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- [Instructor] All right,

so just by way of reminder,



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we have a problem with

this final arrowhead.



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What it needs is some form

of connectivity right here



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in the form of these

little ropes, let's say,



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which are connecting

this traditional looking,



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albeit very stylized

arrowhead, to its shaft.



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And that means we need to replace



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one arrowhead definition with another.



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Now you might figure it's

a pretty easy matter.



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We just create a new arrowhead

based on the existing one,



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but if you do that in the wrong way



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then you'll create an arrowhead

that will crash Illustrator



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every single time.



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And so let me show you how

to do things the right way



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to Illustrator doesn't

continually crash which,



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I don't know about you, but I

find to be highly irritating.



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So I'm gonna go ahead and switch over



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to this file right here

and we're gonna make



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some modifications.



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So I'm gonna zoom in on this guy



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and in order to make things work



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we need smart guides to be turned on.



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So I'll go up to the view menu,



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notice mine are turned off,



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so I'll go ahead and choose the command



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or you have that shortcut

of control u here on a PC,



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command u on a Mac.



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Now I'll go ahead and

select my line segment tool



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which you can get from the

line tool fly out menu.



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And I'll go ahead and

position my cursor right there



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at the left hand intersection

of those two triangles



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and I will click in order to bring up



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the line options dialog box.



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We're working very small

so I'll set the link value



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to just two points and the

angle value to 90 degrees



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and notice if I click okay



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I create this little line right there.



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And for the best results you

wanna be working on layer one,



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here inside the layer's panel,



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and that's because layer five contains



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all the descriptive text

at the top of the artboard.



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So if you created this guy in layer five



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and you're seeing a green path outline



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then just go ahead and

drag the little square



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down to layer one.



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All right, now I'm gonna

zoom in even farther here



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and I want this guy to be centered



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and so I'll switch back

to my black arrow tool



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which I can get by pressing the v key



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and then I'll press the enter key,



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or the return key on the Mac,



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to bring up the move dialog box



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and I'll change the vertical value to one.



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The horizontal value

needs to stay at zero.



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And so notice if I turn

on the preview check box



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that I moved that line down



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so that it's centered on

the shaft of this arrowhead.



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At which point I'll click okay.



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All right, now I don't want

the color of this stroke



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to be this sort of weak

black and so I'll click on



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the second swatch and I'll change it to



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that light shade of gray

in which the RGB values



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are all 191.



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Now I wanna round off the caps



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and so I'll click on the word

stroke and then I'll select



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the second cap option, round cap,



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in order to produce this effect here.



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Now as you may recall,



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arrowheads are not compatible with strokes



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and so we need to convert this stroke to



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a filled path outline by

going up to the object menu,



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choosing path and then

choosing outline stroke



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or if you loaded D keys

you have that shortcut



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of control backslash, that's

command backslash on the Mac.



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And notice that we now

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All right, now I need to

create a copy of this guy



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over here on the left hand side



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and the easiest way to do

that is to press the enter key



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or the return key on the Mac to bring up



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the move dialog box.



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I wanna move this guy to the left



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and so I'll change the horizontal value



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to negative 1.5 it turns out, like so.



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That moves it down a little bit as well,



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so I'll change the vertical

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And then I'll click on the copy button



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in order to create a copy

of that path outline.



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All right, now we wanna

take both of these guys,



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so I'll click on one,

shift click on the other,



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and we want to stroke them both.



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And the best way to make

that happen at this point



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is not to assign a

stroke because then we'll



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just have to convert it to a fill later.



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And so if you want to perform



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both of those modifications in one step,



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then you go up to the object menu,



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choose path, and choose offset path,



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which is very similar to outline stroke



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which is why if you loaded

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a similar keyboard shortcut,



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in which you just add the shift key.



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So in other words, control

shift backslash here on a PC.



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That's command shift backslash on a Mac.



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And then you want to turn

on the preview checkbox.



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Obviously that's way too much stroke.



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We're looking for a one-point stroke.



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But if I change the offset value to one,



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then we're moving the stroke out one point



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as well as in one point.



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That's not what we want.



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We want out half of that,



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and so I'll click after this offset value



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and enter slash two,



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which will change the value to 0.5 points.



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And so that means it's

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as well as theoretically half a point in,



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which is the same as a one-point stroke.



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And so now I'll just go ahead and click OK



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in order to apply that change.



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And I'll change the

color to black like so.



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All right, now I want to

fuse both of these guys



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into a single path outline



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and you can do that by

going up to the window menu



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and choose the pathfinder command



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to bring up the pathfinder panel,



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and then I'll click on

this very first icon



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in the first row, unite.



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Which fuses those two guys together.



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Unfortunately it moves the path outline



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a little too far forward,



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but that's an easy problem to rectify



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by right clicking inside

the document window,



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choosing a range, and

choosing not send to back,



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that would move things back too far,



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but just send backward.



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Or you can take advantage

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control left bracket here on a PC



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or command left bracket on a Mac,



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which produces exactly the

effect we're looking for.



