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Adding a circular end to a spiral

Adding a circular end to a spiral - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Adding a circular end to a spiral

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- In this movie I'll show you how to add this circular end to the spiral. And we're going to do so using a tool that we'll see in more detail in the next chapter known as the Ellipse Tool. I'll go ahead and switch over to my document here and I'm going to zoom in by ctrl or cmd + spacebar clicking, and then I'll go ahead and click and hold on the Rectangle Tool directly below what is now the Spiral Tool and I'll select the Ellipse Tool from the fly out menu. Now you can go ahead and drag with this tool if you like in order to create some kind of elliptical shape on the fly, but I'm looking for a shape of a specific size. So I'll go ahead and press control + Z, or command + Z on the Mac, to undo that ellipse. And I'll click with the tool to bring up the Ellipse dialog box. And I'm going to change both the Width and the Height values to 70 points like so, and then I'll click OK in order to create that shape. Alright, now notice up here in the control panel that I have a white fill…

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