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Creating custom shapes

Creating custom shapes - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating custom shapes

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- [Instructor] Okay, we're going to draw a couple of things now. I know, sounds scary but we're going to try and make it as easy as possible. In fact, the first one is going to be really simple. Let's select the Illustrator file that we've just brought in and then hold down the command key or control on Windows and tap plus on your keyboard to zoom in. And if it's not doing that, then use the zoom tool. You can tap Z to access that over here in the toolbox and zoom in. So, we're going to lock this promoter logo just now so we can't touch anything there. And then, we'll highlight the divider layer and add a new layer. So, it goes in between those two. And if you need to, you can resize your layers panel so that you can see all of the layers you've got. We're going to call this Yellow just here. Okay, and this is going to have a couple of yellow elements on it. Tap P on your keyboard. That gets you the pen tool. And…

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