1 00:00:00.04 --> 00:00:01.05 - [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you 2 00:00:01.05 --> 00:00:04.05 how to create and apply graph designs. 3 00:00:04.05 --> 00:00:06.01 Now in the case of this document, 4 00:00:06.01 --> 00:00:08.09 the graph designs are the logos which are repeated 5 00:00:08.09 --> 00:00:11.03 over and over again across the course 6 00:00:11.03 --> 00:00:13.03 of each one of the columns. 7 00:00:13.03 --> 00:00:15.00 Now, a couple of things I want you to notice 8 00:00:15.00 --> 00:00:16.03 about these logos. 9 00:00:16.03 --> 00:00:18.07 With the exception of Pinterest, 10 00:00:18.07 --> 00:00:22.00 every one of them is surrounded by a rounded square, 11 00:00:22.00 --> 00:00:24.09 subject to those dynamic round corners 12 00:00:24.09 --> 00:00:27.06 that we first looked at in chapter 14 13 00:00:27.06 --> 00:00:29.04 of the fundamentals course, 14 00:00:29.04 --> 00:00:31.00 which, as you're about to see, 15 00:00:31.00 --> 00:00:32.09 are going to cause us some problems, 16 00:00:32.09 --> 00:00:34.05 not insurmountable, but we'll need 17 00:00:34.05 --> 00:00:35.09 to be paying attention. 18 00:00:35.09 --> 00:00:38.03 Also notice, if I press Control + Y 19 00:00:38.03 --> 00:00:40.04 or Command + Y on the Mac to switch 20 00:00:40.04 --> 00:00:43.03 to the outline mode, that we have all kinds 21 00:00:43.03 --> 00:00:46.00 of crazy ellipses that are associated 22 00:00:46.00 --> 00:00:48.04 with the Instagram logo. 23 00:00:48.04 --> 00:00:50.04 And those ellipses are making up 24 00:00:50.04 --> 00:00:54.00 that complex gradient that we're seeing right there. 25 00:00:54.00 --> 00:00:56.09 And they are massed into place, incidentally, 26 00:00:56.09 --> 00:00:58.09 which is not going to cause us a problem. 27 00:00:58.09 --> 00:01:00.09 I just want you to know what's going on. 28 00:01:00.09 --> 00:01:02.03 But I also want you to notice, 29 00:01:02.03 --> 00:01:04.01 and it's easy just to pick out 30 00:01:04.01 --> 00:01:06.03 around the Twitter logo right here, 31 00:01:06.03 --> 00:01:08.00 if I were to press the A key 32 00:01:08.00 --> 00:01:10.00 in order to switch to the white arrow tool 33 00:01:10.00 --> 00:01:14.07 and Alt or Option click on this outer rectangle, 34 00:01:14.07 --> 00:01:17.01 that it's actually cropping the logos 35 00:01:17.01 --> 00:01:18.04 and it's defining the distance 36 00:01:18.04 --> 00:01:21.01 between one repeating logo and the next. 37 00:01:21.01 --> 00:01:23.04 And that is something you have to account for 38 00:01:23.04 --> 00:01:26.00 when you first create the graph design. 39 00:01:26.00 --> 00:01:27.04 Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch 40 00:01:27.04 --> 00:01:29.02 to this document in progress here. 41 00:01:29.02 --> 00:01:30.09 And I'll press Shift + Page Down 42 00:01:30.09 --> 00:01:33.01 to advance to the second artboard 43 00:01:33.01 --> 00:01:36.02 which contains large versions of these logos. 44 00:01:36.02 --> 00:01:38.02 And I'll go ahead and zoom in 45 00:01:38.02 --> 00:01:40.04 on the Facebook F right here. 46 00:01:40.04 --> 00:01:42.08 And I should say that every one of these logos 47 00:01:42.08 --> 00:01:45.01 comes directly from the source. 48 00:01:45.01 --> 00:01:48.02 So this is the actual Facebook corporate icon. 49 00:01:48.02 --> 00:01:50.08 Alright, so I'm going to go ahead and click 50 00:01:50.08 --> 00:01:53.00 on this rounded square right here. 51 00:01:53.00 --> 00:01:57.00 And you can see that I have applied dynamic rounding. 52 00:01:57.00 --> 00:01:59.02 I'll go ahead and undo that change. 