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Designing a custom shape in Illustrator

Designing a custom shape in Illustrator - Photoshop Tutorial

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Designing a custom shape in Illustrator

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to create a more complex custom shape. Namely, this 20-tooth gear. And we're going to do so with the help of Adobe Illustrator. And the reason is that even though Photoshop's vector-based drawing tools are pretty darn great, especially for a program that is first and foremost an image editor, they don't compare to the wealth of options that are available to you in Illustrator. So I'm going to go ahead and switch over to that program. And notice that I've already drawn a couple of circles here. This first circle, the black one, the one that has the black fill anyway, has a dotted orange stroke around it. And if you want to find out how I put that together and how I made sure that every single one of these dots aligns perfectly, then check out my Illustrator CC One-on-One Fundamentals course. Specifically, you're looking for a movie called "Drawing and Quick n' Dirty Gear" in Chapter 7. Meanwhile, I also have this blue circle in the…

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