- Photo Inside of Type
- Start with a Font
- Mapping Made Easy
- Find Your Favorite Logo?
- Change Star Shape, Part One
- Change Star Shape, Part Two
- Send Up a Flare
- Permanent Pathfinder
- Spray On, Spray Off
- Years in Graph Data
- Thats Out of One Hundred
- Edit Graph Designs
- Sliding Graph Designs
- Drag-and-Drop Instead of Copy-and-Paste
- Change Tool Settings on the Fly
- Make Your Own Spirograph
- Convert to Shape
- Let the Blend Tool Do the Math
- More Blending
- Yet More Blending
- Bend the Blend
- Shapes Around a Circle
- Change the Blend
- Outline Stroke
- Live Trace Not Working How Youd Like? Try This
- Is Live Trace Still Not Working How Youd Like? Take It a Step Further
- Viewing Reference Photos When Using the Mesh Tool
- Gradient Brushes
- Divide Objects Below
- Change Grids on the Fly
- Live Interlocking Objects
- Live Interlocking Objects, Part 2
- Creating Wireframes
- Add to a Shape to Create a Shape
- Move Points as You Draw
- Auto Add/Delete Getting in Your Way
- Multiple Objects as a Mask
- Round Those Corners
- Same Width and Height
- Changing Arcs
- Close a Path Automatically
- Preserve Brush Stroke Options
- Disable Auto Add/Delete
- Split into Grid
- The Perfect Star
- Target Practice
- Opacity Masks
- Vintage Texture Effect
Change Star Shape, Part Two
Try this one at your own risk—it’s very cool, but it can also make the Star tool act strangely from then on, so make sure you read the “how to get back to normal” part of this tip. Ready? Click-and-drag with the Star tool and don’t let go throughout this whole procedure. Press the Down Arrow key to make a three-pointed star. Tap the Command and Option keys (PC: Control and Alt keys), then press the Up Arrow key to get multiple-point multi-stars (the star will continue to change each time you hit the Up Arrow key). To experiment even further, press-and-hold the Command key (PC: Control key) to play with the radius (as in the previous tip). The Star tool will create unusual stars like this from now on, so here’s how to get it back to normal. Start to drag and tap the Command and Option keys (PC: Control and Alt keys) to get back to one star. You may also need to hit the Down Arrow key to return to a five-pointed star and drag while pressing-and-holding the Command key (PC: Control key) to get back to a more typical radius.