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- In this movie, we're going to
draw with rounded rectangles.

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Specifically, we're going
to create this iPhone 6,

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along with it's case and then
the phone inside of it's case.

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It's a pretty simple project
but it helps to demonstrate

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the power of rounded shapes
here inside Illustrator.

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I'm going to start things
off, as usual, by going up to

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the 'File' menu and choosing
'New From Template',

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or you can press that
shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+N or

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Command+Shift+N on the Mac and then I'll

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double click on my template
in order to create an

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empty art board along with
a couple of center guides.

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I want to add two more
vertical guides that exactly

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divide up the left and right
portions of the art board.

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I'll go ahead and click
on the 'Guides' layer to

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make it active and then I'll
press Ctrl+R or Command+R

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on a Mac to bring up the rulers.

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For this project we're
going to switch to inches.

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You can change the units
on a document by document

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basis just by right clicking
on either ruler and then

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choosing the desired unit of
measure, which, in our case,

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is inches.

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Now I'll drag a vertical guide
from the left hand ruler,

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I'm going to press the shift
key so that I'm snapping into

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alignment with those tick marks.

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Then I'll drop that guide
at three and a half inches,

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you can tell it's at three
and a half because it's midway

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between the three and the
four in the horizontal ruler

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at the top of the screen.

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Now I'll drag another guide
from that left hand ruler,

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while pressing the shift
key, and I'll drop it at

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10 and a half inches,
which, of course is midway

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between the 10 and the 11
on that horizontal ruler.

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Now that I'm done with the
ruler I'll press Ctrl+R or

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Command+R on a Mac in order to hide it.

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Now I'll go ahead and click
on the 'Drawing' layer

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to make it active and I'll
select my rectangle tool

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from the 'Shape Tool' fly
out menu and remember that

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you can also get this tool
by pressing the M key.

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Now I'll go ahead and hover my
cursor over the intersection

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between these two guides
right here and I'll press the

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'Alt' key or the 'Option' key
on a Mac and click in order to

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bring up the rectangle dialog box.

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Make sure that the link is
turned off and then you want to

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dial in 2.64 for the width value

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and 5.44for the height value.

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The reason I know these values
is because they're posted

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on Apples website.

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I'll go ahead and click 'OK'
and because I Alt clicked it

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or Option clicked on the
Mac, I've created a rectangle

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that's centered on those guides.

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The thing that isn't posted
on Apple's site is how round

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the corners are.

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I basically had to measure
that using a ruler.

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As I was telling you, a
round corner is essentially

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an arc of specific dimensions.

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If the arc is a half inch
tall then we would need

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a half inch radius for our rounded corner.

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It's pretty much that simple.

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As it turns out the round
corner for an iPhone

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isn't quite a half an
inch, it's more like 0.4.

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I went ahead and pressed
the A key to switch to the

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white arrow tool and that
allows me access to the

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corners option up here
in the control panel,

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which allows me to change
that corner numerically

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to 0.4 inches, like so.

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Now I'm going to go ahead and
zoom in on the iPhone here

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by Ctrl+Spacebar clicking,
that's a Command+Spacebar click

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on the Mac.

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Let's go ahead and assign a
few fill and stroke attributes.

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I'll first change the fill by
clicking on the first swatch,

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up here in the control
panel and clicking on black.

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Then I'll increase the line
weight value to two points

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and I'll change the color of
that stroke by clicking on

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a second color swatch and
changing it to a medium grey

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in which all the RGB values are 128.

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Now I want to add a little bit
of a gradient to this stroke.

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I'll go up to the 'Window'
menu and choose the

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'Appearance' command in
order to switch over to the

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' Appearance' panel and I'll click on the

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'Add New Stroke' icon down here in the

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lower left corner of the panel.

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I'll change that new stroke,
right there, the one on top

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to this white/black
gradient, which is one of the

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default swatches that
are included along with a

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basic RGB document.

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This gradient happens to be
going at the wrong direction

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notice that it's going from right to left?

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I want it to go from up to
down and to make that happen

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you want to go to the
'Window' menu and choose the

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'Gradient' command.

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That brings up the gradient
panel as we're seeing

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right here.

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Next I'll go ahead and click
on this double arrow icon

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a couple of times to expand
the panel so that I can see

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this angle value.

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I'm going to change
that angle to 90 degrees

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and press the 'Enter' key
or the 'Return' key on a Mac

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and you can now see that
the gradient goes from black

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at the top to white at the bottom.

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I still want to be able
to see the grey stroke

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in the background.

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I'll drop down to the 'Appearance' panel,

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click on the word 'Opacity' that's part of

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the top stroke right there
and then I'll change that

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opacity value to 50%.

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That gives us a 50/50 mix of the gradient

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and the grey stroke behind it.

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Finally, I want to set
this shape off from it's

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white background by
giving it a drop shadow.

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I can do that by going
up to the 'Effect' menu,

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choosing 'Stylize' and then
choosing 'Drop Shadow'.

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These are the values I came up with,

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an opacity of 75%, the color set to black,

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we have an X offset of 0 inches

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so the shadows going straight down,

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the Y offset is 0.1
inch and then we've got

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a blur value of 0.1 inch
as well and we can see

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what that looks like by
turning on a preview checkbox

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only we're not seeing anything
and that's because I've

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made a tiny mistake here.

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I'm going to go ahead
and click 'OK' however.

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The problem is that I
had the stroke selected,

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so I just applied the
drop shadow to the stroke

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instead of the entire path.

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You can remedy this situation
by first, in my case,

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reducing the size of the
gradient panel so I have

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a little more room to work,
and then go ahead and click

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on that drop shadow to select
it, and drag it all the way

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to the bottom of the stack,
underneath the fill and

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directly above that opacity value,

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to this point right there.

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That will go ahead and
assign the drop shadow to the

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entire path outline as we're seeing here.

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At which point you can go
ahead and click off the shape

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to deselect it.

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That's at least one way to
draw with a rounded rectangle.

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In the next movie we'll
add the screen as well as

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the other elements of an iPhone.