Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 3. Creating and Editing Shapes

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create a document with multiple artboards.

• Use tools and commands to create basic shapes.

• Use rulers and smart guides as drawing aids.

• Scale and duplicate objects.

• Join and outline objects.

• Work with Pathfinder commands to create shapes.

• Use Live Trace to create shapes.

This lesson will take approximately an hour and a half to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson03 folder onto it.

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