Send e-mail Download Zipped Tutorial ©2011 Gary W. Priester - All rights reserved ©2011 Gary W. Priester - All rights reserved ©2011 Gary W. Priester - All rights reserved Select the Ellipse Tool (the keyboard shortcut is L), and create two centered ellipses to the sizes shown above. Clone the larger ellipse (Ctrl k) and move it 12 pixels to the left (the clone is shown in red). TIP: The fastest most accurate way to drawn a circle, ellipse, rectangle, or square is to draw to the approximate size, change the W and H setting on the Infobar and press Enter. TIP: Set your Nudge Size setting in Page Options to 1px. Then you can move any selection by 1 pixel increments by pressing the arrow keys on your keyboard. Hold down the Shift key and the selection moves 10 x the distance with each click. Select the small ellipse and clone it (Ctrl k). Clone creates an in place duplicate copy. On the Infobar at the top of the screen, click the small white padlock icon so that it is in the raised position (disabled). Change the Size: W setting to 255 and press Enter to apply the change. Hold down the Shift key (to select multiple objects), and click on the four objects. The status bar on the lower left corner of the screen will read “4 ellipses on Layer 1.” In the Angle of Selection text entry box on the Infobar, key in 32 and press Enter to apply the rotation. NOTE: There are two ways to select multiple objects: Hold down the Shift key and click, or drag a selection rectangle (a Marquee) around all the objects with the Selector Tool (the arrow pointer). Clone the small ellipse and rotate it 60 degrees. Select the Shape Editor Tool. Hold down the Ctrl key (to constrain the angle), click and drag straight down to create a vertical line. Select the line, rotate it 32 degrees and center it over the small rotated ellipse as shown above.