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Create shapes - Figma Tutorial
From the course: Figma Essential Training
Create shapes
- [Instructor] We're going to start adding content by creating some shapes. We're going to create a circle that we can put our logo on, we're going to create a button body, and we're just going to create a little rectangle down here in the footer. All right, I'm going to press the space bar and move over to get to the home screen here, and we're just going to draw a circle up here. So come to your Tools and you should see all the shape tools. Come to the ellipse tool and just draw a circle. If you want to make a perfect circle, you want to press the Shift key as you're drawing, and it should keep it a circle. Release the mouse button and then the key. Now, you switch automatically to the move tool, so what you can do is just drag it around. And if you want to center it, drag it and you should see a centering guide. You can also use the alignment options over here. I'm going to make this bigger. You can come to a corner or you can come to a side and just drag. As you drag, press the…
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Create shapes4m 37s
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Combine and edit shapes6m 5s
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An intro to drawing in Figma7m 4s
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Adding images6m 20s
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Hide parts of content with a mask3m 32s
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Get creative with effects2m 23s
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Import content from UI kits5m 59s
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Add and format text6m 56s
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