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Let's keep thinking about how we're
going to use illustrator,

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to make our, basic drawings.

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So when we think about drawing, it is

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perfectly fine if you have zero drawing
skills.

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Most people think, that you need to have,
um, this like very fluid ability to use

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a pen or a pencil or charcoal to make
something hand drawn, with hand to paper.

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When we're thinking of illustrator we're
gonna start with a slightly

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different format.

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We're going to think about the way
vectors, so here's a vector image,

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the way vectors are really just made of
basic shapes.

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So the first way to tackle the idea of 
drawing in illustrator is to just break

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apart any image, or any idea, into its
most fundamental shapes.

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So this is actually a really lovely
drawing here, done in illustrator.

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Uh, very nice sort of vector based
portrait, we could call this.

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I want you to see what this is.

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What is this made of?

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At its most basic form, we could think
about this in terms of

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basic, basic, basic, shapes.

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So, we'll start at the bottom.

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We've got this kind of, uh, black shape
here.

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We've got a blue one.

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Basically got a soft kind of round
triangle.

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We've got some half circles, here's some
more half circles.

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Y'know the mouth is some sort of a circle
with a layer of white over it.

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Our hair is basically a circle that's
broken up into some wavy shapes.

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Our background is just one square of pink.

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So we're thinking about sort of looking at
illustrations and breaking them down

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into their most basic forms.

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From there, we can use our basic shapes

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in illustrator to start drawing these
objects.

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Now this one has some, sort of complicated
shapes that we'll get to.

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We can do the same with any logo.

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So think about how a logo looks.

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I want you to start sort of
diagnosing it.

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Here we've got a circle of, a light, kind
of mid-orange color maybe?

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We've got a white circle,

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and then we have these petal shapes,
with some little white yellowish oblongs.

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Our straw here is basically just like a
line or rectangle, we have our leaf shape.

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It's all about basic shapes layered 
on top of each other, to give the illusion

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of a three dimensional object.

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Here, water drops, it's all about the
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color, shading, highlighting, but
essentially,

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these are all pretty basic shapes.

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So, start to look at things for what they
are, in terms of their most basic shape.

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When we're in illustrator, I'm gonna go 
over the basic shapes today,

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how we use them.

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Um, you're gonna start practicing, and I'm
gonna give you a practice file to work

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with, where you end up drawing something
using just basic shapes.

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But let's start looking at our tools, so

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here I have a single artboard document
still.

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You can zoom in or zoom out.

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We're gonna do all of the work, on this
white document.

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So starting at the top, of illustrators 
tools, we have a selection tool,

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and a direct selection tool.

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These are gonna be important, we're gonna
come back to them in just a minute.

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These are the tools that we will use to 
edit, our shapes.

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So in illustrator we're working with real 
basic shapes,

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we're gonna start with the given tools.

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So we got a rectangle tool here.

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If you click and hold, we have rectangle

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ellipse, circle, polygon, star, 
line segment.

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So let's just start with our basic 
rectangle tool.

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As you use your tools for shapes, you're
simply gonna come into your document,

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and click and drag.

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Whatever shape you drag to will be the
shape that is drawn, now,

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automatically, you see this blue bounding
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Might be a different color depending on
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illustrator is considered to be live.

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Unlike photoshop, where we would have 
something, and we would have to

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transform it, with edit transform,
menu option.

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In illustrator, they're sort of just 
always live.

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So they're kind of always ready to be 
edited.

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And we know that because we can see the
bounding box, all these blue lines,

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and white boxes, indicate that we can
edit the shape, in a number of ways.

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When we're thinking about, drawing a shape
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we have two opportunities.

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We have the fill color, which is the
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as if a paint bucket has been dumped
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Or, we have the edge color, which we're
gonna call stroke.

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We can edit these colors, from a few
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we have our properties panel
right in the middle.

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The appearance is dedicated to how
this object looks.

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So if I click on the fill-
here is my color panel,

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I can choose a different color.

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You have different kinds of
swatches here.

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You have color, gradient, 
pattern, color, etc.

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So you can open up 
different swatches.

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We can talk a little bit more
about this panel later, um,

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but all kinds of opportunities here.

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If you don't like the swatch panel
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these little boxes of color,
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palette where you pick 
from the color spectrum.

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And you can always move
these around too.

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So two different opportunities there.

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Now again, we are in the fill color.

