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- [Voiceover] In this movie,



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I'll show you how to alternate the



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colors of repeated objects.



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Specifically in this case, the petals.



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Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch



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over to our document so far,



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and click anywhere inside of it



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in order to select that central circle.



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And then what you want to do is



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click on the existing fill,



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and then click on the little page icon



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in the bottom right corner of the



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appearance panel in order

to make an exact copy of it,



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including the dynamic effects.



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Alright, I'll go ahead and

twirl the bottom copy closed,



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and I'll bring up my gradient panel,



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but I don't need it to be this big.



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So I'll go ahead and click on the



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double arrow icon in order to reduce



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it down to just the gradient slider.



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And then I'll grab this swatch right here,



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this dark blue one that's R0G0B77,



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and drag it and drop it

onto the dark purple,



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and then I'll grab the lighter blue



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and you can see it's values there,



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and I'll drag it and drop it onto the



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lighter purple at the end

of the gradient like so.



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Alright, now what you want to do



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is click on the word transform



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in order to bring up the

transform dialog box.



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Turn on the preview check box



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and then click on the copies value and



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take that values down until you've



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exposed some purple

petals in the background.



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I just happened to like 18 copies



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at which point I'll click okay.



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Alright, now I'll create a copy of



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this guy by selecting the fill.



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Very important you select

the fill by the way



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and not the transform effect,



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because if a dynamic effect is selected



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and you click in the little page icon,



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you'll duplicate it which we

don't want to do of course.



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So select the entire fill.



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Then click on the little page icon



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and let's grab the shades of orange



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including R191, G48B0,



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drag it and drop it onto the darker blue,



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and then grab this much lighter orange



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which is R255, G170, B0,



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and drag it and drop it

onto the lighter blue



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and you end up with this effect here,



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at which point click

on the word transform,



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turn on the preview check box,



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click inside the copies value,



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and take it down to

something that looks good.



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I like 15 copies.



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Alright, now click okay.



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And I'm gonna grab both of the



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most recent fills there by clicking in



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this top one and shift

clicking on the blue one,



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and that way when you

click on the page icon,



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you'll duplicate both of

them as we're seeing here.



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Turn off the top fill for a moment.



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Twirl open the blue fill right there,



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and go ahead and click on it's transform.



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Turn on the preview check box,



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and I'm just gonna dial

in a value of 12 copies,



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and click okay.



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And now I'll close it and then



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turn on the top orange fill.



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Click on the word transform for it.



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Take the value down to eight

copies this time around,



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and turn on the preview check box.



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And I just kept going.



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I'll go ahead and zoom in here



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so I can see what I'm doing and



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I'll select that top fill and shift click



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on the blue fill below it.



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Click on the little page icon



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to make duplicates of both of them.



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As we're seeing here.



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Turn off the top orange fill.



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Twirl open the top blue fill.



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Click on the word transform for it.



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Set the copies to five this time around



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and turn on the preview check box,



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and we'll end up with this effect.



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Then click okay and go ahead and



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turn on this yellow fill right there.



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Click on it's transform and change the



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number of copies for it to 2.



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Turn on the preview check box



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and we end up with this effect.



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At which point I'll click okay.



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All right now you can even create



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some kind of gradients in

between these petals if you like.



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So for example I'll go ahead and



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twirl closed that blue fill right there,



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and I'll leave the yellow one expanded,



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and I'll create another copy of it



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by clicking on the little page icon.



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I'm gonna twirl that top one closed,



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and I'm gonna twirl that

middle one right there open,



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and I'm gonna click on the word transform



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and change the number of

copies to three this time,



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and turn on the preview check box.



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You can see that's going to add



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some yellow petals right there.



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At which point I'll click okay.



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And now I'll click on

the field to select it



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and I'll go ahead and replace the colors



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in the gradient slider by taking



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this bright orange R255 G170 B0,



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and dragging and dropping it onto the



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dark orange like so and

that's going to cause



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this gradient to start

right there bright yellow,



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and then we'll replace the last

color with that bright blue



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which is R0 G64 B255 like so.



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Just with the drag and drop and we



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end up with this transitional effect here.



