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Symbol sets

Symbol sets - Illustrator Tutorial

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Symbol sets

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- [Instructor] Symbol Sets are created using the Symbolism tool set. If we hold down shift and tap s on our keyboard, that will get us the Symbol Sprayer tool. And what I'd like you to do is to go and long press on that in the Toolbox and then just move out to this bar on the right-hand side here and click on it. It gives us a small tear-off tray of the tools, which will make it easier for us to work through this particular movie. Okay, so what we need to do then is we need to go to the Symbol panel. I've dropped a symbol in here, this butterfly symbol, which by the way, you can load along with many, many other symbols from inside of this menu here. And the butterfly comes from the Nature set there. So if you want to explore those or any of the others, go ahead and do so. Okay, so with this targeted, what we can do is we can come onto the Art Board and click and drag, like so, and we've created a Symbol Set. Now, you can see that in a couple of different places. You can see at the top…

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