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Using the Transform effect

Using the Transform effect - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the Transform effect

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- [Narrator] All right now, if you like the previous movie, I think you'll love this one. This is where we're going to create the wheel along with these spokes, that line up with every other one of the circles in that dotted path outline. And we'll be doing so with a powerful dynamic effect that has the prosaic name transform. And so I'll go ahead and switch over to this file here and I'll click on any one of these path outlines with the blank arrow tool, and notice up here at the top of the properties panel that I've collected these path outlines into a group. All right, so I'm going to dynamically rotate these guys around in a circle, and you can do that by clicking on the FX icon, choosing distort and transform, and choosing my favorite dynamic effect. I have to admit, transform, which brings up this dialog box right here. And so, I've crafted these path outlines so that they fit together in six pieces. And so I'll…

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