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Drawing two perfectly aligned circles

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Drawing two perfectly aligned circles

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- In this movie, we'll create the central element of the magnifying glass, which is these two circles, one inset inside of the other, and along the way, I will pass along some new tips for working with any shade tool inside Illustrator. Alright, so we'll go ahead and switch over to my document so far, and I'm not really interested in anything that I'm drawing, so I'll go up to the Select menu and choose All in order to select everything, or you can press Control+A, or Command+A on the Mac, and then I'll delete the shapes by pressing the Backspace key, or the Delete key on the Mac. Alright, now I want to create a couple of additional guides, so I need to unlock the current guides by going to the View menu, choosing Guides and then, in the most recent version of the software, if you see Lock Guides with the check mark in front of it, go ahead and choose it instead. And now I'll marquee this vertical guide with my black arrow tool. That's the easiest way to select it. And then, I'll…

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