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Shape tools - Illustrator Tutorial

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Shape tools

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Let's also talk a bit about the shape tools even though they are quite self-explanatory. There's a couple of useful shortcuts worth mentioning. So the first one is the Rectangle tool with this you can draw rectangles or if you hold down the Shift key you can draw perfect squares. With the corner widgets like before we can easily turn this into a perfect circle as well so anything that was a square can be turned into a perfect circle or it can also be a rectangle with round corners and if you want you can of course use the ellipse tool to draw ellipses or again holding down the Shift key to draw perfect circles and with circles and ellipses you will have this option to be able to create a pie chart or just split up the shape and create a curve segment and you will be able to adjust both the start and end angle and simply double-clicking on either of these widgets will reset the circle and make it full again. We also have a polygon tool with which we can click and drag to start drawing…

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