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Transform graphical elements

Transform graphical elements - Illustrator Tutorial

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Transform graphical elements

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- [Instructor] For the ACA exam you should understand In our file here we're going to recreate some parts of this little robot. The original robot is at the bottom of the layer stack And at the top is a Drawing layer for us to work on. And I'm going to lock both the Robot and the Overlay layers And take the Rectangle Tool and draw the top half of the ear. I'll go the Swatches panel and fill it with Light Gray and remove the stroke. Now to make the bottom half of the ear let's reflect this rectangle with the Reflect Tool. It's located under the Rotate Tool if you don't see it. With the rectangle selected I'll take the Reflect Tool and hold Option or Alt and then click right at the bottom of the rectangle. This opens the dialog box where we can choose the reflecting Axis, Horizontal, Vertical, or any Angle. And with Preview selected I see the results I'm going to get. That looks good, so I'll click Copy. And the new rectangle is selected, so I'll go ahead and fill it with Dark Gray. Now…

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