The size of your shape will appear in a little box while you are creating it before you release. If a large plus sign appears on your shape, you know that it is equal. The reason we are holding the shift key when creating our shape is to maintain equal size on all sides to create a perfect shape. Now that you have the correct tool selected, on the white space shift click and hold, then drag out to create a circle shape. Now the symbol for the shape tool will appear as an ellipse instead of a rectangle. While still holding the left mouse button, hover over the ellipse option and release. To do this, click and hold until a sub menu appears. We need to change it to the ellipse option. At first, the shape tool will be set to 'rectangle'. On the main toolbar we previously took note of, we will select the ellipse option on the shape tool. Ai is a great program but it is a very large program, and is prone to unexpected closing. Warning! It is imperative that you save your Ai document regularly. If you have any issues downloading Ai or want to see if your computer has the specs to run it click on this link. If there are any jarring issues within the program that these instructions don’t explain enough in depth, or if you would like to learn more about Adobe Illustrator head over to it is a great resource. A computer that has the ability to run Ai.Half an hour to an hour depending on experience level. It would be a good idea to watch a tutorial from about the basic layout of Ai before doing this tutorial if you need to work fast.

If you can work with Microsoft Word or basic programs like that you are knowledgeable enough for these instructions.

These instructions are aimed towards beginners to Ai.

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