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Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 Classroom in a Book®
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Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 Classroom in a Book®

by Adobe Creative Team
November 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
12h 43m
English
Adobe Press
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Chapter 3. Creating and Editing Shapes

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Create a document with multiple artboards.

  • Use tools and commands to create basic shapes.

  • Use rulers and smart guides as drawing aids.

  • Scale and duplicate objects.

  • Join and outline objects.

  • Work with Pathfinder commands to create shapes.

  • Use Live Trace to create shapes.

This lesson will take approximately an hour and a half to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson03 folder onto it.

Creating and Editing Shapes
Creating and Editing Shapes

You can create ...

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