53 00:01:59.02 --> 00:02:01.00 And that's available to me because I'm working 54 00:02:01.00 --> 00:02:02.09 with the white arrow tool. 55 00:02:02.09 --> 00:02:05.02 Alright, now what I want to do is create 56 00:02:05.02 --> 00:02:07.09 a square boundary for this icon 57 00:02:07.09 --> 00:02:10.05 by grabbing my rectangle tool. 58 00:02:10.05 --> 00:02:13.00 And then, I'm going to move over that center point 59 00:02:13.00 --> 00:02:13.08 right there. 60 00:02:13.08 --> 00:02:15.05 And if I want to make sure I'm absolutely 61 00:02:15.05 --> 00:02:17.06 aligned to it, then I should probably go up 62 00:02:17.06 --> 00:02:21.01 to the View menu and turn on my Smart Guides. 63 00:02:21.01 --> 00:02:23.05 Alright, now I will Alt or Option click 64 00:02:23.05 --> 00:02:25.00 right there on that center point 65 00:02:25.00 --> 00:02:27.01 to bring up the rectangle dialog box. 66 00:02:27.01 --> 00:02:30.04 And I came up with width and height values each 67 00:02:30.04 --> 00:02:32.09 of 148 points, at which point, 68 00:02:32.09 --> 00:02:35.04 I'll click OK to create that big square. 69 00:02:35.04 --> 00:02:37.01 Now I want it to be invisible, 70 00:02:37.01 --> 00:02:39.01 so I'll click on the first color swatch 71 00:02:39.01 --> 00:02:41.01 on the far left side of the control panel, 72 00:02:41.01 --> 00:02:42.09 and I'll select none. 73 00:02:42.09 --> 00:02:45.08 And that way, we have a bounding box. 74 00:02:45.08 --> 00:02:48.04 Alright, now I'll switch back to the black arrow tool 75 00:02:48.04 --> 00:02:51.00 which of course you can get by pressing the V key. 76 00:02:51.00 --> 00:02:54.05 Make to marquee everything like so. 77 00:02:54.05 --> 00:02:56.00 And when I say everything, I mean you need 78 00:02:56.00 --> 00:02:58.03 to partially marquee everything 79 00:02:58.03 --> 00:03:01.03 so that you don't accidentally miss the F. 80 00:03:01.03 --> 00:03:03.06 And then, you want to go up to the Object menu, 81 00:03:03.06 --> 00:03:06.06 drop all the down to Graph at the bottom of the menu, 82 00:03:06.06 --> 00:03:08.08 at which point you'll see those five graphing commands 83 00:03:08.08 --> 00:03:12.03 that begin with Type and end with Marker. 84 00:03:12.03 --> 00:03:13.07 Now so far, we've already seen 85 00:03:13.07 --> 00:03:15.03 the Type and Data commands. 86 00:03:15.03 --> 00:03:17.06 The Design command allows us to create 87 00:03:17.06 --> 00:03:20.07 a graph design, as we'll be doing in just a moment. 88 00:03:20.07 --> 00:03:22.07 The Column command allow you to apply 89 00:03:22.07 --> 00:03:26.09 that design to a column or horizontal bar graph. 90 00:03:26.09 --> 00:03:29.08 And the Marker command allows you apply that design 91 00:03:29.08 --> 00:03:32.07 to a line or area graph. 92 00:03:32.07 --> 00:03:35.00 Alright, so I'll go ahead and choose Design. 93 00:03:35.00 --> 00:03:36.09 Notice that I've already saved out 94 00:03:36.09 --> 00:03:38.09 the other four designs for Instagram, 95 00:03:38.09 --> 00:03:41.04 LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Twitter. 96 00:03:41.04 --> 00:03:43.03 And so, to create the Facebook design, 97 00:03:43.03 --> 00:03:46.01 just go ahead and click on the New Design button, 98 00:03:46.01 --> 00:03:47.05 and that'll create a new design 99 00:03:47.05 --> 00:03:48.07 with the default name. 100 00:03:48.07 --> 00:03:50.07 Be sure to take a look at the preview 101 00:03:50.07 --> 00:03:53.02 to make sure that it looks the way you want it to. 102 00:03:53.02 --> 00:03:55.01 And then, click on the Rename button 103 00:03:55.01 --> 00:03:57.06 and go ahead and call this guy Facebook, 104 00:03:57.06 --> 00:04:00.01 and then click OK. 105 00:04:00.01 --> 00:04:04.05 Go ahead and click OK again in order to complete the design. 