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Drawing with the Shaper tool

Drawing with the Shaper tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing with the Shaper tool

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- [Narrator] In this movie, I'll introduce you to a tool that allows you to both draw and combine shapes inside Illustrator and it goes by the name Shaper Tool. Now, as you can see here in this slide, the Shaper Tool allows you to draw simple geometric shapes including rectangles, ellipses, equilateral triangles, and hexagons as well as straight lines, and it's pretty great at making out these shapes even if you do a relatively horrible job of drawing them. So, let me show you how that works. I'll go up to the file menu and choose New From Template and then I'll go ahead and locate RGB with center guides.ait file and double click on it and now I'll select the Shaper Tool, which by the way, appears below the paintbrush tool now in the same flyout menu as the pencil tool and these other guys. Also notice that it has a keyboard shortcut of shift N, which just happens to be a shortcut that was previously unused. Now…

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