1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:01.06 - [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you 2 00:00:01.06 --> 00:00:04.06 how you can symbols to create custom arrowheads 3 00:00:04.06 --> 00:00:06.02 inside Illustrator. 4 00:00:06.02 --> 00:00:08.06 And this is a really old school trick. 5 00:00:08.06 --> 00:00:11.02 It dates back to Illustrator 6.0, 6 00:00:11.02 --> 00:00:13.06 but it works just as well today. 7 00:00:13.06 --> 00:00:15.01 And when I say custom arrowheads 8 00:00:15.01 --> 00:00:18.00 I mean arrowheads that you can apply from the Stroke panel. 9 00:00:18.00 --> 00:00:21.07 So for example, let's say I select this line right here 10 00:00:21.07 --> 00:00:24.05 and I click on the word Stroke up here in the control panel 11 00:00:24.05 --> 00:00:27.06 and I click on this first Arrowheads option. 12 00:00:27.06 --> 00:00:30.08 You can see that by default I have a very long list 13 00:00:30.08 --> 00:00:33.03 of arrowheads, 39 in all. 14 00:00:33.03 --> 00:00:36.03 And I can select any one of them to apply it to, 15 00:00:36.03 --> 00:00:39.04 in this case, the beginning of the path. 16 00:00:39.04 --> 00:00:42.03 Now while 39 arrowheads is a lot, 17 00:00:42.03 --> 00:00:44.08 that doesn't mean that any one of them is necessarily 18 00:00:44.08 --> 00:00:47.02 gonna be the arrowhead that you're looking for. 19 00:00:47.02 --> 00:00:51.07 In which case, you can create custom arrowheads of your own. 20 00:00:51.07 --> 00:00:52.08 And here's how it works. 21 00:00:52.08 --> 00:00:54.01 The first thing you need to do 22 00:00:54.01 --> 00:00:56.04 is locate the arrowheads file. 23 00:00:56.04 --> 00:00:59.06 So here on the PC you follow this path right here, 24 00:00:59.06 --> 00:01:02.03 so you go to the C drive presumably, 25 00:01:02.03 --> 00:01:04.09 assuming that you installed Illustrator on your C drive, 26 00:01:04.09 --> 00:01:07.00 then you go into the Program Files folder, 27 00:01:07.00 --> 00:01:09.07 the Adobe subfolder, and so forth. 28 00:01:09.07 --> 00:01:11.08 Now the two pieces that might vary 29 00:01:11.08 --> 00:01:13.04 are en_US here at the end, 30 00:01:13.04 --> 00:01:14.08 that's English US, 31 00:01:14.08 --> 00:01:16.02 which is specifically gonna be 32 00:01:16.02 --> 00:01:18.04 for the English US version of the program. 33 00:01:18.04 --> 00:01:21.02 If you're using some regionalized version 34 00:01:21.02 --> 00:01:24.00 then this subfolder would presumably be different. 35 00:01:24.00 --> 00:01:25.09 The other big difference is gonna depend 36 00:01:25.09 --> 00:01:27.08 on which specific version of Illustrator 37 00:01:27.08 --> 00:01:29.00 you're working with. 38 00:01:29.00 --> 00:01:32.06 So right now I'm working with Illustrator CC 2017, 39 00:01:32.06 --> 00:01:35.08 but this could easily be a future version of the software 40 00:01:35.08 --> 00:01:40.07 or it could be 2015 or 2015.3 41 00:01:40.07 --> 00:01:43.08 depending on which version, once again, you're using. 