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- [Voiceover] In this

movie, we're going to add



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these stylized shadows right here



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that appear at the intersections

of each one of the pedals.



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We're going to express

them as skewed gradients.



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I'll go ahead and switch

over to the relatively



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shadow-less version of our logo.



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I'll go ahead and zoom in as well.



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The first thing we need

to do is draw a rectangle.



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I'm going to go ahead and

select a rectangle tool,



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which you can get of course

by pressing the M key.



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I'll drag from this point right there.



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Make sure your smart guides are

turned on, up to this point.



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So, we just want the

corners of the rectangle



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to snap exactly into alignment.



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If you're working along with me



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and you want to make sure

everything's the way it should be,



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your width value, as you can

see in the heads up display



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needs to be 119.98 points,



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and the height needs to be 38.96 points.



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That'll tell you that

you have an exact snap.



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We're not really seeing the rectangle



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at the front of the stack.



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That's because I'm working

on the wrong layer.



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So, I'll go ahead and

drag this gold square,



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on the far right side

of the layers panel up



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a layer to the star logo, like so.



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Just to make it that much more obvious,



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I'll change it's field to black.



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Now what we need to do is skew this guy,



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so that he matches the

angle of the other shapes.



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We can do that using the Sheer tool.



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I'll go ahead and select the Sheer tool



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from the Scale Tool Fly-Out menu.



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Then I need to position

my transformation origin



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at the lower left anchor point.



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So, I'll click in order to



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move that target to that location.



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Then, you want to drag up on

this bottom right anchor point,



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while pressing the shift key

until you snap into alignment.



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As you can see, the axis value,



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the second one is 90 degrees.



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We're seeing a skew

value of negative 17.99.



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That's not really exactly what I want.



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I'm going to try that again.



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This time by alter-option clicking



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on that lower left anchor point



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in order to bring up

the Sheer Dialogue box.



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Axis should be set to

vertical, so that's fine.



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Notice our last sheer

angle was 18 degrees.



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We just need to switch that

to negative 18 degrees,



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and press the tab key in order to get



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exactly the skew we're looking for.



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We know this is the right

value because it matches



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the skew that we applied to the



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top of the shapes in the first place.



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At which point, I'll go ahead and



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click okay to accept that change.



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Now, we need to carve this path outline



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so that it appears only inside

the purple and green shapes.



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We're going to do that by

switching to the black arrow tool.



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Which you can get by pressing the V key.



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Then, I'm going to click right there



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to select the purple shape.



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I'll shift click in the green

shape to select it as well.



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Then, I'll copy those shapes because



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we're going to lose them in just a moment.



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By pressing Ctrl-C or Command-C on a Mac.



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Now shift click on the

black shape to select it,



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and bring up the Pathfinder panel.



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It's tempting to go with

something like intersect,



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but if you click on that, you're

not going to get anything.



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That's because these

two paths never overlap.



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I'll just go ahead and click Okay



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in order to acknowledge that message.



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The one we're looking for is one that



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I maligned back in chapter 17.



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I really do owe it an apology, it's crop.



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This guy is going to work perfectly



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for this specific step in the project.



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So, go ahead and click on the

fourth icon in the second row



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in order to crop those

shapes away, like so.



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Then, go ahead and hide

the Pathfinder panel.



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Notice that we end up with a group



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as we can see by the word group



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on the far left side of the control panel.



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I don't want that so,

I'll go to the Object menu



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and choose the Ungroup command.



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Then, I'll shift click on the purple shape



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and the green shape to deselect them.



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I'll press the backspace key

or the delete key on a Mac,



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to get rid of the other stuff.



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Now, I want to bring back the original



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purple and green shapes.



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I'll just go up to the edit

menu and choose paste and back.



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Or, you can press Ctrl-B

or Command-B on a Mac.



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Now, I'm going to click

on this shape right here,



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the cropped on in front.



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Then, I'll shift click

on this guy as well.



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I want to combine them

into a single path outline



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by going to the object menu,



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choosing compound path, and choosing make.



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Or, you have that keyboard shortcut of



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Ctrl-8 or Command-8 on the Mac.



