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- [Voiceover] We've spent so much trying



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to basically make sure we have an exact



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vector replica of the original drawing.



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Why even bother?



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If we already have the original drawing,



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why are we working so hard

to turn it into vectors?



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And the most straightforward answer is,



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not only have we managed

to correct the art,



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because recall that it used

to be a pretty dismal scan



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in the first place,

but the ultimate reason



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for converting it to vectors is so we can



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scale the artwork to any size we like.



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And so let me show you how that works.



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I'll go ahead and press Control + 0



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or Command + 0 on a Mac to zoom out,



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and I'm gonna switch to the Artwork tool.



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Once again, you can get

that by pressing Shift + O,



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and up here in the control

panel I'm gonna click



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inside the W value there

and I'm just gonna enter



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*10 in order to multiply it times 10,



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so we go up to 4320 points, and then



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I'm gonna do the same

with the height value,



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I'll multiply it times

10 by entering *10 there,



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and then pressing the Tab

key, and we get 5400 points.



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And that is, by the

way, if you do the math,



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five feet wide by six

and a quarter feet tall.



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All right, now I'm gonna press Control + 0



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or Command + 0 on a Mac to zoom out



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so you can get a sense of how

much bigger this artwork is,



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and then I'll press

the Escape key in order



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to return control to the black arrow tool.



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Now press Control + A

or Command + A on a Mac



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to select all of the

artwork, and I'll click



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on the word Transform up

here in the control panel,



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or you may see a W and H value instead,



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depending on the width of your screen.



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And I'm gonna make sure both the width



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and height values are locked

into alignment with each other,



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and I'll click on the

W to select that value



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and I'll change it to 3800 points,



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and then I'll press the Enter key



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or the Return key on the

Mac to apply that change.



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And we now have what is by any standard



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this massive piece of

artwork that would have been



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very difficult to draw in the first place.



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I don't see how it would have come up with



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these gestures at all

if I were trying to draw



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something that's actually

taller than I am.



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And yet, if I press Control

+ 1 or Command + 1 on a Mac,



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in order to zoom in to 100%, you can see



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that we have this wonderful detail



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that we could not

achieve in any other way.



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All right, and just as

a finishing touch here,



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I decided I wanted to thicken

up the lines a little bit



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for the sake of, let's

just say my signature,



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and so I press Control + A once again,



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Command + A on the Mac to

select all the artwork,



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I press Control + H or

Command + H on a Mac



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just to hide those anchor points,



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and then I went ahead and

changed the line weight



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up here in the control panel to two points



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in order to thicken

things ever so slightly.



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And because by default

the stroke is centered,



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we're actually only

adding one point of weight



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to either side of any given line.



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And that's how you turn a

simple piece of line art



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from the year 1986, a

year before Illustrator



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had even hit the market,

into a massive piece



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of vector-based artwork

here inside Illustrator.