106 00:04:04.05 --> 00:04:06.04 Alright, now I'll click off the F to deselect it 107 00:04:06.04 --> 00:04:08.04 and I'll press Control + zero 108 00:04:08.04 --> 00:04:10.02 or Command + zero on the Mac to zoom out. 109 00:04:10.02 --> 00:04:12.04 And I'll press Shift + Page Up 110 00:04:12.04 --> 00:04:14.06 to advance to the previous artboard. 111 00:04:14.06 --> 00:04:17.01 Now what you want to do is apply the design. 112 00:04:17.01 --> 00:04:18.07 And for the sake of convenience here, 113 00:04:18.07 --> 00:04:21.01 I'm just going to apply it to the entire graph 114 00:04:21.01 --> 00:04:23.02 by clicking on it with the black arrow tool. 115 00:04:23.02 --> 00:04:25.03 And then I'll go up to the Object menu, 116 00:04:25.03 --> 00:04:28.05 choose Graph, and choose Column. 117 00:04:28.05 --> 00:04:31.09 And then, you want to find this item right here, Facebook. 118 00:04:31.09 --> 00:04:33.08 Now if you have the other document open, 119 00:04:33.08 --> 00:04:37.04 you'll see this one called Facebook (Social media compared). 120 00:04:37.04 --> 00:04:39.00 And that's because Illustrator can see 121 00:04:39.00 --> 00:04:42.09 graph designs across multiple open documents. 122 00:04:42.09 --> 00:04:44.04 But just to make sure that we're doing 123 00:04:44.04 --> 00:04:46.00 an honest job here, I'll go ahead 124 00:04:46.00 --> 00:04:48.07 and select the first Facebook item. 125 00:04:48.07 --> 00:04:51.08 And then, notice Column Type is set to vertically scaled 126 00:04:51.08 --> 00:04:55.00 and Rotate Legend Design is turned on. 127 00:04:55.00 --> 00:04:57.06 And so if I click OK, you'll see, 128 00:04:57.06 --> 00:05:00.02 if I press Control + H or Command + H on a Mac, 129 00:05:00.02 --> 00:05:02.04 in order to hide the selection edges, 130 00:05:02.04 --> 00:05:04.09 that all the F's are rotated up here 131 00:05:04.09 --> 00:05:07.00 in the legend and they're all stretched 132 00:05:07.00 --> 00:05:08.07 down here in the graph. 133 00:05:08.07 --> 00:05:10.07 If that's not what you want, then just go ahead 134 00:05:10.07 --> 00:05:12.04 and right-click in the document window 135 00:05:12.04 --> 00:05:16.02 and choose Column to revisit that dialog box. 136 00:05:16.02 --> 00:05:18.03 And let's go ahead and change Column Type 137 00:05:18.03 --> 00:05:20.04 this time to Uniformly Scaled. 138 00:05:20.04 --> 00:05:22.09 You're almost never going to want to do this, 139 00:05:22.09 --> 00:05:25.06 but this will prevent the logo from getting stretched. 140 00:05:25.06 --> 00:05:29.02 And then I'll turn off the checkbox Rotate Legend Design 141 00:05:29.02 --> 00:05:31.01 so we're no longer rotating these guys. 142 00:05:31.01 --> 00:05:32.06 And I'll click OK. 143 00:05:32.06 --> 00:05:34.06 And sure enough, that unrotates the logos 144 00:05:34.06 --> 00:05:36.06 in the legend, but it also gives us 145 00:05:36.06 --> 00:05:38.08 these enormous letters right here. 146 00:05:38.08 --> 00:05:40.01 And you can see that they're stacked 147 00:05:40.01 --> 00:05:41.06 on top of each other. 148 00:05:41.06 --> 00:05:43.04 So just notice how ridiculous things are 149 00:05:43.04 --> 00:05:44.05 at this point. 150 00:05:44.05 --> 00:05:46.03 Alright, so I'll press Control + Y 151 00:05:46.03 --> 00:05:48.01 or Command + Y on the Mac to switch back 152 00:05:48.01 --> 00:05:49.03 to the preview mode. 153 00:05:49.03 --> 00:05:52.03 I'll right-click once again and choose Column. 154 00:05:52.03 --> 00:05:55.07 And this time, I'll switch to Sliding. 