Making Artwork with Shapes

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Pasting artwork between documents

Next you’ll paste the shoe you’ve created into another Illustrator document.

1. To select all of the shoe artwork, choose Select > All On Active Artboard.

2. Copy it by choosing Edit > Copy.

3. Choose File > Open. Open L3_badge.ai in the Lessons > Lesson03 folder you copied to your computer.

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4. Click in the blank artboard on the right to make it active, and fit the artboard in the window by pressing Command+0 (macOS) or Ctrl+0 (Windows).

5. Choose Edit > Paste to paste the shoe artwork.

6. Click the Group button in the Contextual Task Bar below (or above) the artwork to group it.

7. Choose Select > Deselect.

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