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The top-secret tilde key trick

The top-secret tilde key trick - Illustrator Tutorial

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The top-secret tilde key trick

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- [Instructor] All right now I'll share with you a fairly delightful and undoubtedly top secret trick that involves the tilda key, which is that wavy line between the escape and tab keys in the top left corner of an American keyboard and the idea is that this key allows you to draw multiple lines or shapes in a single drag and it works with every one of the shape tools except for the flare tool by the way. So rectangle through star tool and it also works with all of the line tools and so I'm going to go ahead and select the line segment tool right here. Now at this point things are pretty messy on screen because of that flare and so what I'm going to do is lock down the star layer by clicking in that second column here inside the layers panel and then I'll turn on the guide layer so I can see the intersection of those two guidelines and now I'll zoom way up by pressing control…

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