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Adding extruded edges to your artwork

Adding extruded edges to your artwork - Illustrator Tutorial

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Adding extruded edges to your artwork

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- In this movie we'll make all the squares match the letters so that they have both strokes and beveled edges. And while this doesn't really have anything to do with alignment, per se, it is a really cool technique and it is going to throw off the alignment of our art board. Although we'll fix that problem before the movie is out. All right, I'll go ahead and switch over to my document so far. And notice that all of the squares are relegated to their own layer here, inside the layers panel. And so to select them all, I'll just click in the upper-right corner of that layer. Then I'll go out to the line weight option and increase it to three points, and that should automatically set the stroke to black. But if you were to shift click on that stroke swatch in order to bring up the RGB values, and incidentally, if you don't see RGB, then just go ahead and choose RGB from the fly out menu. It's very possible that you're going to…

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