- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you
how you can transform partial path outlines.
So for example, you might transform some anchor points
independently of others inside a single path outline,
as we did the Shear tool a few movies back.
Or you can even transform segments independently
of their anchor points.
And along the way,
we're gonna transform these base elements
into this fully realized invitation.
And so I'm gonna go ahead and zoom in to the
upper left corner of this document
which contains this gray template in the background,
as well as these couple of blue objects right here.
And then we also have an invisible circle.
So notice when I hover over it,
not only does it appear
because I've got my Smart Guides turned on,
but I also see a little square next to my arrow cursor.
So I'm gonna go ahead and select that object,
and I'll give it a stroke as well
by clicking on the second color swatch
and setting it to black,
just so we could see what we're doing.
All right, now let's say I wanna transform
these curved segments, all four of them,
independently of the anchor points.
Then the first thing I would do is to
go up to the Select menu,
choose Object, and then choose Direction Handles,
which is another word for Control Handles
inside Illustrator.
So go ahead and choose that command,
and notice now that deselects all the anchor points,
and it selects the segments
as indicated by the Control Handles.
Now I want you to select the scale tool,
and so if the share tool is active,
go ahead and choose the Scale tool
from that fly-out menu,
or press the S key,
and then move your cursor to some diagonal position
45 degrees from the transformation origin
at the center of the shape.
And then, either drag outward, like so,
or you can drag inward.
And I'm gonna go ahead and drag
all the way inward like so until the segments
end up crossing each other,
and I'm also gonna press the Shift key
to constrain the proportions of the shape.
And I'm having a few problems with my Smart Guide
snapping me to things,
so I'm gonna take another try at this
by zooming farther in,
and then starting my drag a little farther out, like so,
and then moving in while I'm
pressing the Shift key once again,
until I match the curvature
of those objects in the template,
at which point I'll go ahead and release
in order to create this effect here.
All right, now I'm gonna swap to fill in the stroke
by pressing Shift X so that the fill is black
and we lose the stroke,
and then I'll go ahead and press the V key
in order to switch to the black arrow tool,
and I'll click on the shape to select the entire thing.
All right, now I'll switch to the Rotate tool,
which again, you can get by pressing the R key,
and I'll just go ahead and press the Enter key,
or the Return key on a Mac
to bring up the Rotate dialogue box
and I'll set the angle to 45 degrees
and then I'll click the copy button
in order to create a duplicate.
And then, I'll switch back to the Scale tool
by pressing the S key,
and I'm gonna drag from right about here
again, diagonally from that origin point
down and to the left in order to reduce the size
of this object so that I'm once again matching the template.
All right, now I wanna keep all these outside petals,
and I wanna lose the stuff on the inside.
So I'll press the V key,
once again to switch to the black arrow tool.
And I'll Shift click on this deselected path right there.
And then I'll click on the Pathfinder icon
to bring up the Pathfinder panel,
and I'll go ahead and click on Exclude
in order to break up these shapes.
And even though it doesn't really look like
I've broken 'em up, I have.
And to demonstrate what that looks like,
I'll go ahead and first ungroup this shape
by going to the Object menu,
and choosing the Ungroup command,
or of course you can press Control Shift G,
or Command Shift G on the Mac.
Then with my black arrow tool,
I'll Shift click on each one of these outer petals
in order to deselect it.
So you have to Shift click on all eight of 'em.
And then with this stuff in the middle still selected,
go ahead and press the Backspace key,
or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of it.
All right, now notice this
sort of spirally shape right here.
Go ahead and click on it,
and you can click on its bottom right anchor point
if you want to, to select it.
And then, let's bring it to the front
by right clicking inside the document window,
choosing Arrange,
and then choosing Bring to Front,
or you've got that keyboard shortcut
of Control Shift right bracket,
Command Shift right bracket on the Mac.
And now, I'm gonna change the color of this thing
to, let's say, bright yellow,
which is not available anywhere else inside the document,
so it'll make it easy to select this item later.
All right, now I'm gonna press the R key
to switch once again to the Rotate tool,
and I will Alt, or Option click
in the center of this circle,
which is gonna be evident once again
if you have your Smart Guides turned on.
And this time I'm gonna change the angle value
to 90 degrees,
and I'll click the Copy button
in order to create a copy of that spiral.
And then I'll press Control D,
or Command D on the Mac a couple of times
in order to duplicate those shapes.
All right, now I wanna select all the yellow spirals,
so I'll go up here to the Control Panel,
and I'll click the Select Similar Objects icon
in order to select all four.
And then, because I now have symmetry,
my transformation origin is right there
in the middle of the circle.
So I'll just press the Enter key,
or the Return key on a Mac
to bring up the Rotate dialogue box.
I'll change the angle value to 45 degrees,
and I'll click Copy in order to create a copy
of those shapes.
Now I need to scale them
to match the black petals in the background,
and so I'll go ahead and select the Scale tool
by pressing the S key,
and then I'll press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac
to bring up the Scale dialogue box,
which is gonna automatically replay
my last scaling.
And as a result, I'm gonna get an exact match,
at which point I'll just go ahead and click Copy
to accept that change.
All right, now I'm gonna press the V key
to switch to my black arrow tool,
and I'll just go ahead and marquee all these shapes,
or at least partially marquee them,
and then I'll Shift marquee these guys
in order to deselect them.
So I don't want the circle selected,
but I do want everything else to be selected.
Now I wanna subtract all of the yellow spirals
from the black petals.
And I'm gonna do that by bringing up
the Pathfinder panel once again,
and clicking on one of those Pathfinders
that I maligned back in Chapter 17,
which is Trim.
I have so much apologizing to do,
because notice, when I click on Trim,
I get the exact effect I'm looking for.
Which is to say, I go ahead and trim
all of those yellow spirals away from the black petals.
And now all I have to do is ungroup the shape,
of course by going to the Object menu
and choosing the Ungroup command,
and then I'll click off the shapes to deselect them,
I'll click on one of the yellow spirals,
I'll click on the Select Similar Objects icon
over here on the right side of the Control Panel,
and then I'll press the Backspace key or
the Delete key on the Mac
to get rid of those guys.
Now I'll click on one of the black shapes that's left over,
I'll click the Select Similar Objects icon,
and then I'll switch to my Eyedropper,
which I can get by pressing the I key,
and then I'll just go ahead and click on this circle
in order to fill the selected shapes
with that same shade of blue.
All right, now I'll just go ahead and zoom out,
and I'll switch back to the black arrow tool,
click off the shapes to deselect them,
and I will turn off that template layer.
All right, so that's at least one way
to transform partial path outlines,
that is to say, round segments
independently of their anchor points,
as well as a great use for the
previously maligned pathfinder operation Trim
here inside Illustrator.