42 00:01:43.08 --> 00:01:46.05 And so what you wanna do, if you're working on a PC, 43 00:01:46.05 --> 00:01:49.01 is go ahead and double-click on this line of type right here 44 00:01:49.01 --> 00:01:52.01 and then just select all of this blue text 45 00:01:52.01 --> 00:01:55.01 and go up to the Edit menu and choose the Copy command 46 00:01:55.01 --> 00:01:58.05 or you can just press Control + C or Command + C on the Mac. 47 00:01:58.05 --> 00:02:00.08 And then go ahead and open a folder window 48 00:02:00.08 --> 00:02:04.08 and click up here in an empty portion of this path bar 49 00:02:04.08 --> 00:02:07.04 and press Control + V or Command + V on the Mac 50 00:02:07.04 --> 00:02:08.09 in order to paste that path. 51 00:02:08.09 --> 00:02:11.00 Again, if you're working in a different version 52 00:02:11.00 --> 00:02:14.04 of the software you'll need to change this version number. 53 00:02:14.04 --> 00:02:18.09 It could be 2015, it could be 2015.3, 54 00:02:18.09 --> 00:02:22.02 it could be a later version of the software, 55 00:02:22.02 --> 00:02:24.05 but in my case it's 2017. 56 00:02:24.05 --> 00:02:26.05 And so I'll just go ahead and enter that. 57 00:02:26.05 --> 00:02:28.04 Also, by the way, if you're working 58 00:02:28.04 --> 00:02:30.05 in a regionalized version of the program 59 00:02:30.05 --> 00:02:34.08 you may just wanna get rid of this \en_US 60 00:02:34.08 --> 00:02:37.04 and just end it with Resources, like so. 61 00:02:37.04 --> 00:02:38.03 At which point you may see 62 00:02:38.03 --> 00:02:39.08 some other subfolder sitting here, 63 00:02:39.08 --> 00:02:41.00 double-click on it, 64 00:02:41.00 --> 00:02:45.01 and then you should find a file called Arrowheads.ai. 65 00:02:45.01 --> 00:02:47.07 So you may have to dig around for this thing. 66 00:02:47.07 --> 00:02:49.02 Anyway, turns out I found it. 67 00:02:49.02 --> 00:02:50.09 Now I'll come back to it just a moment, 68 00:02:50.09 --> 00:02:52.08 but first I'm gonna return to Illustrator, 69 00:02:52.08 --> 00:02:56.00 so that I can show you for those Macintosh users out there 70 00:02:56.00 --> 00:02:58.00 you wanna go to the Macintosh Finder, 71 00:02:58.00 --> 00:03:00.06 choose the Go To command from the Go menu, 72 00:03:00.06 --> 00:03:02.06 and then type in this information. 73 00:03:02.06 --> 00:03:05.01 So forward slash instead of back slash, 74 00:03:05.01 --> 00:03:06.08 go ahead and select all this information, 75 00:03:06.08 --> 00:03:07.06 copy it. 76 00:03:07.06 --> 00:03:12.02 Again, there's the caveat that it might be CC 2015, 77 00:03:12.02 --> 00:03:18.03 or CC 2015.3, or CC 2018, 19, 20, 78 00:03:18.03 --> 00:03:20.02 don't know how far this is gonna go. 79 00:03:20.02 --> 00:03:21.06 And then finally, of course, 80 00:03:21.06 --> 00:03:23.04 that subfolder may be different. 81 00:03:23.04 --> 00:03:25.02 But in any case, just go ahead and enter this stuff, 82 00:03:25.02 --> 00:03:26.02 press the Enter key, 83 00:03:26.02 --> 00:03:28.04 and you should find that arrowheads file. 84 00:03:28.04 --> 00:03:31.04 Now what I recommend you do once you've found it 85 00:03:31.04 --> 00:03:32.06 is a couple of different things. 86 00:03:32.06 --> 00:03:35.02 First of all, you wanna make a backup, 87 00:03:35.02 --> 00:03:37.02 just in case something gets messed up. 88 00:03:37.02 --> 00:03:38.07 So go ahead and copy this file 89 00:03:38.07 --> 00:03:40.09 to a different folder on your hard drive, 90 00:03:40.09 --> 00:03:42.03 just so you've got it backed up. 91 00:03:42.03 --> 00:03:45.02 But remember, you do need it to be in this specific folder 92 00:03:45.02 --> 00:03:47.03 for it to actually work. 93 00:03:47.03 --> 00:03:48.06 All right, next what you wanna do 94 00:03:48.06 --> 00:03:51.01 is unlock the file by right-clicking on it 95 00:03:51.01 --> 00:03:52.09 and choosing the Properties command 96 00:03:52.09 --> 00:03:54.05 or on the Mac you would right-click 97 00:03:54.05 --> 00:03:56.05 and choose the Get Info command, 98 00:03:56.05 --> 00:03:59.01 which has a keyboard shortcut of Command + I. 99 00:03:59.01 --> 00:04:01.06 In which case you're gonna see one of two dialog boxes, 100 00:04:01.06 --> 00:04:03.02 depending on your platform. 