- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to wipe out
the fills and strokes that are assigned to an object
and I'll also show you how to duplicate
all of the appearance attributes-that is the fills
and the strokes and the dynamic effects
from one path outline onto another.
So, notice that I've got my ellipse selected
and let's say I'm not very happy with this shade of green
that I've assigned to the fill.
I can go ahead and turn it off by clicking on his eyeball
or of course, I can turn it back on again if I like.
If I want to get rid of it; however,
I just need to select the attribute
and then drop down to the trashcan icon
in the lower right corner of the appearance panel
and click on it and that particular attribute will go away.
That's not really what I want; however, so I'll go ahead
and press control Z or command Z on the Mac
in order to bring that fill back.
All I really want to do is change it to a lighter shade
of green, so I'll just go ahead
and click on this color swatch
in order to bring up the swatches panel,
so we have access to the swatches panel
here as well as up here in the control panel
and of course in the swatches panel itself.
And then, I'll just go ahead and select this lighter shade
of green.
Allright, now let's say I want to reduce the number
of fills and strokes to just those that are
at the top of the stack.
In that case, I would click on the flyout menu icon
in the upper right corner of the appearance panel
and I would choose reduce the basic appearance
and that's just gonna keep the green fill
as well as the green stroke.
The ones that appear here
on the left side of the control panel.
And notice as soon as I choose a command
that's exactly what I see
and I end up wiping out any and all dynamic effects as well.
So, notice that this is the way things look before.
So, both the green fill and the green stroke were rotated
and this is the way things look now.
Allright so, just for the sake of demonstration here,
I'll press control Z or command Z on the Mac
to bring everything back once again.
You can also entirely clear your fill and stroke attributes
by going to that same flyout menu icon
and choosing clear appearance
in which case you wipe out everything.
You no longer have any dynamic effects of course,
but both your fill and your stroke are set to none
as witnessed by these red slashes on the left side
of the control panel.
Allright again, I'll go ahead and undo the change
by pressing control Z or command Z on the Mac.
Allright, now let's say I want to draw a new shape
that has nothing special going on. I'll just go ahead
and click off the ellipse in order to deselect it
and I want you to notice something now.
Let's say, I go ahead and choose reduce to basic appearance.
Nothing's going to happen and why is that?
Because you can clearly see here in the appearance panel
that we have a green stroke and a green fill.
Well, we also have the words no selection,
which is telling me that
if I press control Z or command Z on the Mac,
this long list of fills and strokes here
are just going to affect the next thing I draw,
but that's not actually entirely true
and this can be a little bit confusing
because if I bring up the flyout menu again
notice this command right there,
new art has basic appearance; that's turned on by default.
And that means if I were to draw something right now
it would just have that green stroke in the green fill.
It wouldn't have all the other junk.
If that's not the way you want to work-
if you want to be constantly drawing things
that have tons of fills and strokes on them
over and over again,
then you could use this command to turn it off.
I'm going to leave that alone; however,
because I want to show you something here.
I'm gonna go ahead and tap the D key
in order to switch to the default fill and stroke,
which means at least for path outlines,
a white fill and a black one point stroke.
And now, I'll switch back to the layers panel
and turn on the guides layer just so that I can see
thinner guides right there, and then
I'll switch back to the rectangle tool,
which of course I can get by pressing the M key
and an alt or option click
right there at the intersection of those two guidelines
in order to bring up the rectangle dialog box
and I'm gonna give this guy a width of 200 points
and a height of 100 points and click ok
and notice that it comes in with the white fill
and the black stroke which is gonna be more evident
if I press the V key to switch back to black arrow tool
so I'm not seeing those live shape widgets.
Allright now let's say I want to apply
all that stuff all those fills and strokes
that I assigned to the ellipse, to this new rectangle
but then there's a couple of different ways to work.
My favorite is to switch back to the appearance panel
and then go ahead and select the ellipse,
so that you can bring up at six fill and stroke attributes
and then notice this thumbnail right there,
go ahead and grab it and drag it and drop it
onto the rectangle and that will automatically assign
those fill and stroke attributes.
So, that's one way to work.
I'll go and press control Z or command Z on the Mac
to undo that change, and by the way
again, that is my favorite way
because it's the easiest way to remember,
but I'm gonna show you another way that works
from the layers panel. I'll go ahead and turn off
the guides layer,
just because I'm sick of seeing those guides,
and I'll twirl open the drawing layer,
and I want you to notice our meatballs here, these circles.
Notice the one for the ellipse is all sculptural
which indicates that we have some appearance attributes
in other words, multiple fills and stroke
as well as dynamic effects, whereas
the one for the rectangle appears hollow
which indicates that it doesn't have anything going on.
If you wanted to move the appearance attributes
from the ellipse to the rectangle,
you would just go ahead and drag and drop
this cultural meatball onto the flat one
and you would end up with this effect here.
I'll go ahead and undo that,
so I can show you the other way to work.
If you want to copy those dynamic affects,
then you press the alt key or the option key
on the Mac and drag and drop like so
and you end up with this effect here
and by the way, nothing has to be selected for that to work.
So, I'll just go ahead and undo that change,
click off the path outline so nothing's selected,
press the D key to go back to my default
fill and stroke attributes for my no selection right here.
And now, here inside the layers panel
I will press the alt key or the option key on the Mac
and drag the sculptural meatball onto the flat circle
in order to produce this effect here.
And that's how you both get rid of fills and strokes
and dynamic effects as well as duplicate them
from one path outline onto another here inside Illustrator.