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Power-duplicating the petals of the star logo

Power-duplicating the petals of the star logo - Illustrator Tutorial

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Power-duplicating the petals of the star logo

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- In this movie, we're going to take advantage of what's known as "power duplication", alternately called "series duplication", in order to duplicate the paths that we've created so far, in order to create the entire star logo. All right. So I'll go ahead and switch over to my documents so far. These guys are no longer representative because their tops are not skewed properly. So I'm just going to partially marquee them with the black arrow tool and press the backspace key, or the delete key on the Mac, to get rid of them. Now, go ahead and marquee these two guys, in order to select them. And then select the rotate tool. By the way, if ever you don't see the rotate tool at this location, that's because it shares a fly out menu with the reflect tool. But in any event, I'm going to select the rotate tool, and then you want to alt + click at the intersection, of these two guides right here, the original center…

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