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Duplicating and scaling spirals

Duplicating and scaling spirals - Illustrator Tutorial

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Duplicating and scaling spirals

- [Instructor] All right now, we're going to duplicate and scale the only spiral we've drawn so far in order to create this stylized cloud. And so I'll go ahead and switch over to the documents so far. Notice that my black arrow tool is active up here at the top of the toolbox. And I'll go ahead and click on this spiral and actually for this next trick to work, we need Smart Guides to be turned back on. So I'll go up to the View menu and choose Smart Guides in order to turn on that command. And then I'll go ahead and drag this spiral by its left-hand anchor point until it snaps into alignment right here with the first ring in. Notice that the intersection of the first ring in and the existing spiral. You can see that we've got a snap when I move my cursor into the proper position. Cause I'm seeing it turn from black to white. And then if I press and hold the Alt key or the Option key in the Mac we get a double white…

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