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Using repeats - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2024 Essential Training
Using repeats
- [Instructor] Let's make something out of this piece of artwork just here using the Repeats feature in Illustrator. Now, sometimes you do actually see this down in the Context task bar, I'm not seeing it right here at the moment, but sometimes you do see a small icon that looks like a circle with a load of squares around it, and that will allow you to create repeats from there. This time, we're going to use the menu here. We're going to start out, we're going to go from the bottom up, we're going to start with Mirror. There are also options to explore here for each one of these things. This is kind of like the icon you would see in the Context task bar, but we've got Radial, Grid, and Mirror just there, and you can set an angle if you want to. So let's go ahead and make a mirror just here. So we'll go to Repeat and choose Mirror. And this is what happens, you get this spine down the middle here. Now if you move the…
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