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- In this movie I'll show you how to

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offset one or more strokes in order to

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simulate the effect of depth.

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So we're going to start off by
creating these deep letters.

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Notice that each one of the strokes

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is slightly offset from the other.

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Then we'll add these edges, along with

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a drop shadow, to the gear.

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I'll go ahead and start off
inside this document here.

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I'll go up to the Select menu
and choose the Letters command

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in order to select all
the letters, like so.

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I'll click on the top stroke,

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here inside the appearance panel,

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and I'll turn off the Dashed Line checkbox

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so that we have a 10 point solid stroke.

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Alright, now to offset it.

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You want to make sure
that the stroke is active

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here inside the appearance panel,

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then you want to go up to the Effect menu.

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Choose Distort & Transform
and choose one of my

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favorite commands in all of Illustrator,

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which goes by the very
simple name, Transform.

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What it allows you to do is
scale, or move, or rotate

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an attribute on the fly.

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So for example, if I turn on
the Preview checkbox so I can

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see what I'm doing, and I
click in the Horizontal value,

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I want you to watch the
stroke move when I press

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the down-arrow key a couple of times.

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Do you see how it moves to the left?

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Then I'll click in the Vertical value

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and I'll press the down-arrow
key a couple of times as well,

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in order to nudge that stroke upward.

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Then, I'll click OK in
order to accept that change.

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Alright now I'm going
to zoom in a little bit

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so that we can see the
effect in more detail.

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And I'm going to add
another stroke by clicking

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on the top stroke right there,
and instead of clicking on

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Add New Stroke down here
in the bottom left corner

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of the panel, I'm going to
click on the little page icon

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to make a copy of that top stroke.

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That way, if I click on this triangle

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next to the word stroke
in order to expand it,

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I have not only my stroke attribute,

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but I have my Transform effect as well.

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Alright, I'm going to go ahead
and click on a color swatch

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right there and change it to white.

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Then, I'll reduce the line
weight to four points, like so.

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Then finally, I'll click
on the word Transform.

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So anytime you want to
modify a dynamic effect,

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you click on it here inside
the appearance panel,

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then you want to turn
on the Preview checkbox,

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and you have to do that every single time.

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And then go ahead and click
in the Horizontal move value,

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and press the down-arrow
key in order to nudge

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that white stroke farther to the left.

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Then I'll tab to the Vertical value

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and I'll press the down arrow
key to nudge the white stroke

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one additional point upward.

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Now click OK in order
to accept that change.

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Alright now I want to
duplicate all these strokes

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onto the purple infinity sign,

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but if I shift-click on it
to add it to the selection,

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notice that we're seeing mixed objects

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with mixed appearances here
inside the appearance panel.

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That's because the infinity
symbol just has the one stroke.

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So I'll go ahead and click off
the letters to deselect them,

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and then I'll click in the purple infinity

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to select it independently.

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Now, go ahead and select
the eyedropper tool

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near the bottom of the tool box,

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or you can press the "i" key.

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Press the enter key or
the return key on the Mac,

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just to confirm that the
Appearance checkbox is turned on

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over here on the left
side of the dialogue box,

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in which case you can just
go ahead and cancel out.

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Then, click on any of the
letters in order to lift

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all of its appearance attributes like so.

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Just like that, your duplicating
those extra offset strokes.

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Alright, now press the
"v" key to switch back

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to my black arrow tool, and
click off that infinity sign.

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Now let's take a look at how
to add some depth to this gear.

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I'll start things off by
selecting this black gear

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in the background, and then
pressing the backspace key

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or the delete key on the
Mac to get rid of it.

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Then I'll click on the
gear in order to select it.

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Notice here in the appearance panel,

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we can see that this is a compound path.

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We can also see that the
stroke is in front of the fill.

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We want the stroke to
be in back of the fill.

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So go ahead and grab that stroke,

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and drag it and drop it
below the fill, like so.

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Then, I'll go ahead and
click on this stroke

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in order to make it
active, and I will change

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the line weight to 20 points.

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I'm also going to change the Corner,

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here inside the stroke panel,
to a round corner like so.

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Alright, now let's go ahead
and offset that stroke

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using an application
of the Transform effect

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by going up to the Effect menu

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and choosing this second
command, Transform...

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What that tells you is
it's going to bring up

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a dialogue box complete
with the last settings

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that you first applied, meaning that both

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of the move values are
set to negative two.

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Go ahead and turn on the Preview checkbox

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so you can see what that looks like.

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I really want the effect to move downward.

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I'm going to click in the
Vertical move value there,

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and I'm going to press the up-arrow key,

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which as you can see,
raises the Vertical value

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in one point increments,
which lowers the stroke

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here inside the document window.

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In the end I'm going to go
ahead and take that value

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up to five points.

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Then I'm going to press
shift-tab in order to highlight

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the Horizontal move value.

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Then I'll press the
down-arrow key in order to

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reduce that value and move the
stroke farther to the left.

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In the end, I came up with
a value of negative five.

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So we've got negative five
for the Horizontal value

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and positive 5 for the Vertical value,

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at which point I'll go ahead and click OK

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in order to accept that effect.

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Then finally, what depth
effect can't benefit

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from a drop shadow?

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But before I choose that effect,

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I want to make sure that I'm
applying it to the entire path,

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so go ahead and click on Compound Path

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at the top of the appearance panel.

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Then go up to the Effect
menu, choose Stylize,

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and choose Drop Shadow.

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I came up with these settings right here.

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The first two are the defaults,
so Mode is set to Multiply,

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Opacity is 75%, the color is black.

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And then, I went ahead and set

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the X Offset value to negative five,

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and the Y Offset and
Blur values both to five.

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You can see what that looks like

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by turning on the Preview checkbox.

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If you like what you
see, then just go ahead

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and click OK in order
to apply that effect.

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Then, I'll go ahead and
click off the path outline

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to deselect it.

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And that's how you simulate depth,

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by offsetting your strokes
using an application

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of the Transform effect
here inside Illustrator.