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

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Giving a letter a 3D beveled edge

Giving a letter a 3D beveled edge - Illustrator Tutorial

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Giving a letter a 3D beveled edge

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- In this movie we're going to add a sculptural beveled edge to our letter G. I'll go ahead and switch over to my document so far. And I'll click inside the G, inside of its fill, to select the entire shape. And then I'm going to drag it down until it looks like it's more or less in the right location, which I think happens about there, let's say. It's not an exact match, but it's close enough. And then I'll press the alt key, or the option key on the Mac, in order to create a copy of this shape like so. As I work on it I don't want it to have a fill, so I'll go up to the first option in the control panel and I'll select None, or because the fill is active I can just press the slash key. Now I'm going to zoom in a little bit and I'm going to click on this point right there in order to select it, and I'll press control-X or command-X on the Mac to cut it to the clipboard. And then I'll press control-F, or command-F on the Mac, to paste it in front. Now I'm going to drag it by its…

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