1 00:00:00.00 --> 00:00:00.08 - [Voiceover] All right, so here we are looking 2 00:00:00.08 --> 00:00:05.02 at one of the popular emojis included with Apple devices. 3 00:00:05.02 --> 00:00:06.03 And I've heard from a lot of folks 4 00:00:06.03 --> 00:00:08.01 who are looking for high resolution versions 5 00:00:08.01 --> 00:00:10.04 of these things for printing on t-shirts, 6 00:00:10.04 --> 00:00:12.02 or poster, or what have you. 7 00:00:12.02 --> 00:00:13.09 But the truth of the matter is 8 00:00:13.09 --> 00:00:17.01 that these things are actually low res paint files. 9 00:00:17.01 --> 00:00:21.01 They measure 160 pixels wide by 160 pixels tall. 10 00:00:21.01 --> 00:00:24.02 And that includes this transparent region around the face. 11 00:00:24.02 --> 00:00:26.05 So what I've done is I've upsampled this image 12 00:00:26.05 --> 00:00:29.07 so that we can trace it inside of Illustrator. 13 00:00:29.07 --> 00:00:32.09 And that way, we'll have a scalable vector based design 14 00:00:32.09 --> 00:00:35.08 that you can do anything that you want with. 15 00:00:35.08 --> 00:00:37.05 And it's all shining and glistening 16 00:00:37.05 --> 00:00:40.05 and that's because, every single path outline 17 00:00:40.05 --> 00:00:43.05 is filled and stroked with gradience. 18 00:00:43.05 --> 00:00:44.08 And then, later on, 19 00:00:44.08 --> 00:00:47.02 we'll go ahead and draw our own custom emoji 20 00:00:47.02 --> 00:00:49.00 unlike anything else that's out there. 21 00:00:49.00 --> 00:00:50.08 Because, after all, 22 00:00:50.08 --> 00:00:53.04 not everyday is deserving of this one. 23 00:00:53.04 --> 00:00:55.01 All right, so I'm going to go ahead and switch over 24 00:00:55.01 --> 00:00:56.05 to this base document here. 25 00:00:56.05 --> 00:00:58.05 And you can see, just to save us time, 26 00:00:58.05 --> 00:01:00.04 I've roughed in just a few path outlines. 27 00:01:00.04 --> 00:01:02.01 Now I want to introduce that image we saw 28 00:01:02.01 --> 00:01:05.00 just a moment ago and Photoshop as a tracing template. 29 00:01:05.00 --> 00:01:07.04 And I'll do that by going up to the file menu 30 00:01:07.04 --> 00:01:09.01 and choosing the place command. 31 00:01:09.01 --> 00:01:11.03 Or you have that keyboard shortcut of control shift p 32 00:01:11.03 --> 00:01:13.05 or command shift p on the Mac. 33 00:01:13.05 --> 00:01:14.07 Then, go ahead and select 34 00:01:14.07 --> 00:01:17.01 this classic smiley emoji right there 35 00:01:17.01 --> 00:01:19.02 and turn on, not only the link check box, 36 00:01:19.02 --> 00:01:21.03 but the template checkbox as well. 37 00:01:21.03 --> 00:01:23.00 And then click on the place button 38 00:01:23.00 --> 00:01:24.08 and notice that tells the Illustrator 39 00:01:24.08 --> 00:01:26.08 to automatically create a template layer 40 00:01:26.08 --> 00:01:28.09 below the active one. 41 00:01:28.09 --> 00:01:31.01 All right, I want to modify this layer a little bit 42 00:01:31.01 --> 00:01:33.03 by double clicking on an empty portion of it 43 00:01:33.03 --> 00:01:35.01 to bring up the layer options dialog box. 44 00:01:35.01 --> 00:01:38.02 And I'll go ahead and rename this layer simply template 45 00:01:38.02 --> 00:01:41.01 and I'll turn off the dim images checkbox, 46 00:01:41.01 --> 00:01:42.09 which will help us to better follow 47 00:01:42.09 --> 00:01:44.09 the colors in the actual image. 48 00:01:44.09 --> 00:01:46.05 After which point, I'll click okay 49 00:01:46.05 --> 00:01:48.06 in order to accept that change. 50 00:01:48.06 --> 00:01:50.05 All right, now switch to the happy layer. 51 00:01:50.05 --> 00:01:52.00 And I'm going to go ahead and hide 52 00:01:52.00 --> 00:01:55.06 all but the outer path, by marqueeing them like so. 53 00:01:55.06 --> 00:01:56.09 And if you end up accidentally 54 00:01:56.09 --> 00:01:59.05 selecting the outermost circle, then just go ahead 55 00:01:59.05 --> 00:02:01.02 and just shift click on it to deselect it. 56 00:02:01.02 --> 00:02:04.01 And then, go to the object menu, choose hide, 57 00:02:04.01 --> 00:02:06.01 and choose selection. 