101 00:04:03.02 --> 00:04:06.00 And I have both of them open here under Photoshop. 102 00:04:06.00 --> 00:04:08.09 Notice on the PC you'll get this Properties dialog box 103 00:04:08.09 --> 00:04:12.03 and you wanna turn off the Read-only checkbox. 104 00:04:12.03 --> 00:04:15.09 And then click the Apply button and then click OK. 105 00:04:15.09 --> 00:04:16.07 And you'll have to be running 106 00:04:16.07 --> 00:04:18.04 an as administrator, incidentally, 107 00:04:18.04 --> 00:04:20.07 and this might not be enough. 108 00:04:20.07 --> 00:04:22.09 I'll come back to that in just a moment. 109 00:04:22.09 --> 00:04:25.09 On a Mac you would drop down to this little lock icon 110 00:04:25.09 --> 00:04:28.08 in the bottom right corner of the Info panel 111 00:04:28.08 --> 00:04:30.09 and click on it to unlock it. 112 00:04:30.09 --> 00:04:33.02 At which point you'll be prompted for a password. 113 00:04:33.02 --> 00:04:35.05 And then whatever names you see over here 114 00:04:35.05 --> 00:04:37.06 on the left hand side of this list down here 115 00:04:37.06 --> 00:04:38.09 at the bottom of the panel, 116 00:04:38.09 --> 00:04:40.05 go ahead and change the privileges 117 00:04:40.05 --> 00:04:43.04 for everybody to Read & Write. 118 00:04:43.04 --> 00:04:46.00 And then you can just go ahead and close this panel. 119 00:04:46.00 --> 00:04:47.05 Now that should be enough on a Mac. 120 00:04:47.05 --> 00:04:50.06 On the PC you may need to go a little farther, 121 00:04:50.06 --> 00:04:52.07 but I figure this is a mastery course, 122 00:04:52.07 --> 00:04:54.02 so you're ready for it. 123 00:04:54.02 --> 00:04:58.02 Anyway, I'm gonna double-click on this Arrowheads.ai file 124 00:04:58.02 --> 00:05:00.08 in order to open it here inside Illustrator. 125 00:05:00.08 --> 00:05:03.04 You've got some directions up here at the top 126 00:05:03.04 --> 00:05:06.09 and then you have all 39 of the default arrowheads 127 00:05:06.09 --> 00:05:09.07 here in the main body of the artwork. 128 00:05:09.07 --> 00:05:11.00 Notice over here in the Layer panel 129 00:05:11.00 --> 00:05:12.04 that we have a couple of layers. 130 00:05:12.04 --> 00:05:15.04 One's called Layer 1 and the other's called Layer 5. 131 00:05:15.04 --> 00:05:17.07 I would just leave those alone, by the way, 132 00:05:17.07 --> 00:05:18.07 if I were you. 133 00:05:18.07 --> 00:05:21.00 What we're gonna do is create some new arrowheads 134 00:05:21.00 --> 00:05:22.09 down here at the bottom of the document. 135 00:05:22.09 --> 00:05:25.05 So go ahead and switch over to the Artboard Tool, 136 00:05:25.05 --> 00:05:27.08 which you can get by pressing Shift + O, 137 00:05:27.08 --> 00:05:30.01 not zero, but the letter O. 138 00:05:30.01 --> 00:05:32.03 Then go up here to the control panel 139 00:05:32.03 --> 00:05:33.08 and select this top right point 140 00:05:33.08 --> 00:05:35.06 in the little Reference Point matrix, 141 00:05:35.06 --> 00:05:37.04 and then click at the end of the H value 142 00:05:37.04 --> 00:05:40.01 and just enter plus 100, like so, 143 00:05:40.01 --> 00:05:42.02 and press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac 144 00:05:42.02 --> 00:05:43.03 to accept that change. 