Introduction to Adobe Illustrator: Vector Illustration

1. Class Intro / Simple Vector Illustration: Hi. My name is Aaron. I'm a graphic artist, and I teach at a couple of junior colleges. I teach Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and this is a project from my Adobe Illustrator class that I've been using for years now, and I thought it would be fun to make this a skill share class. This is a beginner class. This will introduce you to the program. Hopefully, this is a way to get your feet wet within Adobe Illustrator. The project is going to be to create a vector illustration of breakfast. Hopefully, this will also be a bit of a cultural exchange because I did the quintessential American breakfast where, you know, pancakes, eggs, and coffee. And hopefully, since you all are coming from all over the world and show me what you're eating for breakfast. And if you just simply want to copy exactly what I did, that's perfectly fine. I hope you will take this course, have some fun, and I really look forward to seeing what you come up with. 2. The Project: Adobe Illustrator is a vector program. And the project for this class is to create a vector illustration using simple tools within Adobe Illustrator to create an overhead view of breakfast, okay? So you can either follow along and do exactly what I do here for my project, or you can show your creativity and do something a little bit different. One of the other things that I really am looking forward to is since this is going out worldwide, basically, is to see what those of you from a different culture will come up for your breakfast. So, again, the project after you create it, you'll save the file as a PNG and you'll upload that to the workspace. And I'll have another video where I will show you exactly how to do that. 3. What is a Vector Illustration?: So, what is the difference between a vector illustration and a raster illustration or a pixel based illustration? I'm going to show you right here. So on this document, I have copies of here's the original illustration. This is a vector graphic, and this one is a JPEG, okay? They look identical. But the thing is, if I zoom in on this one, you'll see it doesn't lose in quality. Those lines are just as crisp as when, you know, as they are zoomed out. I'm going to hit Command Y to go to outline mode, and you can see this is how it's constructed. All right? Now, I'm going to move over, and don't worry if you don't understand everything that I'm saying here. I just want to give you a basic understanding of the difference between a vector illustration and a raster or pixel based illustration because it's important to understand that, so you'll know why you're things are so different. Alright. So here is and you can see here when I zoom in on the raster or pixel based illustration. You can see it's made up of a bunch of little squares. And the thing is, this one, I can blow this up 1,000 times, and it will always remain nice crisp and, you know, and sharp, okay? If I do the same thing with the raster base image, it's not, obviously. Okay. But the thing is, I can take this vector illustration and export it as a very high resolution. And it will take much longer for this pixel based illustration to fall apart visually, okay? But the thing is, if I make it a pixel based image, it's going to become a very, very large file, okay? All right. So here, I have a couple of definitions of what a what a vector graphic is. Okay, here, this is Wikipedia. It says, vector graphics are a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves, and polygons. All right. I have no clue what Cartesian means. But it doesn't matter. I'm not going to even bother. Here's one from Adobe where they explain what it is. And it says, vector files are images that are built by mathematical formulas that establish points on a grid. Raster files are composed of colored blocks, commonly referred to as pixels. Because they can infinitely adjust without losing resolution, vector files are more versatile for certain types of tasks than raster files. The most common types of vector files are, and then there's a list right here. But the ones I see the most are, you know, the Adobe Illustrator, which are.ai, getting kind of confusing these days with artificial intelligence. But hey, dot AI means here in this situation, Adobe Illustrator. Sometimes you'll see EPS, but more commonly, you'll see they sometimes appear in PDF, but you'll see dot SVG, the scalable vector graphics. That's something that is becoming more and more common these days. And just so you know, for this lesson or this class, all of this stuff that I'm teaching you right here or explaining right here is just for your own base knowledge, it's not really necessary to understand or take this class. So you can just skip all of this right now if you like. But anyway, here they're showing a vector file, and then they're showing a raster file, Okay? I like to think of it. Well, actually, I'm going to come back to this because say if I'm drawing here. I tend to think of illustrator files, whoops, as building an illustration, okay? And you build these shapes and then you fill them with colors, okay? You'll connect lines and things like that. Where as a master base file, I tend to think of that more as drawing. Just one thing you can see here is these look identical. But you hear when I go into outline mode, and I'm doing that by going up here, I'm using the key commands, but preview and outline command y, control y on a PC. And when I have this raster base image, it