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- [Instructor] In this movie
I'll show you how to add this

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circular end to the spiral.

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And we're going to do so
using a tool that we'll see in

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more detail in the next chapter,
known as the ellipse tool.

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I'll go ahead and switch
over to my document here.

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And I'm going to zoom in by
control or command spacebar

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clicking and then I'll go
ahead and click and hold on the

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rectangle tool directly below
what is now the spiral tool,

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and I'll select the ellipse
tool from the fly-out menu.

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Now, you can go ahead and drag
with this tool if you like

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in order to create some
kind of elliptical shape on

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the fly.

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But I'm looking for a shape
of a specific size so I'll go

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ahead and press control z
or command z on the Mac to

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undo that ellipse and
I'll click with the tool

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to bring up the ellipse-style
add box and I'm going to

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change both the width and the
height values to 70 points

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like so, and then I'll click OK in order

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to create that shape.

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All right, now notice up
here on the control panel

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that I have a white fill
indicated by the first swash.

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I'm going to go ahead and click
on that swash and change it

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to black and then I'll click
on the second swash and

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I'll change it to none so that
we've got a black fill and

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no stroke and nothing more.

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All right, now what you want
to do is switch back to the

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black arrow tool which of
course you can get by pressing

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the v key.

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And now I need to go ahead
and drag the shape by its

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center point.

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You can see that highlighted
right there so that it snaps

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into alignment with the end

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of the spiral path outline which,

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in case you have problems with it,

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let me show you a different way to work.

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I'm going to go ahead and drag
that guide off to the side

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and I'll show you another
way to see things inside of

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Illustrator which is to go up
to the View menu and choose

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the Outline command.

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And that will show you the
path outlines inside of your

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artwork and nothing more,

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so in other words you're
not seeing any fills,

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you're not seeing any strokes,

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you're not seeing any special
screen treatments at all

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and all your guides are appearing black,

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just like all the other
objects which can be confusing.

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Which is why I recommend you
go over to the Layers panel

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and notice that we now have
these hollow, sort of little

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orphan annie eyes over here.

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Go ahead and turn off the one
in front of the guides layer

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so that you're seeing just the
contents of the lines layer

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and nothing more.

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And the drag the circle by its
center so that it snaps into

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alignment which means that
you're snapping in alignment

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with the end of the spiral,

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which is exactly what we want.

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Now go up to the View menu and
choose whatever this command

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is called,

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whether it's GPU Preview or CPU Preview,

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it doesn't really matter,

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you just want to make sure
you're choosing that first

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preview command right there at the top,

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the one that has a keyboard
shortcut, incidentally of

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control y here on the PC,

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or command y on the Mac.

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Then, you'll end up with this effect here.

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Now obviously things
are deligned properly.

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And so, all we need to do
is nudge the shape into the

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proper position and we're going
to do so using the arrow keys

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on your keyboard.

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But before we press a single arrow key,

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I want you to check
the preference setting.

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And you do so here on the PC
by going to the Edit menu,

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on a Mac you want to go
the Illustrator CC menu,

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then drop down to the
preferences command which isn't

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nearly this low on the Mac.

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And finally choose General.

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And what I'm going to tell you

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is this is a very useful command.

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You'll consult it every so
often and so you should remember

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it's keyboard shortcut
which is control k or

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command k on the Mac,

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and I want you to think
of that k as standing for

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keyboard increment because
that's the setting you'll change

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most often here inside Illustrator.

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So control k or command
k for keyboard increment.

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And that's going to bring up
the Preferences dialogue box

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complete with the very first
option, keyboard increment.

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Now, by default it's set to 1
point and I'm just asking you

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to confirm that that's
the case for you as well.

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So that means any time
you press an arrow key,

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you're going to nudge the selection

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1 point in that direction.

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If you press Shift
along with an arrow key,

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you're going to nudge it 10
times that amount or in our

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case, 10 points in a specific direction.

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All right, having confirmed
that just go ahead and click OK

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and now press Shift right arrow
twice in a row to nudge that

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circle 20 points to the right
which ends up making that

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70 point circle aligned exactly
with that 30 point stroke,

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which is of course what we want.

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At which point just go
ahead and press control 0 or

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command 0 on the Mac in order
to zoom out and then click off

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the shape in order to deselect it.

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And that's how you add a circular
end to a spiral using the

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ellipse tool here inside Illustrator.