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- [Instructor] In this movie,

I'll show you how to apply



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a couple of advanced symbol modifications.



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Specifically, we're going to

take the title of the book



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and we're going to give it a drop shadow,



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and then we're going to

take the front page title



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which is currently set on a single line,



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and we're going to break

its link to the symbol



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and set it on three lines like so.



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All right, so the first

step is to grab the title



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and notice, even though

it's kind of hard to see,



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this blue outline against

the blue background,



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that this is an instance of a symbol,



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and so we're seeing that,

indicated by the word symbol



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up here in the far left

side of the control panel,



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and you can also see the

book title symbol highlighted



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inside the Symbols

panel, and so to edit it,



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just go ahead and double-click on it,



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and if you see the alert

message, just click OK,



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and then I'll go ahead and

I'll on that line of point text



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to select it.



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All right, now what you want

to do is go up to Effect menu,



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choose Stylize, and choose Drop Shadow,



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of if you loaded d.keys,

you'd have that shortcut



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of control + alt + d here on the PC



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or command + option + d on the Mac.



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Then turn on the Preview checkbox



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and notice that I've set the color here



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to a hue value of 207

degrees, just happens to work,



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a saturation of 100%,

and a brightness of 20%.



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All right, so I'll just

go ahead and click OK.



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The blend mode is set to multiply,

the opacity value is 50%.



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I want the X and Y offset

values to be five points apiece



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and the blurs to be set to

zero, at which point, click OK.



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All right, now I'll go ahead and update



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the other title items just

by pressing the escape key,



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and you can see that the

title on the back cover



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as well as the spine

now has a drop shadow.



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Now the interesting and

very useful thing about this



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is that the drop shadow

rotated along with the text.



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That's not normally the case.



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Let's say I go ahead and

double-click on this text



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once again and then click

OK in order to gain access



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to the original type and

I'll go ahead and select



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the type tool, which I can

get by pressing the t key



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and I'll just double-click on

the word Modern right there



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and I'll press control + c,

or command + c on the Mac



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to copy it, and then

I'll press the escape key



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in order to exit the

symbol isolation mode,



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and now I'll press the t key once again



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to select my type tool and I will click



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in order to create a

new line of point type



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and I'll press control + v

or command + v on the Mac



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in order to paste that text.



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Notice it's coming in slightly larger



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and that's because this instance

has been scaled a little



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and now with that text active,

I'll go up to the Effect menu



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and choose that very first

command, Apply Drop Shadow,



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which will repeat the last

drop shadow I applied.



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All right, now let's say

I want to take this guy



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and I want to rotate it onto the spine.



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Then I would select the rotate tool,



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which I can get by pressing the r key,



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and as you can see, the bottom

left point is the origin



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by default; that's just fine.



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And so I'll just press the

enter key or the return key



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on the Mac to bring up

the Rotate dialog box.



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I still have an angle value

of negative 90 degrees,



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so I'll click OK, and

notice what happened.



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Even though the text

rotated from here to here,



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the shadow did not rotate.



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It's still going five points to the right



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as well as five points

down, whereas it did rotate



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when the text was expressed as a symbol.



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So there's the hidden advantage for you.



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A symbol is going to keep

all of the various attributes



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aligned together.



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We'll get rid of that guy by

pressing the backspace key



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or the delete key on the Mac.



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Now I want to break this

guy onto three lines,



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and in order to make that

happen, I have to break the link



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between the instance and the symbol,



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and so I'm going to

press the v key to switch



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to my black arrow tool, I'll

click on this text to select it



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and then you can either click

on this little break icon



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at the bottom of the Symbols

panel or you can just click on



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the Break Link button up

here in the control panel.



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Now either way, you get a kind

of unfortunate experience.



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Notice that the color of

my baseline has changed



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from blue to red, which

makes it easier to see



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against the blue background,

but here's the problem.



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I'll go ahead and bring

up my right-side panels



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by moving my cursor to the

far right side of the screen



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and I'll go to the Layers panel



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and expand the cover layer,



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and notice that the objects

on this layer go from



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being colored blue to

suddenly being colored red,



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and that's because of this item right here



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which is the expanded

symbol, incidentally.



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If I were to target it by

clicking on its circular meatball,



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you can see on the far left

side of the control panel



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that it's a layer, that

is to say, a new sublayer



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inside of our preexisting layer,



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and there is no earthly reason for that.



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It doesn't do us any good whatsoever,



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so I'm going to twirl that

guy open and I'll grab



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the text right there and I'll

drag it out of that sublayer.



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Then I'll select the empty sublayer



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and I'll click on the little

trash icon to get rid of it.



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And now notice this page item right here.



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If I were to twirl close the cover layer



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and twirl it back open, that

page item goes from being red



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to now being blue, and it was only red



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because it was following that sublayer,



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which is kind of this well-known old bug



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inside of the software.



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Anyway, I'm going to go ahead

and twirl that layer back closed



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and I'll let those panels

once again disappear,



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and I'll go ahead and press the t key



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to switch to my type tool,

and I'll click right there,



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and I will press the backspace

key followed by enter



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or return, and I'll click

before the D and press backspace



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to get rid of that extra space.



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Then I'll press enter or return



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so that I have three lines of type.



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All right, now I want

them to be much bigger,



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so I'll click on the word Character



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up here in the Character panel,



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and I'll change the

type size to 72 points,



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and I'll press the enter key

or the return key on the Mac



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to accept that change,

and now I'll drag the text



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by this baseline until the

word Design appears aligned



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with the word Modern, and

I'm pressing the shift key



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by the way as I drag, to

again straighten the angle



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to exactly vertical, at

which point I'll release,



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and that will go ahead and move that text



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to the proper position.



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Now I want you to notice

that this drop shadow



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is better suiting the large

text than the smaller text



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that is still represented by the symbols,



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and so I'm going to edit that drop shadow



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by double-clicking on

this instance right there



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on the back cover, and

again I'll click OK.



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Then you want to select

that text, and now,



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I need to bring back my right

side panels just by moving



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my cursor to the far

right side of the screen.



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I'll switch to the Appearance panel,



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and I'll click on the word Drop Shadow,



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and now I'll take both the X offset value



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and the Y offset value down to 3.33 points



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and that's because that

is the ratio of difference



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between the big text and the smaller text



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and now click OK, and that goes ahead



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and updates the drop

shadow, after which point



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I'll press the escape key in

order to update the symbol



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and all of its instances

both on the back cover



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and here on the spine, and now

I'll press control + alt + 0



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or command + option + 0

on the Mac in order to fit



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all of the artboards onscreen.



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And there you have a few examples



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of advanced symbol

modifications that you can apply



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any time you like, here

inside Illustrator.