just turns into, you know, has an x through it. And the vector file, it shows me all of all of these little lines. So be aware of that. Okay? Now, I'm going to open up a photoshop file here. And this is the same file. But again, this is raster base. And typically, what I do in a raster program is say, if I want to draw something, I will, you know, paint on it like a paint brush, that kind of thing, okay? Whereas when I'm working in a vector, software like Adobe Illustrator. I will build things by using, you know, shapes. And there's this thing called the Pin tool that I can click click click, I can make curves, and I can build the illustration this way. The pin tool has a bit of a learning curve. So I'm going to try to avoid using this most of the time. In this class. I'm going to show you other ways to do this. Alright, so there's one more thing I wanted to show you. And this is how I tend to look at building art. Have you ever seen string art where let me open up one. It's a little more simple. You'll see you'll put the nails and they have these things they call anchor points. And imagine you're placing these nails, and then you're connecting each of these nails. To make a shape, and then you will fill it with a color, okay? Sometimes that color is a solid color, sometimes it's a gradation, but you will fill it with a color, and you build these on top of each other to make your illustration. And that's basically why they're different. So it's a different way of thinking than the traditional way of drawing. So keep that in mind. Again, all of this stuff is not really important for you to know in order to do the work, but it's kind of nice to know. 4. Finding Reference Material: All right, now to get started, we're going to create a mood board that kind of gives will help us get a color style and give us an idea of what we're going to go for. And you can also get some reference material of images that you want that you want to be using. You can either shoot your own or you can go to a place like Pexels or Pixabay or Unsplash and find photographs there. Again, you can actually just go to the regular Internet and find these since we will be drawing these in such a way that we won't be violating any copyrights. And these illustrations, these little drawings that we'll be creating will be so simple that you can mix and mingle without, you know, a lot of worry about the styles being different. Because again, we're going to majorly simplify these images. All right, so first thing I'm going to do is go to pexels.com. And this is just where I start. So you can go to any of these others. And pixels is just where I tend to start. I think the name is so short, it's easy to type in, but any of them will get you what you need. And I'm going to type in food over head view and see what we get. I'm going to, I like that peach. I'm not sure if I'm going to use that, but I'm going to save it. You can download these. But since these are going to really be so simple, I'm just going to take some quick screenshots. It'll be a lot faster, and then I'll just dump these in a folder and use those. Okay. And you can download the files. Because we're not going to even be tracing them because they're going to be so simple. So again, I'm just going to take some quick screenshots. But if you decide you want to download them, all you really need is a small file size. So I'm just going to click right here, download, and it's going to download the file, but I'm going to hit cancel. Now, if I want to download a small file, I will click on the image, and then when I click here, it will give me that choice to choose the file size. All right. So I'm going to close out of that. Maybe I'll do something like that. Mm. Blue berries, dates. Mm. Okay, we're going to have donuts. And the only reason I'm going to have donuts is because it's not that I eat donuts for breakfast. Well, avocado is pretty too. I'm going to hit download. Whoops, that's not what I want to do. I'm going to click on the image, and then I can cancel that because that's going to be a large file size, and I'm going to click small and download selected file. And. All right. Now, I got to get out of here. Fruit slices are always nice. Just because they're kind of interesting. Waffles will be interesting. And we're going to be doing breakfast items, but I'm just going to go back to screenshots. It's just so much faster. And again, I don't what we're doing is so these drawings are going to be so simple that we don't need high quality images in any way, like the tomato overhead. Blueberry. Alright, so Alright, pancakes. These look good. And again, these are for reference. And actually, the images don't even need to be overhead view, since these are just going to be reference material, you should be able to visualize. I'm just going to drag and drop that. Now, okay, I found an even faster way to get these. That's it for bacon. Oh, it's the overhead view. I'm going to give up on the overhead view. I'm just going to search for things that I want bacon. There we go. These aren't very all that appealing. But let's see, all we need, again, this is going to be reference. So it doesn't need to be Amazing. I actually like that one. These aren't great. They're overcooked. They might be delicious, but they're overcooked. There we go. Sausage is going to be an easy one to draw, that is, ink saudge. If Bacon's going to be a little more difficult. It's going to take a. There we go. Again, this is just reference material. Eggs, easy egg. This is going to probably be the All