Adobe Illustrator Visual QuickStart Guide

10. Creating Shapes and Symbols

In This Chapter

Creating Rectangles and Squares

Creating Ovals, Circles, and Pie Segments

Creating Polygons

Creating Stars

Saving Objects as Symbols

Illustrator provides a versatile set of tools for creating and customizing shapes, and using the symbol features helps you work efficiently and manage file size.

Creating Rectangles and Squares

The Rectangle and Rounded Rectangle tools (Figure 10.1) let you easily add rectangular and square objects to your artwork.

FIGURE 10.1 The Rectangle and Rounded Rectangle tools in the Essentials Classic toolbar

Manually draw a rectangle

With the Rectangle tool active, ...