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- [Voiceover] In this

movie, I'll show you how



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to add dynamic crop marks to your artwork



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as well as how to duplicate

it so that we have



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a total of three nameplates.



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Here, I'll go ahead and switch over



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to my document in progress.



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Now I'll zoom out by pressing Control + 0



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or Command + 0 on a Mac.



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And then I'll grab my rectangle tool



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which you can get, once again,



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by pressing the M key.



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And I want to draw my crop marks



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inward a little bit so

that I have some extra room



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to crop away.



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And so I'll go ahead and

click at the intersection



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of these two guides right here



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to bring up the rectangle dialog box.



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And I'll dial in a width of 8 in. like so



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and then press the Tab key.



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And that'll update the value



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to 506 pts.



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And I'll dial in a height value of 2 in.



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and then once again press the Tab key



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to get a height of 144 pts.



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And I'll click OK in

order to create this shape



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right here.



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Alright, I don't want any fill or stroke.



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And so I'll go ahead and

click on this first swatch



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up here in the Control Panel



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and change it to none.



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Then I'll click on the second swatch



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and change it to none as well.



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Now, to draw crop marks

around this rectangle,



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you go up to the Effect menu



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and you choose Crop Marks.



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That's all there is to it.



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And that'll draw hairline

crop marks, by the way.



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They're going to be 0.3 pts in width



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and that's just the way it is.



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There's no way to control the line weight



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associated with dynamic crop marks.



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Alright, now just so we can better see



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what we're doing, go ahead and turn off



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the guides layer and you'll see



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that we have a pair of crop marks



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on each of the four corners.



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Now what we want to do is duplicate



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the nameplate by

targeting the entire layer



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which you do by clicking



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in the circular meatball



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to the right of the word

nameplate right here



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inside the layers panel.



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And then you want to go

up to the Effect menu,



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choose Distort and Transform,



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and choose the Transform command.



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And we're looking for a vertical value,



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a vertical move value

of 2.75 in. for inches,



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once again.



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And then when you press the Tab key,



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that will update to 198 pts,



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at which point, go ahead and turn on



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the Preview checkbox and then click



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in the Copies value and

press the up arrow key



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a couple of times in order

to create those copies.



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And then click OK.



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And that way, if you ever decide to change



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this top nameplate, the other ones



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will change as well.



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But here's the problem.



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I'm going to go ahead and switch back



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to the black arrow tool



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and click off my artwork.



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Notice that these top crop marks



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do not interfere with the image.



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They do not cover it up in any way,



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shape, or form.



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But the next one down does.



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Notice that the crop

mark that's associated



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with the top nameplate is covering up



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this bottom photograph.



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That's not what we want.



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And so to tidy things up,



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go ahead and zoom back out



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and click on this invisible rectangle



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right here, the one that's associated



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with the crop marks.



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And let's create a new layer



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below the active one by pressing



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that keyboard shortcut,

Control + Alt + L for layer,



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Command + Option + L on a Mac,



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to bring up the layers options dialog box



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and put the new layer

below the nameplate layer.



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Let's go ahead and call

this guy "crop marks"



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and then I'm going to

change the color to gold,



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for what it's worth,



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and click OK.



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And now, notice this little red square



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that represents the selection.



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Go ahead and drag it and drop it



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onto the crop marks layer.



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And that way, we're not covering up



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the images anymore but we're not repeating



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the crop marks either.



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And so what you need to do is target



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that new layer and then go up here



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to the Effect menu and choose

the very first command,



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Apply Transform, which is going to reapply



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that last dynamic transformation.



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Alright, we still have a

little bit of a problem.



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Notice that the crop

marks are pretty far apart



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in the top right corner, but down here



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in the bottom right corner we've got



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this crop mark coming all the way



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to the edge of the rectangle.



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That's not what we want.



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So I'm going to press Control + 0



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or Command + 0 on the Mac,



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once again to zoom out.



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I'll click on the nameplate layer



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to make it active.



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I'll go ahead and grab the rectangle tool



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once again.



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And with my smart guides on,



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I'll try to find the intersection



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of the bottom of the photograph



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and righthand side of

that yellow rectangle.



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And I'll drag up until

I snap into alignment



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right there.



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And I want this shape

to have a white fill,



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so I'll go ahead and click

on the very first swatch



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on the far left side of the Control Panel



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and change it to white.



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We definitely do not want any strokes,



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so leave that alone.



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And then right-click somewhere



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inside the document window,



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choose a range, and choose Send to Back.



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And that'll go ahead

and send the rectangle



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to the back of this specific layer



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so we can once again see my title



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which is Author.



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Alright, now I'll press the V key



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to switch back to my black arrow tool



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and I'll click off the artwork



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to deselect it.



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And by the way, because this top layer



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has that transform effect assigned to it,



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that white rectangle that we just drew



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got duplicated automatically



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onto the lower nameplates.



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And that's how you

create dynamic crop marks



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as well as how you dynamically duplicate



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your artwork to create, in this case,



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three nameplates.



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But it could just as easily be, say,



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six business cards here

inside Illustrator.