From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals
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Live ellipses and pies - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals
Live ellipses and pies
- [Instructor] All right now assuming you're working with the latest version of Illustrator, you have access to something known as live ellipses, and to see what they look like, go up to the View menu, and choose Show Bounding Box. At which point you are going to see the by now familiar bounding box surrounding the last selected shape. The difference is that it's not only available when the black arrow tool is active, but you're going to see it when the Ellipse Tool is selected as well, and so some of the controls are pretty familiar here. You can drag a side handle to squish the shape, you can drag the top or bottom handle in order to scale it vertically. You also have the axis of dragging the corner handle. If you want to constrain the shape proportionally, then you press the Shift key as you drag that corner handle, and then if you move your cursor slightly outside of the shape, then you'll get the rotate option, and notice, even if smart guides are turned off, you're going to see…
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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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The top-secret tilde key trick3m 53s
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