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- [Narrator] In this

movie, I'm gonna show you



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how to take your tinted arrowhead designs



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and save them out to symbols



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so that you can apply

them from the stroke panel



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as we're seeing here.



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All right, so here I am,



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working inside my own Arrowheads.ai file



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that's found on my hard drive.



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You should be working on the

one that's found on yours.



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And then, I'm just gonna move

these guys over a little bit,



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and go to the window menu,



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and choose Symbols in order

to bring up the symbols panel.



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And, I'll make my panel a little taller,



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so that we can see the 39 default symbols,



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as well as my custom one, two, and three.



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And I want to make something clear:



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you need to save off your

arrowheads to the symbols panel



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inside the Arrowheads.ai file.



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That's it.



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You don't have to worry

about those symbols



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showing up inside other files,



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and that's because as long

as they're found inside



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the Arrowheads.ai file,



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they're gonna auto-populate

to the stroke panel,



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and they're gonna be global,



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so they're gonna travel

across all open documents.



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And also worth mentioning,



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is if you create a custom arrowhead



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in your version of Illustrator,



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and you give that

document to someone else,



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the arrowheads will survive,



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and I'm gonna show you

what I mean by that.



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I'll go ahead and switch to this file,



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which you can open if you like,



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even though you don't

have these arrowheads.



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And so, if I go ahead and

select this guy right here,



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and I change its color, just

so it's a little more obvious.



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So, I'll click on a second swatch



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up here in the control panel,



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and I'll change this guy

to purple, for example.



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Then, notice, if I click

on the word Stroke,



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and I click on this

first arrowheads option,



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even though this particular arrowhead



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is not found in my menu, it does survive.



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So, you can open this file on any machine.



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Now, that doesn't mean other

people can use your arrowheads.



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It just means that they'll

be able to see them.



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All right, so I'll just go ahead



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and switch over to this file once again,



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and I'll marquee all of

these objects right here



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with a black arrow tool.



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So, you want this line right

here, this horizontal line,



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you want this empty rectangle,



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and you want the elements



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that make up your custom arrowhead,



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and then you want to click

on a little page icon



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at the bottom of the symbols panel.



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I'll go ahead and name this guy Tinted 1.



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This is the only name

that matters, by the way,



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the name of the symbol, and then,



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I'll switch it to Static Symbol,



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just because it's more flexible.



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Dynamic symbols do work,



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but static symbols are

backward compatible.



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And so, I'll go ahead and click OK,



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and then I'll partially

marquee these guys,



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click on the little page

icon, name this guy Tinted 2,



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and select Static Symbol, and click OK.



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And now, I'll partially

marquee these paths,



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click on the little page icon,



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name this guy Tinted 3, this time around,



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select Static Symbol.



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And something else I wanna say is,



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even though you can select Dynamic Symbol,



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to my knowledge it does not

provide you with any benefit.



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So another reason to stick with static.



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And then click OK.



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All right, now you want

to go up to the file menu



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and choose the Save command in order to



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update your Arrowheads.ai file.



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Now initially, that doesn't do anything.



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So notice if I switch to this guy,



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and select this top

path by clicking on it,



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and then I click on the word Stroke,



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and I select this first arrowhead option,



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and I'm scrolled all the

way down to the bottom.



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I can't see my tinted arrowheads



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because they only load

when you load Illustrator.



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And so, I'll just go up to the File menu



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and choose the Exit command,



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which is the Quit command on the Mac,



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or you can just press

Control + Q here on the PC,



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or Command + Q on the Mac.



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No, I don't want to save my changes.



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Yes, I guess I do want

to clear the Clipboard,



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although, doesn't really matter.



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All right, now you just want to go ahead



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and relaunch Illustrator.



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Here on the PC, assuming I

want to do some more work



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on that Arrowheads.ai file,



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I need to right-click on that

application shortcut icon,



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and then choose Run As Administrator.



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And a moment later I'll

see that Illustrator



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is indeed launching.



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All right, now I'll go ahead and switch



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to the single column Toolbox,



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and I'll expand my Layers panel,



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and I'll go up to the File menu

and choose the Open command,



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and I will navigate my

way to the en_US folder



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that we've seen so many times,



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and I'll find that arrowheads file.



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That doesn't really matter,

but I'm gonna go ahead



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and open it anyway, just so

that we have it up on screen



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and you can see that I do indeed have



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Tinted 1, 2, and 3.



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File I'm really looking

for is found on my desktop,



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at least for me it is, inside

the Exercise Files folder



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inside the 36_symbols folder,

and it's this guy right here:



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A few custom arrowheads.ai.



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I'll go ahead and select it and open it,



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and then I'll marquee, let's

say, this horizontal path



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with my black arrow tool.



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All right, now we're working



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on a red layer with a red object,



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and I want to see it better,



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and so I'll just go ahead and



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change the stroke color

to purple, let's say,



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and then I'll click on the word Stroke,



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and I'll click on this

first arrowhead option,



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and I'll change it to Tinted 1,



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which will produce this effect here.



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Now, notice I reduced my

line weight to 10 points,



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I'm gonna take it back up to 16 points,



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which is the line weight that's at work



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for the other two strokes.



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That gives me too large

of an arrowhead, however,



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so I'll click on the word Stroke again,



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and I'll take this first

scale value down to 70%,



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and press the enter key or

the return key on the MAC



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to make it so.



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All right, now I'll select this guy,



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and I'll click on the word Stroke,



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and I'll click on this

first arrowhead option,



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and I'll change it to Tinted 2.



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Again, that's too big, so

this time I'm gonna select



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the scale value and take it down to 60%.



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And then I'll select this guy right there,



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the gradient stroke, and I'll

click on the word Stroke,



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and click on the first arrowhead option,



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and select Tinted 3.



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And you can see that

we don't get any tints.



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That's because tinted arrowheads



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are not compatible with gradients.



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And so what I need to do is

click on this second swatch,



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and let's say I go with

a dark shade of green



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this time around.



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Maybe not that dark,

maybe this guy right here,



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that begins R=0, G=146, B=something else,



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and I can't say the value

because it wouldn't make sense



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given that I lead into this

thing saying, "Starting with."



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All right, so I'm just

trying to be consistent,



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so now I'll click on the word Stroke,



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and I'll change that

first scale value to 70%



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and press the enter key, or

the return key on the Mac,



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to make that change.



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All right, now that's not quite right.



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I'm gonna go up to the File menu



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and choose the Open command,



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and I'm gonna go ahead and scroll my way



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down to tinted arrowheads

and click the open button.



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And notice the difference here.



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This is this guy right here, notice him?



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The one that I just applied.



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And this is what I was looking for,



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with a couple of pieces

of sheath, let's say,



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some kind of rope or hemp



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that's actually tying the

arrowhead to that horizontal line.



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And so what do you do

if you make a mistake



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and you want to edit

your custom arrowhead?



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Well, for the answer to that question,



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I invite you to watch the very next movie.