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Introducing the Shear tool

Introducing the Shear tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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

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Introducing the Shear tool

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- [Voiceover] So at this point, you can see that the bottoms of these two "J's" here are slanted at exactly the right angle, in order to ultimately create the star logo. The tops however, are not. Now, we could solve this problem using "minus-back", or "minus-front", just as we did in the previous movie. But I want to show you a different way to work. I want to show you how you can slant shapes, or if you prefer, "skew" them, using a tool available from the "Scale Tool" fly out menu, known as the "Shear" tool. Now, my only problem with this tool, I'm gonna tell you upfront, really great tool. I do have a problem with it's name. It's been named the "Shear" tool since the beginning of Illustrator, even though, and I just have to make this point here, you'll have to forgive me, the word "shear", under no circumstances, means "skew". I'm looking at Merriam-Webster, which is absolutely the foremost online dictionary out there, and we are seeing that of course it means to clip, as in wool…

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