155 00:05:55.07 --> 00:05:57.06 We'll look at Repeating in the next movie, 156 00:05:57.06 --> 00:06:00.01 but let's take a look at Sliding right now. 157 00:06:00.01 --> 00:06:02.09 As before, we want this checkbox to be turned off. 158 00:06:02.09 --> 00:06:04.09 And so, I'll go ahead and click OK, 159 00:06:04.09 --> 00:06:08.06 and we end up with this very funky effect here. 160 00:06:08.06 --> 00:06:12.02 And notice, by the way, that we are stretching 161 00:06:12.02 --> 00:06:16.07 the F's across their centers, so across the bar. 162 00:06:16.07 --> 00:06:18.02 And that's because, by default, 163 00:06:18.02 --> 00:06:20.06 Illustrator just goes ahead and stretches 164 00:06:20.06 --> 00:06:23.08 the center of the graph design. 165 00:06:23.08 --> 00:06:25.03 Alright, another thing to notice 166 00:06:25.03 --> 00:06:27.01 is the appearance of your corners. 167 00:06:27.01 --> 00:06:29.01 Some of you may be having problems 168 00:06:29.01 --> 00:06:31.01 with your corners right about now 169 00:06:31.01 --> 00:06:33.00 with them stretching oddly, 170 00:06:33.00 --> 00:06:35.00 in which case, press Control + K 171 00:06:35.00 --> 00:06:36.07 or Command + K on a Mac to bring up 172 00:06:36.07 --> 00:06:38.00 the Preference dialog box, 173 00:06:38.00 --> 00:06:41.03 and turn on this checkbox right here, Scale Corners, 174 00:06:41.03 --> 00:06:43.04 and then click OK. 175 00:06:43.04 --> 00:06:46.02 Now, that won't necessarily fix anything immediately, 176 00:06:46.02 --> 00:06:47.08 but it will make a difference 177 00:06:47.08 --> 00:06:50.02 if you right-click, choose Column, 178 00:06:50.02 --> 00:06:52.04 and then switch back to a different setting 179 00:06:52.04 --> 00:06:55.03 such as Vertically Scaled and click OK. 180 00:06:55.03 --> 00:06:58.00 And now you should notice that your corners 181 00:06:58.00 --> 00:07:00.01 are scaling the way they should. 182 00:07:00.01 --> 00:07:02.00 Alright, but what I want to do is create 183 00:07:02.00 --> 00:07:06.02 a version of this logo that scales across the bottom 184 00:07:06.02 --> 00:07:08.08 so that its base stretches and nothing 185 00:07:08.08 --> 00:07:11.00 above this point stretches at all. 186 00:07:11.00 --> 00:07:13.07 And to make that happen, I'll press Shift + Page Down 187 00:07:13.07 --> 00:07:15.09 to advance to the second artboard. 188 00:07:15.09 --> 00:07:18.06 And I'll go ahead and grab these objects right here. 189 00:07:18.06 --> 00:07:19.09 And I can't see them because I need 190 00:07:19.09 --> 00:07:22.03 to press Control + H or Command + H on the Mac 191 00:07:22.03 --> 00:07:23.09 in order to bring back the edges. 192 00:07:23.09 --> 00:07:26.06 And now I'll drag them down while pressing the Shift key. 193 00:07:26.06 --> 00:07:28.03 And then I'll also press the Alt key 194 00:07:28.03 --> 00:07:30.06 or the Option key on the Mac in order to make 195 00:07:30.06 --> 00:07:32.01 a copy of that guy. 196 00:07:32.01 --> 00:07:34.00 So I have the Shift and Alt keys down. 197 00:07:34.00 --> 00:07:36.03 That's Shift and Option on the Mac. 198 00:07:36.03 --> 00:07:38.04 Alright, now you want to grab your line tool 199 00:07:38.04 --> 00:07:40.06 and then just draw a horizontal line. 200 00:07:40.06 --> 00:07:42.09 So press the Shift key as you drag 201 00:07:42.09 --> 00:07:45.00 across the portion of the logo 202 00:07:45.00 --> 00:07:47.01 that you want to see stretch. 203 00:07:47.01 --> 00:07:49.01 So rather than stretching the center 204 00:07:49.01 --> 00:07:50.05 which is right about there 205 00:07:50.05 --> 00:07:53.04 and makes for a big, thick bar, 206 00:07:53.04 --> 00:07:55.06 we want to stretch the base. 207 00:07:55.06 --> 00:07:57.09 Alright, now notice over here in the layers panel 208 00:07:57.09 --> 00:08:00.00 that I have a layer called guides 209 00:08:00.00 --> 00:08:01.09 that happens to be turned off right now. 210 00:08:01.09 --> 00:08:03.02 I'll go ahead and turn it on. 211 00:08:03.02 --> 00:08:05.07 And then I'll drag this line so that it appears 212 00:08:05.07 --> 00:08:07.02 on the guides layer. 