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- In this movie, we're
going to take our horizontal

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magnifying glass and
we're going to rotate it

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into the desired position.

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And I can't stress this enough,

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even though the Shape tools
can be at times very powerful,

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you're always better off
organizing your shapes

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horizontally or vertically, and then,

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once you have everything put together,

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that's when you can go
ahead and rotate and scale

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and move your objects as much as you like.

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All right, so the first
thing I want to do is protect

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our original drawing by making
a copy of the drawing layer.

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And so here inside the
Layers panel, I'll click on

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the flyout menu icon and
choose, Duplicate "drawing"

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and that will make a copy of the layer.

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Now I'm going to turn off
the original to protect it

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from harm, and I'm going to double click

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on an empty portion of the new layer

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to bring up the Layer Options dialog box.

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And I'll call this new layer angled

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and I'll change its
color, let's say, to Gold,

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and then I'll click OK.

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All right, now you want to go
ahead and select everything

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by going up to the Select menu
and choosing the All command

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or you can press ctrl +
a or cmd + a on a Mac.

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All right, now what I
want to do is get a sense

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for how far I want to
rotate the magnifying glass.

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I don't know exactly
what the angle should be,

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let's imagine.

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In that case, I would go ahead and click

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on the word Transform
here in the Control panel

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in order to bring up a
slightly smaller version

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of the full Transform panel.

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And then I'll click in this
Rotate value right there,

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and let's say I decide to
press the up arrow key.

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Notice, I want you to see
that even though I rotated

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the magnifying glass one degree,

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in a counterclockwise
fashion, incidentally,

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the value reset to zero degrees

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and that's because Transform
doesn't actually keep track

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of the application of its modifications,

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and so any incremental changes you make

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are applied on the fly.

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And we can see it better if I
press the up arrow key again.

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Notice now I'm seeing one degree

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although it's not applied
until I press the up arrow key

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another time and then it gets applied,

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and the value resets to zero degrees.

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So, in other words, obviously
this is not the way to work

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which is why I'm going
to press the escape key

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in order to hide that panel.

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And I'll press ctrl +
z or cmd + z on a Mac

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a couple of times in order
to reset my horizontal

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magnifying glass.

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So, what's the solution?

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Well, one option is to bring
the Transform panel back up,

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and incidentally, this is the way it works

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whether you're accessing
the Transform panel

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from the Control panel or
if you're using the big

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dedicated Transform panel.

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It doesn't matter.

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I'll just go ahead and bring
up the small Transform panel

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because it takes up less room on screen.

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Your option is to click on
this down-pointing arrow head

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and choose one of these settings.

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For example, you could test
out negative 30 degrees

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and say, "Nope, that's not
the way I want it to go."

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That's a clockwise
rotation, I don't want that.

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So go ahead and press ctrl
+ z or cmd + z on a Mac

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to undo that change.

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And then try something
like positive 30 degrees

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which turns out to be
what we're looking for.

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So that's one way to work.

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But what if you want to preview
your rotation on the fly?

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In that case, I'll go ahead
and undo that modification.

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You want to go up to the
Object menu, choose Transform,

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and then choose Rotate.

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And notice, this command appears

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right under the Move command,

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and it behaves very similarly
in that it's going to bring up

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a dialog box and so you want to make sure

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the Preview checkbox is
turned on, at which point

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you can click inside this Angle value

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and press the up arrow key in
order to increase the valuie

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which produces a
counterclockwise rotation.

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And you can even press
and hold if you like

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to just rotate that
magnifying glass on the fly.

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Then press and hold the down arrow key

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in order to reduce that Angle value.

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And in the end, I took the
value down to 30 degrees

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as we're seeing right here.

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At which point, I'll go
ahead and click the OK button

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in order to accept that change.

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All right, now I want to
move the magnifying glass

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so it's back on screen, and
I'll do that using the Move

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dialog box which, because I
have an arrow tool active,

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I can access by pressing
the "enter" key here on a PC

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or the "return" key on a Mac.

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All right, I'm going to start
by moving the magnifying glass

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down and I'll do that by
tapping to the Vertical value

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and pressing, not the down arrow key,

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but rather the up arrow key
in order to increase that

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value because after all
positive vertical values

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result in downward movements.

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And at this point, I
think I've gone too far

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so I'll press the down
arrow key a few times

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in order to nudge the
magnifying glass upward.

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All right, now I'll go ahead
and move this dialog box

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offscreen just a little bit so I can see

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nearly the entire artboard,

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at which point it seems to
me that the magnifying glass

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is too far to the right,
so I'll go ahead and

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shift + tab to the horizontal value

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and I'll press the down arrow key in order

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to scoot the selection over to the left.

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And in the end I came up
with the Horizontal value

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of negative 15 points and a Vertical value

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of positive 40 points, at
which point I'll go ahead

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and click the OK button
to accept that change,

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and then I'll click off the
magnifying glass to deselect it.

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All right, now let's say
you discover that everything

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isn't quite where it's supposed to be.

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For example, if I take a
look at the final version

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of the illustration, notice
this highlight right here

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on the black portion of the handle?

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It's higher than it is
in our version right now

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and that's because I forgot
to scoot it up eight points

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before I rotated the magnifying glass.

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That's not a problem though.

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We can fix that right now by
clicking on that highlight

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in order to select it
with the black arrow tool,

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and then press the enter key
or the return key on a Mac

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to once again bring up
the Move dialog box.

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Let's zero out those values,
and I'm going to change

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the Distance value to
eight points because I know

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that I forgot to move
it eight points upward.

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However, an upward
movement would normally be

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90 degrees which would
produce this effect here.

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The problem is we just got done rotating

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that magnifying glass 30
degrees, so what we need to do

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is click in the Angle value and
set it to 90 plus 30 degrees

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and then, if I press the
tab key, notice that changes

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the Angle value to 120 degrees
and that puts that highlight

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exactly where it's supposed to be.

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At which point I'll click
OK to accept that change

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and now I'll click off the
shapes to deselect them.

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And that's how you rotate and
move your finished graphic

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into the desired location
here inside Illustrator.