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- [Voiceover] In this movie we'll add

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the stylized reflections to the handle.

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And I'll pass along a few
insights along the way.

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And while it's nothing earth shattering,

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it gives us more time to spend

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with live rectangles inside Illustrator.

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And so I'll go ahead and switch
over to my documents so far

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and I'll zoom in on the black handle

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and I'll click on it with
the black arrow tool.

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And as you can see, my
bounding box is still active,

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so that I have access to my handles

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as well as my round corner widgets.

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All right, now I'm gonna
create a copy of the shape

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by going up to the Edit menu
and choosing the Copy command.

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And then I'll return to the Edit menu

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and choose Paste in Front.

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All right, now I wanna go ahead

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and drag the top of
this shape down like so.

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But notice that my heads of display

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that no matter what I do
when I'm dragging downward,

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the height remains doggedly
fixed at 64 points.

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And that's a function of
my round corner widget.

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Because it's maxed out,
Illustrator's not letting me change

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the height of this shape.

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It would let me make it
taller, just not shorter.

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Anyway, I don't want it to be taller,

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so I'll undo that change.

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And I'll go ahead and restore
those corners back to zero

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by dragging the widgets all the
way to those corner handles,

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at which point you can
see the heads of display,

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I now have a roundness of zero points.

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At which point I can go
ahead and drag this guy down

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as much as I like.

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Now, I don't really want
to move it that way,

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so I'm gonna press Control +
Z or Command + Z on the Mac

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and I'm gonna zoom in a little bit.

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What I wanna do is scale
with respect to the center.

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And so as I drag downward,

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I'm gonna press and hold the Alt key

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or the Option key on the Mac.

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Now I want this path to be very narrow

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with a height of just eight points,

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which I'm seeing right now
at which point I'll release.

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All right, I want this guy
to look like a reflection,

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however, so I'm gonna click
on the very first swatch

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up here in the control panel
and change the fill to white.

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All right, now I wanna
adjust the width of this path

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just a little bit.

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And so I'm gonna drag
this left-hand point over

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until my heads of display
shows a width of 450 points.

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And bear in mind, you're
only gonna see those values

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if you have smart guides turned on.

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And now I wanna change the
roundness of these two corners

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independently of the ones I'm not seeing.

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And so I'll just double
click on either one

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and as you can see, my corners
are not linked together,

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so I can just change
the first value to four,

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press the tab key and
change that second value

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to four as well and
then press the Enter key

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or the Return key on the
Mac to accept that change.

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All right, now I'll go
ahead and hide the panel.

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And let's go ahead and scroll
over to the right-hand shapes,

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which is gonna take me
a few spacebar drags

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or I could bring up my navigator panel

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by clicking on a little ship's wheel here

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and then I'll just click at
this location right there

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in order to advance to
this portion of the handle.

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All right, now I'll just go ahead

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and scoot over a little more
and I'll select this shape

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and I wanna make a copy of it as well.

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So I'll press Control + C, Control + F,

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that's Command + C,
Command + F on the Mac,

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and then I'll go ahead
and drag this guy down

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while pressing and holding the Alt key

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so that I'm scaling with
respect to the center.

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And I'm going to keep working
at it until my height value

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is just four points and then I'll release.

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Now, I want this to be a dark reflection,

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so I'll once again click
that first swatch up here

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in the control panel and I'll
change that shape to black.

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And something I want you
to notice about working

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with rectangles and other live shapes,

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notice if I move my cursor,

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and it might be a little more visible

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if I move it over here to
just beyond the handle,

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I get a rotate cursor which
allows me to rotate that shape

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to, for example, let's say 342.9 degrees.

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If I now bring back up my transform panel

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by clicking on this
little icon right there,

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notice that it remembers
the degree of rotation.

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And so I could override that

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and change that to 15 degrees instead,

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at which point that will
be remembered as well.

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And this is a wonderful attribute

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of live shapes inside Illustrator.

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But that's just by way of demo, of course.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and change

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that rotate value back to
zero and hide the panel.

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All right, now I wanna
draw a very small shape

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using the rectangle tool.

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So I'll go ahead and
select the tool once again

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inside the toolbox or
in my flyout tool bar,

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and then I'll click inside
the document window,

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and I'm looking for a width
value of eight points,

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that's fine, but I want the height value

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to be four points like so.

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And then I'll go ahead and switch back

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to the black arrow tool
by pressing the V key.

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And I will grab a corner, that's
what I'd like to do anyway,

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but I can't because of that bounding box,

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which, frankly between you and
me, has worn out its welcome

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and so I'm gonna get rid of
it by going to the View menu

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and choosing Hide Bounding Box

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or you have that keyboard
shortcut of Control + Shift + B

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or Command + Shift + B on the Mac.

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And if you haven't gotten
a sense for it yet,

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this is probably a keyboard
shortcut you want to memorize,

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because there's all kinds of times

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where you want to turn it on
and then turn it back off,

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especially when working

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with live shapes here inside Illustrator.

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I'll go ahead and turn it off,

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now you can see I can drag
this guy by its corner

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and I wanna drop it in
the place right here

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so that it snaps into alignment
with that horizontal guide

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as well as the right edge

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of that first white rounded rectangle.

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All right, now I wanna make
a duplicate of this shape

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by dragging it by that same corner point

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until it snaps into alignment right there.

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And now I'll press the Alt key
or the Option key on the Mac

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to make a copy of that shape like so.

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All right, now I'm gonna Shift
click on this first shape

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so that they're both selected.

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And then just for the sake of variety,

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I'll drag this top-left
point of this second shape

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until it snaps into alignment right there.

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And you might want to press
and hold the Shift key

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to constrain the angle of your
drag to exactly horizontal,

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but you'll definitely want
to press and hold the Alt key

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or the Option key on the Mac.

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So I've got both Shift and Alt down,

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that's Shift and Option on the Mac,

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and then release, in order to
create a copy of those shapes.

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All right, now I wanna create
a copy of these black shapes

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and so I'm gonna Shift click on these two

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and then Shift click on this guy as well.

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And I'm gonna move them downward
by pressing the Enter key

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or the Return key on the Mac.

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And because the black
arrow tool is selected,

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that brings up the Move dialogue box.

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Although these are not the
values that I'm looking for.

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So I'm gonna change the
horizontal value to zero

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and then I'll change
the vertical value to 14

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which is, as you can see,
moves the shapes down.

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So positive vertical values
result in downward movements.

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At which point I'll click the Copy button

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in order to create a copy of those shapes.

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Now you can see that we really have

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a pretty gnarly stacking problem going.

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And in cases like these,
you're generally better off

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sending things to back.

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And so I'm gonna go ahead
and partially marquee

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these shapes right here.

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I don't wanna select
the circle on the right

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or the black shape on the left.

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And so make sure that your
marquee is inside those areas.

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And then, just right click any old place

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inside the document window, choose Arrange

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and choose Send to Back.

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And now I'll go ahead and
partially marquee these shapes

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in the middle right here.

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And I will once again right
click, choose Arrange,

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and choose Send to Back
in order to achieve

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this much improved effect here.

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All right, now I'll go
ahead and press Control + 0

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or Command + 0 on the Mac to zoom out.

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And just so we can take
in the magnifying glass

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in all of its glory so far,
I'll turn off the guides layer.

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And now you can see that by no means

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a photo realistic effect.

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It makes for a very nice stylized drawing,

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thanks to a combination of the rectangle

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and black arrow tools working together

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with and without the bounding
box here inside Illustrator.