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- [Voiceover] So the

primary purpose of the



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Appearance Panel is to allow you to assign



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multiple fills and strokes

to a single path outline.



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So while this may look like multiple,



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albeit random ellipses,

it's actually just one,



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as I can confirm by going up

to the View menu and choosing



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the Outline command, or of course we have



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that keyboard shortcut of control

Y or command Y on the Mac.



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So whenever you're looking at a document



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in the outline mode you're

seeing the core path outlines



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and nothing more, but if I press control Y



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or command Y on the Mac,

I see the fill strokes



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other dynamic attributes.



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And so, let's see how it works.



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I'm gonna go up to the File menu



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and choose New From Template.



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And for those of you who went ahead



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and created a template along with me



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back in the Fundamentals

course, then you can



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go ahead and select that

RGB with center guides



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.ait document or the like, and

then click on the new button



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in order to open up that

new center guides document.



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Alright, now go and switch

from the Rectangle tool



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to the Ellipse tool, and

then I'll just go ahead



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and alt click or option

click at the intersection



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of those two guide lines,

and I'm gonna enter



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a width value of 800 points

and a height of 300 points



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and click OK.



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Alright, now I'll just

go ahead and switch back



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to the black arrow tool

by pressing the V key



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in order to get rid of all

those live shape widgets.



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And I'm gonna take the line

weight up to 12 points,



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let's say, and I'll change

the color of that stroke



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to this darkish blue.



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And then I'll go ahead

and change the fill color



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by clicking in this first swatch up here



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in the control panel,

and I'll change it to



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this lightish blue like so.



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Alright, so, from that Control

Panel, that's all we can do.



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We can apply one fill and

one stroke, and nothing more.



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But from the Appearance Panel,

we can heap on more fills



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and strokes.



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And so, just to clean things up on screen,



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I'm going to turn off the guides layer,



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and then I'll go up to

the Window menu and choose



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Appearance in order to switch over



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to the Appearance Panel,

which for me, is located



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right next door to Layers.



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So let's say I want to add

another fill to this path,



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then I would drop down to

the second icon down here



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in the bottom left corner

of the Appearance Panel.



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And I would click on

it and just like that,



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I have a new fill, and

I can change that fill



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to any color I like.



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And in my case, I'm gonna

go ahead and change it



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to this light orange right

there, the one that begins



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with R251, for what's that worth.



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Then I can press the enter

key or the return key



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on the Mac to hide the Swatches Panel.



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Now for those of you who are interested



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in keyboard shortcuts, you

can also add a new fill



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by pressing control /,

that's a forward slash,



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by the way, and of course

that's command / on the Mac.



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At which point, I get a

new fill up here at the top



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of the stack and I'll go

ahead and set that fill



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to, let's say this medium shade of green.



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Alright, now let's say I

want to add another stroke.



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Then I could just click

on this very first icon



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in the bottom left corner

of the Appearance Panel.



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And it's gonna come up

with the same line weight



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I applied before.



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As a matter of fact, I'm gonna get



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the same stroke color as before.



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But I'm gonna go ahead

and change that stroke



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to the darker orange, the

one that begins R=241.



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Now of course, you have

a keyboard shortcut



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for creating new strokes as

well, and that's control Alt /,



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that would be command option / on the Mac,



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after which point I will go ahead



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and change the color of this stroke



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to this dark shade of green.



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And, of course, I have the

option of moving these strokes



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and fills up and down the

stack as much as I like,



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in which case I'm gonna see

new combinations of fills



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and strokes appear here

inside the Document window.



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Now one of the most useful

applications of multiple strokes



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is to create multi-stroke effects.



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So for example, if I was to

select this bottom stroke,



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the blue one, and change it's

line weight to 36 points,



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it would end up sticking out

further than the other ones.



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And if I was to then select

that green stroke right there,



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the one in the middle and

change it to 24 points,



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it would stick out as well.



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And so now we have, as you can see here,



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this orange, green, blue stroke effect.



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The question then becomes

what in the world is



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the point of multiple fills?



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For one thing, you can

turn the fills on and off



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by clicking on their eyes

and this is saved setting,



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incidentally, along with

the Illustrator file.



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But we can accomplish much

more than that by integrating



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what are known as dynamic

effects as I will demonstrate



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in the very next movie