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- [Instructor] In this movie,

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we'll go ahead and scale this star,

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because, after all, it would
be magnified by the glass.

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And we'll also add this
circular red field,

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and along the way, I'll introduce you

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to the group isolation mode.

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Alright so, I'm going to start things off

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by turning off smart guides.

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Notice that every time
I move my cursor around,

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I'm flashing somewhere,

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and after a while that
gets a little irritating,

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and besides, because I'm done drawing,

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I don't need the smart guides anymore.

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So I'll go up to the view
menu, and choose smart guides,

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or, if you want to, you can
memorize that keyboard shortcut

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of control u here on a
PC, or command u on a Mac.

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Alright, now I'll go ahead and switch over

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to our document at hand, and I'll click

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on the central star right there,

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and I'll press control
c, or command c on a Mac,

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in order to copy it to the clipboard.

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Now I'm going to create a new layer,

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by dropping down to the little page icon

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at the bottom of the layers panel,

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and I'll alt click on it,
or option click on the Mac,

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in order to bring up the
layer options dialogue box.

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I'll go ahead and call
this new layer lone star,

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and I'll change its color to violet.

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And then I'll click okay
to make that new layer.

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Alright, now just go ahead
and deselect this star,

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by going up to the select menu,

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and choosing the deselect command,

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or you have that keyboard
shortcut of control shift a,

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or command shift a on the Mac.

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And the reason we're doing that is,

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otherwise when we choose paste in front,

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Illustrator would paste the new star

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directly in front of the old
star on that star's layer.

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We want it to appear on
the new layer instead.

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And to make that happen,

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click on the layers
panel flyout menu icon,

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and just make sure paste
remembers layers is turned off.

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It is by default, we don't want it on,

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it should not have a check mark,

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in which case we could now just go ahead

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and press control f,
or command f on a Mac,

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in order to paste in front.

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And if you see violet colored points

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in segments around your star,

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then you know you've done
everything exactly right.

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Alright now I want to
fill the star with white,

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so I'll go up to this first
swatch in the control panel,

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click on it and then select
white from the swatches list.

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And now let's say that you
want to scale this star.

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Well, one way to scale is to
click on the word transform,

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to bring up the transform panel,

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and then, instead of specifying
a width value in points,

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go ahead and set this value
to something like 130%,

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let's say, so you can
actually dial in percent,

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and then when you press the tab key,

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you'll enlarge the size of your star.

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And you'll translate that
value back into points,

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here inside the transform panel.

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But that may or may not be

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exactly the size you're looking for.

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What if you do want an exact size?

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You want to make sure that
the points of the stars

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are tucking all the way under

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this rim of the magnifying glass.

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In that case, you're better
off scaling with a stroke.

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And to do that, I'll go
ahead and press control z,

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or command z on the Mac, to
undo the most recent change,

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and I'll click in the second
swatch in the control panel,

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and change the color
of the swatch to white,

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so that it matches the fill,

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and then I'll go ahead and

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click on this down-pointing arrowhead,

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and I'll choose, let's say, 10 points,

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for the line weight,

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which is good, but
obviously not good enough.

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And so, to play around here,

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and get a sense of how things
are working on the fly,

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go ahead and click in
that line weight value,

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and then press the up arrow key,

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and I'm going to press and hold the key,

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until those points start
to come out the other side

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of the ring around the magnifying glass.

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And then once I've gone
too far, which I have,

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I'll press the down arrow key,

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in order to reduce that stroke value.

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And I ended up coming up with

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a line weight value
right there of 36 points,

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which produces the effect
you're seeing on screen now,

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at which point I'll press the enter key,

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or the return key on the Mac,

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in order to apply that change.

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Alright now I want to fill the
area inside the ring with red,

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and that means that I
need to create a circle

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that's the same size as the ring.

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And so what I'd like to do is click

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on this circle, not this one actually,

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this is the shadow, underneath the ring,

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I want this shape right here, I guess,

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but the problem is, that
it's a compound shape

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that's filled with white,

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and so that's not going to do me any good.

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And so what I need to do
is get one of these circles

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independently of the other.

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And I can do that, I can
access one of these shapes,

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by entering the group isolation mode.

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And to do that, I'll first undo that move,

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and then, what you do is you double-click

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on the selected item,

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and that's going to give
you this effect here,

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where everything but that
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is dimmed, and you
can't get to it anymore.

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You may have already experienced that

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as you've been working in Illustrator,

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it's very easy to
double-click on something.

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I'll just go ahead and
press the escape key here,

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to escape out, and notice,

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I could just go ahead
and click on the star,

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and accidentally double-click on it,

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and I'm all of a sudden in the one star,

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it's just a path isolation mode,

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which is crazy, because there's no reason

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to isolate a single path,

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but it does happen inside Illustrator.

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And if this happens to you,

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and you're sitting there
scratching your head,

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wondering how to get out,
just press the escape key,

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and that will take you
back to your artwork.

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But what we want to do, I'm just going to

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close this little tool bar, by the way,

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to get rid of it, because
it's going to get in the way

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in just a moment, what I want to do is,

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access these two circles independently,

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so I'm going to double click on this ring

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to enter the group isolation mode,

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even though we're not
working with a group,

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we're working with a compound path,

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but what it means is I can
now click on this outer circle

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to select it independently, like so,

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or I can click on the inner circle,

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to select it independently.

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And that's what I want,

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so I'll go ahead and
click on the inner circle,

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and then I'll go up to the edit menu,

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and choose the copy command, or of course,

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you can just press control or command c,

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in order to copy it to the clipboard.

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Now notice that we're seeing,

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essentially the path to
our current selection,

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so we're sitting here
inside the compound path,

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which itself is located
inside the angled layer.

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And so, I could click on that layer,

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in order to switch back so I
just have the layer isolated,

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in other words, I can gain access

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to the entire magnifying glass,

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but I can't select any of
the stars in the background.

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Or, as I was saying before,

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if you just want to get all the way out,

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you press the escape key,

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and that takes you out
of the isolation mode.

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Alright, now what you want
to do is click on the star,

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in order to select it, and we this time

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want to put the circle in back of it,

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so as opposed to going to the edit menu

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and choosing paste in front,

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we are, this time, going
to choose paste in back,

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which is another old school command,

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which is why it has such
a great keyboard shortcut

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of control b, for back,
or command b, on a Mac.

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And although we can't really see it,

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this white shape, it
is in back of the star,

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which will become entirely evident

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as soon as we change its fill,

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by clicking on the first swatch

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up here on the control panel,

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and selecting this shade of red,

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which is R193, G39, B45,

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which ends up producing
this effect right here.

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At which point, I'll just go
ahead and click off the path

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in order to deselect it.

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And that's how you scale
a shape with a stroke,

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as well as copy a shape that's trapped

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inside of a compound path
using the group isolation mode.