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Adobe Illustrator for Web Design

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Ellipse Tool

1:58 with Ashley Burke

Represent you social media icons using the ellipse tool.

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    Next, we need to add our social media icons 0:00
    which are gonna to be located in our footer at the bottom. 0:04
    For our social media icons, we will have them be circles. 0:07
    So I'm gonna go here, turn rectangle tool, and choose an ellipse. 0:12
    And if I just started drawing, it'd be all kinds of sizes. 0:17
    If you would like to constrain to a perfect circle, 0:21
    hold down Shift And 0:26
    drag out and that's how you do it. 0:30
    I want these to be lighter because they're gonna be in our photo, 0:36
    we won't be able to really see what's going on so. 0:39
    Let's try that. 0:41
    And I want the size to be smaller, let's see how big this is. 0:45
    It says 82, lets do 60 by 60. 0:52
    And I'm gonna zoom in here. 0:58
    Command plus. 1:02
    I'll use the Space Bar to drag it around. 1:04
    That puts me where I need to be. 1:08
    Okay. So, I'm gonna draw three of these. 1:11
    And Option+Shift drag out. 1:17
    And now I'm gonna use these distribute tools again. 1:19
    So let me go up to a line. 1:25
    I'm gonna make sure its my selection. 1:27
    Oh good, it's already chosen at this time. 1:29
    And we want to this one horizontal distribute center. 1:32
    Vertical too, I guess, horizontal. 1:38
    And you'll notice I also lined up my circles to my guidelines on the outside. 1:40
    So I know that they are centered perfectly. 1:49
    Awesome. 1:53
    Good job. Next we will do our layout for 1:54
    the desktop. 1:58

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