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- [Voiceover] In this movie,

I'll show you how to target



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and format an entire group of objects.



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And our purpose here is going to be to



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take each one of these groups of letters



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and stroke them in mass as

we're seeing right here.



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And so I'll start by showing you



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what a standard stroke looks like.



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I'll go ahead and zoom in on the text



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in the upper left corner of the document



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and I'll click on anyone of

the letters with the black



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arrow tool and because

they're all grouped together



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that selects every single one

of these two rows of letters.



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Now, I'm going to press

control "H" or command "H"



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on a MAC to hide the anchor points



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so we can better see what we're doing.



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And I'm going to change the line weight



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up here in the control panel to 2.5 points



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and as you can see the stroke is black



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by default which works out well.



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So now I'll click on the word "stroke",



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I want to get rid of those

sharp miter joints right there



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and so I'll change the

corner to a round joint



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and I also want to move

the strokes outwards



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so I'll go ahead and select

a line stroke to outside.



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And while that looks pretty darn good,



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notice these strange interactions



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that we have between letters



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and that's because we're

working with compound paths



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that are being stroked independently



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which is not what we want.



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Instead what we want to do is stroke



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the entire group at once and

here's what that looks like.



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I'll go ahead and press

control "Z" or command "Z"



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on a MAC as many times as it takes



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to get rid of those

strokes and I'll zoom out



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just a little bit so that

we can see all the letters.



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And what we want to make

sure is happening is that



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the group is targeted.



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So notice that we have

a double circle here



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where this meatball is concerned



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on the right side of the screen



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and that tells us that the group,



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and not the path outlines themselves,



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is going to be the

target of our formatting.



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So notice if I twirl open the group,



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these two meatballs do not

have extra circles around them.



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So, in other words, they

are not directly targeted.



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That is to say they're not targeted



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if we work from the appearance panel.



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So what you need to do is

go up to the window menu



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and choose appearance to

bring up the appearance panel.



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Now the appearance panel is a huge topic,



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which is why I'm devoting

the very next chapter to it,



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so you can consider this as



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a kind of preview of coming attractions.



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But what we need to do is make sure



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we're seeing the word "group"

at the top of the panel



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and then drop all the way down



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to this lower right icon

which says "add new stroke"



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and click on it



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and that will add a stroke to the group



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as opposed to the letters themselves.



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Now I'm going to take that

value up to twice 2.5,



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which would be of course 5 points,



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in order to make quite

the mess of the letters.



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I will also click on the word "stroke"



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and change the corner to a round joint.



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I will not, however, change the



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alignment of the stroke because I can't.



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Instead what I'm going to do

is grab the stroke right there



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and I'm going to drag it, not below fill,



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but all the way below content,



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which are the contents of the group.



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So, in other words, we're

going to stroke the group



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behind the letters in order to produce



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this effect right here,

which not surprisingly



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is exactly what we want.



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Alright, now let's go ahead



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and do the same thing to these guys.



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So I'll go ahead and click

on any one of the letters



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to select all of them



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and just to make sure

everything is selected properly,



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I'll press control "H"

or command "H" on a MAC



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to bring back the anchor points.



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Sure enough everything's there,



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so I'll press control

"H" or command "H" again



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to hide the anchor points.



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And then, since we're already

inside the appearance panel,



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all you need to do is drop

down to the add new stroke icon



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and click on it way down there in the



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bottom left corner of the panel.



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And this time, we're going to change the



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line weight to three points and change the



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color of the stroke from

this dreadful black,



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I'm going to have to check if that's



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a mistake in the other one too,



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but I'll change it to white like so



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and then, I'll click on the word "stroke"



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and switch the corner to a round joint



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and then finally, I'll

grab the stroke and drag it



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and drop it to below the contents



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in order to produce

this awesome effect here



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in which not a single layer

is interrupted by the stroke



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and none of the strokes

overlap each other.



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Alright, let's check on the

color of that stroke, however.



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Notice, if you will, you have

to look pretty closely here,



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that this is what's known as a weak black,



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which in sometimes, even

though we're working in RGB,



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be a carryover of having worked

inside of a CMYK document



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and so, I'm just going to go ahead



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and click on these letters.



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I know that they're selected properly



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and I'm going to go

over to the stroke item



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and I'm going to shift

click on this color swatch



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in order to bring up the RGB values



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and notice they are not zero,



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every one of them should

be zero but they're not.



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We've got 39 for red and

37 for the other two.



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You can go ahead and dial them

in manually if you want to



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or you can click on this

little black swatch here



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and that's going to

zero out all the values



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and give us a so called "rich black"



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which of course is exactly what we want.



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Alright, now press control

"H" or command "H" on a MAC



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to bring back the anchor points because,



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otherwise, that's a

stape that's saved along



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with the document and then I'll press



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control zero or command

zero on a MAC to zoom out



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and I'll pressure control

shift "A" or command shift "A"



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on a MAC to de-select my artwork.



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And that's how you target and format



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an entire group of objects,

specifically by adding a stroke



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here inside the appearance panel



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and moving the stroke below the contents



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here inside Illustrator.