- [Voiceover] In this movie, we'll take a look
at the only old-school transformation tool
that we've neglected so far,
and that's the Reflect tool.
And so I'm going to start things off
by selecting everything that's on the flowers layer
by clicking in it's upper-right corner,
as well as everything in the swirls layer
by shift-clicking in its upper-right corner.
And so, as you can see, that selects everything
but the text.
And now, I'll drop down to the Rotate tool icon,
click and hold on it, and choose the Reflect tool
which has a keyboard shortcut of O,
which might seem a little weird,
because there's no O in the word Reflect.
But the great thing about this shortcut
is that an O is the most symmetrical letter
that there is.
So, in my mind, it makes a lot of sense.
All right, now what you can do is click
if you like to set a transformation origin,
and then you can drag, like so,
in order to define an axis.
So imagine that there's a straight line
between my cursor, down left here,
and the transformation origin,
which is that cyan target in the upper-right region
of the document.
Imagine that there's a straight line
between those two points,
and that line is a kind of mirror,
and so everything is reflecting across that mirror.
And so if I were to release, for example,
then I would flip those shapes.
Well, that is one way to use the tool,
but it's not necessarily the most intuitive way.
Here's how most folks use it.
Go ahead and press Ctrl-Z, or Cmd-Z on the Mac
to undo that change, and then I'll press the Alt key,
or the option key on the Mac,
and click on this vertical guideline
in order to bring up the Reflect dialog box.
Now it might seem strange that axis
is currently set to horizontal,
and yet we performed a vertical flip.
And that's because, we're not talking about
the kind of flip we're performing,
we're talking about the axis about which
we're reflecting these objects.
And so, if I want horizontal flip,
then I need to turn on the vertical radio button
in order to achieve this effect right here.
Your other option is to angle the axis,
and so, for example, if I selected angle
and changed this guy to, let's say, 45 degrees,
I would end up with this effect,
because I would have a mirror that's going
at a 45 degree angle,
and so everything's flipping across and down.
But of course, that's not what I want in this case.
I want vertical, so I'll go ahead and select
the vertical radio button, and then
I'll click on the copy button, or again,
you can press Alt-Enter here on a PC,
or Option-Return on a Mac.
All right, now I want to flip everything vertically
across the horizontal axis,
and so I'll press and hold the Ctrl key,
or the Cmd key on a Mac
to get my last used arrow tool,
which happens to be the black arrow,
and I'll also press the Shift key,
so I've got Ctrl and Shift down here on a PC,
you'd want to be pressing Cmd and Shift on a Mac,
and then, just go ahead and partially marquee
these object here.
This guy, all these swirls by the way,
are a big group, so they're pretty easy to select.
And then, when you release the Ctrl key,
that will take you back to the Reflect too,
at which point, just go ahead and Alt or Option- click
anywhere along the horizontal guideline
in order to bring up the Reflect dialog box.
Obviously, that's not what we want.
So go ahead and change the axis to horizontal
in order to product this effect here,
and then, once again, click on the Copy button
in order to reflect a duplicate of those shapes.
All right, now press the V key to switch back
to my black arrow tool, and I'll go ahead
and click off the path outlines to deselect them.
And that's how you use the very old,
and equally venerable Reflect tool,
here, inside Illustrator.