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

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the rectangle tool.

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And we're going to use
that tool to create every

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element of the handle
of this magnified glass.

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But we're not going to
draw the handle at an angle

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because that would be hard.

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It's much easier to draw
your shapes perpendicularly

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and then to rotate them
into place when you're done.

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Alright so I'll go
ahead and switch over to

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my document in progress here

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and I'll press ctrl +
0, or cmd + 0 on the Mac

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to zoom out.

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Now you can select the rectangle tool

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from the floating toolbar if you like.

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Or you can click and
hold on the ellipse tool

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and then select the rectangle
tool from the fly-out menu.

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Alright so obviously you can draw

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a rectangle from one corner to another.

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If you have smart guides turned on

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then you get a heads up
display that's showing you

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the width and height of
your shape as you draw it.

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Another option is to draw a square

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and you do that while
you're dragging by pressing

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and holding the shift key,

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and note that you'll
only get a square as long

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as that key is down.

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If you release the shift
key then you'll go back

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to drawing a rectangle.

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So if you want to square, be sure to keep

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that shift key down to the bitter end.

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And then finally I'll go ahead
and press the backspace key

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or the delete key on a Mac
to get rid of that shape.

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You can create a rectangle
from the center out

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by pressing and holding
the alt or option key.

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And again you've got to keep
that key down the entire time.

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And as long as I'm demonstrating this,

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I'm going to create a shape
that's exactly 460 points wide

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by 64 points tall.

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Which ends up giving me
this shape right here.

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Alright now I want to move
it into a better location.

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So I'm going to press
and hold the ctrl key,

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or the cmd key on a Mac to temporarily get

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my last used arrow tool

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which happens to be the black arrow.

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And now I'll drag this center point

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until I snap into
alignment with that guide.

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But it's not going so well there.

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And so what I'm going to need to do

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is drag this edge while
pressing the shift key

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until I snap into alignment like so.

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Alright so you can also use the spacebar

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to reposition a shape as you draw it.

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And so I'm going to drag from
the intersection of those two

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center guides and press
and hold the alt key

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or the option key on
the Mac in order to draw

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the shape from the center outward.

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And this time I want it
to be 102 points wide

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by 40 points tall like so.

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But I also want it to be left aligned with

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the right side of the previous rectangle.

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So I'll go ahead and press
the spacebar as I drag.

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And this is not working,
I'm snapping into alignment

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with the magnified glass instead.

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Which is not what I want.

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So I'll just go ahead and accept the shape

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that I have so far,

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knowing of course that I
have it scaled correctly.

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And then I'll go ahead and zoom in

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and press the ctrl key
or the cmd key on the Mac

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and drag that left edge
while pressing the shift key

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until it snaps into
alignment with the right side

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of that first rectangle.

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Alright now let's say you
want to create a rectangle

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by the numbers and you
don't want to have to be

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so careful as you drag.

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Then just go ahead click
to bring up the rectangle

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dialog box and now I'll change

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the width value to eight points

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and I'll change the height to 48 like so.

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And you want to make sure of course

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that your link icon is turned off.

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And then click okay in order
to create that new shape.

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If you want to center align
the shape at this guideline

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for example then press the
alt key or the option key

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on the Mac and click in order to bring up

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the rectangle dialog
box and then click okay

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to accept those values.

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And we'll end up with this effect here.

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Alright now I'm going to
go ahead and switch back

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to the arrow tool

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by pressing the V key is
the easiest way to work.

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And I need to move these last two shapes

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into their proper locations.

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But first I want to send
all of the rectangles

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behind the circles and
so I'm going to marquee

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these four shapes and you only need

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to partially marquee them like so.

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And then right click
inside the document window,

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choose arrange, and choose send to back.

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Alright now I'm going to click
off the shapes to deselect them

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and I'm going to click on
the center point for this guy

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right here and drag it over to the right

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while pressing the shift key
until I snap into alignment

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with the left side of that outer circle.

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And then I'll press the left
arrow key twice in a row

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in order to nudge that
shape to points to the left.

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Alright now I'll grab this
guy and he needs to come down

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to this location right there where these

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two guidelines intersect.

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And then I'll press the right
arrow key a couple of times

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in order to correctly position this shape.

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Now shapes are stacked in
the order that you draw them

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and so this guy who was the second to last

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shape I drew is in front of
the very first rectangle.

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And so what I need to do
is bring this guy to front.

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And you can right click
and then choose arrange,

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and choose bring to front if you want to.

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Or if you want to precisely stack

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one shape in front of another,

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then go up to the edit menu
and choose the cut command.

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Or you have that universal
keyboard shortcut

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of ctrl + x or cmd + x on a Mac

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and then select the
shape in front of which

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you want to put that big first rectangle

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and then go up to the edit menu and choose

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paste in front or you have
that keyboard shortcut

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of ctrl + f or cmd + f on a Mac.

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And finally I want this
handle to be black.

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So I'll click on this first color swatch

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up here in the far left
side of the control panel

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and I'll select black.

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After which point I'll press the enter key

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or the return key on the
Mac to hide that panel

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and I'll press ctrl + 0 or
cmd + 0 on a Mac to zoom out.

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And that is how you draw a very practical

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and precise collection of rectangles

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here inside Illustrator.