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- [Voiceover] Alright so

if you joined in on the



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previous chapter, you may

recall that we created this



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atomic symbol entirely as

a collection of dynamic



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attributes here inside

the Appearance panel.



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But I also told you that

I cheated to figure out



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the position of the electrons,



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and so for example, if I

were to turn on this top



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black fill right there,

you can see the bottom left



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electron disappear, and

so I'll go ahead and turn



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it back on, twirl that

fill open, and click on the



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word Transform, and note

that I didn't create



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these electrons by rotating them,



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rather I created them

by dialing in seemingly



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random move values right

here, of in this case,



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negative 167, and positive

169, and I was able



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to figure that out using

Transformation guides.



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So let me show you what that looks like.



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I'll go ahead and switch

over to the Layers panel,



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and I'll turn my Guides layer back on,



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and I'll also press Control + Shift + A,



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or Command + Shift + A

on the Mac to deselect my



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illustration, I'll twirl open

this drawing layer right here,



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I'll turn off the bottom ellipse,



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and I'll turn on the top one,



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which so far has no dynamic

effects assigned to it.



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Now I'll go ahead and

click on the Guides layer



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to make it active.



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Next, I'll select the ellipse tool from my



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Shape tool flyout menu,

which if you went ahead



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and modified your keyboard

shortcuts along with



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me back in chapter 11 of

the Fundamentals course,



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now has a shortcut of Shift + M,



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and then I'll Alt or Option

click at the intersection



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of those two guidelines,

and I'll dial in width



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and height values of 30 points each,



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after which I'll click the OK button in



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order to create that circle.



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Alright, now to make sure

it's looking the same



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as our other electrons,

I'm going to change the



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fill right here to none,

and then I'll dial in



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a line weight of five

points, click on the word



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stroke, and align the stroke

to the outside of the shape.



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Alright, now switch back to the Move tool



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by pressing the V key,

and then I'll press the



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Enter key, or the Return key on the Mac,



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in order to bring up

the Move dialogue box,



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and these just happen to be

the values I came up with.



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A horizontal value of negative 63,



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and a vertical value of negative 229,



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in real life I of course

did this naturally



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just by dragging the shape into place,



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but the idea was that

I wanted the electron



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to be centered on this ring,

which represents the orbit.



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And so having dialed in these values,



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I'll go ahead and click OK.



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Alright, now we need to figure out exactly



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where the electron is gonna

be on the other rings,



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and we can do that using the rotate tool.



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So go ahead and select the tool,



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or press the R key, and

then Alt or Option click



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right there at the

intersection of the two guides.



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And notice when you press

and hold the Alt key



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you go from having a cross-shaped cursor



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to the addition of three little dots,



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which show you that you're

going to bring up a dialogue



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box, and sure enough here it is.



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And to figure out the angle value,



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I just took 360 degrees,

which represents a circle,



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and I divided it by three,



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by entering slash three at the end.



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And then I press the Tab

key in order to update



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the value at which point

it becomes 120 degrees.



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Then you want to click on the copy button,



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or press Alt + Enter here on the PC,



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or Option + Return on the Mac.



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And then just go ahead

and press Control + D,



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or Command + D on the Mac to

duplicate a third electron.



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Now three electrons is all we need,



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so go ahead and press the V key



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to switch back to the black arrow tool.



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And then Shift click on

the other two circles,



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and right-click inside

the document window,



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and choose Make Guides,

which will turn all



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these circles into non-printing guides.



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And from that point on

it was just a matter



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of making sure things looked right,



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and so what I'm gonna do

is take all the dynamic



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attributes from this bottom ellipse,



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and copy them onto the top one



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by pressing the Alt key, or

the Option key on the Mac,



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and dragging this little

sort of sculptural meatball,



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and dropping it onto

the circular target here



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in order to fill out the effect.



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And now you can see that the electrons are



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pretty well-aligned,

especially this bottom



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left guy, the one over

on there on the right



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is just a little bit off as you can see,



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and if that bothers you, then of course



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you can make modifications

by targeting the ellipse



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here inside the Layers

panel, then switch over to



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the Appearance panel,

figure out which of these



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fills represents the

electron, and it looks



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like it's this guy right here,



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as well as this white

fill, and so what I'm



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gonna do is twirl open the white fill,



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click on the word Transform,

turn on the Preview



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check box so I can see what I'm doing,



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and I'll just go ahead and

click in the horizontal



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Move value and press the up arrow key,



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and notice that moves

that circle way too far,



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so I'll go ahead and press

down arrow once again.



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And I actually want it to

go the other direction,



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so I'll enter 229.6, let's

say, and see what happens.



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And that looks pretty darn good,



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maybe not perfect, I'll

go ahead and change it



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to 229.7 and that looks awesome,



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so I'll select that

value because I'll never



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remember it, and then

I'll press Control + C,



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or Command + C on the Mac to copy it,



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and I'll click OK, and now

I'll twirl this guy closed,



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twirl the bottom black fill open,



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click on its Transform,

and change it's horizontal



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Move value to 229.7 as

well, turn on the Preview



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check box to see it nudge on

screen, and then click OK.



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Alright now just go ahead

and press Control + 0,



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or Command + 0 on the Mac,

so that we can take in



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the entire illustration,

and that's how you create



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static transformation

guides in order to help



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you build an accurate dynamic effect



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here inside Illustrator.