- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how
to update an asset across multiple documents
in a single operation.
And this is what really makes libraries worthwhile,
because just imagine you have an element
such as a logo, and it appears not only
in multiple documents, but they're being worked on
by multiple people as well, and yet you can modify
that logo and have it update
in every single document automatically.
Alright, I'll go ahead and select the logo
by pressing ctrl+a or cmd+a on the Mac,
and then armed with the black arrow tool,
I'll drag and drop the logo into the libraries panel.
Now of course it doesn't have to be in this library,
it could be in any library you choose,
but I'm still working inside the design elements library.
Alright, now I want to rename this guy
by double-clicking on artwork one,
and I'll just call it logo.
Alright, now let's add that logo to our artwork
in progress, and I'm going to do that by first selecting
this lower text here, with the black arrow tool once again,
and I'm going to change the type size value
up here in the control panel to 60 points,
and then I'll press the T key to switch to the type tool,
and I'll get rid of both of these parentheses.
Alright, now I'll press the escape key,
and I'll go ahead and drag and drop an instance
of this logo into the artwork,
and then I'll switch to the scale tool,
which I could do by pressing the S key,
I'll press the enter key, or the return key on a Mac,
to bring up the scale dialog box.
I'll change the uniform value to 20 percent,
and I'll press the enter key, or the return key on a Mac.
Alright, now I'll press the V key to switch to my black
arrow tool and I'll go ahead and drag this guy down
to right about here, just want to make sure
it's in a good location, so I'll nudge it
either up or down, not sure which way to go right now,
this looks pretty good actually,
and then I'll press shift left arrow a few times
in order to nudge it back.
Now I might decide I want to give this guy
a drop shadow, so you can assign transparency
and dynamic effects to these guys as much as you want.
And I'll do that just by selecting the eye dropper,
which you could get by pressing the I key.
Go ahead and press the enter key as well,
or the return key on a Mac, and turn on the appearance
checkbox right there, so it'll be expanded
when it's turned off, as soon as you turn it on,
it will collapse, and then click OK,
and click on the text,
to lift its drop shadow, that's a little bit too much,
so I'm going to switch over to the appearance panel,
and click on drop shadow in order to bring up
the dialog box, and I'll take the x offset value
down to one, and let's try y offset value of four.
And then I'll turn on the preview checkbox
to see what that looks like,
that's pretty good, so I'll click OK
in order to accept that change.
We've placed the logo into this document,
that works out beautifully.
Now I'm going to go ahead and switch over
to the sample logo document for a moment,
switch to the layers panel, turn off the rings layer,
and the reason I'm doing this is I want to have
another instance, just for the sake of demonstration,
in this document as well.
And so I'll drop down to the page icon at the bottom
of the layers panel, and I'll alt or option click
on it to bring up the layer options dialog box,
and I'll call this layer, place logo, let's say,
and I'll change the color to violet,
and then I'll click OK.
Alright, now we want to place an instance
by switching to the libraries panel and this time
I want the logo to go right in the middle,
and so I'm going to right click on it,
and choose place linked,
and that will create a link to the creative cloud asset.
Now if you choose place copy, then you will just go ahead
and add some static path outlines.
So you'll have no link whatsoever,
and notice, we're just seeing the words mixed objects
on the far left side of the control panel,
which is Illustrator's way of telling us
that some of the paths are stroked, and one path is filled.
Another way to do that, by the way, just so you know
everything that's available to you,
I'll press ctrl+z or cmd+z on the Mac to undo that change.
The other way to pull that off is when you're dragging
an asset from the libraries panel, you press the alt
key or the option key on a Mac, and then drop it,
and that will create a copy instead of a link.
That's not what we want, however, so I'll just get rid
of that guy, and then I'll right click on that logo
and choose place linked, and that will create
an instance of that logo right there
in the center of the artwork.
And we can tell its linked, because we can see
the words linked file on the far left side
of the control panel.
Alright, I'll ciick off the artwork to deselect it.
Now let's say we need to update the logo
for whatever reason.
Then just go ahead and double click on its thumbnail
here inside the libraries panel in order to open it
in an independent document window.
Now the reason we can't see anything is because
it's a white logo against a white artboard,
so what you need to do is go up to the view menu,
and choose show transparency grid,
and that'll bring up this checkerboard pattern,
which represents the transparent portion of the artwork,
and now, let's change that checkerboard a little bit
so we can better see what we're doing,
by clicking on the document setup button,
which will bring up the document setup dialog box,
and then click on this white swatch right here,
and change it to a darker shade of gray,
which is going to look different on the Mac,
but you can probably figure it out by now.
And then I'll click OK to accept that change,
and then I'll click OK again in order
to better distinguish the logo.
Alright, now I'm going to click on the at sign right there,
and I'm going to get rid of it by pressing the backspace key,
or the delete key on a Mac,
and then I'll select this inner circle right there
and I want to make it smaller by clicking on the word
transform, make sure that the link is turned on,
that little chain icon right there,
and that both of the scale checkboxes are turned off.
Then, change either the width or height value to 72,
and then press the tab key, and that will update
both values as we're seeing here.
Alright now you want to grab these two circles
and get rid of 'em, and in case you're wondering
where I'm going, doesn't really matter,
I'm just making a different logo effect,
but I'm eventually going to create a blend.
And so I'm going to select this inner circle right there,
and I'll go up to the effect menu, choose distort
and transform, and choose pucker and bloat.
And then you want to turn on the preview checkbox,
click inside that value right there, and press shift
down arrow three times
in order to reduce that value to negative 30 percent,
then click OK, and now shift click on the outer circle
there to select it, and go up to the object menu,
choose blend, and choose make,
or just press ctrl+alt+B, or cmd+opt+B on the Mac,
and we'll get this effect here,
and with any luck, you'll get three steps
in between automatically.
If you don't, return to the object menu,
choose blend, and then choose blend options,
which if you loaded D keys, now has a keyboard shortcut
of mash your fist B, at which point
you want to change specified steps to three.
So I guess there's a good chance that that's
not the way it's set by default.
If I have smooth color turned on, what do I get?
Just one step, alright, so you will have to switch
to specified steps, and go with three,
and then click OK.
Alright now that's a pretty cool effect,
but it kind of makes the outer circle look squarish,
and to change that, press the A key to switch
to the white arrow tool, click off the paths
to deselect them, click on the outer circle to select it,
and I'll actually alt or option click on it
to select the whole thing.
And then, you want to return to the effect menu
and choose pucker and bloat, dot dot dot,
so the second command, and if you turn on
the preview checkbox, you'll see that that ends up
puckering it, as well.
I want it to bloat, so I'll get rid of
the negative sign and press the tab key,
and we end up with this effect here, at which point
I'll click OK.
And now, I'll just close the logo, and then I'll click
the yes button here on the PC,
that's the save button on a Mac.
And you can see just like that we've updated
this artwork, and this artwork could be on your machine.
We could be working back and forth, and I could
make the adjustment, and it would just automatically
pop up on your screen if you were subscribing
to this library.
Same goes for the other file right there.
Notice that it has updated, as well.
And that is how you update an asset across
multiple documents in a clean and single operation
using CC libraries.