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Using the crazy Flare tool

Using the crazy Flare tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the crazy Flare tool

- [Instructor] Now I'll show you, how to work with the final shape tool, which is the flare tool. And so I'll go ahead and click and hold on the star tool to bring up the shape tool fly out menu. Some of you may wonder why I haven't touched on the rounded rectangle tool and that's because you don't need it. You can draw a rectangles with rounded corners using the rectangle tool, as we've already seen. But here's the flare tool, down here at the bottom of the list, strictly speaking it is not a shaped tool it draws a whole bunch of lines and shapes at varying levels of translucency but it is grouped with the shape tools and it can be a lot of fun to use. And so I'll go ahead and select that tool. Notice that I'm working on the star layer, here inside the layers dialog box. And so I'll just go ahead and start dragging and I want you to see, that the tool is drawing a whole bunch of spiky lines, which are known as…

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