- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you
how to repeat the graph design
so that they're not stretched
or scaled in any way.
And I'll also show you how to apply different designs
to different columns so that everything
doesn't look like a Facebook logo.
All right, so for starters here.
I'll go ahead and click
on the graph with the black arrow tool
to select the entire thing,
and then I'll right click
inside the document window and choose column
in order to revisit that graph-column dialogue box.
And I'll switch back to the Facebook logo
and I'll change the column type
this time around to repeating, at which point,
Illustrator wants to know how many units
each design represents.
So let's say I enter five,
meaning that each icon is 5% high.
Also notice that the for fractions option here
is set to scale-design by default,
after which point, I'll click okay to accept that change,
and then I'll press control-H, or command-H on a Mac
in order to hide the selection edges,
and I want you to see, there's a fraction right there,
and it's getting scaled.
Otherwise, we're seeing two Fs
per each and every horizontal graph line.
And that's because the increment from one line to the next
is 10% and each icon is just 5% tall.
All right, I'll go ahead and zoom out a little bit here.
Now the thing is, I don't want to scale any of the Fs
so I'm going to right click again and choose column,
and I'm going to change for fractions to chop design,
and click okay.
And that's going to go ahead and just
cut off the designs like so.
All right, now we want to be able to
vary the design from one column to the next.
So I need to press control-H, or command-H on a Mac,
to bring back my edges, and I'll press the A key
to switch to the white arrow tool.
I'll click off the graph to deselect it,
and then I'll go up here to the blue portion of the F
and I'll alt- or option-click on it a total of three times
in order to select all of the Instagram columns.
Now make sure you don't alt- or option-click too many times
because then you'll select the entire graph.
So what we want to do is alt- or option-click a total of
three times in the blue area of that Facebook icon.
And then, because only part of the graph is selected,
you'll have to go to the object menu, choose graph,
and choose column, in order to bring back
the graph-column dialogue box,
and then just select the Instagram design, that's it.
Now you can click okay, and that will go ahead and
apply the Instagram icons to the second columns.
Now notice that Illustrator's gone ahead
and selected the entire graph,
and so to select the third columns, the ones for LinkedIn,
you'll need to click off the graph to deselect it,
and then alt- or option-click three times
inside that Facebook logo that we want to replace,
then return to the object menu, choose graph, choose column,
and then select LinkedIn and click okay.
All right, now click off the graph to deselect it,
alt- or option-click three times inside the F
for Pinterest up here in the legend,
return to the object menu,
choose graph and then choose column,
and this time we want to select Pinterest.
By the way, everybody's listed in alphabetical order.
So it should be pretty easy to follow along.
And then finally, you'll want to click off the graph
and alt- or option-click three times
inside the F for Twitter,
and then go up to object, choose graph, and choose column,
and let's go ahead and change this guy to Twitter
and click okay, and that is it.
I'll go ahead and click off the graph to deselect it,
and then I'll press control-zero, or command-zero on a Mac,
to center my zoom.
And that is how you avoid scaling your graph design
by repeating and cropping it,
as well as how you apply different graph designs to
different columns here inside Illustrator.