From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced
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Introducing the Rotate tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced
Introducing the Rotate tool
- [Voiceover] In this movie we'll take a look at the rotate tool. And I think it's at this point that the value of the transformation origin really becomes obvious. I'll go ahead and press Control + A or Command + A on the Mac in order to select everything I've made so far. And I'll press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of it. And I'm just gonna go ahead and switch to a different color, maybe this shade of green here. And I'll go ahead and take the line weight up to three points. And I'll once again select the rectangle tool, which of course you can get by pressing the M key. And I'll Alt or Option + click right there at the intersection of those two guides. And 100 by 100 points is gonna work just fine, so we'll go ahead and click OK. Alright, now I'll press the V key to switch back to the black arrow tool, and just so that we have something to compare, I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac to bring up the Move dialog box, and I'll go ahead…
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Introducing the Scale tool5m 20s
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The benefits of static transformations2m 8s
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Setting the transformation origin7m 34s
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Introducing the Rotate tool6m 38s
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Creating transformation guides5m 19s
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Using the Scale tool to create primitives5m 48s
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Uniting and rotating the primitives7m 49s
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Introducing the Shear tool8m 4s
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Skewing one path to match another6m 48s
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Power-duplicating the petals of the star logo5m 47s
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Offset Path: A different way to scale5m 59s
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Adding skewed gradient shadows8m 34s
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Transforming partial path outlines7m 37s
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Using the Reflect tool3m 44s
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Using the Reshape tool8m 46s
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The Transform Each command6m 16s
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