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Adding and using a center point

Adding and using a center point - Illustrator Tutorial

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Adding and using a center point

I've saved my progress as Three stars. ai found inside the 05_shapes folder. In this exercise, we're going to scale and rotate this star down here at the bottom of the graphic to align to the red star in a template. But the first thing I want to do is add a center point to this object so that I can align the very center of the star to this guide intersection. And I think it's pretty close right now but it's not exactly on. And you can add center points to shapes by going up to the Window menu and choosing the Attributes command which will bring up the Attributes panel as you see it here. Then go ahead and click the Up-Down Arrow icon in order to expand this panel because by default it's pretty darn dinky. And what we have here is a real grab bag of functions, a couple of overprinting checkboxes, these Image Map functions that have nothing to do with overprinting and the Center options note right here. I'll go ahead and click on Show Center which happens to be in my case the exact…

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