From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals
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Adding some simple reflections - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals
Adding some simple reflections
- [Voiceover] In this movie we'll add the stylized reflections to the handle. And I'll pass along a few insights along the way. And while it's nothing earth shattering, it gives us more time to spend with live rectangles inside Illustrator. And so I'll go ahead and switch over to my documents so far and I'll zoom in on the black handle and I'll click on it with the black arrow tool. And as you can see, my bounding box is still active, so that I have access to my handles as well as my round corner widgets. All right, now I'm gonna create a copy of the shape by going up to the Edit menu and choosing the Copy command. And then I'll return to the Edit menu and choose Paste in Front. All right, now I wanna go ahead and drag the top of this shape down like so. But notice that my heads of display that no matter what I do when I'm dragging downward, the height remains doggedly fixed at 64 points. And that's a function of my round corner widget. Because it's maxed out, Illustrator's not…
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And now, we draw better43s
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Creating a time-saving template5m 18s
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Using the Ellipse tool7m 45s
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Live ellipses and pies4m 44s
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Drawing two perfectly aligned circles8m 22s
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Creating compound paths7m 1s
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Using the Rectangle tool5m 40s
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The dynamic round corner controls7m 39s
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Adding some simple reflections7m 49s
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Rotating your artwork into position6m 19s
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Using the Polygon and Star tools6m 8s
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Working with live polygons7m 3s
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Creating the perfect 5-pointed star6m 10s
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Repeating stars in alternating rows6m 23s
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Introducing the Group Isolation mode7m 12s
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Adding a drop shadow to a layer2m 54s
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Using the crazy Flare tool6m 19s
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The top-secret tilde key trick3m 53s
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