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Creating a star of a specific size

Creating a star of a specific size - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a star of a specific size

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to create a star of a specific size. Now, your size may differ from mine but in any event, there are times where you want predictable results. So here I am looking at the US Flags site. I'll go ahead and click on the flag for Arizona and I'll scroll down to the schematics right here. Now, in this case, we're seeing that the flag needs to be four feet high by six feet wide. We're not really too worried about its size in feet but rather the relative size of the star. So notice, the star is two feet compared to the height of the flag, four feet, so it's got to be exactly half the height of the art board. All right, now as long as we're here, I'll go ahead and grab the Hex code for the color, which is copper by the way. So I'll go ahead and select it and press Control + C or Command + C on the Mac. And then I'll switch back to Illustrator. Now, just for the sake of…

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