2. Perspective View in Illustrator CS5

The first step to perspective drawing is to decide on the perspective view and have it ready on the canvas. What this means in an application like Adobe Illustrator is to have some kind of static representation of perspective view in a document where user intends to create artwork.

Adobe Illustrator provides lots of flexibility for defining this static perspective view in a document. This includes powerful features such as defining individual parameters of a perspective numerically for complete accuracy, which is helpful when creating more technical illustrations. You can also quickly define perspective in a document by choosing one of the available presets, then start drawing.

Presets make the whole concept ...

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