Looking back at my old Illustrator files from college is a trip

I was cleaning out a hard drive and saw I used the pen tool for EVERY shape, even basic circles. Found a blog post that said before the shape builder tool, designers wasted about 15 hours a month on that. Anyone else have an old workflow that seems crazy now?

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jade6181mo ago

Remember the star tool for circles.

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mitchell.shane1mo ago

Wait, do you mean using the star tool to make a circle? That's a weird workaround. The polygon tool is way better for that, you just set the number of sides really high. The star tool makes things pointy by default, which is the opposite of what you want for a smooth circle.

wadeyoung1mo ago

weird workaround" lol it's just a circle, not like we're building a rocket ship here. who cares which tool you use as long as it works.