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028 Drawing Concentric Shapes

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028 Drawing Concentric Shapes

If you ever wanted to create a design element with multiple concentric shapes, there are two different ways you can approach this task. One way it will give you varied spacing between the objects and another way will give you equal spacing. Let's see how they work. So here I have a few circles in my document and I'd like to create some concentric shapes based on these circles. So I'll select the first one and I'll use scaling for this case. I'll set the Reference Point to the center and double-click my Scale tool and I'll scale 90% in both height and width and I'll create a copy. Then I'll press my keyboard shortcut Command+Option+4 or Ctrl+Alt+4 to repeat the transformation. And you can see, as I keep making smaller circles, the stroke width gets smaller and the spacing in between get smaller as well. Now if you want a sort of a tunneled effect, this works really well, but what if you wanted equal spacing between the circles? Well, you can use a different method. I'll select this…

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