Go Object>Transform>Scale and tick on Non-Uniform and set horizontal 91% and vertical to 15% to get a nice, flat circle. Use the Move tool and the alignment options in the top control bar to align this circle to the center of your artboard. Grab the Ellipse Tool and click once in your document and choose to create a circle that is 1000px by 1000px in size.

Download the Finished File Here! Creating the Base Shape

I’ll also show you how to quickly reduce the opacity of multiple objects and then apply an entire color scheme across multiple objects while preserving the transparency of those objects using custom settings and the Eyedropper tool. In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, we’ll create a simple disk shape with edges and light glow to build depth in our object and then we’ll use Move and Scale transform tools to duplicate and scale our floating disks exactly as we need them to be. We’ll use the transform tools in Illustrator to duplicate a series of shapes to quickly and precisely build a floating 3D shape for our iOS icon.

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