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- All right, so after
five movies of learning

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how to use the pen tool we
have this to show for it,

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which is fairly horrifying.

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Which is why I'd like to spend
a few more movies focusing

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on a real world project,
namely this one right here

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in which everything has
been drawn with the pen tool

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with the exception of this
text up here at the top

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which was originally
set in Spring Standard.

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All right, so, let me
show you how it works.

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We'll start by going up to the File menu

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and choosing New From Template...

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or you can press Control + Shift + N

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or Command + Shift + N on a Mac.

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And then I'll go ahead and double click

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on that RGB with center guides.ait file

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in order to open up my blank document.

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I will click on the guides
layer to make it active

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and then I will go up to the View menu,

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choose Guides, and choose Clear Guides.

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Because we may need guides in the future,

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they won't be these.

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All right, now let's
introduce a tracing template

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by going up to the the File menu

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and choosing the Place command.

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Or you can press Control + Shift + P,

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or Command + Shift + P on a Mac.

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All right, now I'll go ahead

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and navigate to my Exercise Files folder,

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to the 13_Pen subfolder

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in which I have a file
called Metal type.jpg.

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And to introduce it I'll just go ahead

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and double click on it.

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And that'll load up my cursor
as you're seeing right here.

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At which point I'll go ahead and click

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in order to place that photographic image.

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And then, I'll make sure
that Align is set to Artboard

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up here in the control panel,

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and I'll click Horizontal Align Center

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as well as Vertical Align Center.

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And that should exactly fit
the image inside the Artboard.

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And by the way, this image comes to us

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from the Fotolia image library,

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about which you can learn more

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and get deals at fotolia.com/deke.

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All right, now I'm going to double click

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on an empty portion of this layer

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to bring up the Layer
Options dialogue box.

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I'll go ahead and rename
the Layer Template

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and turn on the Template
checkbox and click Ok.

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And we end up with this tracing template.

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All right, now I'm going to click

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on what is currently the drawing layer.

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I'm going to change it's
name, however, to "blocks",

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because this is where we're going to

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put the blocks underneath the letterforms.

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And we're going to draw all
these blocks using the Pen tool.

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All right, but before we do,

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you want to go up to the View menu,

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and make sure Smart Guides are turned on.

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They aren't for me, so I'll go
ahead and choose the command,

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or you can press a keyboard shortcut of

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Control + U, or Command + U on a Mac.

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All right, now I'll go ahead
and select the Pen tool.

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Which, again, I can get
by pressing the "P" key.

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And what we want to do,

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just to make sure things line up,

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is draw the tallest blocks first.

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And that's going to mean

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this one for the E to start with.

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So I'll go ahead and click here.

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And then we want all
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to be exactly horizontal.

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So, Shift + click at this point,

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if you're working along with me.

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Go ahead and click down here

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to set another point.

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Shift + click here,

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in order to create a fourth anchor point.

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And then, finally click on the first point

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to close the shape.

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But make sure that you're seeing a circle

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next to your cursor, because Smart Guides

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can sometimes make a mess of things.

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All right now I want to be
able to see what I'm doing

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so I'm going to press the "V" key

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to switch to the black arrow tool.

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I'm going to click on that
shape to make it active,

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and then I'll change it's fill to none

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up here in the control panel.

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All right, now, go ahead
and press the "P" key

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to switch back to the Pen tool,

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and we want to create
a new shape right here.

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But if you start creating
the shape right there,

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then you're going to add a
point to this selected path.

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And that's not what we want.

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So the safest thing to do
is to deselect the path

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by pressing Control + Shift + A

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or Command + Shift + A on a Mac.

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All right, now I'm going to click there

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and I can see that not only

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I'm going to be starting
a new path outline,

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because I have a little
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but also I'm aligned to the path outline.

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And so, you want to see a
red path outline, like so,

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at which point, go ahead and click,

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and then Shift + click
over here at this location,

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click up here, Shift + click again.

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To make sure that you're creating

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an exactly horizontal line,

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you want to make sure you're aligned

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with the path outline as well,

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and it should turn red to
indicate that's the case.

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And then, just go ahead and
click on that first point.

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Make sure you're seeing
an "O" next to your cursor

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so that you know that
you're closing the shape.

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All right, now, move your cursor

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over to this point, above the "S".

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Go ahead and click, Shift + click here,

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click down at this location.

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But I'm actually going to Shift + click

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because I want these lines

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around the "I" to be perfectly vertical.

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It's just going to work out more easily.

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So, Shift + click right there.

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I'll click when I see that I'm aligned

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to the path outline around the "E".

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And then I'll click to
close that path, like so.

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And I'm going to press the Control key,

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in order to get my white arrow,

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is what I was hoping for.

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That's the Command key on a Mac.

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I'm seeing the black arrow instead,

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so I'll press Control + ~, here on a PC.

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That's Command + Option + Tab on a Mac

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in order to get my white arrow.

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And then I'll click on this segment.

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And when you click on a straight segment

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with the white arrow tool,

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you can then turn around and nudge it

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by pressing an arrow key on a keyboard,

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as I've done here.

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All right, now let's create
a block around the "I".

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And, it's a little difficult
to find where it starts.

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I think, about there is good.

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So click there, Shift +
click at this location,

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Shift + click up the
"O", up the intersection

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between the "I" and the "O" that is.

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Shift + click right there as well.

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Once you see that you have alignment

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to the path outlined around the "S",

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and then Shift + click at this point,

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in order to close the path.

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And now I'm going to zoom
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And, now we need to make sure

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that everything about the "G" aligns.

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So, I'll click up here

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and then I'll Shift + click down here.

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And that's why it was useful

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to have vertical lines around the "I",

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because we don't have
complete and total alignment.

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Now, I'll Shift + click

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to create a horizontal line below the "G".

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And this time I'll just click freeform

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because this vertical line
isn't exactly vertical.

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But I do want to make
sure I have alignment

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with the first one I created.

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And you can see, that alignment occur

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when you get a green
line, as I've done here.

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And then click, and then go ahead

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and click on that first point.

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You don't have to press the
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because you already determined

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that you had horizontal alignment.

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And now I'll press Control + Shift + A,

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or Command + Shift + A on a Mac

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to deselect the outline around the "G"

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and I'll click here underneath the "N",

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Shift + click right
there at that location.

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Let's go ahead and click
right about there, maybe.

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I'm not exactly sure.

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That looks pretty good though,

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but if you need to nudge the point

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remember that pressing an arrow key

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is going to deactivate the path,

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so you'll have to click on
that point again to wake it up.

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And now, I'm going to click
right about there, I guess.

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And I'll click on the very first point,

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in order to close the path outline.

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I do not have exact alignment.

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This kind of stuff happens all the time.

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And so I need to Control + click

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or Command + click

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on that upper-left
anchor point right there.

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And I need to nudge it a
little bit to the right.

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But if I press the arrow key,

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you can see that I go too far.

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And that's because my keyboard increment

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is set to 1.0 point.

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So what I'm going to do,

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is press the keyboard shortcut

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for the Preferences command.

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Which is Control + K or
Command + K on a Mac.

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And I'm going to reduce
Keyboard Increment value

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to 0.1 point, so just
one tenth of a point.

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And then I'll click Ok.

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And now, you can see that if
you press the left arrow key

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a few times, or at least if I do,

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then I eventually get the
alignment I'm looking for.

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All right, now I'm going
to press Control + 0,

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or Command + 0 on a Mac to zoom out.

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And let's go ahead and fill our shapes

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by pressing the "V" key to
switch to the black arrow tool.

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Then I'll click on this first
path outline to select it.

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Notice that my fill is active,

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here inside the Swatches panel.

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And so I'm going to change all the fills

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to shades of gray that are represented

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inside this final Grays folder.

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And so I'm going to start
with this guy right there,

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the one that has all values set to 179.

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And then I'll select
the box around the "G",

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and I'll change it to the next guy over,

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where all the values are set to 153.

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And these are just decisions I made

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to make sure every shade
of gray is different.

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And this one wants to have
all the values set to 128,

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which is the most medium of the grays.

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And then I'll go yet a shade darker

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to this one right here where
all the values are set to 102.

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And then I'll click on
the guy around the "E"

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and set it to the one with
all the values set to 153,

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and then finally click
the shape around the "D"

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and set it to the gray that
has all the values set to 128.

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And we end up with these
four perspective rectangles.

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So, they're not exact
rectangles by any means.

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They're just all slightly off.

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That I created just by clicking

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the set corner points with the Pen tool,

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with the help of Smart Guides,
here inside Illustrator.