Scaling in Illustrator?

Hi, I’m Kelly from Designer to Fullstack,

and I’m a graphic designer and programmer, and I am sharing skills from

the array of programs and,

sites that I work on.

So today I wanted to show an Adobe Illustrator if you’re scaling,

one of the, um, things that you should look at is your reference point.

So for example, I have a bunch of artboards set up in Illustrator,

and let’s say I want to duplicate this artboard.

On a Mac I hold down

Command, and,

right, I can grab my artboard and make a second one.

Alright. So it is,

3.5 inches, and it is constrained,

so if I would change it to 3.75 here,

it will change it to 3.75 there as well.

And what I want you to notice is if I want to make it

the same size as this artboard, which is 4.5,

I would click where the name is,

and type in 4.75.

And it expands evenly on all sides.

And the reason why it’s doing that is because of this little square right

here, for a reference point. So on reference point,

you can actually select any of these anchors.

You can see the white where it’s filled in changes.

If you have it in the center, it means that any scale changes are

happening- that’s going be happening. Consistently, um,

below, above, to the left,

and to the right. Alright,

so let me show you. If I grab this pink background square,

and I, um,

change its size. So if I say here,

4.75.

It is also scaled in that same way,

right? Okay. So let’s try,

again, I’m on a Mac,

so I’m holding down Command, and I can drag my artboard up.

Oh, I actually got the picture, so you want to make sure that you

actually have your artboard and not,

There we go. Alright.

So, with my artboard icon selected,

again, I have my reference point. If I wanted to just make it taller,

I would click this top anchor from my reference point,

and now, when I say height 4.75,

all of that extra height is coming from the anchor point.

We’ll see down, right? So, because it was constrained,

I still did width, but it’s now coming down from that reference

point. If I undo,

and I select the bottom one,

and again, do 4.75,

as you’d expect, it now goes up for that extra height.

So, this is just pointing out that your reference Thank you.

This point is important when you’re scaling, and is one of those things that

might confuse you on why things are scaling in

a direction that you don’t want them to. Alright,

so, one thing I did want to show is if you are- scaling a

shape. So this is a rectangle. And I don’t have the same reference

point quick icon up here on the top.

So where I can find that is under transform.

I have the same height and width right here,

but now I have my reference point. So I can still change my reference

point even on shape.

Right? So this, because I selected the right side,

it expanded out to the left top and bottom.

If I would undo and same bottom.

Right? It goes up. So just noticing when you’re scaling where

your reference point is for where that scale is happening.

Alright, so I hope this helps. If you’d like other tips for Illustrator or

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And thanks for watching.