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- [Instructor] In this movie,

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I'll show you how to use
the last of the shape tools,

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which actually isn't a shape tool at all.

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It's this guy right here.

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If you click and hold
on whatever shape tool

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you're seeing inside your toolbox,

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then notice down here at
the bottom of the toolbox,

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it's the Flare tool

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and as opposed to drawing a shape

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the way the other shape tools do,

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this tool draws a ton of lines

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and shapes in order to
create a special effect.

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So, in other words,

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it just happens to be
grouped with the shape tools.

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Still, I want to show you how it works

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because it's a fair amount of fun

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and we're going to use the tool

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to achieve this effect right here,

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which gives us a little bit of balance

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on the inside of the magnifying glass.

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Alright, so if you're still
out there working with me,

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go ahead and click on the lone
star layer to make it active

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and then drop down to the tiny page icon

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at the bottom of the Layers panel

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and alt or option click on it

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to bring up the Layer
Options dialogue box.

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I'm going to call this layer "flare"

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and I'm going to change its color to green

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and then I'll click OK.

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Alright, now what you want
to do is drag with this tool

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and I'm going to start a little bit down

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and to the left of the center of the star,

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right about here.

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And notice as you drag,

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you're just going to create
a cacophony of stuff.

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So basically, we have a ton of rays

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that are coming out from
the center of the drag

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and then we have this halo,

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which is represented by those two rings.

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Now, you can change the number of rays,

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much as you might expect by now,

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by pressing the down arrow key

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in order to reduce their number

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or pressing the up arrow key

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in order to increase their number.

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You could also press the control key

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or the command key on a Mac as you drag

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in order to change the size of that halo.

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Can you see how that outer ring

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is expanding and contracting?

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And that's a function of pressing

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and holding the control key
or the command key on a Mac

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and you can also press
the space bar if you like

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in order to move this effect on the fly

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and you don't really need to worry

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about getting it exactly right

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because you can always come back

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and change it later, as
I'm about to show you.

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Alright, after you do that,

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you can click and drag a second time

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to create these rings

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that are emanating from the flare effect.

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Alright, now let's say you want to edit

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this wacky effect you've created.

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You have one of two options.

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Notice your cursor, if
you look very carefully,

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appears as a kind of cross
with some dots around it.

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If you move your cursor over the

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center of that ring right there,

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those lines in the cross,

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they become tiny, itty bitty arrows,

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which allow you to then move the rings

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to a different location.

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I know right?

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And then, you can do the same thing

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at the center of the effect
over here near the star.

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And you can drag that
to wherever you like.

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Not only that, if that's
not enough for you,

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then I'll just go ahead and
move this down a little.

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You also have the option
of pressing the enter key,

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as long as the Flare tool is active,

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that's the return key on a Mac,

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in order to bring up the
Flare Options dialogue box.

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Now I'm not going to wander through each

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and every one of these,

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but I do want you to have a
sense for what's going on here.

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If you change the diameter value,

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you're going to increase
the size of this halo.

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So notice, if I take it up
to 400 points, for example,

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I'm increasing the halo

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so that it's exceeding
the edge of the glass,

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which is, of course, not what I want,

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so I'll just go ahead

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and take that back down to, let's say 300.

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You can also experiment with

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these other center values if you'd like.

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The growth value here inside the halo

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is going to expand how big the halo gets,

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that is, the region between
these two circles right here.

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I'm going to go ahead and
take it down a little bit

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so that we have this
kind of edge right there.

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And you can also change the
number of rays, if you'd like.

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I think I might be up to the
maximum at 50 right there.

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Yes, indeed I am.

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But I kind of like that effect.

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You can turn the rays off if
you don't want them, like so,

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or you can turn the rings off,
which is what I'm going to do.

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I really don't want the rings
associated with this effect

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and so, having done that,

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I'll just go ahead and click OK

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in order to apply that effect

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and I might move this guy up

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into the right just a little bit

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in order to better fill
the magnifying glass.

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Alright, now if you deselect this effect

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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 once again you can
press Ctrl + Shift + A

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or Cmd + Shift + A on a Mac.

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You'll see that it's kind
of leaking out down here

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along the bottom left edge
of the magnifying glass,

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which doesn't really make any sense,

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but you can mask that effect.

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And again, this is getting
a little ahead of ourselves,

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but I think we should do it,

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if only in the name of
creating quality art.

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So what I'm going to do here

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is I'm going to go over
to the lone star layer

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and notice that it has
a triangle next to it,

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which means that you
can click the triangle

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to expand the layer,

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at which point I'm going to go ahead

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and target right there
by clicking on the circle

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associated with that red circle

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that's located behind the white star.

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Now, you want to press Ctrl + C

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or Cmd + C on a mac to copy it.

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Alright, having done that,

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just go ahead and collapse
that lone star layer

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and then expand the flare layer, like so,

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and go ahead and target the flare

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by clicking on its circle

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and that's going to
select all that garbage,

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as you're seeing right there,

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at which point you want to press Ctrl + F,

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or Cmd + F on a Mac,

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in order to paste that
circle in front of it.

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Alright, now what you want to do

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is drop down to the bottom of
the Layers panel once again

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and notice this icon right there,

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Make/Release Clipping Mask.

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Just go ahead and click on it.

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And that will convert that circle

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that you just pasted to a mask

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and now everything about that flare

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is contained inside that circle

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and no longer leaks into
the blue star background,

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at which point you can go ahead

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and click that triangle in
front of the flare layer

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to once again collapse it.

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And now I'll press Ctrl + Shift + A,

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,or Cmd + Shift + A on a
Mac, to deselect my artwork

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and just to make sure
I don't mess things up

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any further using the Flare tool,

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I'll press the "V" key

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to switch back to my black arrow tool.

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And that's how you use the Flare tool,

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the one shape tool that's
actually a special effects tool

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here inside Illustrator.