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Creating the perfect 5-pointed star

Creating the perfect 5-pointed star - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Creating the perfect 5-pointed star

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- In this movie, I'll share with you the formula for creating a perfect five-pointed star here inside Illustrator. I'm going to go and switch over to my documents so far, and I don't need these stars, so I'll go ahead and press Ctrl + A or Cmd + A on a Mac to select them, and then I'll press the backspace key or the delete key on a Mac to get rid of them. Now I want to add a background to this stars layer, and so I'm going to press Ctrl + 0 or Cmd + 0 on a Mac to fit the art board on screen, and I'm going to zoom out even farther, so I have plenty of room to work, and I'll go ahead and select the rectangle tool, and now I want to fill this entire bleed zone that's surrounded with a red border with this rectangle, and so I'm going to go ahead and drag from one corner to the opposite corner like so, and if you're working along with me, and your smart guides are turned on, then you should see a heads-up display with a width value of 1,032 points and a height of 696, at which point, go…

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