145 00:05:43.03 --> 00:05:45.01 And then press the Escape key 146 00:05:45.01 --> 00:05:48.01 in order to switch back to the black arrow tool. 147 00:05:48.01 --> 00:05:50.08 Now what I want you to do is go up to the File menu 148 00:05:50.08 --> 00:05:52.02 and choose the Save command 149 00:05:52.02 --> 00:05:55.03 just to make sure things are working. 150 00:05:55.03 --> 00:05:58.05 And so that's gonna be Control + S or Command + S on a Mac. 151 00:05:58.05 --> 00:06:00.06 Now on a Mac everything should work fine, 152 00:06:00.06 --> 00:06:03.04 but here on the PC I'm getting this alert message 153 00:06:03.04 --> 00:06:05.05 telling me I can't save the illustration, 154 00:06:05.05 --> 00:06:07.02 it might be a read only file 155 00:06:07.02 --> 00:06:09.04 or there's some permissions problem 156 00:06:09.04 --> 00:06:10.07 or blah, blah. 157 00:06:10.07 --> 00:06:12.07 I'm just gonna click OK. 158 00:06:12.07 --> 00:06:14.03 Here's the solution. 159 00:06:14.03 --> 00:06:17.01 This is the DEFCON solution for you PC users. 160 00:06:17.01 --> 00:06:18.05 You Macintosh users, 161 00:06:18.05 --> 00:06:21.00 if that Control + S just worked for you, 162 00:06:21.00 --> 00:06:23.03 then you can go ahead and skip to the next movie. 163 00:06:23.03 --> 00:06:25.03 All right, so for those of you on a PC 164 00:06:25.03 --> 00:06:26.09 where things are not working 165 00:06:26.09 --> 00:06:29.00 I want you to go up to the File menu 166 00:06:29.00 --> 00:06:30.08 and choose the Exit command 167 00:06:30.08 --> 00:06:32.08 or just press Control + Q. 168 00:06:32.08 --> 00:06:34.03 And you don't wanna save anything, 169 00:06:34.03 --> 00:06:37.02 so just click No for everybody here. 170 00:06:37.02 --> 00:06:39.03 And you can clear the clipboard if you want. 171 00:06:39.03 --> 00:06:41.03 It really doesn't matter. 172 00:06:41.03 --> 00:06:43.00 All right, now what I want you to do, 173 00:06:43.00 --> 00:06:44.06 notice that I'm looking at the contents 174 00:06:44.06 --> 00:06:47.03 of that en_US subfolder. 175 00:06:47.03 --> 00:06:49.05 What I wanna do is click on this double arrowhead icon 176 00:06:49.05 --> 00:06:52.08 right there and back out to the Adobe Illustrator CC 177 00:06:52.08 --> 00:06:55.03 whatever folder in order to find 178 00:06:55.03 --> 00:06:57.02 the actual application icon. 179 00:06:57.02 --> 00:06:58.08 This is actually a shortcut to it, 180 00:06:58.08 --> 00:06:59.07 but that's good enough. 181 00:06:59.07 --> 00:07:04.05 Right-click on it and choose Run as administrator. 182 00:07:04.05 --> 00:07:06.00 You may have to enter a password, 183 00:07:06.00 --> 00:07:08.07 in my case I'm just seeing the splash screen 184 00:07:08.07 --> 00:07:11.05 as the program launches. 185 00:07:11.05 --> 00:07:12.07 All right, now at this point 186 00:07:12.07 --> 00:07:16.00 I can't make double-clicking on a file work, 187 00:07:16.00 --> 00:07:17.06 so I'm gonna go up to the File menu 188 00:07:17.06 --> 00:07:19.01 and choose the Open command, 189 00:07:19.01 --> 00:07:21.03 or you have that shortcut of Control + O. 190 00:07:21.03 --> 00:07:23.01 And then I'm gonna navigate my way 191 00:07:23.01 --> 00:07:25.00 to that Arrowheads file once again. 