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In the last movie, we took a quick look at text. This one, we're going to take a very quick look at the drawing tools. They're located mostly down here. First of all, let me come over here and take a look at the pencil tool. This is one of the ones I use least. It's just freehand drawing like that. You just press and drag. Very difficult to do. Maybe if you've got a tablet and you're an artist, it would be a lot easier, but for me it's difficult. I like to use the other tools. Straight line tool, this is easy. Press and drag, release. You've got a line like that. Now, if you want to constrain it, you hold down the shift key, so press and drag with the shift key, it's a straight line. Even with the shift key, I can get a 45¼ line or a vertical line like that. Very easy to use. You want to change it afterwards? Come in with the selection tool and just change the size of it, like this. Notice it's not letting me go left and right like that. If I actually want to change it, I've got to go to the direct select tool and that way I can change it like this. So that's the lines like that. Let me select all these and just delete them. Now, this is a tool I like to draw with. That's the pen tool. You can select it, press, release, have nothing pressed down. Press and drag like this and there you can create nice smooth curves and even when you're done, you can select the direct select tool and just adjust the shapes here. Much easier than the pan tool to draw with and I recommend you get used to this. Lots of editing you can do with this and in the bases, like in the previous movie, when we converted the text to curves, it's a curve like this. This is called a Bezier curve, very easy to manipulate. Let me delete that and we'll come down and take a look at these tools. We've got rectangular tools and ellipse frame tools. Now, frame tools are theoretically to hold graphics, rectangular tools, or boxes, but these two are exactly the same. They make no difference. You can put text in the frame tool. You can put it in a normal rectangle. You can put a graphic in either one. So I'm not really sure why they have these two. I think it's maybe to appease the users of some other software program which I'll not name. Anyway, let's just take a look at the rectangle tool. Press and drag to draw a rectangle. You can come out to your swatches and just give it a fill like that. Close it out. It's easy to resize. Come down here to the bottom. Press and drag like that. Here we have an ellipse tool. I'll use the frame one this time. There we have it and it gives an X through it. Again, not much reason for that. Come over and give it a color. If I go into preview mode here, you can see that all that disappears. You can't see the X in it and they act exactly the same way. Another useful tool here is the polygon frame too. Drag like that and you can create a starburst that has no outline, so we've got to give it a fill here so we can see it. If you double click on it, you can change the number of sides. Let me just go down to seven sides and we can have a star inset of 25. Click on okay and then when you draw it, there you have something like a law enforcement star. So these are simple tools that you'll utilize as you move through. Of course, you can come in with the direct select tool and come in and just modify any of these that you want. They act like the Bezier curves that we had before. Just drag them out here. Cross them over and you get some weird and wonderful shapes like this. So these are a basic set of Illustrator drawing tools that you have and there are some other options that we get into in the full tutorial, but this is the basis of the drawing tools that are available.