The Adobe Illustrator Shape Tools | CSInsider | Design | Adobe TV

Have you ever wanted to create a star shape or a rectangle with rounded corners in Adobe Illustrator? Rufus Deuchler, Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe, shows you how to harness the various shape tools, and the "Flare Tool" to rapidly create basic shapes.
http://adobe.ly/xiRFis

when I press my up and down arrow keys to add sides to the polygon or points to the star the shape changes very quickly and I can't figure out how to change the preferences to make the shape change slower. For example, with the polygon, it goes from a near circle down to a triangle so quickly that I can't make it an octagon or hexagon. Help!

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