Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

17.

Align the spiral to the thumb. Chances are good that your art, like that in

Figure 5-13, doesn’t quite line up. With the black arrow tool, select the spiral,

and drag it until it snaps into alignment with the thumb (most likely, just a

fraction of a point).

Unlike earlier versions of Illustrator, CS5 uses smart guides, so you don’t necessarily have

to grab the path by an anchor point; the path will snap into place without a point to act

as an anchor.

Figure 5-14 . Figure 5-15 .

18.

Extend the index fi nger to intersect the spiral. Switch

to the white arrow tool by pressing the A key, and

marquee around the bottom curve of the index fi nger

to select just those points, as shown in Figure 5-14.

Drag those points until they align with the bottom

of the thumb, adding the Shift key to constrain the

movement to vertical.

19.

Nudge the curve of the spiral into alignment. Once

again, the spiral is out of alignment; this time with

the index fi nger. You need to select some of the points

on the spiral to move them; marquee the area shown

in Figure 5-15 to select the necessary points.

Unfortunately, that also selected some of the points of

the fi nger, which you don’t want to move. Shift+Alt-

click (or Shift-Option-click) the index fi nger once to

add the entire shape to the selection, and Shift+Alt-

click (Shift-Option-click) again to deselect the entire

Figure 5-13 .

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