- [Voiceover] In this movie
I'll show you how to create this elaborate center ornament,
and along the way
we'll see how to duplicate effects between fill
or stroke attributes here inside the appearance panel.
I'll go ahead and switch over to our illustration so far,
and I'll zoom in a few times as well
so that we can see that ornament up-close and personal.
Just so that we have a fair amount of contrast here,
I'm gonna click on the background items,
on these origami petals, that is to say,
and then, here inside the appearance panel
I'm gonna turn off the top two fills.
I'll go ahead and turn off fill one
and fill two there at the top two,
and that way we're seeing the center
against a blue background,
and then I'll click inside that circle
in order to select a center,
and you'll know it's selected
because you'll see a total of four anchor points
instead of eight.
Now go ahead and select the first of the three fills,
the one at the bottom of the stack.
You might as well twirl it open, as well,
and then go up to the effect menu
and choose the second instance of Zig Zag,
the one that ends in an ellipsis,
which will bring up the Zig Zag dialogue box,
and then I'll go ahead and turn on the preview checkbox,
so that we can see this very simple side effect.
Notice, by the way, if I increase the number of ridges
per segment and I increase the size,
I can get a very good looking sun effect, indeed,
and it remains interesting if you switch it to smooth.
But, I'm gonna go ahead and take down
the number of ridges per segment to five
and I'm gonna reduce the size again to two points,
and even though I just love what I'm seeing here
I am gonna switch points back to corner,
and then click OK.
Now I wanna repeat this pattern of spikes
by making sure my fill is still active,
which it is, here inside the appearance panel.
Then, I'll return to the effect menu,
choose to store it in transform,
and choose my old buddy, the Transform command.
Now I'll change both the horizontal
and vertical scale values to 102,
and then, I'll turn on the preview checkbox,
and I also wanna set the angle
to that one I've used in the past,
which is 22.5 degrees.
That is to say, 360 divided by 16.
Now, click into Copies value
and press the up arrow key in order to increase
the number of copies until I come to seven,
which looks pretty darn good to me.
Now I wanna create a little bit of a shadow around the edge,
and I'm gonna do that, once again,
using Outer Glow by going up to the Effect menu,
choosing Stylize, and choosing the Outer Glow command.
Here's the settings I came up with.
Multiply, once again.
I set the color to something darker,
so I've got a hue value of 14 degrees,
a saturation of 100%, and a brightness of 25%.
I'll go ahead and click OK.
I've cranked the Opacity value up to 100%
and I've taken the Blur value to two full points.
If I turn on the preview checkbox
you can see that creates a kind of shadow around the edges.
At which point I'll click OK in order to accept that effect.
Now I wanna take these effects
and duplicate them onto the other fills.
Now, Zig Zag can stand alone,
meaning that I'm gonna click on it
and then drag it onto the path itself
so that it affects all the fills
to an equal extent,
and then I'll click on Transform
and Shift + click on Outer Glow
to select those two events.
Now, if I were to click on the little page icon
at the bottom of the panel,
I would create copies of each of those effects
but I would assign them to that same fill,
which is not what I want.
So, I'll press control Z, or command Z on the Mac
to undo that change.
Instead, I wanna duplicate these guys onto the other fills,
and so I'll click on one, Shift + click on the other
so they're both selected,
and then you wanna press the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac,
and you need to do that before you begin dragging.
So, press and hold Alt or Option,
and then drag the effects from one fill to another,
at which point you'll see a little plus sign
next to your hand cursor.
Then, when you drop you go ahead
and duplicate those effects.
Now, I'm gonna twirl close the bottom fill,
and I'm gonna twirl open the top one.
Again, remember that the top effect
is the first one you applied.
If I click on the word Transform there,
the top one, you can see
that's the one that goes ahead and scales
one occurrence of the fill down to
70%, both horizontally and vertically.
That one's fine as is, so I'll just cancel out.
The one I wanna change is the one I just applied.
So I'll go ahead and click on the
second occurrence of Transform,
reading from top to bottom, once again,
in order to bring up the rotated copies
that we're seeing here.
Now, I'll go ahead and increase
both the horizontal and vertical scale values to 104%,
turn on the preview checkbox,
and you can see that spreads the effects out a little bit.
Now click OK,
and then I'll go ahead and Shift + click on the Outer Glow
to select both of those effects.
Now, we wanna duplicate them onto the top fill
by, once again, Alt or Option dragging them, like so.
Now, I'll twirl close that middle fill,
and I'll twirl open the top one,
click into second occurrence of Transform,
the one in the middle,
and let's go ahead and take both
the horizontal and vertical scale values
up to 107% this time,
which, if I turn on the preview checkbox,
looks a little something like this.
Now, I'll click OK to accept that change.
Now at this point I decided
to experiment with the Zig Zag effect.
I'll go ahead and click on the words 'Zig Zag'
in order to bring up that dynamic effect
that I can modify anytime I like.
Then, I'll turn on the preview checkbox,
and you might find it useful to increase the size value,
which is just gonna make things spikier.
I ended up settling for four points,
and then I tabbed to the ridges per segment value,
which, on a PC, requires you to press
the Tab key a couple of times.
And notice what happens when I tap the up arrow key.
Just taking it from five to six ridges per segment
completely changes the effect.
And this is seven, which is really wild, I think.
This is eight, followed by nine,
and here's 10.
Even though this is a very detailed effect
that I'm not sure would survive in print,
this is the one I went with.
So, a size of four,
and a Ridges per segment of 10,
at which point, I'll click OK,
and then press Ctrl+Shift+A,
or Command + Shift + A on the Mac,
in order to deselect my artwork.
One of the great things about this center effect here
is that it looks absolutely great when magnified,
meaning that you can scale it to any size you like,
and that, among other things, is how you
duplicate effects between fills,
as well as strokes here inside the appearance panel.