- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take
our single perfect wave and we'll duplicate it
in order to create this effect right here.
And notice that we have a couple of pairs of waves going on.
The mostly horizontal orange ones,
as well as the bright vertical waves.
Alright, so the first thing we want to do
is create some additional guides.
And I'm going to do that by zooming out here
by pressing control zero or command zero on a mac.
I'll turn off this expanded layer
for a moment because it might get in our way.
And I'll click on the guides layer.
Then, you want to go ahead and grab the line tool.
Position your cursor at the intersection
of the two guides like so.
And for the best results,
make sure your smart guides are turned on.
And then, drag up into the right, let's say,
while pressing the shift and alt keys
so that you're creating the line from the center outward,
as well as constraining it to 45 degrees.
I got a little bit of an odd scroll there, but I just
want to make sure that my line goes beyond the bleed, like so.
So the distance value is probably
going to be more than 1,000 points.
At which point, go ahead and release to create that line.
Alright, I'll press control zero or command zero on a mac
in order to once again center my zoom.
And now I'm going to create a duplicate of that line
by selecting the reflect tool
from the rotate tool flyout menu.
Or you can press the O key.
And that should go ahead and put the origin point
right there at the intersection of the two guidelines.
In which case, press the enter key or the return key
on the mac to bring up the reflect dialog box.
Set the axis to vertical.
Although I believe horizontal in our case
is going to give us the exact same results.
And so, either way, just go ahead and click copy
to create a copy of that line.
Now press the V key to switch back to your black arrow tool.
Shift click on the other diagonal path,
then right click inside the document window and choose
make guides to convert those two lines to guidelines.
Now let's bring back the expanded layer.
And the reason these guidelines are going to become
so useful to us is that they will help us make sure
that we're duplicating the waves in the proper fashion.
Alright now go ahead and select the expanded layer
and switch to the rectangle tool
which you can get by pressing the M key.
And then, go ahead and click at the intersection
of all of those guides and if necessary,
you can just go ahead and zoom in
to make sure you're clicking at the proper location.
But, wait a sec, don't click.
You want to press the alt key or the option key
on the mac and click.
So we're creating the rectangle from the center outward.
And we just want a big rectangle to fill some space here.
And so, I'm going to change the width value to 900 points
and I've got a height value of 600 points.
Both of which will work out just fine.
At which point I'll click OK in order
to create a giant, apparently unfilled rectangle.
Which is why it doesn't look like I have anything on screen.
To fill the rectangle, I'll click on this first swatch
up here on the control panel and I'll select
this dark shade of blue that begins R=46.
And that will produce this big blue field in front of us.
Then, you just want to get rid of the stroke by clicking
in the second swatch and selecting none.
Alright, now let's zoom out again by pressing control zero
or command zero on the mac and then right click
in the document window, choose a range,
and choose send to back or you've got that keyboard shortcut
of control shift left bracket
or command shift left bracket on the mac.
Alright, now I will press the V key to switch back
to my black arrow tool and I'll click
on the orange wave to select it.
Now we have to duplicate that wave and as you may recall,
we want to move it 28 points down and to the right,
which translates to duplicating the wave
20 points right and 20 points down.
Alright so to make that happen, press the enter key
or the return key on the mac and because the arrow tool
is selected, that brings up the move dialog box.
Set both the horizontal and vertical values to 20 points.
And as you can see right here, that translates to more
or less a 28 point move in a negative 45 degree direction.
At which point click copy to create a duplicate of the wave.
Alright, now we just want to fill the bottom portion
of the artwork with waves and so I'll press control D,
but I need to count here to make sure I get this right.
So we've already created one duplicate.
If I press control D we'll create a second one.
Then we'll have three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16 waves.
The best of training involves a bunch of counting.
Alright, now what you want to do is marquee these guys.
Notice I'm marqueeing over on the edge
outside of the rectangle.
And I just want to select the 16 new waves
that I've created here and here's the thing.
The reason we have the guides, by the way,
is to confirm that these waves
are moving in a 45 degree angle.
And so you just want to make sure that this guideline
appears to be slicing right through
the same portion of all the waves.
This guy over here, we're not the least bit concerned about.
In fact, I probably shouldn't have created it,
but it's nice to have them both there.
Alright, now press control zero or command zero
on the mac to once again zoom out.
And I want to duplicate these guys to the other side,
to the top portion of the artwork and I'm going to do that
by pressing the enter key or the return key on the mac
to bring up the move dialog box and I'm going to change
the horizontal value to negative
and then click after the value and enter asterisk
not 16 because that doesn't compensate for the middle wave.
We need to change that to 17,
which is going to produce a value of -340 points.
And you want to enter that same value, -340,
for the vertical value as well.
And notice that perfectly duplicates those waves
into the proper position, assuming
that you click on the copy button.
And that will fill up your artwork
as we're seeing right here.
Alright now I want to select all of the orange waves.
And I'll do that just by clicking
on a select similar objects icon.
And that assumes, by the way,
if you click the down pointing arrowhead,
that the icon is set to all as by default.
Alright and with all these guys selected,
I'll go up to the object menu,
drop down to compound path and choose make,
where you have that keyboard shortcut
of control eight or command eight on the mac.
Alright, so now at this point we have
what amounts to two path outlines.
The big blue rectangle and the orange horizontal waves.
Now we need to create the bright vertical ones.
And this is where things get pretty gnarly.
I'm going to select the reflect tool once again
and with any luck, your target is going to be sitting there
right there at the intersection of all those guidelines.
In which case, press the enter key
or the return key on the mac.
And this time you want to set the axis for sure to vertical.
And when I say for sure, again I'm not sure
it makes much difference in this case,
but I'm going to go with vertical.
And then I'll click copy in order
to create a copy of all of those paths.
At which point we get this fairly insane effect.
What you want to do is go up to the control panel,
click onto fill swatch and change it to white.
And then we want to blend these paths
by clicking on the word opacity,
once again up here in the control panel,
clicking on normal and changing the blend mode to overlay,
which produces this wonderful interaction here.
Alright, now I'll go ahead and switch from the reflect tool
to the rotate tool and press the enter key or the return key
on the mac to bring up the rotate dialog box.
Change the angle value to 90 degrees.
Don't click copy because we already have a copy.
What you want to do is click OK
in order to create this effect here.
And now you can press control shift A
or command shift A on a mac to deselect the artwork.
And just so we can see it a little better,
go ahead and turn off the guides layer.
And that's how you duplicate and blend your waves
to create this dazzling effect.
In the next movie, we'll express it
as a seamlessly repeating tile pattern.