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Advanced techniques: Creating a spring icon

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Advanced techniques: Creating a spring icon

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- [Instructor] It's time to create our very last icon in the series of four. And this is going to be the Spring icon. Now to create this, I need a way to create a proper leaf icon. To create a leaf, what we can do is just choose the Ellipse tool and then drag out a regular ellipse. I'll just zoom in a little bit here. And now we need to manipulate these points to make it look like an actual leaf. To make that happen, we'll just choose this tool here, which is called the Anchor Point tool. And we'll just click this point here. Just click. And that's going to convert that from a rounded point to a point it, a corner point basically. And so with that, we have the basic shape of the leaf, but we still need to use the direct selection tool. And I'm just going to marquee drag to select these two middle points. And I'll just nudge them down a little bit by using keys on the keyboard until I'm the left of something…

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