Video: Illustrator for sign design – Star tool

Sometimes a starburst makes the perfect panel to hold some important copy. Or, maybe you need to create a gear graphic for a mechanic’s logo. Adobe Illustrator’s star tool lets you do all this and more—far more than just the traditional five-point star.

In this third video in his four-part series on using Adobe Illustrator for sign design, Mike Jackson shows how to get the most from Illustrator’s star tool. You’ll see how to manipulate this shape to create all sorts of cool graphics. Mike shows it all step-by-step, along with plenty of shortcuts.

Mike’s next video shows how to get the most out of the polygon tool—another great shape to have in your arsenal of tools for creating unique panels and graphics quickly and easily.