right. That's not going well. There we go. There's one. Boom. This will probably be the the eye catcher, the main piece in my illustration egg. I'm going to grab that the boiled egg sliced. Sometimes you just need a pop of color. And again, this isn't necessarily about what you eat. Oh toast, we need toast. It's about making a pretty picture, and it'll communicate that idea of breakfast. But it doesn't necessarily have to be what you know, you actually eat. I'm going to try something else. I'm going to try splash unsplash.com. Although I think they've recently started adding in more paid things. So let's just see what we get egg. Because one of the things they typically start these out where they're free, and then there we go. That's a good one. Eventually, you have to pay for it. You know, they get their business model started, and then after you know, at a point, they need to make money. All right. Okay, so we have I think what I'm going to go for in mine is pancake with a square of butter. I haven't gotten coffee. I might just throw in an avocado slice on the table just because it's pretty or an orange slice, depending on what colors I want egg and and I think what I might do is draw a few more things extra as examples of what you can do. Like I'm going to I think I have a waffle in here somewhere, right? Okay, that's going to be a little extra thing that I draw waffle. Okay, so this is going to be my meal, pancakes with fried egg, some bacon. And again, these are just going to be my artistic blemishes blemishes, my artistic embellishments. Also, I want to add again, add some extra pieces that we're going to just so I can show you how to make different things. Toast. I'll just grab that one. Add that to the list of extras. But if you're taking this class and there's something that you want to make and you're struggling with it, message me, you know, and put it in the comments somewhere. I'm not exactly sure where it is offhand, but put it in the comments. I'll get the message, and I will make you know, some extra videos if there's things that you all need help learning how to make. All right? Oh, coffee, a lot of these things you can make from your memory, you know, but I recommend at least looking at an example, cup of coffee there. There we go. If you want to do something like that, I'm going to throw that in there, but I'm going to go with just this normal looking thing here. The standard coffee with the little bubbles in it. I want to do the bubbles. Let's see. Let me see that again. Okay. And remember, we're working with this with shapes, keeping it simple, right, coffee. Oh, let's try tea. Okay. Tea might be interesting being the Oh, tea pot. That could be fun. I don't know. I keep dragging. There we go. All right, silverware. Okay. Well, I'll grab that one. I want that a little bit larger because there's a lot going on here. And. Let's try orange juice. Yeah. There we go. Oh, a bowl of cereal there, too. And I believe that's it. I'm going to put the coffee up here. And typically, if you go in a US diner, they'll have a, you know, usually give you get a glass of orange juice with it. All right. So I think that's everything and an orange juice can compliment my orange slice. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what I'm going to do here. All right. So this is these are the images that I'm going to use for my mood board and all the moodboard slash reference. All right. 5. Creating a Mood board: So now I'm going to open up a new Adobe Illustrator document. I'm going to click right here. It says New File. And I'm going to choose a letter size document. I can always change the size of it later. I'm going to make sure this is horizontal, though. I'm going to click right here over here on the right hand side. Okay. And I'm going to change the name of this to brick fest plate. And I'm going to leave the rest of the settings alone, and I'm going to choose Create. Okay, so the way I'm going to start this out is I'm going to just dump all those images here, at least the ones that I want to use. I'm just going to drag and drop them while that's kind of large. Let's see. I forgot the screenshots were. I probably should have gone with those. They'll be a lot smaller. Let's see. All right. So here are a couple of the screenshots. Let's see how tiny those those work a little better, just come in in here. Yeah, it's a little smaller, but it really doesn't matter. These are just reference images or inspiration. So I'm going to drag these down here. And scale them down. And while they're selected, all I have to do is click on one of these little anchor points in the corner right here, and I can scale it down. But I'm going to click right here and drag across so that everything is selected, and then I'm going to click here on that dot, and I'm going to hold the shift key so it doesn't distort things, okay? So shift key, and I want these down nice, small size. I'm just going to click here. And I am using the move tool that's this tool right here to move these around, and I'm just going to position everything. I can scale them up. Again, I'm holding the Shift key as I scale them up, and these are just going to be inspiration and reference. So this is my mood board, but it's off to the side of my workspace. It's not like an official official mood board. It's just kind of, you know, a little bit of inspiration. All right. What else do I need? I'm missing some pieces here. I'm going to reset my workspace. I don't know if your workspace looks like this, I'm going to go workspace. Go