers.

You can also press the R key on your

keyboard. Now I can click and hold on

the rulers and add vertical and

horizontal guides. When you add guides,

they'll go across the entire paceboard.

If you want to add guides to just

specific artboards, click the artboard

tool in the left panel, then select the

artboard you want to add guides to and

drag the guides into place. This is

really useful if you have a lot of

guides and you find they're cluttering

up other artboards.

You can move the guides by selecting

them, and holding down shift allows you

to select multiple guides.

When you click and drag to select

multiple objects, you'll notice that

both the guides and the objects are

selected. This is different from

Inesign. In Inesign, if you select all

the objects on the page, the guides

won't be selected, but in Illustrator,

they will. If you want to prevent this

from happening, you can lock the guides

by going to view, guides, and lock

guides. Now, I can move things around

without having to worry about moving the

guides as well.

You may also want to hide the guides in

order to preview your designs. To do

this, go to view,

guides, and hide guides.