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How strokes align to path outlines

How strokes align to path outlines - Illustrator Tutorial

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How strokes align to path outlines

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- In this movie we'll discuss how strokes align to their path outlines. Initially it's going to seem a little but obscure but it goes to the heart of how strokes work inside of Illustrator. Notice the title of this document its '220 x 420 guides'. What we have here are three rectangular guides, each of which measures 220 points wide and 420 points tall. What I'm going to do now is click and hold on a rectangle tool in order to bring up the 'Shape' tool fly out menu and I'll select the ellipse tool and then I'm going to position my cursor right here at the center of this rectangle and I'm going to press the 'Alt' key or the 'Option' key on a Mac and click. Then, inside the ellipse dialog box I'm going to set the width value, not to 220 but rather to 200 points and I'm going to set the height value not to 220 but rather to 400 points. In other words, both the width and height values are 20 less than the the width and the height of the rectangles. I'll click 'OK' to create that ellipse…

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