to Window workspace, and I'm on the Essentials Classic. And I'm going to hit reset Essentials Classic. Okay. So now I'm going to move that back over. I definitely want the avocado. Wow, that's large. I go to scale that down. Again, I'm clicking on the corner. I can click on the side as well. You see how it'll distort that way, but if I hold the shift key, it distorts it, you know, proportionately. And coffee definitely want the coffee. Hang on. I'm going to click here to give myself a little more space so I can see what's going on. Okay. We got the pancakes, got the eggs, bacon, coffee, I'll scale it down after I get in here. Maybe the orange slice and probably the orange juice. These extras, I'm going to need silverware. I'll just drag those in here, so I'll remember to put them in here. I'm not going to trace them. This is, again, it's going to be very stylized. All right. So I'm going to click Reposition T and I think we are almost ready to go. Soon as I scale this down again, black arrow, the move tool. That's the direct selection tool right there. So I'm going to hold the shift key as I scale it down, click. Hold the shift key. Click. And again, I can do these multiples at the same time. I click on this one and I hold the shift key. I can click on that cup of coffee, and then I hold the shift key. I'll add the shift key. I'll click on the button and you'll see it's distorting, then I'll add the shift key, and I can scale it down. And always let go of the mouse button first and then the shift key or else it may distort. Okay. Okay. And this is my mood board. Now, I just want some color inspiration. And I'll put that in my mood board as well. All right. 6. Choosing a Color Scheme: Make sure you are saving your file regularly. So I'm going to just go File, Save. I've already given it a name. And you get this option. Do I want to save this to the Cloud or do I want to save this to my computer? If you're moving around a lot, sometimes, you know, you go to work and you might want to work on this or if you go to campus or school or something, and you want to play around with it. I recommend saving to the creative cloud. I personally always save it to my computer unless I know that I'm going to be using it. So I'm going to click this button right here, save to your computer, and then I just pay attention to where it's going, and it's going to save this to my desktop. Actually, I'm working in that little folder right here and save. And okay. All right. Now, I want to show you how you can get some color inspiration. You can do that from within here under the color guide. But I'm going to show you an easier way to get some color inspiration. And if you obvious and assuming that you have a adobe subscription, you can do this. If not, you can just grab. We're going to find color themes, and I'm going to go type in Adobe color. And hit Enter. And you get this thing here, Adobe color. I'll click here. Okay. And you may have to sign in. Mine already signed in. Or if you give it a couple, you know, 10 seconds or so, it may automatically sign in for you if, you know, you signed in already. And this is Adobe color. And you see here, they have create Explore trends. There's some libraries, but I'm going to go to Explore. I'll save this for another day, but you can create your own color schemes. I'm just touching on this briefly. These are like this is analogous color scheme, which means the colors are, you know, side by side. Monochromatic. You know, they're going this way, triadic and triadic is if you slice this into three pieces. That's where these colors are you are coming from, and you can change that. And I'm just going to show you complimentary. Again, they're opposite each other on the color wheel, and you just slide this up and down. But again, I don't want to get into this. This is getting a little complicated. I usually just go to here to explore and explore just gives you all of these different premade color schemes. I'm going to type in trends and see what we get. Okay, so these are kind of interesting. And for these, you don't have to stick with these color schemes. I just kind of use this as a basis to get started or try to keep some color harmony within the piece. If you repeatedly use certain colors, you will have that color harmony. I'm going to go back to explore and see. And for this, you can save it or you can just copy it. Let me hit next and see what we get. Actually, you know what I want to do right here up here, it says popular searches, summer neutral palette, primary vapor wave. I'm afraid to click on that, but I'm going to click on it. Okay, this is not the color scheme that I want. All right. I think I'm going to type in. Let's see happy. I think what I'm going to do is type in pastel and see what we get. Pastel. And I'll make that the basis of my color theme, and then I can add pops of color as needed. Actually, I'm not crazy about these. Well, This might work. Alright, I'm going to go with this one. I like this color scheme. And again, this is going to be the base, and then I'll change the color of things to suit the food. Alright, so right here, I can click right here and hit Add to library, and it will actually add it to the illustrator library. But I'm trying to keep everything simple. Um, I can like it and download as a JPEG, right? So I'm going to do this one, right? This is very easy to do. I'm going to click download as a JPEG. And if you're not signed in, it won't let you do that, and I'm going to save it here and save. There we go. Another way you can do this