- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to apply
a couple of advanced symbol modifications.
Specifically, we're going to take the title of the book
and we're going to give it a drop shadow,
and then we're going to take the front page title
which is currently set on a single line,
and we're going to break its link to the symbol
and set it on three lines like so.
All right, so the first step is to grab the title
and notice, even though it's kind of hard to see,
this blue outline against the blue background,
that this is an instance of a symbol,
and so we're seeing that, indicated by the word symbol
up here in the far left side of the control panel,
and you can also see the book title symbol highlighted
inside the Symbols panel, and so to edit it,
just go ahead and double-click on it,
and if you see the alert message, just click OK,
and then I'll go ahead and I'll on that line of point text
to select it.
All right, now what you want to do is go up to Effect menu,
choose Stylize, and choose Drop Shadow,
of if you loaded d.keys, you'd have that shortcut
of control + alt + d here on the PC
or command + option + d on the Mac.
Then turn on the Preview checkbox
and notice that I've set the color here
to a hue value of 207 degrees, just happens to work,
a saturation of 100%, and a brightness of 20%.
All right, so I'll just go ahead and click OK.
The blend mode is set to multiply, the opacity value is 50%.
I want the X and Y offset values to be five points apiece
and the blurs to be set to zero, at which point, click OK.
All right, now I'll go ahead and update
the other title items just by pressing the escape key,
and you can see that the title on the back cover
as well as the spine now has a drop shadow.
Now the interesting and very useful thing about this
is that the drop shadow rotated along with the text.
That's not normally the case.
Let's say I go ahead and double-click on this text
once again and then click OK in order to gain access
to the original type and I'll go ahead and select
the type tool, which I can get by pressing the t key
and I'll just double-click on the word Modern right there
and I'll press control + c, or command + c on the Mac
to copy it, and then I'll press the escape key
in order to exit the symbol isolation mode,
and now I'll press the t key once again
to select my type tool and I will click
in order to create a new line of point type
and I'll press control + v or command + v on the Mac
in order to paste that text.
Notice it's coming in slightly larger
and that's because this instance has been scaled a little
and now with that text active, I'll go up to the Effect menu
and choose that very first command, Apply Drop Shadow,
which will repeat the last drop shadow I applied.
All right, now let's say I want to take this guy
and I want to rotate it onto the spine.
Then I would select the rotate tool,
which I can get by pressing the r key,
and as you can see, the bottom left point is the origin
by default; that's just fine.
And so I'll just press the enter key or the return key
on the Mac to bring up the Rotate dialog box.
I still have an angle value of negative 90 degrees,
so I'll click OK, and notice what happened.
Even though the text rotated from here to here,
the shadow did not rotate.
It's still going five points to the right
as well as five points down, whereas it did rotate
when the text was expressed as a symbol.
So there's the hidden advantage for you.
A symbol is going to keep all of the various attributes
aligned together.
We'll get rid of that guy by pressing the backspace key
or the delete key on the Mac.
Now I want to break this guy onto three lines,
and in order to make that happen, I have to break the link
between the instance and the symbol,
and so I'm going to press the v key to switch
to my black arrow tool, I'll click on this text to select it
and then you can either click on this little break icon
at the bottom of the Symbols panel or you can just click on
the Break Link button up here in the control panel.
Now either way, you get a kind of unfortunate experience.
Notice that the color of my baseline has changed
from blue to red, which makes it easier to see
against the blue background, but here's the problem.
I'll go ahead and bring up my right-side panels
by moving my cursor to the far right side of the screen
and I'll go to the Layers panel
and expand the cover layer,
and notice that the objects on this layer go from
being colored blue to suddenly being colored red,
and that's because of this item right here
which is the expanded symbol, incidentally.
If I were to target it by clicking on its circular meatball,
you can see on the far left side of the control panel
that it's a layer, that is to say, a new sublayer
inside of our preexisting layer,
and there is no earthly reason for that.
It doesn't do us any good whatsoever,
so I'm going to twirl that guy open and I'll grab
the text right there and I'll drag it out of that sublayer.
Then I'll select the empty sublayer
and I'll click on the little trash icon to get rid of it.
And now notice this page item right here.
If I were to twirl close the cover layer
and twirl it back open, that page item goes from being red
to now being blue, and it was only red
because it was following that sublayer,
which is kind of this well-known old bug
inside of the software.
Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and twirl that layer back closed
and I'll let those panels once again disappear,
and I'll go ahead and press the t key
to switch to my type tool, and I'll click right there,
and I will press the backspace key followed by enter
or return, and I'll click before the D and press backspace
to get rid of that extra space.
Then I'll press enter or return
so that I have three lines of type.
All right, now I want them to be much bigger,
so I'll click on the word Character
up here in the Character panel,
and I'll change the type size to 72 points,
and I'll press the enter key or the return key on the Mac
to accept that change, and now I'll drag the text
by this baseline until the word Design appears aligned
with the word Modern, and I'm pressing the shift key
by the way as I drag, to again straighten the angle
to exactly vertical, at which point I'll release,
and that will go ahead and move that text
to the proper position.
Now I want you to notice that this drop shadow
is better suiting the large text than the smaller text
that is still represented by the symbols,
and so I'm going to edit that drop shadow
by double-clicking on this instance right there
on the back cover, and again I'll click OK.
Then you want to select that text, and now,
I need to bring back my right side panels just by moving
my cursor to the far right side of the screen.
I'll switch to the Appearance panel,
and I'll click on the word Drop Shadow,
and now I'll take both the X offset value
and the Y offset value down to 3.33 points
and that's because that is the ratio of difference
between the big text and the smaller text
and now click OK, and that goes ahead
and updates the drop shadow, after which point
I'll press the escape key in order to update the symbol
and all of its instances both on the back cover
and here on the spine, and now I'll press control + alt + 0
or command + option + 0 on the Mac in order to fit
all of the artboards onscreen.
And there you have a few examples
of advanced symbol modifications that you can apply
any time you like, here inside Illustrator.