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Coloring a path with the Shape Builder tool

Coloring a path with the Shape Builder tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Coloring a path with the Shape Builder tool

- In this movie, we're going to add a giant circle around the star, and we're also going to color in each one of these circles that the stars point. And along the way, I'll show you a different way to color shapes using the shape builder tool. And so I'll go ahead and switch over to my documents so far. And I'm going to draw a couple of circles here and I'm going to press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac and click at the intersection of those two center guides to bring up the ellipse dialog box and I'm going to change each one of these values, the width and height values to 600 points and click Okay. And that goes ahead and creates a circle from the center outward. And then I'll Alter option click again in order to revisit the ellipse dialog box, I'm going to turn on the link this time around because the values are the same and I'll change the width value to 550 and that'll change the height value as well. And then…

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