From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
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Mirror text and images - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
Mirror text and images
- [Instructor] So far in our look at MirrorMe, we've only created symmetries with simple paths, but you can also work with text and linked or embedded graphics as well. Here in my file, I have a placed image of a slice of pie. And if I look in the control panel, I can see that it's a small png file with transparency. Now let's see if we can use MirrorMe to make this slice of pie into a whole pie. I'll go to the MirrorMe panel and click to apply symmetry axes to the layer. I'll drag the axis and click to set its initial position. I want to end up with six slices of pie, so I'll use the panel to set the numbers of axes to three. Also, notice by the triangles that the active sector is up here. It's not where my pie slice is. So I'll hold Option or Alt and click where my image is, and now I can see that some mirrored copies'll be created. I'll click Apply the Layer to create copies of the pie slice. And now to orient them,…
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