- [Instructor] In this movie,
I'll show you how to take what I'm calling
these construction paths right here
and we're going to clip them apart using the scissors tool
in order to create these paths right here.
So notice we're getting rid of everything
over on this side and everything down along here as well.
Alright so I'll go ahead and switch
to my illustration in progress here
and I'm going to zoom way in on this detail right here.
And just so that we're getting the most
precise results possible, I'll press control Y
or command Y on a Mac to switch to the outline mode,
and I'm going to zoom in even closer
and notice that we're looking at the intersection
of the top black path as well as this outer red path.
And we can see that's the case if I press control Y
or command Y on a Mac to switch back to the preview mode.
But we need to see the outline,
so I'm going to press control or command Y again,
and then I'll click and hold on the eraser tool,
and I'll select the scissors tool from the fly out menu,
which has a keyboard shortcut of C.
And then I'll press the control key,
or the command key on a Mac,
to temporarily gain access to my last used arrow tool
which is the black arrow,
and I'll click on this path to select it.
And then I'll release the control or command key
in order to switch back to the scissors tool.
Notice there's an anchor point right there,
we want to avoid it,
and so you may need to zoom in a little bit
and I always forget that Illustrator
now zooms in on the selection
so that kind of ruined everything here.
I need to scroll back up
and then I'll just control space bar click.
That's a command space bar click on a Mac.
Just so I can see exactly where I need to click.
Notice that my smart guides are turned on
so that I'm seeing the word intersect
when I click at this location right there.
Alright that adds effectively two new anchor points,
so two end points, because we just cut it in two.
And so I'm going to press the control key,
or the command key on a Mac,
to temporarily gain access to my black arrow tool
once again and click on this left hand path,
which is now independent of this path
over here on the right,
and I'll press the backspace key,
or the delete key on a Mac to get rid of it.
Alright now I'll scroll down
using the scroll wheel on my mouse for what that's worth,
and I'll control or command click on this path
to select it, notice we have an anchor point right there.
Want to avoid it.
And so you want to click at the intersection
of these two paths, and then control or command click
on the left hand path and press the backspace key
or delete key on the Mac to get rid of it.
Alright now at this point we can zoom out a little bit
and control or command click on this guy
and click when you see the word intersect.
In order to cut away this left hand bit of path.
Then control or command click on it to select it
and press the backspace key
or the delete key on a Mac to get rid of it.
Alright now we could clip this inner circle,
but we don't really have to,
so I'm just going to leave it alone.
And instead I'm going to move down to this region
where we're seeing the black paths
intersect with this bottom group of red paths.
Alright so I'll press control Y
or command Y on a Mac to switch back to the outline mode,
and then I'll zoom in on this guy.
This time I want to cut the path
that's more or less vertical,
and so I'll press the control key,
or the command key on a Mac, and click on this path
to select it.
Notice that we have an anchor point
right here at this location.
We want to avoid it.
So I'll click when I see the word intersect.
I've zoomed way in once again,
and then I'll control or command click
on this bottom piece of path to select it
and I'll press the backspace key
or the delete key on a Mac to get rid of it.
Right now you want to control or command click
on this path, the one that's more or less vertical,
and click at the word intersect,
so avoid that anchor point right there.
I want to click right at this location.
And then control or command click to select
the bottom piece of path outline
and press the backspace key
or the delete key on the Mac to get rid of it
and then control or command click on this
more or less vertical path outline.
Click when you see the word intersect
and then control or command click
on this bottom piece of path to select it
and press the backspace key
or the delete key on a Mac to get rid of it as well.
At which point, you're going to end up
with this effect here.
To see what it looks like, we'll press control Y
or command Y on a Mac to switch back to the preview mode.
Alright now what you want to do
is press the V key to switch back to your black arrow tool
and just go ahead and marquis these paths right here.
So these four ring paths
as well as the upright at sign.
You don't need to select the one that's upside down.
And then just press control C
or command C on a Mac to copy it
and then go ahead and turn off this 60.74% layer,
drop down to the little page icon
at the bottom of the layers panel
and Alt or Option click on it
in order to bring up the options dialogue box.
