From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
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Mirror artwork - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
Mirror artwork
- With the MirrorMe plugin for illustrator, you can achieve amazing and unexpected results, creating complex patterns and designs from even the simplest starting point. In this movie, we'll take a look at the basics of MirrorMe and how to use it to mirror existing artwork. We'll start by opening the MirrorMe Panel, by going to the Window Menu and choosing MirrorMe, MirrorMe Panel. The key to working with MirrorMe, is controlling one or more axes of symmetry around which artwork is mirrored. And you can find the controls for adjusting those axes here in the panel. First of all, at the top left of the panel, there are two buttons where you can choose whether symmetry axes apply just to selected objects or to everything on the current layer. In this document, I've placed the same piece of artwork on two separate layers. So if I look in the Layers panel, I can see layer two and layer one. Both of which contain one copy…
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