581 The wacky world of live polygons

- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look…at one of the most crazily, and I think…wonderfully flexible features in all…of Illustrator CC, and that is live polygons.…So, let's start with a review of the foremost…Live Shape tool, which is the Rectangle Tool.…And just so we can better see what we're doing,…I'll crank the line weight value up to six points,…and then I'll draw a rectangle…the way we've been doing it for the last 30 years,…just by dragging inside the document window.…Now, if you've got the Bounding Box turned off,…then you're just going to see a standard…four point rectangle with a center point.…

But, if you go up to the View menu,…and choose Show Bounding Box,…then you're going to see a whole lot more.…At which point I can drag a corner handle,…in order to scale the shape.…I can drag slightly outside the shape to rotate it.…I can drag the center point, in order to…move that shape to a new location.…And I can drag one of these corner widgets,…in order to round off the corners.…And throughout the entire process,…