- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you how to use
the 'Transform Each' command which allows you
to transform multiple selected objects
each around its own independent origin point.
So for example,
lets say I wanna make these guys right here larger.
If I were to click in the upper right corner
of this layer, in order to select all of the flowers,
and then select the Scale tool
from that Reshape tool fly out menu, and press the Enter key
or the Return key on a MAC, and then enter
a uniform value of 120% and press the Tab key,
you can see that in addition to scaling the objects,
I also move them farther away
from the center of the art work.
And that is part and parcel of function
of using the Scale tool inside of Illustrator.
It does have the potential to move objects
on the art board, that's obviously
not what I want however,
so I'll go ahead and click the 'Cancel' button
in order to cancel that operation, and instead I'll go up to
the Object Menu, choose 'Transform', and choose
this guy right here 'Transform Each'.
Which has a keyboard shortcut of mash your fist D,
not sure if that's really super useful to you or not,
but it is based on D for duplicate,
even though it does not duplicate objects.
That said, I'll go ahead and choose the command
and you'll see that immediately up comes
the familiar Transform Effect dialogue box
and in fact the Transform Each command
works exactly like the Transform Effect
with the big exception being that it produces
static results as oppose to dynamic ones.
Alright, so as you can see both my horizontal
and vertical scale values are set to 120%
and I'm scaling with respect to the center
of each one of the objects,
which is why none of the objects are moving on the screen
after which point I could click the 'Copy' button
and create a copy if I want to,
but I'm just gonna click 'Ok' to accept that change.
Now, I do have a problem here,
you'll notice if I zoom in, that I went ahead and scaled
every single one these objects
with respect to its own center, and as a result,
I've kind of squished things together right here.
So this is before and this is after.
That's not what I want,
so what I need to do in advance
is combine all of these guys
into either groups, you could do that,
or because they all share the same fill
and stroke attributes,
I could express them as compound paths,
which is what I'm gonna do.
By pressing Control+Zero, or Command+Zero on the Mac
to zoom out and then I'll press
the V key to switch back to my black arrow tool
and I'll go ahead and marquee this group of shapes
and I'll go up to the Object Compound Menu
choose 'Compound Paths' and choose 'Make'
or I could press Control+Eight, or Command+Eight on the MAC,
as I will be doing in the future,
because I have to repeat this operation a bunch of times.
So I'll go ahead and select these guys
press Control+Eight, or Command+Eight on the MAC,
I'll select this group, press Control+Eight,
or Command+Eight on the MAC, and then select these guys
and press Control+Eight, or Command+Eight on the MAC.
Alright now, instead of a bunch of distant
path outlines we have what Illustrator considers
to be four paths, one in each corner of the artwork,
and so now I'll just go ahead and click
in the upper right corner of this flowers layer
to select all of them.
I'll also press Control+H,
or Command+H on a MAC, to hide my anchor points
and then I'll return to the Object Menu,
choose 'Transform' and choose 'Transform Each'.
And this time notice if I set the horizontal
and vertical values both to 120%,
because the dialogue box
does remember throughout your session,
then I can see that each one of these objects scales
independently with respect to it's own center.
If I wanna change that, if I want them all to scale
with respect to their bottom most points,
then I could select the bottom point
in this little reference point matrix and so forth.
But in my case, I want everything to stay centered
so I'll go ahead and select that point
and then click 'Ok' in order to apply that effect.
Alright, so this is a static effect,
meaning if I switch to the Outline Mode
by going to the View Menu
and choosing 'Outline' or I could press Control+Y,
or Command+Y on a MAC, we see that these path outlines
have indeed gotten bigger.
So, this is before and this is after.
Compare that to the Transform Effect,
I'll go ahead and undo Transform Each and I'll press
press Control+Y or Command+Y on a MAC
to switch back to the preview mode.
Bear in mind these objects are still selected,
it's just that their anchor points are hidden.
And so now I'll go up to the Effect Menu,
choose 'Distort and Transform' and choose 'Transform'.
And that's gonna bring out that very same
dialogue box that we saw before.
The Transform Effect doesn't really remember things
so I'm gonna have to manually enter 120 into both
the horizontal and vertical scale values.
But we have the same control over the reference point
and we can turn on the preview check box to see
all of the objects grow, and again,
they're all growing with respect to their own origin points.
So this upper right guy is expanding with respect
to his center, the upper left one is growing
with respect to her center,
as long as we're assigning gender here,
and so forth.
The one difference inside the dialogue box
is that we have this copies value,
which is not really gonna help us very much in this case,
but you know, we could create some
weird effect like this if we wanted to.
I'm just gonna set copies to zero
and then I'll click 'Ok'.
The other big difference is that this is a dynamic effect.
So, if I were to zoom in on this guy right here
and press Control+Y, or Command+Y on a MAC,
you can see it grow smaller.
This becomes even more obvious if I switch back
to the preview mode and press Control+H
or Command+H on a MAC, so that we can once again see
the anchor points and the segments
which are obviously smaller than
the previewed effect on screen.
Alright, I'll go ahead and press Control+Zero
or Command +Zero on a MAC in order to zoom out.
So, the two things to remember about Transform Each,
it scales multiple selected objects,
each with respect to its own origin point,
and it is ultimately a static version
of the Dynamic Transform Effect.
And that folks wraps up my look at the old school
but still very powerful world of static transformations
here inside Illustrator.