58 00:02:06.01 --> 00:02:07.05 Or you can press the keyboard shortcut 59 00:02:07.05 --> 00:02:10.02 of control three or command three on the Mac. 60 00:02:10.02 --> 00:02:13.04 And that should hide everything, but the big circle. 61 00:02:13.04 --> 00:02:15.04 All right now, obviously this circle 62 00:02:15.04 --> 00:02:17.01 needs to be filled with a gradient. 63 00:02:17.01 --> 00:02:19.03 And there are a few ways to accomplish that, 64 00:02:19.03 --> 00:02:21.05 all of which I'll review in this movie. 65 00:02:21.05 --> 00:02:23.06 So, I'm going to go ahead and click on this circle 66 00:02:23.06 --> 00:02:25.03 with the black arrow tool to select it. 67 00:02:25.03 --> 00:02:27.08 And then I'm going to click on this double arrow icon 68 00:02:27.08 --> 00:02:30.05 on the top of the tool box in order to expand it 69 00:02:30.05 --> 00:02:31.05 to two columns. 70 00:02:31.05 --> 00:02:34.00 So I can see this row of icons down here, 71 00:02:34.00 --> 00:02:36.02 below the fill and stroke options. 72 00:02:36.02 --> 00:02:38.09 So make sure the fill is active, incidentally. 73 00:02:38.09 --> 00:02:41.02 And then notice you have the option of assigning 74 00:02:41.02 --> 00:02:45.03 a solid color, or a gradient, or none. 75 00:02:45.03 --> 00:02:47.05 And by the way, these all have keyboard shortcuts 76 00:02:47.05 --> 00:02:50.01 that are right in a row, on an American keyboard. 77 00:02:50.01 --> 00:02:52.06 Of comma, for a solid color. 78 00:02:52.06 --> 00:02:54.05 Period, for a gradient. 79 00:02:54.05 --> 00:02:57.01 And then the slash key, for none. 80 00:02:57.01 --> 00:02:58.04 So, that's one way to work. 81 00:02:58.04 --> 00:03:00.05 And notice, as soon as I assign a gradient, 82 00:03:00.05 --> 00:03:02.06 I end up bringing up the gradient panel 83 00:03:02.06 --> 00:03:05.06 over here, on the left hand side of the screen. 84 00:03:05.06 --> 00:03:06.09 All right, I'm going to switch back 85 00:03:06.09 --> 00:03:08.07 to the single column tool box. 86 00:03:08.07 --> 00:03:10.09 The other way, by the way, to bring up the gradient panel, 87 00:03:10.09 --> 00:03:14.00 is to go to the window menu and choose the gradient command. 88 00:03:14.00 --> 00:03:15.09 Obviously, we don't want to do that, however, 89 00:03:15.09 --> 00:03:18.05 when the panel is already up on screen. 90 00:03:18.05 --> 00:03:21.02 All right, you may initially see the gradient panel 91 00:03:21.02 --> 00:03:23.05 expressed as a single gradient ram. 92 00:03:23.05 --> 00:03:25.02 And you can click on it 93 00:03:25.02 --> 00:03:27.04 in order to assign a gradient to the shade. 94 00:03:27.04 --> 00:03:30.06 Or you can go ahead and expand the panel 95 00:03:30.06 --> 00:03:33.01 by clicking on this double arrow icon a couple of times. 96 00:03:33.01 --> 00:03:35.04 And then notice, in addition to the ram, 97 00:03:35.04 --> 00:03:37.09 you also have this gradient option right here. 98 00:03:37.09 --> 00:03:40.03 And you have the ability to switch back and forth 99 00:03:40.03 --> 00:03:42.03 between the fill and the stroke. 100 00:03:42.03 --> 00:03:44.05 If this isn't the gradient you're looking for, 101 00:03:44.05 --> 00:03:46.05 then you can click the down pointing arrow head 102 00:03:46.05 --> 00:03:48.09 to choose from other gradient swatches 103 00:03:48.09 --> 00:03:51.04 that are included along with this document. 104 00:03:51.04 --> 00:03:53.08 And these just happen to be the three gradients 105 00:03:53.08 --> 00:03:57.07 that are included by default with the basic RGB image. 106 00:03:57.07 --> 00:04:00.00 Let's say I want to start with gold dust. 107 00:04:00.00 --> 00:04:02.00 Even though these aren't really the shades of orange 108 00:04:02.00 --> 00:04:05.00 we're looking for, but, it'll give us a start anyway. 109 00:04:05.00 --> 00:04:07.01 So I'll go ahead and click on that gradient. 