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- I started using

Illustrator when I was 25,



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which was, here, let me do the math.



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Carry the one, a hundred years ago.



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Our friends say it's

cute to see us together.



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Illustrator actually

finishes my sentences.



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So if you were to ask me,



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what's your favorite feature

in all of Illustrator?



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It'd be like me asking you

to choose your favorite thing



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about your spouse or your grandma.



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I mean, you know what you

like, you know what you don't,



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but your favorite, which is

why I say without hesitation,



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the topic of this

chapter, dynamic effects.



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Why?



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Because they allow you to apply temporary,



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non-destructive adjustments

using numerical parameters.



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They pile up in the appearance panel



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so you can change your

mind anytime you'd like.



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You can apply them to big

things, like entire layers,



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or little things, like a single stroke.



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You can heat multiple applications



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of a single effect onto anything.



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Which means that we can

take this tiny circle.



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That's it, just a dinky purple circle,



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and turn it into this with the application



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of just a few dynamic effects.



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The addition of another circle

gets us this effect here,



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then we'll spike things up again,



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entirely dynamically, to

achieve these origami petals.



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Finally, we'll swap out the colors



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to impart this fall time flavor.



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Put simply, they're effects,



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meaning amazing object modifiers,



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and they're dynamic, meaning

that everything happens live,



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on the flight, and subject

to your ever changing moods.



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But that doesn't tell the whole story.



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In fact, if I were to

tell you the whole story,



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it goes something like this.