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Dynamic symbols - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
Dynamic symbols
- [Instructor] I think we should significantly increase the traffic that's going past this bank. And we're going to do that by creating a symbol out of the car and the two wheel symbols that we currently have. So if we just drag across those to select them, we can turn them into a symbol by going over to the symbols panel and clicking on the new symbol icon. We could call this car, I think that's as good a name as any, and this time, we will use the dynamic symbol type from here. These are much newer, with many more super powers, but just a tiny bit more of an overhead. Of course if you've got hundreds of them, you would notice that overhead, but otherwise we're all good. Now what we're going to do is create a few copies. So I'm just going to hold down the Alt or Option key and I'll use Shift as well to keep it constrained, although that's not desperately important, let's put a few out here. And in fact I'm going to…
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