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Project 5: Circular logo

Project 5: Circular logo

For project 5 we need to add some text for this logo and first of all for that text to be able to be fitted on this circular shape we also need to add a new circle. We can do this with the ellipse tool and I'm just going to click on the artboard and type in the value that we need. Since it's a perfect circle I want to constrain the width and height to be the exact same amount and I'm going to type in 325 pixels then click OK and it doesn't matter what color you are using for this I'm just going to press D so it reverts back to the default colors maybe I can even take out the fill with the forward slash keyboard shortcut so now we just have the outline of it. Next we have to make sure that the center point of this new shape is going to end up in the right position Now we could select the original illustration and this one and just align them to each other by using align horizontal and vertical centers so that would also work but we want to make sure that this shape stays exactly where…

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