- In this movie, we're going to take our horizontal
magnifying glass and we're going to rotate it
into the desired position.
And I can't stress this enough,
even though the Shape tools can be at times very powerful,
you're always better off organizing your shapes
horizontally or vertically, and then,
once you have everything put together,
that's when you can go ahead and rotate and scale
and move your objects as much as you like.
All right, so the first thing I want to do is protect
our original drawing by making a copy of the drawing layer.
And so here inside the Layers panel, I'll click on
the flyout menu icon and choose, Duplicate "drawing"
and that will make a copy of the layer.
Now I'm going to turn off the original to protect it
from harm, and I'm going to double click
on an empty portion of the new layer
to bring up the Layer Options dialog box.
And I'll call this new layer angled
and I'll change its color, let's say, to Gold,
and then I'll click OK.
All right, now you want to go ahead and select everything
by going up to the Select menu and choosing the All command
or you can press ctrl + a or cmd + a on a Mac.
All right, now what I want to do is get a sense
for how far I want to rotate the magnifying glass.
I don't know exactly what the angle should be,
let's imagine.
In that case, I would go ahead and click
on the word Transform here in the Control panel
in order to bring up a slightly smaller version
of the full Transform panel.
And then I'll click in this Rotate value right there,
and let's say I decide to press the up arrow key.
Notice, I want you to see that even though I rotated
the magnifying glass one degree,
in a counterclockwise fashion, incidentally,
the value reset to zero degrees
and that's because Transform doesn't actually keep track
of the application of its modifications,
and so any incremental changes you make
are applied on the fly.
And we can see it better if I press the up arrow key again.
Notice now I'm seeing one degree
although it's not applied until I press the up arrow key
another time and then it gets applied,
and the value resets to zero degrees.
So, in other words, obviously this is not the way to work
which is why I'm going to press the escape key
in order to hide that panel.
And I'll press ctrl + z or cmd + z on a Mac
a couple of times in order to reset my horizontal
magnifying glass.
So, what's the solution?
Well, one option is to bring the Transform panel back up,
and incidentally, this is the way it works
whether you're accessing the Transform panel
from the Control panel or if you're using the big
dedicated Transform panel.
It doesn't matter.
I'll just go ahead and bring up the small Transform panel
because it takes up less room on screen.
Your option is to click on this down-pointing arrow head
and choose one of these settings.
For example, you could test out negative 30 degrees
and say, "Nope, that's not the way I want it to go."
That's a clockwise rotation, I don't want that.
So go ahead and press ctrl + z or cmd + z on a Mac
to undo that change.
And then try something like positive 30 degrees
which turns out to be what we're looking for.
So that's one way to work.
But what if you want to preview your rotation on the fly?
In that case, I'll go ahead and undo that modification.
You want to go up to the Object menu, choose Transform,
and then choose Rotate.
And notice, this command appears
right under the Move command,
and it behaves very similarly in that it's going to bring up
a dialog box and so you want to make sure
the Preview checkbox is turned on, at which point
you can click inside this Angle value
and press the up arrow key in order to increase the valuie
which produces a counterclockwise rotation.
And you can even press and hold if you like
to just rotate that magnifying glass on the fly.
Then press and hold the down arrow key
in order to reduce that Angle value.
And in the end, I took the value down to 30 degrees
as we're seeing right here.
At which point, I'll go ahead and click the OK button
in order to accept that change.
All right, now I want to move the magnifying glass
so it's back on screen, and I'll do that using the Move
dialog box which, because I have an arrow tool active,
I can access by pressing the "enter" key here on a PC
or the "return" key on a Mac.
All right, I'm going to start by moving the magnifying glass
down and I'll do that by tapping to the Vertical value
and pressing, not the down arrow key,
but rather the up arrow key in order to increase that
value because after all positive vertical values
result in downward movements.
And at this point, I think I've gone too far
so I'll press the down arrow key a few times
in order to nudge the magnifying glass upward.
All right, now I'll go ahead and move this dialog box
offscreen just a little bit so I can see
nearly the entire artboard,
at which point it seems to me that the magnifying glass
is too far to the right, so I'll go ahead and
shift + tab to the horizontal value
and I'll press the down arrow key in order
to scoot the selection over to the left.
And in the end I came up with the Horizontal value
of negative 15 points and a Vertical value
of positive 40 points, at which point I'll go ahead
and click the OK button to accept that change,
and then I'll click off the magnifying glass to deselect it.
All right, now let's say you discover that everything
isn't quite where it's supposed to be.
For example, if I take a look at the final version
of the illustration, notice this highlight right here
on the black portion of the handle?
It's higher than it is in our version right now
and that's because I forgot to scoot it up eight points
before I rotated the magnifying glass.
That's not a problem though.
We can fix that right now by clicking on that highlight
in order to select it with the black arrow tool,
and then press the enter key or the return key on a Mac
to once again bring up the Move dialog box.
Let's zero out those values, and I'm going to change
the Distance value to eight points because I know
that I forgot to move it eight points upward.
However, an upward movement would normally be
90 degrees which would produce this effect here.
The problem is we just got done rotating
that magnifying glass 30 degrees, so what we need to do
is click in the Angle value and set it to 90 plus 30 degrees
and then, if I press the tab key, notice that changes
the Angle value to 120 degrees and that puts that highlight
exactly where it's supposed to be.
At which point I'll click OK to accept that change
and now I'll click off the shapes to deselect them.
And that's how you rotate and move your finished graphic
into the desired location here inside Illustrator.