Hi everyone, if you are like...

"Oh man, those columns, I don't want columns...

just give me some plain old basic guides"...

yeah, like these guys, just simple ones...

you can drag out, move around, and just do what you want with.

So if you want to not do columns that's totally fine...

there's no rules you have to do columns...

especially if you're doing...

kind of a self-directed project, or it's a little bit more arts-ey...

there's no like, not a huge big structured website...

that needs all this rigid control with columns, you need some guides...

this is the happy medium, let me show you how to make them.

Actually, spoiler alert, you just drag them off from the edge here, there you go.

Why is this video so long, because there's some tips and tricks...

and other things, but that's how you get them.

All right, let me show you how. Okay, to make some guides...

I've made a blank page just to get started, it's an iPhone 13...

we are going to-- first of all you need to be on your Move tool -

won't work if you're on other tools. - or Selection tool...

the little arrow at the top, be on that one...

and you might have already stumbled across it...

they just appeared one day in XD, watch this...

if you hover kind of like just outside the page, there they are there...

click, hold, hold, hold, hold, drag it on, you've made a guide...

yeah, that's it, you can run from the top...

drag drag, drag in, one from the top, I'm hitting undo to get rid of them...

if they still won't appear you might be...

under View, under Guides, and you might have gone to--

in my case I can see them, so I can go to--

let's actually drag one on, so I can say...

somebody, you might have accidentally used...

the shortcut for Hide All Guides, so then they're not working...

no guides, so you go into here...

and just check that it says, the right one...

show, hide, you get the idea.

So make sure you can see them...

let's be a little bit more specific...

let's say you want to get rid of them, how do you get rid of them?

Click on them and hit 'Del', it does not work...

you click, hold, and just drag them back into this area over here...

oh look, a little icon, trash can, there you go...

that's how to get rid of them.

Let's be a little bit more precise...

so let's say you want to put like a 24 pixel border around...

so I'm going to click and drag it out...

and you can see, I can be very accurate and go 24, perfect...

I can do it there too.

If you've got like a touch pad...

and you're trying to do your design work on...

I do all the time when I'm traveling...

you can't be that accurate, so what you can do is...

you might be-- it's just easy sometimes...

to grab the Square tool, drag out something...

type it in there, 24, whoop...

24, and if you hit 'Tab'...

you can go down from width to height, 24.

That's not essential, just a handy trick...

grab the Selection tool, drag into the corner, and then go...

watch this, if I zoom in a little bit it'll snap to my square, you get the idea.

drag, snap...

top one, snap...

grab that guy, cut him, down here...

paste that guy, get him in the corner, it's just a quick way.

Now you can't drag them from the bottom or the top...

so there's a little bit of...

fun scrolling going on...

remember, hold 'space bar', click, hold, and drag...

or use whatever method you'll be using so far in this course.

You've got this far, you've worked out a way of moving around...

I hold the 'space bar' down, you can-- yeah.

There's a little bit of that going on, like move it down, drag up a little bit...

then that guy, sorry buddy, you're gone, don't need you anymore...

'Command 0', too far out, select it...

'Command 3', or 'Ctrl 3', select on that Artboard, look at that, we've got guides.

So if you don't want to use the grids, like we did in the last one...

or the columns, you just want a few little guides, then, here you go...

drag them out...

delete them, drag them back, you can just turn them off...

because sometimes they're handy to get started...

and then you want to turn them off...

go to 'View', ' Guides', and you've got 'Hide All Guides'...

you can lock them as well, because they are removable, right?

You can click on them and drag them...

you might decide that-- please stop doing that...

go to 'View', and just lock them for the time being.

If you've got another project, and you need to copy the guides across...

you probably saw it there, let's go to, you...

you can see, my guides haven't come across...

they do come across if you obviously duplicate the Artboard...

remember, holding down 'Option' on a Mac, 'Alt' on a PC...

I just want to copy these across.

So you can select on the Artboard you want to take them from...

go to 'View', 'Guides', 'Copy Guides', click on this one...

you, 'Guides', 'Paste Guides'...

so yeah, Guides, there you go.

You might turn them off just because this is a pain in the butt...

you accidentally keep dragging things out...

from the top and the bottom, and there you go...

all right, that is Guides in Adobe XD.