- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you
how to both undo and cancel unwanted pattern modifications
and also introduce you to a couple of additional options
found inside the Pattern Options panel.
But first, I want you to notice
how the original drawing is put together.
I'll go ahead and zoom in on it here.
Notice that this shape as well as this one
and these highlights up top are all slightly blurred.
So I've applied a gaussian blur effect to them,
and then, if I click way up here at the top,
you can see that the main radial gradient is expressed
as a blend.
And you know that's the case
because you can see the word Blend
on the far left side of the Control panel.
And the reason I used Blend is
that just gave me a little extra control
over the way the colors blended from black to this deep red
and eventually a bright red at this inner ring,
and then finally, we've got this outer circle right here
that has two gradient strokes, one on top of the other
that proceed along the stroke,
so around the shape.
And the reason I want you to see that is
that none of those things are supported
by the Pattern Editor,
and to see what that looks like,
I go ahead and zoom out a little bit here,
and I'll press Control + Shift + A
or Command + Shift + A on the Mac
to deselect the artwork,
and I'll go ahead and turn the pattern layer back on.
And then I'll double-click on the house swatch
in order to switch to the pattern editing mode,
and I'll just go ahead
and click on this outer ring right here,
and notice that it is been converted
to what's known as a gradient mesh,
and we'll learn exactly what that means
in the very next chapter.
And if I click here, where the blend would normally be,
I end up selecting a group as indicated by the word Group
on the far left side of the Control panel
that contains several hundreds circles.
And then, if I were to click on the center of the eye,
you can see that it's been converted to an embedded image,
and a best way to discover that
is to go up to the Object menu
and choose the Ungroup command
because the image gets grouped automatically,
at which point you'll see the word Image once again
on the far left side of the Control panel,
and if I click on it,
we can see that it's an embedded image.
And I'm just going to go ahead and enlarge this panel,
so that you can see that we end up
with a total of five embedded images,
where this pattern is concerned in all.
Alright, so, I just want to make that point clear.
It'll come up again in the very next movie,
but for now, we're going to go ahead
and modify this pattern a little bit.
I'm going to zoom out,
and notice this checkbox right here, Move Tile with Art.
It's selected by default,
and its job is to move this tile,
which we can see represented in blue,
and if you don't see it,
make sure that the Show Tile Edge checkbox is turned on
along with anything that you move.
So, for example, let's say I grab this ring here,
and I move it to a different location.
I will not see the hexagon move,
and the reason for that is because it only moves
when you move all the objects in a pattern.
So, what I would need to do is press Control + Z
or Command + Z on the Mac to undo that move,
and then I'll just go ahead
and marquee all these shapes like so.
It's a little confusing telling what's selected
from the actual tile boundary,
so I'm going to press Control + H
or Command + H on the Mac to hide that selection,
and then I'll just go ahead
and drag the artwork to a different location,
and notice that the tile moves along with.
If that's not the behavior you want,
then just go ahead and turn the checkbox off.
And now notice, if I drag these guys
to a different location,
that the tile stays where it was,
and so far it doesn't look like it has much effect,
but if I move it too far away,
I'll end up moving that artwork outside the tile entirely,
at which point we won't really have much
of a pattern anymore.
Now, I want to direct your attention to this checkbox
down here at the bottom, Show Swatch Bounds.
If you turn it on,
then you'll see this dotted rectangle right here,
and to see it a little better,
I'll mover the Pattern Options panel out of the way.
And that dotted boundary shows you,
where objects are going to fall out of the pattern.
So, because all of the objects are outside
of that boundary currently, we see no pattern.
But if I were to move them in just a little bit, like so,
then we will move some of those objects
back into the pattern,
including a couple of the highlight images
along with what used to be a blend
and of course, those two gradient strokes.
And so, if I were to move things slightly farther out,
so notice right now, I'm seeing an intersection
between that dotted boundary and that pink bounding box,
the outer most rectangle,
and so, if I were to drop it into place right now,
I'd be left with those rings,
as well as a little bit of a drop shadow image
and nothing more.
Alright, now, let's say
at this point I'm just fooling around,
I'm just trying to figure out how things work,
and I want to cancel that.
Well, of course, normally what you would do
to cancel in Illustrator,
is you would press the Escape key.
Unfortunately, that's a gotcha,
where the Pattern Editing mode is concerned
because pressing Escape is the same
as clicking the Done button.
And so, what do you do in order to get back your pattern?
Well, you would think
that you would just press Control + Z
or Command + Z on the Mac,
but if you do that, then you really undo that last drag
back inside the Pattern Editing mode.
So notice we actually did a couple of things there.
But from this point on, if you press Control + Z
or Command + Z on the Mac,
you're just going to keep undoing those various steps
that you performed inside the Pattern Editor.
Luckily, I have a little bit of a trick for you,
and to demonstrate it, I'm going to redo all those moves.
So, I'll just choose the Redo command from the Edit menu,
and then I'll press Control + Shift + Z
or Command + Shift + Z on the Mac
in order to once again exit the Pattern Editor.
So, here we are looking at a big mistake.
What do we do?
Well, it's just two steps.
You press Control + Z or Command + Z on the Mac
in order to go back to the Pattern Editor,
and then you just go up here
to the Cancel button and click on it.
And that will cancel all that stuff
without you having to press Control + Z
or Command + Z on the Mac a bunch of times in a row.
Alright, and just one more trick
that I want to share with you.
Notice how the pattern is not really centered
inside the window here.
Let's say you want to scooch it around.
In that case, just go ahead and click on the rectangle
with the Black Arrow tool.
And the reason I can't see it selected is
because I pressed Control + H or Command + H on the Mac
to hide my selection,
and so if I press the keyboard shortcut again,
I can now see the center point right there.
Next, with the Black Arrow tool selected,
I press the Enter key
in order to bring up the Move dialogue box.
And notice that's making a mess of things,
I'll just set both of these values to zero, let's say,
and then I make sure to turn off Transform Objects,
leave Transform Patterns turned on,
and next, I'll click inside the horizontal value,
and I'll press Shift + Up Arrow a couple of times
in order to nudge the pattern to the right.
And now we want to nudge it upwards,
so I'll tab to the vertical value
and press Shift + Down Arrow a total of five times
in order to produce this effect here,
so that this central lens is centered inside the rectangle,
at which point, I'll just click Okay to apply that change.
And then I'll press Control + Shift + A
or Command + Shift + A to deselect my artwork.
And that is how you both undo
and cancel unwanted modifications
when working inside the Pattern Editor
here inside Illustrator.