Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video 677 Swapping magical checkers for dots, part of Deke's Techniques.
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to swap out…our magical checkers for these magical dots that continue…to impart the illusion that our absolutely parallel…purple bars are somehow out of kilter with each-other.…Here I am once again, inside Illustrator, and I'll go ahead…and switch over to the document that I created…in the previous movie, and now I'll press the control…and spacebar keys, that's going to be command and spacebar…on the Mac, to access my zoom tool, and then I'll just…drag to the right in order to zoom in to the checker pattern…in the top-left corner of the artboard.…
Now you want to click on the checkers layer, here inside…the layers panel, to make it active, and then drop down…to the little page icon at the bottom of the panel…and alt or option click on it to force a display…of the layer options dialogue box.…Now just go ahead and call this layer dots,…and I'll change its color to, let's say, orange,…and I'll click OK.…Alright, now I'll go ahead and select the ellipse tool…from the shape tool flyout menu, and you want to position…
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3/30/2021Released
1/13/2011Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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