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Quick Tip: How To Create Diagonal Guides In Illustrator

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It’s super easy to make diagonal or custom guides in Illustrator! Just grab the line tool or pen tool, draw the line and then go to view guides make guides. If you are into keyboard shortcuts its apple+5 on mac or control+5 on PC. Walla!

Have a suggestion for a quick tip? Wondering how to do something in Photoshop, illustrator, indesign, dreamweaver, any program? Ask away!

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5 Responses to “Quick Tip: How To Create Diagonal Guides In Illustrator”

  1. George McKnight says:

    simple as that, good one!


  2. Thanks for the tip! I'm sure it'll come up sometime. (voila=walla)
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  3. I didn't know u could do that! Thanks for the tip!


  4. I do too!! I always forget that in Illustrator you can make any line a guide by going to Make Guide!! You did one similar last year I think and I was like now I know! but then I forgot and it kept bothering me! Thank you for this short but sweet demo!!




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