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Repeating stars in alternating rows

Repeating stars in alternating rows - Illustrator Tutorial

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Repeating stars in alternating rows

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to create these alternating rows of repeating stars, just as they appear in the blue field of an American flag, using a combination of the Move dialogue box and the Paste in Front command. We're going to switch to our document in work here, and I'm going to turn off the Guides layer because we don't really need it anymore and it's just sort of obstructing our view. And then I'm going to change the color of this star by clicking on the first Swatch up here in the Control Panel and selecting this shade of blue, again it will be available to you by virtue of the fact that you created a basic RGB file, and it's R41, G171, B226. And it looks a little bit something like that. Now what I'm going to do is switch back to the Black Arrow tool which of course you can get by pressing the "v" key and I'll press the Enter key, or the Return key on the Mac, to bring up the Move dialogue box. And it looks…

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