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Working with live polygons

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Working with live polygons

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- [Instructor] All right now, if you watched the previous movie, in its entirety to the very end, then you know that I promised you how to draw a perfect five pointed star, which I am going to do in the next movie. But first, I need to impart some late breaking information that applies to the latest version of Illustrator. And that's the fact that in addition to live rectangles and live ellipses, we now have live polygons, which are pretty darn exciting. And so I'm going to switch to the polygon tool and then I'll press ctrl + a or cmd + a on the Mac to select these stars. And I'll press the backspace key or the delete key on the Mac to get rid of them. And now I'll just go ahead and drag a polygon out from those center guides right there and I'll release. And in my case that happens to make a pentagon. All right, so far things are looking like they ever have with one small exception, and that's that we're seeing the word…

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