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If we choose the stroke color,
we are talking about the outer edge.

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So, lets pick something really
noticeable here.

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Lets pick this orange color.

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And I am going to increase the weight.

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So this is the point --
10 point, stroke weight.

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That is that outside line.

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If you don't want to stroke,
click back on that and

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use the none.

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Take that stroke off.

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We also have opacity here,
you are familiar with this.

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So if we lower the opacity of this object,
you are going to see-through,

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especially if there was another
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So that is our basic appearance opportunity.

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We can also edit the color
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So here, same opportunity.

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There's that fill, double click,
you can choose another color.

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If you want to use the stroke,
double click the stroke,

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choose a color.

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Okay.

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Now here, that stroke is set
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have to come over here and
make it a little bit bigger

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if I wanted to see it.

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So there is a way to change things.

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You also have an eye dropper.

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I am going to make another shape
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change its color just to give us
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Okay.

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So if I wanted to pick up a color
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and apply it to this object,
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I select this object.

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So I have used my black arrow,
which is a selection tool,

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and clicked on it.

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I know I have it because
of the bounding box.

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Now if I wanted to use the eye dropper,
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to select another color,
lets say I really want this

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same exact blue I have here, 
I can just click on that blue

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and all of the apperance properities
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to my other box.

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So that is another way
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Okay, I am going to command Z
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close up this little color window
and lets talk about our selection tools.

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So, first one up is a basic
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it is a black arrow.

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This is the tool you are going to use 
to grab your objects.

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Notice, as I click on each object,
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and now I can move it.

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It also opens up the opportunity
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So the bounding box 
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in photoshop.

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I can scale it up or down,
it can be bigger, smaller,

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taller, wider.

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I am sort of free form scaling right now
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If you want to scale proportionally
hold shift on your keyboard.

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This will keep it in proportion,
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Otherwise, you are sort of just
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to fit your need.

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As you are using this tool,
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if you come over to the middle area,
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you are just moving your object --
moving your object.

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Other opportunities with our black
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If you zoom in --
I am going to zoom in real close

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to one of these corners.

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You can use your zoom and your pan.

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You have a little white circle
with a blue center on the corner.

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This is a corner widget.

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The corner widget controls the
look of the corner.

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So this softens or hardens.

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If I click this and drag in,
notice I have created a rounded edge.

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So my hard edge rectangle now has
a softer corner.

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Zoom out and you will notice this has
actually done all of the corners at once.

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So when you are working 
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we are thinking about vector paths.

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These vector paths determine the shape.

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We have points.

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So this is end point, 
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this is an end point,
and path.

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Points are connected by paths.

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These are the algorithms that
Illustrator uses to make these connections.

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Anything with the black arrow tool 
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the entirety of the object.

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If, what we want to do instead
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the object --
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Zoom in.

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If we want to target just one corner
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an edit, then we are going to use
our direct selection tool.

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White arrow, second tool down.

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So you are always going to be
going back and forth between these.

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Eventually you will get quick enough 
you can use the keyboard command.

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Selection tool is V.

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The direct selection too is A.

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So if I hit A on my keyboard, 
I automatically go to that

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white arrow tool.

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So white arrow tool.

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Look at the difference.

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Remember black arrow,
we have got a got a

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certain type of bounding box.

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White arrow, it changes.

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Now, we actually just see the
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that make up this rectangle.

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So now, if I click on one of these,
I have targeted just one point.

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Notice it has gone blue and
the other ones are white.

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I have selected just this path.

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Now as I move it,
I am only editing that one point

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which of course is determining
the difference in the path

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but this is how I have taken a basic
rectangle and started to edit it.

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If I want to target this corner, 
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click on that point, again,
with the direct selection,

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and drag it in.

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So already I have sort of 
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making it more complex.

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When I am done, I can simply click off.

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If I wanted to move this or
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back to that selection tool
where I have got the entirety

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in a bounding box.

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Other opportunities,
if we want to use the corner widget

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only on one corner, 
use that direct selection tool.

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Here, lets soften this.

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Notice before, oops,
it is actually doing it again.

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Command Z.

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I need to grab just this corner,
so I have now clicked on it once

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to select just this one 
and now drag it in.

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So now I have edited one
corner with a corner widget

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by using direct selection just
on that one corner.

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So I am starting to get more complex shapes.

