Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

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  1. Choose View > Fit All In Window to see everything.




  2. Drag the leaves onto the top of the plant path you drew, just to the right of the swan.




  3. Press Option (macOS) or Alt (Windows), and drag a copy onto the plant path to the right.
    Release the mouse button and then the key.




  4. Move the pointer off a corner of the bounding box. When a rotate arrow appears, drag to rotate
    the leaf group.




  5. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for the plant path to the left of the swan.




Creating a dashed line


Dashed lines apply to the stroke of an object and can be added to a closed path or an open path.
Dashes are created by specifying a sequence of dash lengths and the gaps between them. Next,
you will add a dash to lines.


  1. In the Layers panel, click the visibility column for the layer named “Background” to show the
    layer contents, and click the eye icon ( ) for the Plants template layer to hide it.

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