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- [Instructor] In this movie

I'll show you how to adjust



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the guides to customize the

effect of 9-slice scaling.



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Alright, so here we are



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looking at the badly stretched artwork.



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I'll go ahead and select it by

clicking inside the artwork.



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You can't click inside the frame.



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You can't even click on

the frame by the way,



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that's not going to work.



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So you have to click someplace in it.



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And I want to modify the symbol,



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so I'm going to double

click at which point,



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I'll go ahead and click OK



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in order to enter the

symbol isolation mode,



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and I'll go ahead and zoom in here.



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And so once again,



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we have two horizontal

guides and two vertical,



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and you may wonder how in the world



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two horizontal guides

and two vertical guides



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have anything to do with the number nine.



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Well the idea is that we now

have nine sections of art,



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as I'll trace just using

the rectangle tool.



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So we've got this upper left quadrant,



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and then if I were to switch

back to the black arrow tool



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by pressing the V key,



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I could then drag it over

to this top central area.



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Then we've got a top right region.



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We've got a bottom right region,



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a bottom central, and a bottom left,



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and then we've got a center left,



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we've got a center center,



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and then we've got a center right.



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So, nine regions in all.



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And the idea is that

this area in the center



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is going to stretch all over the place.



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Whereas these guys in the far corners,



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top left, bottom left,

bottom right, and top right,



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they're not going to scale at all.



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So they're going to remain fixed.



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And then this region is

going to scale vertically.



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This region's going to scale vertically.



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Whereas the top central region



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and the bottom central region



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are going to scale horizontally.



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And so what we need to

do is set up the guides



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so that the proper portion

of the artwork is scaling.



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Alright so I'll go ahead and

get rid of that rectangle,



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and now I'll hover over this

horizontal guide right here.



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The right hand guide.



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And I'll drag it to the

other side of the arrowhead,



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and that way, the

arrowhead is now protected



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from any horizontal scaling.



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Now I'll drag this left

guide to beyond the tail,



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the feathery tail there,



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and now that's going to take care of the



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horizontal scaling just fine.



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But it's still going to mess

up the vertical scaling.



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Which is why we need to

take this bottom guide



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and move it to above the rounded corner.



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And then we need to take the top guide



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and move it to below the rounded corner.



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So just this region is

going to scale vertically,



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and this region is going

to scale horizontally.



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After which point, I'll press the ESC key,



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in order to update the

symbol and you can see,



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that ends up working beautifully.



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And I could continue to scale this guy



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anyway I like and I'm

never going to effect



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the arrowhead or the tail



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and I'm not going to stretch

the arrow vertically at all.



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Alright, now let's see what happens



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if we focus our attention

only on the arrow.



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I'm going to go ahead and

select these paths like so.



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And I'm no longer interested

in the bounding box,



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so I'm going to go up to the view menu



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and choose hide bounding box,



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or you have the keyboard

shortcut of control shift B,



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or command shift B on the Mac.



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And then I'll once again

bring back my symbols panel



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and I'll click on the little page icon



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at the bottom of the panel,



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and I'll call this guy arrow only.



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I'll set the registration

point to the middle left



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right here and we'll see what

that looks like in a moment.



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And then I'll turn on enable

guides for 9-slice scaling



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and I'll click OK.



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And that turns this guy into an instance



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as we're seeing here.



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Notice the cross is now appearing over



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on the left side of the shape.



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And that's because that's where



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I just put the registration point.



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And so let's say I decide

to scale the arrow,



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this time using the scale tool.



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Notice that the origin point

is now located by default



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over here on the left side of the object.



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Now I can still move it

if I want to by clicking,



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however its default location



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is going to be right about there,



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and I'll see that's the case

if I switch back and forth.



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I'll just press the V key to switch back



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to my black arrow tool



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and then I'll click on

the object to select it



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and I'll press the S key to

switch back to the scale tool.



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And there it is.



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Alright now I'm just

going to drag horizontally



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to scale the arrow.



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And I'm pressing the shift key as well,



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so that I'm scaling the arrow.



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And you can see that as before,



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it's very messed up.



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Now let's say what I want to have happen



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is that just the shaft scales horizontally



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and that no scaling occurs vertically.



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Well, can't really pull that off.



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And let me show you what I mean.



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I'll press the V key to

switch to my black arrow tool



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and I'll double click on the shape



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in order to edit the

original symbol definition



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and then I'll just go ahead

and drag the vertical guides



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so they fit right there

inside that purple shaft.



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And as things stand now this

are would scale vertically.



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I don't want it to

scale vertically at all.



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So I'm just going to

move these guides up here



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to an empty region in

order to fool Illustrator,



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and then I'll press the ESC

key to accept that change.



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And now notice it just says,



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"Fine. If you're going to be that way,



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then I'm just going to

scale the entire shape,



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and I'm not going to pay

attention to your guides at all."



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So there you have it.



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Illustrator cannot be fooled.



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So what you have to do is

double click on that guy again,



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click OK, and then just go ahead



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and move one of the guides

to underneath the arrow



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and the other to above the arrow like so,



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and then press the ESC key.



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And notice now that Illustrator goes ahead



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and stretches the arrow

the way I want it to.



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The problem is, if I click

on the arrow to select it



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and press the S key to

switch to the scale tool,



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and I scale this guy vertically,



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then I'm going to just scale

the arrow proportionally.



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Alright that's not what I want however,



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so I'll just undo that last scale.



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And to finish off the effect,



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I'll press the V key to

switch to my black arrow tool



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and I'll just drag this banner item over,



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so that it kind of fits inside



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the negative space of the arrow.



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And that's how you adjust the guides



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to customize the effects

of 9-slice scaling,



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here inside Illustrator.