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- [Voiceover] In this movie

I'll show you how to use



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the 'Transform Each'

command which allows you



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to transform multiple selected objects



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each around its own

independent origin point.



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So for example,



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lets say I wanna make these

guys right here larger.



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If I were to click in

the upper right corner



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of this layer, in order to

select all of the flowers,



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and then select the Scale tool



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from that Reshape tool fly out

menu, and press the Enter key



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or the Return key on a MAC, and then enter



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a uniform value of 120%

and press the Tab key,



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you can see that in addition

to scaling the objects,



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I also move them farther away



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from the center of the art work.



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And that is part and parcel of function



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of using the Scale tool

inside of Illustrator.



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It does have the potential to move objects



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on the art board, that's obviously



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not what I want however,



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so I'll go ahead and

click the 'Cancel' button



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in order to cancel that operation,

and instead I'll go up to



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the Object Menu, choose

'Transform', and choose



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this guy right here 'Transform Each'.



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Which has a keyboard

shortcut of mash your fist D,



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not sure if that's really

super useful to you or not,



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but it is based on D for duplicate,



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even though it does not duplicate objects.



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That said, I'll go ahead

and choose the command



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and you'll see that immediately up comes



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the familiar Transform Effect dialogue box



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and in fact the Transform Each command



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works exactly like the Transform Effect



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with the big exception

being that it produces



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static results as oppose to dynamic ones.



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Alright, so as you can

see both my horizontal



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and vertical scale values are set to 120%



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and I'm scaling with respect to the center



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of each one of the objects,



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which is why none of the

objects are moving on the screen



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after which point I could

click the 'Copy' button



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and create a copy if I want to,



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but I'm just gonna click

'Ok' to accept that change.



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Now, I do have a problem here,



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you'll notice if I zoom in,

that I went ahead and scaled



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every single one these objects



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with respect to its own

center, and as a result,



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I've kind of squished

things together right here.



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So this is before and this is after.



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That's not what I want,



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so what I need to do in advance



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is combine all of these guys



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into either groups, you could do that,



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or because they all share the same fill



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and stroke attributes,



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I could express them as compound paths,



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which is what I'm gonna do.



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By pressing Control+Zero,

or Command+Zero on the Mac



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to zoom out and then I'll press



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the V key to switch back

to my black arrow tool



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and I'll go ahead and

marquee this group of shapes



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and I'll go up to the Object Compound Menu



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choose 'Compound Paths' and choose 'Make'



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or I could press Control+Eight,

or Command+Eight on the MAC,



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as I will be doing in the future,



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because I have to repeat this

operation a bunch of times.



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So I'll go ahead and select these guys



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press Control+Eight, or

Command+Eight on the MAC,



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I'll select this group,

press Control+Eight,



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or Command+Eight on the MAC,

and then select these guys



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and press Control+Eight, or

Command+Eight on the MAC.



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Alright now, instead of a bunch of distant



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path outlines we have

what Illustrator considers



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to be four paths, one in

each corner of the artwork,



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and so now I'll just go ahead and click



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in the upper right corner

of this flowers layer



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to select all of them.



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I'll also press Control+H,



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or Command+H on a MAC,

to hide my anchor points



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and then I'll return to the Object Menu,



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choose 'Transform' and

choose 'Transform Each'.



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And this time notice

if I set the horizontal



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and vertical values both to 120%,



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because the dialogue box



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does remember throughout your session,



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then I can see that each

one of these objects scales



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independently with respect

to it's own center.



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If I wanna change that, if

I want them all to scale



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with respect to their bottom most points,



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then I could select the bottom point



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in this little reference

point matrix and so forth.



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But in my case, I want

everything to stay centered



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so I'll go ahead and select that point



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and then click 'Ok' in

order to apply that effect.



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Alright, so this is a static effect,



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meaning if I switch to the Outline Mode



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by going to the View Menu



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and choosing 'Outline' or

I could press Control+Y,



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or Command+Y on a MAC, we

see that these path outlines



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have indeed gotten bigger.



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So, this is before and this is after.



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Compare that to the Transform Effect,



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I'll go ahead and undo

Transform Each and I'll press



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press Control+Y or Command+Y on a MAC



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to switch back to the preview mode.



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Bear in mind these objects

are still selected,



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it's just that their

anchor points are hidden.



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And so now I'll go up to the Effect Menu,



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choose 'Distort and Transform'

and choose 'Transform'.



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And that's gonna bring out that very same



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dialogue box that we saw before.



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The Transform Effect doesn't

really remember things



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so I'm gonna have to

manually enter 120 into both



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the horizontal and vertical scale values.



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But we have the same control

over the reference point



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and we can turn on the

preview check box to see



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all of the objects grow, and again,



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they're all growing with respect

to their own origin points.



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So this upper right guy

is expanding with respect



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to his center, the upper

left one is growing



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with respect to her center,



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as long as we're assigning gender here,



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and so forth.



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The one difference inside the dialogue box



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is that we have this copies value,



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which is not really gonna help

us very much in this case,



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but you know, we could create some



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weird effect like this if we wanted to.



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I'm just gonna set copies to zero



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and then I'll click 'Ok'.



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The other big difference is

that this is a dynamic effect.



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So, if I were to zoom in

on this guy right here



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and press Control+Y,

or Command+Y on a MAC,



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you can see it grow smaller.



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This becomes even more

obvious if I switch back



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to the preview mode and press Control+H



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or Command+H on a MAC, so

that we can once again see



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the anchor points and the segments



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which are obviously smaller than



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the previewed effect on screen.



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Alright, I'll go ahead

and press Control+Zero



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or Command +Zero on a

MAC in order to zoom out.



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So, the two things to

remember about Transform Each,



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it scales multiple selected objects,



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each with respect to its own origin point,



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and it is ultimately a static version



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of the Dynamic Transform Effect.



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And that folks wraps up

my look at the old school



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but still very powerful world

of static transformations



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here inside Illustrator.