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Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book®
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Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book®

by Adobe Creative Team
February 2002
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
13h 2m
English
Adobe Press
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Painting with symbols

You can also paint using symbols. A symbol is an art object that you store in the Symbols palette and reuse in a document. In this part of the lesson, you'll create a symbol from a selection of grass. Each symbol instance is linked to the symbol in the palette. If you use the same artwork multiple times within a document, symbols can save time and greatly reduce file size.

For the symbol, you'll use three blades of grass that you created earlier.

1.
Click the Symbols palette tab or choose Window > Symbols to display the palette.
2.
Select the selection tool (), and drag a selection marquee to select the three blades of grass ...
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