- 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
Send Up a Flare
The Flare tool (nested under the Rectangle tool in the Toolbox) creates its design in a couple of steps. First, click-and-drag to create the flare and its rays from the center outward. If you like, continue to hold down the mouse and press the Up or Down Arrow keys to change the number of rays. Once you release the mouse, the flares are done and you can move on to the rings. Position the mouse where you want the large ring to be positioned and click. If you’re not satisfied, use the undo command (Command-Z [PC: Control-Z]) to undo just the rings. Position the mouse again and, for a bit of variety, click-and-hold the mouse as you press the tilde key (~) to randomize the rings. (Oh, and if you haven’t figured this out already, flares look better when they appear on top of a darker shape.)