- [Voiceover] All right, so here we are looking
at one of the popular emojis included with Apple devices.
And I've heard from a lot of folks
who are looking for high resolution versions
of these things for printing on t-shirts,
or poster, or what have you.
But the truth of the matter is
that these things are actually low res paint files.
They measure 160 pixels wide by 160 pixels tall.
And that includes this transparent region around the face.
So what I've done is I've upsampled this image
so that we can trace it inside of Illustrator.
And that way, we'll have a scalable vector based design
that you can do anything that you want with.
And it's all shining and glistening
and that's because, every single path outline
is filled and stroked with gradience.
And then, later on,
we'll go ahead and draw our own custom emoji
unlike anything else that's out there.
Because, after all,
not everyday is deserving of this one.
All right, so I'm going to go ahead and switch over
to this base document here.
And you can see, just to save us time,
I've roughed in just a few path outlines.
Now I want to introduce that image we saw
just a moment ago and Photoshop as a tracing template.
And I'll do that by going up to the file menu
and choosing the place command.
Or you have that keyboard shortcut of control shift p
or command shift p on the Mac.
Then, go ahead and select
this classic smiley emoji right there
and turn on, not only the link check box,
but the template checkbox as well.
And then click on the place button
and notice that tells the Illustrator
to automatically create a template layer
below the active one.
All right, I want to modify this layer a little bit
by double clicking on an empty portion of it
to bring up the layer options dialog box.
And I'll go ahead and rename this layer simply template
and I'll turn off the dim images checkbox,
which will help us to better follow
the colors in the actual image.
After which point, I'll click okay
in order to accept that change.
All right, now switch to the happy layer.
And I'm going to go ahead and hide
all but the outer path, by marqueeing them like so.
And if you end up accidentally
selecting the outermost circle, then just go ahead
and just shift click on it to deselect it.
And then, go to the object menu, choose hide,
and choose selection.
Or you can press the keyboard shortcut
of control three or command three on the Mac.
And that should hide everything, but the big circle.
All right now, obviously this circle
needs to be filled with a gradient.
And there are a few ways to accomplish that,
all of which I'll review in this movie.
So, I'm going to go ahead and click on this circle
with the black arrow tool to select it.
And then I'm going to click on this double arrow icon
on the top of the tool box in order to expand it
to two columns.
So I can see this row of icons down here,
below the fill and stroke options.
So make sure the fill is active, incidentally.
And then notice you have the option of assigning
a solid color, or a gradient, or none.
And by the way, these all have keyboard shortcuts
that are right in a row, on an American keyboard.
Of comma, for a solid color.
Period, for a gradient.
And then the slash key, for none.
So, that's one way to work.
And notice, as soon as I assign a gradient,
I end up bringing up the gradient panel
over here, on the left hand side of the screen.
All right, I'm going to switch back
to the single column tool box.
The other way, by the way, to bring up the gradient panel,
is to go to the window menu and choose the gradient command.
Obviously, we don't want to do that, however,
when the panel is already up on screen.
All right, you may initially see the gradient panel
expressed as a single gradient ram.
And you can click on it
in order to assign a gradient to the shade.
Or you can go ahead and expand the panel
by clicking on this double arrow icon a couple of times.
And then notice, in addition to the ram,
you also have this gradient option right here.
And you have the ability to switch back and forth
between the fill and the stroke.
If this isn't the gradient you're looking for,
then you can click the down pointing arrow head
to choose from other gradient swatches
that are included along with this document.
And these just happen to be the three gradients
that are included by default with the basic RGB image.
Let's say I want to start with gold dust.
Even though these aren't really the shades of orange
we're looking for, but, it'll give us a start anyway.
So I'll go ahead and click on that gradient.
And it gets assigned down here
to the gradient ram.
Now notice these colors stops below the gradient slider.
You can drag them to move around and thereby change
the appearance of the gradient
assigned to the selected object.
You can also dial on the location value.
So, for example, if I click on this color swatch,
I can go ahead and dial in a different location
such as let's say, 50 percent,
in order to move it to the middle of the gradient.
You also have these mid point skew options right here.
These tiny little diamonds.
And if you grab one of those and drag it around,
you'll change the speed at which one color stop
transitions into another.
So right now we're seeing that things
transition rapidly right at the beginning
and then slowly there at the end.
If we wanted to reverse that course,
then I could drag this mid point skew
closer to this final color stop.
You can also delete a color stop
by clicking on it and then,
you can click on this trash icon if you want to.
Or, you can just go ahead and drag the color stop down
in order to get rid of it.
To add a color stop,
just go ahead and click right underneath the ram.
And when you move your cursor to the right location
you can see a little arrow with a plus sign next to it.
At which point, I could just go ahead and click,
in order to set a color stop.
To change the color of that stop,
just go ahead and double click on it
and that'll bring up either your RGB
or CMYK values.
And then you could dial in
a completely different color if you like,
and that color will be reflected here
inside the document window.
Assuming, of course, that you are working
on a selected object.
Two other options you should know about,
are your ability to change the angle of the gradient.
So rather than having it flow at zero degrees,
which is horizontal, I could change it to 90 degrees,
for a vertical gradient.
I can also switch the type from linear to radial.
So those are the two types of gradients
that you have inside Illustrator.
And those are the basics
of assigning and modifying gradients inside Illustrator.
I know I threw a lot at you,
but we're going to have plenty of time
to review these options over and over again.
As we create our cheerful, shiny, emoji.