- [Instructor] All right now assuming you're working
with the latest version of Illustrator,
you have access to something known as live ellipses,
and to see what they look like,
go up to the View menu, and choose Show Bounding Box.
At which point you are going to see
the by now familiar bounding box
surrounding the last selected shape.
The difference is that it's not only available
when the black arrow tool is active,
but you're going to see it when the Ellipse Tool
is selected as well, and so some of the controls
are pretty familiar here.
You can drag a side handle to squish the shape,
you can drag the top or bottom handle
in order to scale it vertically.
You also have the axis of dragging the corner handle.
If you want to constrain the shape proportionally,
then you press the Shift key as you drag
that corner handle, and then if you move
your cursor slightly outside of the shape,
then you'll get the rotate option,
and notice, even if smart guides are turned off,
you're going to see a heads-up display
that's telling you the angle of rotation.
If you want to constrain the angle
to a multiple of 45 degrees,
then press the Shift key as you drag, like so.
You also have the option of moving the shape,
and to make that happen, go ahead and drag
the center point, nothing but
the center point is going to work,
to a different location.
Meanwhile, up here in the control panel,
you have width and height controls,
so let's say I want the height of this shape
to be 500 points.
I'll just go ahead and enter 500
and press the Return key or the Enter key on the Mac.
That also changes the width value,
and that's because by default the two are linked together.
If you don't want them to be linked,
go ahead and turn off that chain icon
and then click on this little width icon,
and just for the sake of demonstration,
I'll change it to 200 points.
If you want to rotate the shape numerically,
then click on the word Shape up here
in the control panel, and then enter
the desired value, such as let's say 225 degrees,
and then I can press the Tab key to invoke that change.
I can also do math of course, so I could click
after 225 degrees and enter plus 15 degrees let's say,
and press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac.
All right so that's all standard bounding box stuff.
Where it gets more interesting
is your ability to create pies,
and that's P-I-E by the way,
meaning pies and wedges, and let me
show you what that looks like.
I'll go ahead and delete that shape
by pressing the Backspace key,
or the Delete key on the Mac,
and then I'll switch to the black arrow tool,
which I can get by pressing the V key,
and I'll click on this innermost shape,
and just to make things as obvious as possible,
I'll go ahead and change the fill color to green.
Then notice this little circular widget.
If you drag on it, then you are going to
create a pie, like so,
and then you're going to end up with the second
circular widget that you can drag
in the other direction if you so desired.
Another option is to drag one widget past the other,
in which case instead of having a pie
with a wedge cut out of it, you'll end up
with the wedge instead.
Now once again you also have numerical control,
which you can get by clicking on the word Shape
up here in the control panel, and then
I could change the location of the pie Start Angle
to 90 degrees let's say, and then I'll Tab over
to the end value and change it to 30 degrees
in order to create this effect here.
If you want to link the two values together,
go ahead and turn on the chain,
and then notice if I click after 90 degrees
and enter plus 30 degrees, and press the Tab key,
then I go ahead and rotate the entire pie
so that the wedge now appears up here at the top.
Your next option is to invert the pie
by clicking on this double arrow icon.
So if I click once, I'll go ahead
and convert the pie to a wedge.
If I click again, I'll convert the wedge to a pie.
Which can be very useful when duplicating shapes.
So for example, let's say I go ahead
and drag the center point here
while pressing the Shift + Alt keys.
That'd be the Shift + Option keys on the Mac
in order to create a duplicate,
and I decided to change its color
to let's say orange, and now I go back
to the Shape option here, and I click Invert Pie.
Then I have a wedge sitting directly
above my pie shape.
All right your final option is to convert
the pie back to a circle, and you do that
by clicking on the shape to bring up
the controls once again, and instead of
dragging one of these circular widgets,
just go ahead and double-click on it,
and that will restore my green circle.
Those are the many ways you can take
advantage of live ellipses here inside
the most recent version of Illustrator CC.