192 00:07:25.00 --> 00:07:26.09 If it's not coming up right 193 00:07:26.09 --> 00:07:30.03 then go ahead and find my Exercise File, 194 00:07:30.03 --> 00:07:33.03 which is located here in the 36 symbols subfolder 195 00:07:33.03 --> 00:07:37.02 and it's called Where to find the Arrowheads file.ai, 196 00:07:37.02 --> 00:07:39.04 which I think is a pretty appropriate name. 197 00:07:39.04 --> 00:07:40.09 I'll go ahead and restore 198 00:07:40.09 --> 00:07:43.01 the single column version of the toolbox 199 00:07:43.01 --> 00:07:45.01 and I have this constant problem 200 00:07:45.01 --> 00:07:47.02 where my Layers panel is collapsed, 201 00:07:47.02 --> 00:07:51.03 so I'll just click on its tab in order to bring it back up. 202 00:07:51.03 --> 00:07:53.08 And then I'll go ahead and double-click 203 00:07:53.08 --> 00:07:56.08 on this text right there and I'll select this line of type 204 00:07:56.08 --> 00:07:58.08 and press Control + C or Command + C on a Mac 205 00:07:58.08 --> 00:08:00.01 in order to copy it. 206 00:08:00.01 --> 00:08:01.03 Then I'll press the Escape key, 207 00:08:01.03 --> 00:08:04.02 I'll return to the File menu and choose the Open command. 208 00:08:04.02 --> 00:08:07.09 So as I say, this is a little bit of a hassle. 209 00:08:07.09 --> 00:08:09.01 But I think you're up to it. 210 00:08:09.01 --> 00:08:11.02 So I'm gonna go ahead and click on this path bar, 211 00:08:11.02 --> 00:08:12.08 but not on one of these items, 212 00:08:12.08 --> 00:08:14.04 but in this empty area right there, 213 00:08:14.04 --> 00:08:16.07 and I'll press Control + V or Command + V on a Mac 214 00:08:16.07 --> 00:08:18.06 to paste that directory path, 215 00:08:18.06 --> 00:08:20.03 then I'll press the Enter key or the Return key 216 00:08:20.03 --> 00:08:21.05 in order to go to that folder. 217 00:08:21.05 --> 00:08:24.05 And I'll double-click on the Arrowheads.ai file 218 00:08:24.05 --> 00:08:27.07 and I'll go ahead and scroll upward, like so. 219 00:08:27.07 --> 00:08:30.07 I'll press Shift + O to switch to the Artboard Tool, 220 00:08:30.07 --> 00:08:33.05 which is located down here at the bottom of the toolbox. 221 00:08:33.05 --> 00:08:35.06 I'll confirm that the top left point is selected 222 00:08:35.06 --> 00:08:37.04 in the little Reference Point matrix. 223 00:08:37.04 --> 00:08:39.04 I'll click after the H value right there 224 00:08:39.04 --> 00:08:42.01 and enter plus 100 and then press the Enter key 225 00:08:42.01 --> 00:08:43.06 or the Return key on a Mac. 226 00:08:43.06 --> 00:08:44.08 I'll press the Escape key 227 00:08:44.08 --> 00:08:47.03 to escape out of the artboard editing mode, 228 00:08:47.03 --> 00:08:48.07 and I'll go up to the File menu 229 00:08:48.07 --> 00:08:50.06 and I'll choose the Save command. 230 00:08:50.06 --> 00:08:53.03 And this time everything works. 231 00:08:53.03 --> 00:08:56.03 And that's because, once again, I'm running Illustrator 232 00:08:56.03 --> 00:08:59.02 as an administrator. 233 00:08:59.02 --> 00:09:02.04 All right, so that's a fairly complicated first step. 234 00:09:02.04 --> 00:09:06.05 That is to say, finding and figuring out a way to modify 235 00:09:06.05 --> 00:09:10.00 the top secret Arrowheads.ai file. 236 00:09:10.00 --> 00:09:12.02 But now that we've taken care of that nonsense 237 00:09:12.02 --> 00:09:14.04 I'll show you how we can use symbols 238 00:09:14.04 --> 00:09:16.06 to create custom arrowheads 239 00:09:16.06 --> 00:09:19.02 starting in the very next movie.