213 00:08:07.02 --> 00:08:09.08 And that way, all of our guides will be relocated 214 00:08:09.08 --> 00:08:10.08 to that layer. 215 00:08:10.08 --> 00:08:13.04 And then, you want to right-click in the Document window 216 00:08:13.04 --> 00:08:16.06 and choose Make Guides in order to turn that guy 217 00:08:16.06 --> 00:08:17.08 into a guide. 218 00:08:17.08 --> 00:08:20.01 Now what you want to do is go to the View menu, 219 00:08:20.01 --> 00:08:23.05 choose Guides and choose Unlock Guides. 220 00:08:23.05 --> 00:08:26.03 If the command reads Lock Guides, don't choose it. 221 00:08:26.03 --> 00:08:28.09 So, we just want to unlock it at this point. 222 00:08:28.09 --> 00:08:30.09 And then, press the V key to switch back 223 00:08:30.09 --> 00:08:32.02 to your black arrow tool. 224 00:08:32.02 --> 00:08:34.01 Go ahead and marquee all these objects, 225 00:08:34.01 --> 00:08:36.02 including the guide line right there. 226 00:08:36.02 --> 00:08:38.04 And then, go up to the Object menu, 227 00:08:38.04 --> 00:08:41.06 choose Graph, and choose Design. 228 00:08:41.06 --> 00:08:45.01 And now, I'll go ahead and click on a New Design button. 229 00:08:45.01 --> 00:08:47.04 And then, I'll click on a Rename button. 230 00:08:47.04 --> 00:08:49.03 So, it's a two-part operation. 231 00:08:49.03 --> 00:08:53.02 And I'll call this guy something like Stretchy F, 232 00:08:53.02 --> 00:08:55.06 let's say, and I'll click OK. 233 00:08:55.06 --> 00:08:57.05 Alright, now I'll click OK again 234 00:08:57.05 --> 00:09:00.03 to ensure that I have definitely created that guide. 235 00:09:00.03 --> 00:09:02.03 And I'll return to the View menu, 236 00:09:02.03 --> 00:09:04.08 choose Guides, and choose Lock Guides 237 00:09:04.08 --> 00:09:08.01 to lock those guides down so I don't mess them up. 238 00:09:08.01 --> 00:09:10.00 Alright, now I'll press Shift + Page Up 239 00:09:10.00 --> 00:09:12.02 in order to return to the first artboard. 240 00:09:12.02 --> 00:09:13.08 I'll click on the graph to select it. 241 00:09:13.08 --> 00:09:16.00 And I'll press Control + H or Command + H on the Mac 242 00:09:16.00 --> 00:09:17.07 to hide the selection edges. 243 00:09:17.07 --> 00:09:19.05 And for the present, I'm going to turn off 244 00:09:19.05 --> 00:09:22.01 that guides layer just because we no longer need it. 245 00:09:22.01 --> 00:09:24.01 And I'll right-click in the document window 246 00:09:24.01 --> 00:09:26.02 and choose Column. 247 00:09:26.02 --> 00:09:28.07 And now I'll go ahead and grab Stretchy F, 248 00:09:28.07 --> 00:09:30.01 and I'll change the Column Type 249 00:09:30.01 --> 00:09:32.06 from Vertically Scale to Sliding, 250 00:09:32.06 --> 00:09:34.00 and I'll click OK. 251 00:09:34.00 --> 00:09:37.08 And you can see I'm now exclusively stretching 252 00:09:37.08 --> 00:09:41.04 the base of that F. 253 00:09:41.04 --> 00:09:42.09 Alright, now I'll press Control + H 254 00:09:42.09 --> 00:09:44.04 or Command + H on the Mac to bring back 255 00:09:44.04 --> 00:09:47.04 the selection edges and I'll click off the graph 256 00:09:47.04 --> 00:09:49.04 to deselect it. 257 00:09:49.04 --> 00:09:51.03 And that friends, is how you create 258 00:09:51.03 --> 00:09:53.02 and apply a graph design, 259 00:09:53.02 --> 00:09:55.08 specifically to a vertical column graph, 260 00:09:55.08 --> 00:09:57.08 here inside Illustrator.