We'll call this new layer pattern
and I'll change it's color to medium blue,
let's say, up here toward the top of the menu,
and click okay.
And then I'll press control F
or command F on a Mac in order to paste those path outlines.
Alright, now we need to rotate them into place
and we're going to do that by pressing control zero,
or command zero on a Mac in order to zoom out.
I'm going to click off the paths to deselect them,
and then I'm going to zoom in just a little bit here
so that I'm looking at the document
at the 100% zoom ratio,
and I'll press control A, or command A on a Mac
to select all those paths.
Then I'll switch to the rotate tool,
which you can get by pressing the R key.
Go ahead and position your cursor
exactly at the intersection of the two center guides
and Alt or Option click.
Alright now this time around,
the math is a little harder to figure out.
So I'm going to enter an angle value of 360,
which is a full circle,
and then I'll enter slash eight,
for the eight sides of the octagon,
and I'll press the tab key,
and that gives me an angle value of 45 degrees.
At which point I'll click copy,
in order to copy all those paths,
and then I'll press control D, or command D on the Mac
in order to duplicate that rotation
until I fill out every corner of that octagonal guide,
like so.
Alright now to complete the effect
I'll go ahead and zoom out here
and because I have something selected,
I zoomed out with the art board at a weird position,
so I'll just go ahead and scroll things back here.
And what I want to do is make this logo white
against a dark blue background.
And so I'm going to create yet another layer,
this time by control alt or command option clicking
on little page icon at the bottom of the layers panel,
and the reason I'm pressing those keys
is that will result in a layer below the active one,
and so I'll just go ahead and call this layer backdrop,
let's say, and change it's color to light gray,
doesn't really matter, and click okay.
And now I'll switch to my rectangle tool,
which I can select from the shape tool fly out menu,
and I'll draw a big rectangle
from one corner of the red bleed boundary to the other,
and then I'll change the stroke to none
and I'll set the fill to this dark shade of gray right here.
In which the RGB values are all 51.
And that'll produce this effect here.
Now I'm really looking for a kind of dark shade of blue,
but it's not a blue that I've created here
in the swatches panel,
so I'm going to switch over to the appearance panel,
click on the fill, and click on the little page icon
at the bottom of the panel to create a copy of it,
and then I'll change this fill to the shade of blue
that begins R equals zero, G equals 113.
And I'll click on the word opacity
and I'll change the blend mode for this specific fill
to color and I'll take the opacity value down
to 50 percent, and if you loaded D keys,
you could do that just by tapping the five key.
In my case I have to tap the key a couple of times
because the first time ended up closing that panel.
Alright now I'll press control shift A
or command shift A on a Mac
in order to deselect my art work
and I'll go ahead and zoom back in.
Now switch back over to the layers panel,
I'll scroll to the bottom and turn off the guides layer
and then I'll scroll up here to the top
and I'll press the V key
to switch to my black arrow tool,
and I'll click on any one of these black strokes
to select it, then I'll click on this icon over here
on the right side of the control panel,
the one that reads select similar objects
and I will change all the strokes to white.
And then I'll click on any one of the at signs,
I'll click on that icon again, select similar objects,
in order to select all the at signs
and I'll change their fills to white this time around.
And I'm going to go ahead and lock down that backdrop layer,
incidentally, just so that I don't end up messing it up.
And now let's say that I want to assign a drop shadow
to this entire layer,
then I would go ahead and target the layer
by clicking on this little meatball over here
on the right side of the layers panel,
and then with the entire layer selected,
I'll go up to the effect menu, choose stylize,
and then choose drop shadow,
which if you loaded D keys,
there's a shortcut of control alt D,
or command option D on a Mac.
And these are the settings they came up with.
The mode's set to multiply, the color is black, incidentally
and so if need be, you can dial that in
by clicking on a little color swatch.
The opacity is 100%.
The X offset is negative two,
the Y offset is positive two,
and the blur is zero.
At which point I'll click okay to accept that change
and then I'll click off my art work to deselect it.
And that's how you whittle away at your path outlines
using the old school scissors tool
in order to create a ring logo of interwoven rings
here inside Illustrator.