From the course: Introducing Illustrator
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Copy, Flip, and Join - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Illustrator
Copy, Flip, and Join
- [Instructor] All right, now we're going to take that path outline that we drew with the shape builder tool. We're going to duplicate it, flip the duplicate, and then join it with the original. All right, now I'm finding this background to be a little distracting so I'm going to switch over to the layers panel and turn off the color layer so that we're just seeing the sign. Also turn off the text layer for now and then I'll go ahead and drag this point by its top-left anchor point until it snaps into alignment with the inner section of those top guides. All right, now to duplicate the shape go up to the edit menu and choose the copy command which has a very standard keyboard shortcut of control + C here on the PC or command + C on the Mac. And then you want to return to the edit menu and choose this command, paste in front, which also has a longstanding keyboard shortcut of control + F here on the PC or command + F…
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