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Alright now let's say you want to



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create a kind of center ornament.



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Well because we have a

couple of dynamic effects,



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transform and pucker and bloat,



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associated with this path outline,



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I'm gonna have to do that

using a separate path.



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As opposed to heaping on more fills



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and you can do that by switching

back to the layers panel,



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turning on the guides layer once again,



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so you can see where the

center of the document is,



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then go ahead and grab your ellipse tool.



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I'm going to press control U or command U



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on the Mac to turn my

smart guides back on.



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Then I will press the ALT key

or the option key on the Mac,



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and click at the intersection

of those two guides.



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Create a new ellipse that matches



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those exact same dimensions.



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That is 33 by 33 points.



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Click okay.



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And we want to fill it with a different



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kind of gradient this time.



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It's still going to be a radial gradient,



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as we're seeing right here,



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but I want the end color to be



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this bright shade of orange.



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I want the beginning color to be



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this darker shade of orange.



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So we're working with

that standard gradient,



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but then I want the very first



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color all the way over on

the left hand side here



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to be this very bright

yellow which is R255 G213 B0.



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So go ahead and drag it and drop it



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to the beginning of the gradient like so.



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Alright now we want to go ahead and



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switch to the gradient tool.



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Which of course you can

get by pressing the G key



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and I'm gonna zoom in here



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and you may find Illustrator to be



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a tad bit sluggish at this point



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because it's trying to balance a lot



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of things at the same time.



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I'll move my cursor over to



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the right of the gradient annotator.



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So I see my rotate cursor



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and then I'll just go

ahead and drag it clockwise



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to this position here while

pressing the shift key



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to constrain the angle of my drag



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to the nearest 45 degree,



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and then I'll go ahead

and drag the big circle,



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not the little one but the big circle,



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although quite frankly

you can go your own way



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until I move the actual

gradient inside the circle



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to about this position here



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and now I'll drag the square that



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represents the end of the gradient



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down and to the left in order to



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make it nice and big like so.



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Alright now I'm gonna press the V key to



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switch away from the gradient tool



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and I'm also going to turn

off that guides layer,



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and I'll go ahead and press control U



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or command U on the Mac to

turn off the smart guides



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because otherwise it's going to interfere



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with our view of what's going on.



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And then I'll switch back

to the appearance panel,



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I'll click on the fill right there



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and you want to make a duplicate of it



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by clicking on the little page icon



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at the bottom of the dialog box



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and with that new fill selected,



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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 then I'm just going to reduce both



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the horizontal and vertical

scale values to 70%



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and then I'll turn on

the preview check box,



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so we can see what's going on.



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And we get this effect here,



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which I quite like so I'll

go ahead and click okay.



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Now you might say hey Deek,



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why did you do it that way.



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Why didn't you just apply transform to the



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original fill and then create a copy.



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Well let me show you what happens.



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I'll go ahead and hide that top fill.



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I'll select the bottom one,



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and then I will repeat that effect



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by going to the effect menu

and choosing transform...



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So the second command.



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And as you can see I have horizontal



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and vertical set to 70%.



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If I turn on the preview check box,



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of course I reduce the

size of the original,



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but then if I click in the copies value



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and take it up to one

this is what happens.



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The copy appears in the background.



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It appears in back of the original.



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That's the way it always is

with the transform effect,



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which is why I chose the other approach.



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Alright I'm gonna cancel out.



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Turn that other fill back on



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and then with the top fill selected,



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I'll click on the little page icon



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to create a copy of it.



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Then I'll twirl open that fill,



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and I'll click on the word transform,



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and this time around I'll change both



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of the scale values to 40%,



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turn on the preview check box,



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love it,



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click okay.



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The deed is done.



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After which point I'll

press control shift A



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or command shift A on the Mac



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and or to deselect my artwork.



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Here's how it looks complete with that



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center ornament up close and personal,



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and here's how it looks if I zoom out



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by pressing control 0

or command 0 on the Mac.



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And that's how you alternate the colors



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of dynamically repeating objects,



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whether petals or otherwise,

here inside Illustrator.