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Using the Polygon tool

Using the Polygon tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the Polygon tool

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- [Instructor] All right, So here we are looking at the state flag of Arizona which we are going to be creating next. But in the meantime, I want to show you how to work with the next tool in the shape tool fly out menu, which is the polygon. And it allows you to create what are known as regular polygons, which at least initially have signs of equal length. And so I'll go ahead and select that tool. And then I'll go up to the file menu and choose New From Template. And I'll go ahead and load that guide, RGB with center guides. Now for the best results, we want snap to pixel a little turned off. And so notice this icon over here in the far right side of the horizontal control panel, I'm going to go ahead and click on it to turn that feature off. In that way we'll get more accurate results. And now I'll go ahead and position my cursor at the intersection of those two center guides and I'll drag. And notice that right…

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