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Creating dashed lines

Creating dashed lines - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating dashed lines

- [Instructor] To create dashed strokes we need to use the Stroke panel. So what I'm going to do is pick up this rectangle down at the bottom of the file that I'm using. In fact, let's zoom in on that just a bit, so it's easier for you to see. And then I'll go and get the Stroke panel. Now I'm just going to click on the diamond-ish sort of icon on the left hand side there just to expand that panel fully because this is the bit I need to get access to, the Dashed Line checkbox. Now, this will start drawing me a dashed line, however it's not very likely to be what I'm after at the moment here because what it's doing is drawing me a four point dash with a 120 point gap. So I'm just going to change that to 10 for the gap and also for the actual dash itself, okay, I'm going to increase that. I'm just tapping on the up arrow key on my keyboard while I'm focused there until I get a dash that I like. So essentially, you can…

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