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- [Instructor] All right
now assuming you're working

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with the latest version of Illustrator,

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you have access to something
known as live ellipses,

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and to see what they look like,

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go up to the View menu, and
choose Show Bounding Box.

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At which point you are going to see

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the by now familiar bounding box

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surrounding the last selected shape.

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The difference is that
it's not only available

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when the black arrow tool is active,

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but you're going to see
it when the Ellipse Tool

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is selected as well, and
so some of the controls

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are pretty familiar here.

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You can drag a side handle
to squish the shape,

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you can drag the top or bottom handle

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in order to scale it vertically.

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You also have the axis of
dragging the corner handle.

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If you want to constrain
the shape proportionally,

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then you press the Shift key as you drag

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that corner handle, and then if you move

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your cursor slightly outside of the shape,

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then you'll get the rotate option,

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and notice, even if smart
guides are turned off,

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you're going to see a heads-up display

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that's telling you the angle of rotation.

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If you want to constrain the angle

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to a multiple of 45 degrees,

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then press the Shift key
as you drag, like so.

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You also have the option
of moving the shape,

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and to make that happen, go ahead and drag

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the center point, nothing but

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the center point is going to work,

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to a different location.

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Meanwhile, up here in the control panel,

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you have width and height controls,

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so let's say I want the
height of this shape

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to be 500 points.

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I'll just go ahead and enter 500

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and press the Return key or
the Enter key on the Mac.

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That also changes the width value,

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and that's because by default
the two are linked together.

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If you don't want them to be linked,

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go ahead and turn off that chain icon

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and then click on this little width icon,

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and just for the sake of demonstration,

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I'll change it to 200 points.

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If you want to rotate
the shape numerically,

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then click on the word Shape up here

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in the control panel, and then enter

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the desired value, such
as let's say 225 degrees,

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and then I can press the Tab
key to invoke that change.

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I can also do math of
course, so I could click

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after 225 degrees and enter
plus 15 degrees let's say,

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and press the Enter key or
the Return key on the Mac.

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All right so that's all
standard bounding box stuff.

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Where it gets more interesting

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is your ability to create pies,

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and that's P-I-E by the way,

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meaning pies and wedges, and let me

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show you what that looks like.

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I'll go ahead and delete that shape

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by pressing the Backspace key,

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or the Delete key on the Mac,

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and then I'll switch to
the black arrow tool,

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which I can get by pressing the V key,

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and I'll click on this innermost shape,

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and just to make things
as obvious as possible,

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I'll go ahead and change
the fill color to green.

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Then notice this little circular widget.

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If you drag on it, then you are going to

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create a pie, like so,

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and then you're going to
end up with the second

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circular widget that you can drag

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in the other direction if you so desired.

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Another option is to drag
one widget past the other,

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in which case instead of having a pie

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with a wedge cut out of it, you'll end up

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with the wedge instead.

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Now once again you also
have numerical control,

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which you can get by
clicking on the word Shape

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up here in the control panel, and then

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I could change the location
of the pie Start Angle

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to 90 degrees let's say,
and then I'll Tab over

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to the end value and
change it to 30 degrees

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in order to create this effect here.

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If you want to link the
two values together,

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go ahead and turn on the chain,

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and then notice if I
click after 90 degrees

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and enter plus 30 degrees,
and press the Tab key,

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then I go ahead and rotate the entire pie

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so that the wedge now
appears up here at the top.

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Your next option is to invert the pie

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by clicking on this double arrow icon.

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So if I click once, I'll go ahead

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and convert the pie to a wedge.

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If I click again, I'll
convert the wedge to a pie.

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Which can be very useful
when duplicating shapes.

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So for example, let's say I go ahead

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and drag the center point here

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while pressing the Shift + Alt keys.

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That'd be the Shift +
Option keys on the Mac

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in order to create a duplicate,

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and I decided to change its color

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to let's say orange, and now I go back

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to the Shape option here,
and I click Invert Pie.

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Then I have a wedge sitting directly

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above my pie shape.

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All right your final option is to convert

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the pie back to a circle, and you do that

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by clicking on the shape to bring up

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the controls once again, and instead of

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dragging one of these circular widgets,

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just go ahead and double-click on it,

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and that will restore my green circle.

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Those are the many ways you can take

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advantage of live ellipses here inside

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the most recent version of Illustrator CC.