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Now again as always, 
you are thinking about

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your layers panel,
you are thinking about layer order.

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Lets look at our layers over here.

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Layer one has both objects.

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Path and rectangle.

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Same kind of thing, 
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remember you need to target them.

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You can target by simply clicking 
in your document or

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over here.

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If I target on the right, 
it gives me a little blue box.

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That means I have selected it.

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Now you can see I have selected it.

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If we need to re-order,
we can change the layer order.

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Notice, I can tell I have selected
this object and it is targeted,

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this blue one.

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I can see its path, 
it is kind of hidden behind this,

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that is layer order.

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So always thinking about layer order.

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When we are targeting our objects,
we can also thinking about our

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other transformations,
we can rotate from the corners,

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very easy,
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We, um, can think about how to 
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A lot of times people say
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bring it down to the bottom,
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'well, how would I make it?'

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All I need to do is actually
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of the space.

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So lets make a shape.

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Rectangle tool.

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I am just going to click and drag,
I am going to go a little bit over

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the boarder and that is fine
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So, if I want it I can double click it
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That now is my background color.

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So background color is simply
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Okay, so we have started to build
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I am going to turn the visibility
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its got this little eyeball icon.

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If you want to work on
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I am going to keep working on this 
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Layer two lets rename background color,
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If I hold shift while drawing an object,
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ratio proportional.

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Perfect square.

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That is how I make a perfect square.

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Now look, I can't really see this shape
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color that I last used for the background.

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Lets go to properties,
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Okay, so shift gives you a 
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I am going to delete this.

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hitting the delete button.

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Notice when you do that you
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Look at the way its drawing,
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Lets do that again.

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Normally you would draw from
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ALT, option, draws from the center.

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Now it is proportional.

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Okay, I am going to delete this object.

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So selection tool, grab it, delete.

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Other shapes.

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Here is our circle, ellipse, same idea-
click and drag.

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If you want it to be a sort of oblong,
draw that.

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If you want it proportional,
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There is the way to go.

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Sing, direct selection vs selection.

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Our selection tool grabs the
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You can scale it up or down.

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See there, be careful,
you can always grab your

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other objects very easily.

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So make sure to grab the object you want.

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You have this little tool 
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If you didn't want a full circle,
that can be interesting for you.

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Lets back up.

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You also have the ability to
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This is taking it out of proportion
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bounding box areas.

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Lets look at the direct selection 
on an elipse.

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So here is my direct selection,
I am going to zoom in so

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we can get a closer look at
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Here are the points that
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We have got four points-
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Clicking on a point reveals the
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We are going to talk more
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Handles control the curves.

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So if I edit this handle,
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this circular shape.

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So maybe I really want something
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strange, edema like shape.

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You can draw things in, out,
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So that is how the shape of a
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Okay, lets use our selection, delete, 
and move on in our tools.

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Polygon, just like it sounds, multi sided.

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So when you are thinking of a polygon, 
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'how many sides do I want?'

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The first time you click with
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'how many sides?'

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So if you want a triangle, 
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If you want something else 
-- lets do it again.

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to draw a shape.

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You always need to make your shape
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if you are ready to move it.

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Okay, there is my six sided.

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Now again, every time you click
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So I don't want that.

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Actually what I want to do 
is edit this one.

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So I am going to go in
my selection tool,

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make it bigger, 
maybe I want to change the color of this one,

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maybe layer order is more important
or I want to play with opacity.

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I can lower the opacity and
see through the blue object

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to this orange one.

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Remember if you are trying to
move something and

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you can't move it,
pay attention to your layer order,

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you might have to come in here
and take a look at what is happening.

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So now I have got a triangle.

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Same thing- I can edit it on its
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I can edit the softness, the corner widgets,
or I can use my tool to grab just one.

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Maybe I want one to be hard
and the rest to be soft,

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same kind of corner widgets here
if I want to edit just this one.

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Target it with that direct selection tool
and make your shape.

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The only other shape tool that
we might be interested in using

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right now is the star tool.

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That thing draws a line
that might be useful

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but most often we are drawing 
more complex shapes.

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Our star tool is as it says.

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When your using your star tool,
if you want to change the number

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of shapes, I am sorry,
the number of points,

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you have to use that ALT option key again.

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So before drawing it,
hold ALT option and click.

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That will open up the dialog box
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You could have many, many points.