 Hello everyone, welcome back to another Adobe Illustrator CC 2021 tutorial. In this one I'm going to show you how to create the universal power symbol like I have here. There are a few steps you need to go through to do this and I'm going to walk you through it. We're going to create this using Adobe Illustrator in a vector graphic. All right, let's go the first step. We want to go to File New and we're going to create a 1920 by 1080 pixel artboard. So let's go ahead and create it and these things don't matter. Screen can be 72 ppi and we also don't mind having a white background. All good. Left click, let's go. There we go. All right, the next step is I'm going to go to the Layers panel. Now if you don't see layers you will want to go to your workspace. Right now I have it under Essentials but you can also switch between Essentials and Essentials Classic. So Essentials Classic no longer really has the layers there although you can go to Properties and dig in if you wanted to but go up, go to Window, go to Workspace and go to Essentials. When you go to the regular Essentials layers are there. Okay, now let's go ahead and create two new layers. First layer, second layer. Now the first layer I'm going to call this Background and this is going to be a background color fill. So I'm going to move this to the bottom. So we've got the background and that's the first one we're going to work on. I'm going to go over to the left side to my toolbar and I'm going to switch and I'm going to select the Rectangle tool. By doing that I'm now going to go and when it says Intersect I'm going to left click and I'm going to drag out a rectangle to cover the entire artboard. When I do that nothing happens not to panic. Now let's go to the Properties panel and you're going to see here that it has a fill of white and a stroke of one point black. What we want to do is we want to left click on the white fill here, left click on that and I'm going to select some sort of bluish background. Let's go with a light blue 0A4FFF. This can be whatever color you guys want to. We're just learning the technique but 0A4FFF if you're following along. Okay good. Now on the left click we're going to left click on stroke and we're going to go ahead and we're going to left click again on none. We want no stroke and we want the blue fill. When we go back to the layers we'll see the background layer has been made blue here. Layer 1 this is going to be our guide layer so this is the second layer. I'm going to double click on this and I'm going to call this guide. Let's do it all in lower case. Okay good. We're now going to start creating guides because we want to make the power symbol sort of in the middle. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go ahead and I renamed it guide. I'm going to go up to view and then go down a little bit and you're going to see rulers. What you want to do is you want to go to view rulers show rulers. When you do this you're going to see the rulers pop up on the top and on the left. Now when I switch back to the selection tool I'm still on the rectangle tool switching to the selection tool. When I left click inside these rulers here I can start pulling down and in particular I'm going to pull it right onto that intersection so it goes right through that center circle as you saw there. I'm going to left click here in this one and then I'm going to pull another guide in and this one I can't quite tell where the center is but I'm not going to panic it's not a it's not a huge deal and b we can recenter later. So when I click on this one and I move it you'll see here that it intersects right there and when I move this one let's see what we got here it intersects right there so when you see the intersections that means the guides are centered okay good so we've got the background color we've got the two guides now the next step is I'm going to click on the third layer and now it's time to make the circle I'm going to left click on the rectangle tool here and I'm going to adjust it to the ellipse tool clicking on the ellipse tool I am going to left click while holding down alt or option when I do that you'll see that my cursor or the mouse has gone from a point to a well there it is to a guess you'd call that a cross here inside a circle what I'm going to do now is I'm going to left click so I'm on the center here I'm going to pull out and then I'm actually going to hold down shift as well as the alt or the option key and this creates a symmetrical circle and I'm going to make this one 900 pixels by 900 pixels but again you guys can make it whatever size you see fit now what I'm going to do here is I've got the layer still selected I'm going to go to properties and you're going to see here it has no fill for me and no stroke for this I only want a stroke I'm going to left click on the stroke I'm going to left click on the white color and then you're going to see here that it's selected one point we want to increase that dramatically because we want to show off so we're going to increase it to 50 points for this one here or 50 pixels depending on if you're what you're working with okay now let's left click on the selection tool let's click out and see what we got okay we've got our circle we are going to be working on it now so I'm going to left click on the guide layer here I'm going to left click on that eyeball and the reason why is I don't need to see the guides right now so so we can see what we're working with and the guides are just kind of in the way all right left click again on layer 3 and now when I left click on it you're going to see something when I zoom in here you're going to see this little option this is kind of like a pacman but what it is is it's a pie feature you can basically turn this circle into a pie let me show you I'm going to left click on that and I'm going to open up and bang pacman now you'll see here the start angle end angle and pie angle now this if you're eyeballing it and it doesn't need to be perfect this is totally okay no big deal I'm going to go ahead and commander controls that so we don't do it that way I'm going to left click on this and I'm going to go ahead and dial it in a little better now to do that we want to use the shape feature so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to view and I'm going to up the window part of me and I'm going to change my workspace from essentials to essentials classic and when I do that I get these fancy little thing toolbars up at the top here and I'm going to go ahead now and click on this one that says shape properties left click on shape properties and you're going to see here is a 900 pixel circle it's all good there but what we have the option to do is do a pie start angle and a pie end angle what I'm going to do is I'm going to be pie I'm going to go with 90 degrees and then I'm going to hit a plus and I'm going to add 20 degrees whoa right that is the start angle and now I'm going to do 90 degrees and then I'm going to go minus 20 that is going to be the end angle so what's happened here is we've got an exact 90 degrees minus 20 plus 20 so this is we're working basically with exact numbers again you can eyeball that if you see fit but we did it the we did it the right way okay the next step is you want to click on the the circle with the pie the pac man so to speak and we're going to go from the direct selection tool to the part of me from the selection tool to the direct selection tool when I do that there is a little point here there's an anchor point here and if we left click on that we can delete just that anchor point when we do that we now just have the circle with a little gap in it which is actually what we want now the next step is we need to go ahead and make sure that this goes from straight to rounded corners so the way to do that is I'm going to go to the properties panel and then I'm going to click on stroke and then you're going to see here that it says cap we want to go from regular cap which is called a butt cap to round cap left clicking on round cap and now we've got that cool roundish corner look which is what we're going for now the final step while I have you here is you want to go to the toolbar again and we're going to select the line segment tool I'm going to left click on that line segment tool excuse me I'm going to go ahead and click on the center here and then I'm just going to draw it up now I'm going to hold down the shift key so that I draw it straight up and presto that might be a bit too far and then boom now we have the universal tool for power on and power off guys that is all there was to it thank you for watching this tutorial a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned