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- [Instructor] Now as I've mentioned,



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possibly the biggest

downside to 3D in Illustrator



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is that the various 3D objects



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can't interact with each other.



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Which is why I want to take a moment



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to show you at least one way to create



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a plausible cast shadow effect,



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in which these letters

are casting a shadow



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onto the background,



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that doesn't involve a

traditional drop shadow,



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and here's why.



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Let's say I switch over

to my letters so far,



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and then click on 'em

with the black arrow tool



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to select them, and then

go up to the Effect menu,



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choose Stylize, and choose Drop Shadow.



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Now I'm going to leave the opacity value



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set to 75%, that's just fine.



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I'll set the X offset

value to zero points.



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I'll change the Y offset to 30 points,



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and then I'll raise the

blur value to eight points.



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My color is black, at which point



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if I turn on the preview checkbox,



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you can see that I get this

big blob of a drop shadow,



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at which point I'll click OK.



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Now, the reason that

this is such a problem



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is that there's no way the lights



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that we've assigned to the text



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would cast the shadow

that we're seeing here.



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It's way too big, notice

that it's reaching



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the very end of the letter A,



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as well as beyond the end of the letter N.



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Rather, we'd have something smaller,



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as we're seeing right here,



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and the shadow would not only go downward,



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but it would go up as well,



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because one of our lights

is coming in from up right,



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and the other two are

coming in from down left.



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And so what's a different way to work?



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Well, the first thing we want to do



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is select this drop

shadow that I just applied



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and get rid of it by clicking

on the little trash icon.



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And then we want to

make a copy of this text



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by pressing Control C,

or Command C on a Mac.



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Alright, we'll come back

to that copy in a moment,



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but for now I'm going to

select both of the strokes.



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So I'll click on one and

shift click on the other



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here in the Appearance panel,



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and I'll click on the trash can icon,



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in the bottom right

corner to get rid of 'em.



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Now, we still want to

work from these 3D letters



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but we want them to be flat,



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so I'm going to click

on 3D Extrude and Bevel,



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to bring up the dialogue box.



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I'll turn on the preview checkbox,



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and I'm going to change the surface



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from plastic shading to no shading,



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so that we have just a

bunch of flat letters.



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And even though in an earlier movie



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I was questioning if you'd ever



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find a use for this function,



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I think maybe I have because

it's going to allow us



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to match the shadow to the

letters in the foreground.



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Alright, now I'll click

OK to accept that change



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and I'll also click on the fill right here



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in order to make it active,

and I'll set it to black,



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so that we have these big black letters.



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Alright, now I'll bring

back that copied text



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by pressing Control F

or Command F on a Mac,



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in order to paste it in the foreground,



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and then I'll go up to the Object menu,



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choose Lock, and choose Selection.



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Or you've got that shortcut of Control 2,



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or Command 2 on a Mac, just

to protect those letters.



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But it's also going to allow us to click



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on the letters in order

to select the shadow text.



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Alright now, I'll click on the word Type



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here in the Appearance panel,



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and then I'll go up to the Effect menu,



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choose Distort and Transform,



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and choose the Transform command,



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or if you love to D-key,



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you've got that shortcut of Control E



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here on the PC, or Command E on the Mac.



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And now, I'll turn on

the preview checkbox,



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so I can see what I'm doing.



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I'll click in the vertical move value



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and I'll press shift up

arrow a total of three times



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to move that black text downward.



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Now at this point, it's just as big



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as the text in the foreground



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so it's behaving like a

traditional drop shadow.



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To make it smaller, I'll click



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in the horizontal scale value,



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and I'll take it down all the way to 84%,



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and that way it's forming a straight line.



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So notice the base of the black end



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is forming a straight line



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with the base of the red letters,



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and it's happening over

here with the A as well.



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And then if you wanted to, of course,



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you could move the shadow

around horizontally as well,



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in order to better

reflect the light sources,



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but I figured this was good enough



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and so I'll go ahead and click

OK to accept that change.



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Now, I'll return to the Effect menu,



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drop down to Blur, and

then choose Gaussian Blur.



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And I'll set the radius to eight pixels,



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that was the same radius

I had for the drop shadow,



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and so if I turn on the preview checkbox



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you can see that we get

a nice shadow effect.



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Alright, now I'll click OK,



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and at this point I want

to add another shadow



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that's going upward and so

I'll return to the Effect menu,



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choose Distort and Transform,



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and once again choose

the Transform command.



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I do want to apply a new effect



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so I'll click on that button,



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and then I'll turn on

the preview checkbox,



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and I will click in the

vertical move value once again



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and this time I'll press shift down arrow



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a bunch of times until I get

a value of negative 50 points,



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and then I'll set the copies value to one,



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so that we have two shadows,



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one going downward and

another going upward,



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at which point I'll click OK.



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And finally I'll reduce the opacity



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of the effect to 50%,

and if you love to D-key



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you can do that just by

tapping the five key.



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Or of course, if not,



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you can change the opacity value



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up here in the control panel,



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at which point we end up

with this effect here.



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And that's it, we'll just go ahead



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and press Control Shift A,

or Command Shift A on a Mac



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in order to deselect the text.



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And that is at least one way



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to create a plausible cast shadow



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behind your 3D text or other object



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here inside Illustrator.