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- [Voiceover] In this

movie, we'll take a look



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at the only old-school transformation tool



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that we've neglected so far,



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and that's the Reflect tool.



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And so I'm going to start things off



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by selecting everything

that's on the flowers layer



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by clicking in it's upper-right corner,



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as well as everything in the swirls layer



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by shift-clicking in

its upper-right corner.



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And so, as you can see,

that selects everything



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but the text.



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And now, I'll drop down

to the Rotate tool icon,



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click and hold on it, and

choose the Reflect tool



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which has a keyboard shortcut of O,



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which might seem a little weird,



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because there's no O in the word Reflect.



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But the great thing about this shortcut



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is that an O is the

most symmetrical letter



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that there is.



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So, in my mind, it makes a lot of sense.



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All right, now what you can do is click



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if you like to set a

transformation origin,



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and then you can drag, like so,



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in order to define an axis.



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So imagine that there's a straight line



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between my cursor, down left here,



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and the transformation origin,



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which is that cyan target

in the upper-right region



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of the document.



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Imagine that there's a straight line



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between those two points,



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and that line is a kind of mirror,



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and so everything is

reflecting across that mirror.



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And so if I were to release, for example,



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then I would flip those shapes.



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Well, that is one way to use the tool,



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but it's not necessarily

the most intuitive way.



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Here's how most folks use it.



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Go ahead and press Ctrl-Z,

or Cmd-Z on the Mac



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to undo that change, and

then I'll press the Alt key,



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or the option key on the Mac,



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and click on this vertical guideline



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in order to bring up

the Reflect dialog box.



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Now it might seem strange that axis



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is currently set to horizontal,



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and yet we performed a vertical flip.



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And that's because,

we're not talking about



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the kind of flip we're performing,



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we're talking about the axis about which



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we're reflecting these objects.



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And so, if I want horizontal flip,



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then I need to turn on

the vertical radio button



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in order to achieve

this effect right here.



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Your other option is to angle the axis,



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and so, for example, if I selected angle



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and changed this guy to,

let's say, 45 degrees,



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I would end up with this effect,



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because I would have a mirror that's going



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at a 45 degree angle,



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and so everything's

flipping across and down.



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But of course, that's not

what I want in this case.



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I want vertical, so

I'll go ahead and select



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the vertical radio button, and then



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I'll click on the copy button, or again,



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you can press Alt-Enter here on a PC,



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or Option-Return on a Mac.



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All right, now I want to

flip everything vertically



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across the horizontal axis,



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and so I'll press and hold the Ctrl key,



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or the Cmd key on a Mac



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to get my last used arrow tool,



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which happens to be the black arrow,



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and I'll also press the Shift key,



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so I've got Ctrl and

Shift down here on a PC,



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you'd want to be pressing

Cmd and Shift on a Mac,



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and then, just go ahead

and partially marquee



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these object here.



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This guy, all these swirls by the way,



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are a big group, so they're

pretty easy to select.



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And then, when you release the Ctrl key,



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that will take you back

to the Reflect too,



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at which point, just go ahead

and Alt or Option- click



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anywhere along the horizontal guideline



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in order to bring up

the Reflect dialog box.



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Obviously, that's not what we want.



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So go ahead and change

the axis to horizontal



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in order to product this effect here,



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and then, once again,

click on the Copy button



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in order to reflect a

duplicate of those shapes.



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All right, now press

the V key to switch back



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to my black arrow tool, and I'll go ahead



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and click off the path

outlines to deselect them.



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And that's how you use the very old,



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and equally venerable Reflect tool,



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here, inside Illustrator.