From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals
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Introducing the Group Isolation mode - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals
Introducing the Group Isolation mode
- In this movie, we'll go ahead and scale this star because, after all, it would be magnified by the glass and we'll also add this circular red field. And along the way, I'll introduce you to the Group Isolation mode. Alright, so I'm going to start things off by turning off Smart Guides. Notice that every time I move my cursor around, I'm flashing somewhere, and after a while, that gets a little irritating, and besides, because I'm done drawing, I don't need the Smart Guides anymore. So I'll go up to the View menu and choose Smart Guides or, if you want to, you can memorize that keyboard shortcut of CTRL + U here on the PC or CMD + U on a Mac. Alright, now I'll go ahead and switch over to our document at hand and I'll click on the central star right there and I'll press CTRL + C or CMD + C on a Mac in order to copy it to the clipboard. Now I'm going to create a new layer by dropping down to the little page icon at the bottom of the layers panel, and I'll ALT + Click on it or OPT +…
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And now, we draw better43s
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Creating a time-saving template5m 18s
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Using the Ellipse tool7m 45s
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Live ellipses and pies4m 44s
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Drawing two perfectly aligned circles8m 22s
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Creating compound paths7m 1s
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Using the Rectangle tool5m 40s
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The dynamic round corner controls7m 39s
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Adding some simple reflections7m 49s
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Rotating your artwork into position6m 19s
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Using the Polygon and Star tools6m 8s
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Working with live polygons7m 3s
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Creating the perfect 5-pointed star6m 10s
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Repeating stars in alternating rows6m 23s
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Introducing the Group Isolation mode7m 12s
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Adding a drop shadow to a layer2m 54s
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Using the crazy Flare tool6m 19s
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