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A preview of shape building

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A preview of shape building

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- [Narrator] Alright, now we need to take care of this hole in the clouds right here, and to fix that problem, we're going to need to take advantage of a tool that we won't be seeing in detail for a few chapters yet. And that's the shape builder tool. So the first thing I'm going to do is click on the cloud's layer in order to select it up here at the top of the layer stack. And then I'm going to select everything on the cloud slayer by clicking in that top right corner. And this time, it's going to work just fine because we don't have any guides on this particular layer. And so, you see why it's so useful to relegate guides and objects to different layers inside Illustrator. And now, I'm going to go ahead and copy these objects by going up to the edit menu and choosing the copy command. And that way, we can come back to him later on. Because now we're going to combine them into a single object using this tool right here.…

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