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Creating a classic round-dotted outline

Creating a classic round-dotted outline - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a classic round-dotted outline

- [Narrator] In this movie I'll show you how to create the classic dotted outline. That is to say a dashed outline that comprises round dots. So assuming that you went ahead and created that template a few chapters ago, go up to the file menu and choose 'New from Template', or you can press that shortcut of Ctrl + Shift + N or Cmd + Shift + Down on the Mac. in my case, the templates called 'RGB with center guides', and now we'll go ahead and click the 'New' button, in order to bring up this blank document with a couple of center guides. All right, now, go ahead and select the 'Rectangle Tool' from the Shape Tool flyout menu. Again, you have a keyboard shortcut of 'M' for that tool, and then I want you to position your cursor at the intersection of the two guidelines, press and hold the Alt key, or the Option key on the Mac, and click to bring up the Rectangle dialog box. Now, as you may recall, the width of this art board…

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