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Skewing one path to match another

Skewing one path to match another - Illustrator Tutorial

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

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Skewing one path to match another

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- [Voiceover] Alright, in this movie we're gonna return to the task of creating our star logo, and specifically, we're gonna match the tops of these two shapes right here to this angled purple J, and we're gonna be doing so by skewing the tops of the shapes using the shear tool. And so the first thing we need to do is move the tops of these two shapes upward, so that they snap into alignment with this purple guy right here, and just so that I can describe things a little better, I'm gonna change his color by clicking on him in order to select him, and then I'll change the fill, up here in the control panel, to let's say, this shade of orange. Alright, so I'm gonna zoom in a little farther so that we can take in our scene, and what I need to do is grab my white arrow tool, which of course, you can get by pressing the A key, for arrow, and then I'll marquee the tops of these shapes all the way across the top, so I select all four of these points. That ends up partially selecting the…

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