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Then, I'll go ahead and fill

them with the same color.



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Now, I don't really want green.



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I want a gradient.



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I'll go to the window menu

and choose a Gradient command,



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to bring up the Gradient panel.



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I also want to expand this panel.



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So, I'll click on this

little double arrow icon,



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to the left of the word

gradient, a couple of times.



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We're going to be discussing gradients



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and all kinds of detail in a

future chapter of this course.



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For now, just follow along.



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Go ahead and make sure the

fill is active, the green fill.



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Then, click on this

horizontal gradient ramp,



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in order to fill the shapes

with a black to white gradient.



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Now, I just happen to know that

the angle for this gradient



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should be 90 degrees

because we're going upward.



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Plus, 18 degrees because we

want to go up and to the left.



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So, just enter 90 plus

18, and that's going to



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give you a total of 108.



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Now, the problem is,

even though you can see



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that the gradients now match

the angles of the shapes,



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they're going in the wrong direction.



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That is, they're going from white to black



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instead of vise versa.



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So, you can flip things by clicking on the



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Reverse Gradient icon right

there inside the Gradient panel.



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So, we no longer need this panel.



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You can just go ahead and tuck it away,



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or switch back to the Stroke panel.



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Now I want to modify how it

interacts with the other shapes.



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So, I'll click on the word opacity



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up here in the control panel.



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You want to keep the blacks

and drop out the whites.



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Which means switching to

blend mode to multiply.



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That's another topic that we're going



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to investigate in a future chapter.



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However, that's going to

be in the mastery course.



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For now, just go ahead and choose that.



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You can see that the

whites totally drop out.



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Then, I took the opacity

value down to 30 percent,



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in order to produce this

more subtle effect here.



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Now, I'm going to zoom

out by pressing Ctrl-0,



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or Command-0 on the Mac.



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Of course, we need to power

duplicate these gradients.



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I'm going to do that by

bringing back the guide slayer.



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The, I'lnl switch to the rotate tool,



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which you can get by pressing the R key.



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I'll alter-option click at the



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intersection of those two center guides



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in order to bring up

the rotate dialogue box.



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I'll once again enter 360/5,

in order to divide 360 by 5,



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which produces an angle

value of 72 degrees.



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It dawns on me that this

isn't looking right at all.



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This is not where the shadows belong.



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That's because I moved

the star down 18 points.



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I'm just going to cancel out

of this dialogue box here.



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What I'm going to have to do is create yet



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another guide that's 18

points lower in the document.



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So, the first step is to

go up to the view menu,



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choose guides, and turn off

the Lock Guides command.



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Then, press the V key to switch back



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to the black arrow tool,



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and click on that horizontal guide.



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That's the easiest way

to pull it off anyway.



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You'll see once you move your



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cursor away, that it is selected.



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Then, press the Enter key

or the Return key on the Mac



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to bring up the move dialogue box.



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Notice the horizontal value is 0,



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the vertical value is 18.



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That's exactly what I want.



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Now, it's up to you.



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If you just want to move the guide then,



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go ahead and click the Okay button.



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If you want to create a duplicate,

click on the copy button.



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In my case, I want a duplicate.



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So, I clicked on copy and then

I'll return to the view menu,



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choose guides, and choose lock guides



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to once again lock those guide lines down.



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Now, I'll click on either of

these shadow paths right there,



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to select both of them because



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I joined them into a single compound path.



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Then, I'll press the R key to



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switch back to the rotate tool.



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I will alter-option click at the



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intersection of my new center guides.



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I'll change the angle value

to 72 degrees because by now



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I know that's what I want.



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As you can see, everything's

exactly where it should be.



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I'll go ahead and click the copy button,



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or press Alt, Enter here on the PC or



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Option, Return on the Mac.



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Then, I'll press Ctrl-D

or Command-D on the Mac



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three times in order to fill

out the rest of the logo.



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Now, I'll turn off the guide slayer,



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and I'll switch back to

the black arrow tool.



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I'll click off the path

outlines to deselect them.



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That is how you create

skewed gradient shadows.



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That exactly match the pedals

inside of our star logo.



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Here inside Illustrator.