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- [Voiceover] So here we are

zoomed way in on the art work



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and I want you to notice

this dark edge right there



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that nearly surrounds

the entire honeycomb.



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So what we wanna do is add a shadow



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that's being cast by this edge right here



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and soften up the dark stroke as well



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in order to create this final effect here



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and we're gonna do so using a combination



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of two additional dynamic effects,



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drop shadow and gaussian blur.



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All right so I've already

selected my polygon



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but if you haven't, all

you have to do is press



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control a or command a on the Mac



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because it's the only path

outline in this document.



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And then, here inside

the appearance panel,



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go ahead and select the bottom-most stroke



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and you might as well

twirl it open as well



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so that we can see the

effects as we add them.



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Now drop down to the fx icon in the



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bottom-left corner of

the appearance panel.



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Click on it and go up to stylize this time



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and choose drop shadow and by the way,



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the stylize that we're

looking for is not this one,



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there's two stylize sub-menus.



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One is associated with this bottom group



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of Photoshop effects, which

are pixel-based effects



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by the way, and the other is associated



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with this top group of

Illustrator effects.



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So, go ahead and choose

stylize and then choose



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drop shadow and turn

on the preview checkbox



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and you'll see that the shadow

is going the wrong direction.



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It's coming down and to the right.



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We want it to come down and to the left



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and to make that happen you

need to change the x offset



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value from positive to negative



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and then notice things will

move in the other direction.



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So, what we've got here is

a mode, don't really need



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to worry about that, it's

set to multiply by default



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that's gonna ensure

that everything darkens



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as shadows do so just leave that as is.



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You have an opacity

value, which you can lower



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if you want softer

shadows but we want a nice



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dark shadow so I'm gonna take

it up to a hundred percent



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in order to produce this

very dark effect here.



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We have an x offset value

that's gonna control



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how far things are moving

either to the left,



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if it's a positive value or

to the right if it's negative.



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I want it to go farther to the right



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so I'm gonna take that

value down to negative 10.



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We have the y offset value

that's gonna move things



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up if it's negative or

down if it's positive.



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We do want the shadow

to move down of course



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but farther down so I'm

gonna take that value



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up to positive 10 points and

then we have a blur value



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and that determines

how soft the shadow is.



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I'm gonna take it up to 10 points



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in order to produce this effect here.



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Now, notice if you will

that things look pretty good



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in the dark areas but the

colors start to flatten out



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in the medium-dark range and that's



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because our color is set to black.



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Now you can try darkness if you want



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which is basically gonna

use whatever color it finds



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to darken the image but

we want more control



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so go ahead and switch to color once again



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and then click on the color swatche



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to bring up the color picker dialog box



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and notice the C, M, Y, K values.



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They're all zeroed out except for K,



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which is set to a hundred

percent so in other words,



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we're just darkening with

black and nothing more.



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What we wanna do is add

in some of that rich brown



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that we dialed in the past and that means



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a magenta value of 85% and

a yellow value of 100%.



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Now you're not gonna see anything happen



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in the background until you click ok



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but I want you to keep a

sharp eye out as that happens.



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I'll click ok and now watch these colors



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get more lively right in this area



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and so they are much more

saturated than they were before.



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Alright so having done that I'll go ahead



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and click OK to accept that drop shadow.



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Alright now we still

have a very sharp edge



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associated with the stroke

and the best way to blur it



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is using an effect called gaussian blur



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and you get to it by

clicking on the fx icon



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once again, this time

we're not gonna go higher



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than the Photoshop effects so this is



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a very well-known in

fact, Photoshop effect,



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which means it generate pixels



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but it's not like you can

see em cause they're nice



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and blurry and obviously you don't have to



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tend to the pixels the way

you do inside Photoshop,



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it's still a vector-based effect



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so go ahead and choose blur

and then choose gaussian blur.



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And now go ahead and turn

on the preview checkbox



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so you can see what kind

of difference it makes



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and in fact, it makes

a very big difference



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at two pixels which is good

enough for what we need.



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You may see it start at one

pixel or something like that,



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let's go ahead and make it one



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so we can see the difference here



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so I'll go ahead and

take that down to one.



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That's a blur of one, this

is blur of like seven,



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which makes it massively

blurry, we don't need that much



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so I'll just go ahead and set it



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as I had it in the first place at two



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and then go ahead and click

OK to assign that change.



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And so, to see the

difference, all you have to do



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is turn the effect on and

off so I'll turn off the



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eye in front of gaussian blur.



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That's the very sharp edge

and then if I turn it on,



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that is the softer edge that

I think works much better



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inside of this art work.



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Now notice once again,

where effects are concerned,



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you're seeing the first

effect applied on top



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and the second effect applied

on bottom, underneath.



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If you want, you can switch

the order of the effects



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so you can blur first and then assign



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the drop shadow second which

is gonna look like this.



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So, it's gonna create a

much bigger, darker shadow.



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And to see what that

looks like, I'll go ahead



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and press control zero or command zero



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on the Mac to zoom out.



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So this is a very dark shadow

that's created by applying



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drop shadow after gaussian blur



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and the reason it's darker is



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because drop shadow has a

softer edge to work with



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in the first place, whereas

if I drag drop shadow



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above gaussian blur so

that I'm applying it first,



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to a sharp edge and

then blurring that edge



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I get a brighter shadow

as we're seeing here.



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Alright, I'll end things

by pressing the f key



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a couple of times in order to

switch to the full-screen mode



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and then I'll go ahead and zoom on in.



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And that friends is how you build a



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repeating honeycomb effect

from a single polygon



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using a combination of

fill and stroke attributes



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along with dynamic effects

here inside Illustrator.