110 00:04:07.01 --> 00:04:09.03 And it gets assigned down here 111 00:04:09.03 --> 00:04:11.00 to the gradient ram. 112 00:04:11.00 --> 00:04:14.01 Now notice these colors stops below the gradient slider. 113 00:04:14.01 --> 00:04:17.03 You can drag them to move around and thereby change 114 00:04:17.03 --> 00:04:18.07 the appearance of the gradient 115 00:04:18.07 --> 00:04:20.05 assigned to the selected object. 116 00:04:20.05 --> 00:04:22.08 You can also dial on the location value. 117 00:04:22.08 --> 00:04:25.03 So, for example, if I click on this color swatch, 118 00:04:25.03 --> 00:04:27.08 I can go ahead and dial in a different location 119 00:04:27.08 --> 00:04:29.09 such as let's say, 50 percent, 120 00:04:29.09 --> 00:04:32.02 in order to move it to the middle of the gradient. 121 00:04:32.02 --> 00:04:35.07 You also have these mid point skew options right here. 122 00:04:35.07 --> 00:04:37.00 These tiny little diamonds. 123 00:04:37.00 --> 00:04:39.06 And if you grab one of those and drag it around, 124 00:04:39.06 --> 00:04:42.04 you'll change the speed at which one color stop 125 00:04:42.04 --> 00:04:44.03 transitions into another. 126 00:04:44.03 --> 00:04:45.09 So right now we're seeing that things 127 00:04:45.09 --> 00:04:48.01 transition rapidly right at the beginning 128 00:04:48.01 --> 00:04:49.09 and then slowly there at the end. 129 00:04:49.09 --> 00:04:51.07 If we wanted to reverse that course, 130 00:04:51.07 --> 00:04:53.09 then I could drag this mid point skew 131 00:04:53.09 --> 00:04:56.03 closer to this final color stop. 132 00:04:56.03 --> 00:04:58.02 You can also delete a color stop 133 00:04:58.02 --> 00:05:00.03 by clicking on it and then, 134 00:05:00.03 --> 00:05:02.06 you can click on this trash icon if you want to. 135 00:05:02.06 --> 00:05:06.06 Or, you can just go ahead and drag the color stop down 136 00:05:06.06 --> 00:05:08.04 in order to get rid of it. 137 00:05:08.04 --> 00:05:09.08 To add a color stop, 138 00:05:09.08 --> 00:05:12.01 just go ahead and click right underneath the ram. 139 00:05:12.01 --> 00:05:14.04 And when you move your cursor to the right location 140 00:05:14.04 --> 00:05:17.03 you can see a little arrow with a plus sign next to it. 141 00:05:17.03 --> 00:05:19.07 At which point, I could just go ahead and click, 142 00:05:19.07 --> 00:05:21.05 in order to set a color stop. 143 00:05:21.05 --> 00:05:23.01 To change the color of that stop, 144 00:05:23.01 --> 00:05:24.08 just go ahead and double click on it 145 00:05:24.08 --> 00:05:27.02 and that'll bring up either your RGB 146 00:05:27.02 --> 00:05:29.01 or CMYK values. 147 00:05:29.01 --> 00:05:31.00 And then you could dial in 148 00:05:31.00 --> 00:05:33.02 a completely different color if you like, 149 00:05:33.02 --> 00:05:35.05 and that color will be reflected here 150 00:05:35.05 --> 00:05:37.03 inside the document window. 151 00:05:37.03 --> 00:05:39.01 Assuming, of course, that you are working 152 00:05:39.01 --> 00:05:40.07 on a selected object. 153 00:05:40.07 --> 00:05:42.04 Two other options you should know about, 154 00:05:42.04 --> 00:05:44.07 are your ability to change the angle of the gradient. 155 00:05:44.07 --> 00:05:47.05 So rather than having it flow at zero degrees, 156 00:05:47.05 --> 00:05:50.04 which is horizontal, I could change it to 90 degrees, 157 00:05:50.04 --> 00:05:51.09 for a vertical gradient. 158 00:05:51.09 --> 00:05:56.00 I can also switch the type from linear to radial. 159 00:05:56.00 --> 00:05:57.08 So those are the two types of gradients 160 00:05:57.08 --> 00:06:00.07 that you have inside Illustrator. 161 00:06:00.07 --> 00:06:02.01 And those are the basics 162 00:06:02.01 --> 00:06:05.04 of assigning and modifying gradients inside Illustrator. 163 00:06:05.04 --> 00:06:07.00 I know I threw a lot at you, 164 00:06:07.00 --> 00:06:08.04 but we're going to have plenty of time 165 00:06:08.04 --> 00:06:11.02 to review these options over and over again. 166 00:06:11.02 --> 00:06:15.04 As we create our cheerful, shiny, emoji.