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- [Voiceover] In this movie we'll



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take a look at the rotate tool.



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And I think it's at this

point that the value of the



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transformation origin

really becomes obvious.



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I'll go ahead and press

Control + A or Command + A



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on the Mac in order to select

everything I've made so far.



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And I'll press the Backspace key or the



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Delete key on the Mac to get rid of it.



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And I'm just gonna go ahead and

switch to a different color,



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maybe this shade of green here.



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And I'll go ahead and take the



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line weight up to three points.



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And I'll once again

select the rectangle tool,



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which of course you can

get by pressing the M key.



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And I'll Alt or Option +

click right there at the



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intersection of those two guides.



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And 100 by 100 points

is gonna work just fine,



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so we'll go ahead and click OK.



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Alright, now I'll press

the V key to switch back



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to the black arrow tool, and

just so that we have something



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to compare, I'll press the

Enter key or the Return key



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on the Mac to bring up

the Move dialog box,



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and I'll go ahead set the

horizontal value to 100 points



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and vertical to zero

points, and I'll click Copy.



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And then I'll select the

original, press the Enter key



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or the Return key again and change the



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horizontal value to negative 100.



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Alright, now let's say

I want to make a kind of



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pattern of diamond-shaped petals.



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I'll go up to the effect menu,

choose Distort and Transform,



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and choose the Transform command.



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And then I'll go ahead and

turn on the Preview checkbox,



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and I'll just go ahead and rotate



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this guy 45 degrees like so.



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And this time around we

don't need scale strokes and



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effects to be turned on, so I'll



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just go ahead and turn that off.



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And notice that I'm rotating

the shape around its center,



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as indicated by this little point



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inside the reference point matrix.



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At which point I'll click OK

in order to accept that change.



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Now I want to stretch this shape,



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and I have to do that in a separate pass,



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because notice if I were to

click on the word Transform



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to bring back my Transform

Effect dialog box,



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and let's say I turn on the

Preview checkbox and I change



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the horizontal value to 120,

and the vertical value to 70,



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which is what I'm ultimately looking for,



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you can see that Illustrator

is applying the scale



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before the rotation, and

that's not what I want.



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So I'll just go ahead

and cancel out of there,



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and instead, I'll apply

a new transform effect by



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going to the Effect menu,

choosing Distort and Transform,



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and choosing the Transform

command once again.



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And I do want to apply a new effect,



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so I'll go ahead and click this button.



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At which point I'll now

change the horizontal scale



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value to 120%, and I'll take

the vertical value down to 70%,



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and turn on the Preview checkbox in



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order to produce this effect here.



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Alright, now let's rotate

a handful of these guys



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by returning to the Effect

menu, and if you like,



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instead of dropping all the way down to



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Distort and Transform

and choosing Transform,



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which is gonna zero out

all the options like usual,



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you can instead choose

this command right there,



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Transform..., which is gonna bring



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back your last applied settings.



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I'll go ahead and click

Apply New Effect once again,



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and then I don't actually

want to repeat these settings,



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and so I'll change both the horizontal



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and vertical values back to 100%.



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And I'll set the angle

value to, let's say,



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45 degrees, turn on the Preview



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checkbox so we can see what's happening.



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I want to rotate this shape

around its middle-center,



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like so, and then I'm gonna

crank the copies value up to,



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let's say, a total of seven so



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that we have eight diamonds in all.



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Now I don't want them

to overlap each other,



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so I'm gonna have to move them apart,



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and so the first thing

I'll do is change the



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horizontal move value to,

let's say, negative 10.



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That doesn't quite do what I want,



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so I'll also change the

vertical move value to



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negative 10, and that's just plain wrong.



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So what I need to do is just

sort of arrow this value



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until things look more or less correct,



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which is happening someplace

around a vertical value of



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negative 23 or negative 24,

at which point I'll go ahead



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and click OK to accept that change.



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Alright, now compare that to

how much more authoritatively



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you can operate using the

old-school rotate tool.



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So, I'll start off by selecting

the shape right there.



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And then I'll switch to the rotate tool,



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which you can get by pressing the R key.



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And with that tool selected,

I'll press the Enter key



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or the Return key on the Mac to



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bring up the rotate dialog box.



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So anytime we have

transform tool selected,



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pressing Enter or Return

brings up its dialog box,



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complete with numerical options.



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And so what I'm gonna do

is just change the angle



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value to 45 degrees and click OK.



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And then, I'll switch

back to the scale tool,



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which I can get by pressing

the S key of course,



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and I'll press the Enter key

or the Return key on the Mac,



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and I'll go ahead and change

the horizontal value to



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120% and the vertical value

to 70%, which automatically



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turns on the Non-uniform radio button.



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So you don't have to worry about that.



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As long as we're here,

go ahead and turn off the



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Scale Corners checkbox even

though, of course, in our case



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it's not gonna make any

difference, and then click OK.



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Alright, now what we want

to do is switch back to the



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rotate tool, and then you wanna



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click to set a transformation origin.



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And I'm gonna click, let's

say, right about here



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along that horizontal guideline.



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And now notice I can drag

around that origin point



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in order to rotate my diamond.



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And so, a couple things to know here,



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the farther you move your

cursor away from the origin,



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the more fine-tune

control you're gonna get.



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Also, if you want to

constrain your rotation to an



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increment of 45 degrees,

go ahead and press and hold



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the Shift key as you

see me doing right now.



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And then, if you also

want to create a copy of



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the shape as you rotate

it, then press and hold the



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Alt key or the Option key on the Mac,



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at which point you'll get

that double arrowhead cursor,



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and then keep those keys

down until after you release.



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Alright, now I wanna create

another duplicate of this shape.



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And to do that, I'll go up to the



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Object menu, chose Transform.



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Notice by the way, that we've got a



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Rotate command, we have a Scale command.



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These commands bring up

the very same dialog boxes



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that we've been seeing when the



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rotate and scale tools are selected.



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But the command I'm gonna

choose is Transform Again,



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which also has a keyboard shortcut



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of Control + D for duplicate.



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And so as you can see,

Illustrator goes ahead and both



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rotates and duplicates the shape like so.



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Alright, now just go

ahead and press Control or



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Command + D as many times as it



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takes to fill out my pattern.



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Now the great thing about

this static approach,



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is that if you go ahead and zoom in,



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you will see that everything

is aligned perfectly,



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especially along this

horizontal guideline here.



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Whereas where the dynamic

effect is concerned,



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we may or may not be dead on.



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It's looking pretty

darn good until we start



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zooming way in, at which point you



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can see that things are

ever so slightly off.



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Alright, so I'll just go

ahead and press Control + 0



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or Command + 0 on the Mac to zoom out.



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And that is how you

create a static rotation



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with a high degree of

authority using the old-school



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rotate tool here inside Illustrator.