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All right, now obviously we

just need to move this guy



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into the symbols panel.



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But notice if I go ahead

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all these paths right here,



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I'm getting a big rectangle.



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And I'm not seeing any path outlines



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surrounding the arrowhead itself.



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And that's because if I click off the path



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and then click on one

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we have an instance.



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And so notice I'm seeing

the words symbol static



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over here on the left

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Now you could of course,

go up to the window menu



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and choose the symbols command



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to bring up your symbols panel,



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which contains tinted three right there,



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and then you could partially

marquee these guys and drag 'em



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and drop 'em in there in

order to create a new symbol.



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And I could call it something

like tinted 3a, let's say.



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And select static symbol and

go through all the steps here.



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The problem is then I

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so I'd end up with a

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In other word, tinted three

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That's where Illustrator will crash.



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And so what you have to bear in mind is



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arrowheads are a very old feature.



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Again, they've been around

for about 20 years now.



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And so they're essentially not

compatible with a darn thing.



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And you can bet if arrowheads are



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not compatible with strokes they're



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not compatible with nested symbols either.



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So what you want to do is cancel out here,



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and you want to click off the paths,



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click on this guy to

select it independently,



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and then go up to the control panel



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and click break link.



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And that's gonna give me a bunch of



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differently colored selection edges.



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That's because we now have a sublayer.



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And so if you target this

guy tinted three right here,



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you'll see that it's a layer over here



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on the far left side of the control panel,



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so I'll just go ahead

and name it bad sublayer,



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so that I can keep

track of what I'm doing.



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I'll twirl it open.



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I'll grab all these guys.



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So click on the top paths,

shift click on the bottom one,



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and then drag them and drop

them out of that sublayer.



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You can move them all the way to



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the top of the stack if you want.



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It doesn't matter,



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but you do need to make sure you click on



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this bad sublayer once you're done.



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Just click on it, you

don't have to target it,



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and then click on the little trash icon



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in the bottom right

corner of the layers panel



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to get rid of it, and that'll just ensure



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that you don't have any clutter.



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All right, now it did

matter that I moved this guy



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to the top of the stack.



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That's because it's now

covering the new stuff I drew.



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So I'll go ahead and select those items,



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and notice they're selected

right here in a layers panel,



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so I could click on this

path, shift click on this one,



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and then drag them and drop them



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at the top of the stack like so.



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In which case they are

in the proper position.



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All right, now let's just go ahead



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and marquee all this junk.



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And I'll drag it and drop

it into the symbols panel



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or if you want you can drag

it onto the old tinted three



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and press the alt key.



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Notice that, if I don't

have the alt key down



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I'll see a vertical

blue line either before



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or after the symbol.



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But if I press and hold the alt key



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or the option key on a Mac,



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I see a dark square around the symbol.



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In which case I'll just

go ahead and release,



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and that replaces tinted three.



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So notice this item right

here is now an instance.



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And I can see that because I'm seeing



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the words symbol static at the beginning,



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the far left side of the control panel.



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And if I were to click

on this replace icon



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up here in the control panel

and select tinted two instead,



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I would see tinted two

and then if I switched



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to tinted three I'll see

the new tinted three,



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which is awesome.



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All right, so I'm gonna zoom out so I can



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see all of these guys at the same time,



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and then I'll hide the symbols panel,



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and now I'll go up to the file menu,



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and choose the save command,



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or you can press control

s or command s on a Mac



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in order to save your changes,



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and then return to the file menu



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and choose the exit

command here on the PC.



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That's the quit command on a Mac,



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which has a keyboard shortcut

after the Macintosh command



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of control q here on a

PC or command q on a Mac.



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All right, now I just want

you to relaunch Illustrator.



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So in other words, we

don't have to worry about



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launching this thing as an administrator,



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so I'm just gonna switch to bridge,



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which I have opened in the background.



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So notice it's already

trained on the contents



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of the 36 symbols folder.



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So I'll just go ahead and

double click on this guy,



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not quite right.ai in order



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to once again launch Illustrator.



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Depending on which version

of the program you have,



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you may see a different splash screen.



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But in a moment or two you will



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see this file open on screen.



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I'll switch back to the

single column toolbox



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and I'll click on the layers tab



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in order to expand the layers panel,



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and then I'll just go ahead

and marquee this stroke,



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the bottom stroke, with

the black arrow tool,



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and I'll click on the word stroke,



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and I'll click on the word arrowhead.



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Notice that it doesn't

update automatically.



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So what you need to do I

click on this first instance



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of the arrowhead which

is no longer linked to



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any of the arrowheads that

are at work on this system.



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And so I'll just go ahead

and click on tinted three



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in order to update that guy like so,



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and we now have these two bits of rope



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that are holding the traditional

arrowhead to its shaft



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in order to create

something that looks like



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a highly stylized spear.



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And that's how you go about

editing an existing arrowhead



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without running the risk

of crashing Illustrator



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every time you try to apply it,



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by taking a moment to break the link



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between the instance and symbol



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so you're working with

static path outlines



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here inside Illustrator.