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Let's go through a very brief exercise together to really get a feel for how this tool can work and let's create a gift box. So I'm going to create a brand new document and in this document let's grab our Rectangle Tool and hold down the Shift key and draw out a rectangle. We can go to our Swatches and we could choose any pattern that we want. I'll just go ahead and - well, actually I have that on Stroke, let me hit X on my keyboard - and I'm going to give that a Fill of this guy right here and let's also go back to this Rectangle Tool and create a bow, or rather a little bit of ribbon. So I'm going to put a thick band of ribbon, like so and give it a Fill color of red; I'm not really sure that's enough of a contrast. Let me just see if I can find a nice color here. That works. Now what I'm going to do is give this a little bit of a shadow, as well, so I'm going to copy this shape and then with this one still selected I'll double-click on the Swatch and drop the color down, then I'll go to Edit, Paste in Front and I'll use my Arrow keys to move this up so now we have a little bit of a shadow as you see there. I'm going to select the one on the bottom, hit X on my keyboard and then I'm going to hit this icon right here to get rid of the Stroke, so we have a really cool little box. I'm going to grab my Selection Tool and I'm going to drag-select this whole thing and I'm going to go to Object, Group. Alright, so I'm going to make sure I have everything selected here, then I'm going to go to Edit, Copy. We're going to head back to our Perspective Grid document and if you don't have one just create a brand new document and click on your Perspective Grid Tool to enable it. And I'm also going to choose the Perspective Selection Tool and I'm going to have this grid here, or this plane selected, the blue one. I'll go to Edit, Paste and then with this tool selected I'm going to simply drag it out to my Grid, like so, and I'll move it into position. I can also scale it so that it fits perfectly and I'll click away from it to see how it looks. OK, great. Now, let's go ahead and click on this icon, the orange one and we're going to paste another one. Edit, Paste and we're going to drag it onto this side and I'm going to once again click on it and I'm going to Scale it so it fits and I'm going to go to the View Menu, Perspective Grid, Hide Grid. And now you've got yourself a nice gift box. But wait! There's more. We're going to create another Layer, or actually, no, we'll just do this on the same Layer. We'll be adventurous today. We're going to grab the Pen Tool this time and we're going to draw our own shadow, so let's think of where the light source is. Let's say the light is coming from this direction. So I'm going to temporarily put an ellipse here and I'll fill it in with yellow, so we can be reminded of where our light's coming from. Then we can grab our Pen Tool and we can draw what we think will be the shadow. So I'm going to click and click and do something like this to create the shadow for this particular box and I'm going to hit X on my keyboard and I'm going to give this a darker color. Let's see, something like this maybe. Then we can go to Object, Arrange, Send to Back. And, of course, this pattern here is showing through so we can grab our Direct Selection Tool, grab those points and actually I think I do need to make a Layer this time, so I'm going to tear the Layers off and just show you a way to get around selecting the wrong thing. We could, of course, grab the boxes here and we can go to Object and we can choose Lock Selection. That's something I haven't shown you yet. That gives you the ability to protect something so that you can't select it. So we'll go ahead and stick with that. We'll grab our Direct Selection Tool and now we can grab the Points and move them where they belong so that they're not showing through the box and maybe just grab this one and move it a little bit more like this, and I'll grab this one and refine it just a tad and now we can go to Object, Unlock All and I'll go ahead and close that and get rid of the sun and I'll grab my Selection Tool, grab everybody and hold the Shift key down to scale this down and now you have a box that's in perfect perspective with a shadow. Now the shadow needs a little bit of work, but at least you get the idea. So that is how you can use the Perspective Tool to create a real world piece of artwork.