- [Voiceover] In this movie, we're gonna take advantage
of what's known as power duplication.
Alternately called, series duplication.
In order to duplicate the paths that we've created so far
in order to create the entire star logo.
Alright, so I'll go ahead
and switch over to my documents so far.
These guys are no longer representative
because their tops are not skewed properly.
So I'm just gonna partially mark even
with a black arrow tool and press backspace key
or the delete key on the Mac to get rid of them.
Now go ahead and marquis these two guys
in order to select them.
And then select the rotate tool.
And by the way if ever you don't see the rotate tool
at this location, that's because
it's here in the fly out menu
with the reflect tool.
But in any event I'm going to select the rotate tool
and then you want to alt click at the intersection
of these two guides right here.
The original center guides inside the document
so just a little bit to the left
of the purple shape right there.
Go ahead and alt click or option click on the Mac
in order to bring up the rotate dialogue box.
And we're not looking for an angle value
of 180 degrees.
We want 360 divided by five
so just enter 360 slash five
and then press the tab key
and that will give you an angle of 72 degrees.
At which point go ahead and click the copy button
or you can press alt enter or option return on the Mac
in order to create a copy that's precisely aligned
with the tops of the original shapes like so.
Alright now we want to repeat that process
and you can do that by going to the object menu,
choosing transform and then choosing transform again.
Or you have that keyboard shortcut
of control D on the PC or command D on the Mac.
The D standing for duplicate.
And that's going to give you another set
of precisely aligned path outlines.
And then to repeat the process just press control D
or command D on the Mac
a couple of additional times.
And that's going to give you
the precision of fact your seeing in the video.
Now this isn't really the angle I'm looking for
from my star logo.
I want it to be upright like that.
So I'll go ahead and select everything
by pressing control A or command A on the Mac.
And then I'll once again alt click or option click
at the intersection of those two center guides
in order to bring up the rotate dialog box.
Notice that an angle value of 72 degrees
doesn't do anything, and that's because
that is the angle at which each one of these
was rotated in the first place.
So we're just taking this guy for example
and rotating him into this position and so forth.
What we want is an angle value of 180 degrees.
And so if I enter that value and press the tab key,
you can see everything works out great.
At which point I'll click OK in order to accept that change.
Now I have to fill in the center
and I figure the best way to do that
is using the ellipse tool.
So I'll go ahead and select the ellipse tool
from the shape tool fly out menu.
And then I'll position my cursor
at the intersection of those two center guides
once again and I will drag out
while pressing and holding the alt key,
that's the option key on the Mac.
And I'll go ahead and add the shift key as well
so that I'm constraining my shape to a circle.
And notice at this point I have width and height values
of 80 points which works out just fine.
Anything that's big enough to fill in that gap
in the center there is going to work out nicely.
And then in my case when I release the shape
is automatically filled with that
same shade of purple which works out beautifully.
Now the guides are getting a little intrusive,
especially since the paths are no longer lining up
to that custom guide.
And so I'm going to turn the guides layer off
and then I'll press control A or command A on the Mac
in order to select all of my artwork
and I'll press the V key to switch to the black arrow tool.
Now to my eye it looks like the star is too high.
So I'll press the enter key or the return key on the Mac
to bring up move dialog box.
I'll enter a horizontal value of zero
and then I came up with a vertical value of 18 points
which goes ahead and moves the star 18 points downward.
And then I'll click OK to accept that change
and I'll click off my paths in order to deselect them.
Now I'm going to give my paths a background
and I'm going to do that by adding another layer.
But as long as I'm here I might as well rename this layer
something like star logo
because after all...
We're no longer looking at primitives.
What I meant to do for what it's worth,
was go ahead and duplicate that primitives layer
in order to protect it
and then unite the shapes and protect those as well
by duplicating them to this badge layer.
And that would have been a best practice by the way
but I've already gone too far for that.
So it's lucky that I'm stuck
with this beautifully finalized logo.
To house that background.
I'll go ahead and press that weird keyboard shortcut
of control alt L or command option L on the Mac
which creates a new layer behind the active one.
I'll change the color of this layer
to let's say gold and I'll go ahead and call it back
and then I'll click OK.
And now I'm going to zoom out by pressing control minus
and I'll go ahead and switch to my rectangle tool
and I'll just go ahead and drag from one corner
of the bleed to the other like so
and if I've got a stroke I'd get rid of it,
but I don't so I'm just going to change the fill
to this sort of muddy brown right here
that begins R equals 83 in order
to produce this effect here.
And then I'll go ahead and press the V key
to switch to my black arrow tool
and I'll click off the path to deselect it
and I'll press control plus or command plus on the Mac
to zoom in and I'll go ahead and lock this back layer
in order to prevent it from harm.
So that pretty well finishes off the star logo
with the exception of this big white path here
which helps to offset the other shapes
and we're going to create it
using a special kind of scaling function
known as offset path in the very next movie.