to save it is just take a screenshot. I'm on a Mac, so I'm just going to go hold Shift and command and then tap four, and I get this loadal target. And then I can just drag across there, and I'll get that color scheme. If you're on a Windows PC, I believe there's something called snippet that you can use to take a quick screenshot. All right? Okay, so again, you can always download it. All right. So again, I'm trying to keep this simple rather than getting into too many tools. And from here, remember I downloaded it, and here it is right here. I'm just going to drag and drop it. Wow, that's big. The screenshot might have been the better choice just because of the size. Wow, that's gargantuan. So I'm going to click on that corner piece, hold the shift key. And so I'm clicking on the corner, and you see it's going to distort, but if I add the shift key, it'll scale it down nicely and keep the proportions. All right, so that is my completed mood board right here. And you can do this on a separate document if you like, but I just like to put it on the side, and then I can delete everything once and once I'm done. If I want to keep a copy just for backup, I can always click, take a picture of that, take a screenshot. And if I need this later, I decide I want to come back to it later. I can. But each of these images is going to really make the file size the file size for this this drawing a bit larger. Anyway, the next video, we are going to get started. And I just want to scale this down to fit, you know, in my computer window. So I'm going to click on the magnifying glass tool, which is the Zoom tool, and I can drag right, to zoom in, and drag left to zoom out. And then I'll get that just about right, and I'll go to the hand tool here and reposition everything, and I am ready to go. So I'll see you in the next video when we start this illustration. 7. Creating a File: So let's get started. I'm going to go down to my doc, and I'm going to open up Adobe Illustrator 2024. Since I teach, I tend to keep some of the older versions, if in case you were wondering why I had three different versions there. But anyway, we're in 2024, and I am going to click New File right here. And from here, I'm going to choose a letter size document, but you can choose any other type of document that you like. I'm going to click right here for print, and there's A four, which is another common size. I'm going to click here to choose V all presets so we don't see these templates. And you can see there's other sizes here. So choose whatever size you're comfortable with. Okay, so right here, you can see it says preset details. I'm going to change the name here. I'm going to call this food now breakfast, drawing. And I'm going to choose landscape orientation. And the rest of these things here, the settings should be fine. So I'm going to hit Create. 8. Gotchas!!: In this short video, I want to show you a few things that I call gotchas, and how to get out of them. One quick thing is, say if you mess up your workspace, you can always come up here to window and choose workspace. Right now we are working in the class Essentials Classic workspace, and that's where I usually work. So just change to the Essentials Classic workspace, and if it still is a mess, just hit reset essentials, and everything will go back. To its right place. Okay, now, another gotcha is the tab key on your keyboard. If you accidentally touch that, the tools disappear. All you have to do is hit the tab key again, and everything will come back. Okay? And also, if you hit that tab key, you can still come up to window workspace, Uh, and I'm on the classic essentials and just hit reset essentials. And one thing you will not see reset essentials if you're not on the essentials classic, you'll see reset whatever work space you have chosen. And yours will look a little different than mine because I have some custom work spaces here. So I'm just going to hit reset essentials. Boom, and it goes back. And the reason I tell you this is because it's very easy to accidentally hit that tab key and not know what happened to all your tools. If that happens, you can always just hit Command S or Control S on your keyboard to save it and then quit and reopen, and it'll come back if you can't remember the other way. Another key that you may accidentally hit is the F, F as in Frank. You hit that key, and it changes the mode, okay? So, and I go right here after the third tap or at the second tap, it goes into presentation mode, which is very nice if you want to show someone the work that you're working on. But just tap that F key, F in Frank, and it will bring you back. It's three taps, you know, to cycle through the different stages. And the one problem here is, say, if you get to this point, there's no Essentials class. I mean, you know, you can't go to the workspace from up here. So that's a little bit of a problem. So just hit the F key, actually, or hit the tab key. The tab key brought me back to here. So if I go to F and then tab, you know, hang on me, F, F. Everything is gone. I can still hit the tab key, and that'll bring me back to this place. And then, you know, I can always once I get to something that looks presentable, tab, I can always go to actually window, the thing up at the top is no longer here. I can also access workspace from over here. You see that little icon in the very upper right hand corner. I click on that, and you can see, you know, workspaces, essentials classic, reset essentials, and, you know, everything is there. Okay, so presentation mode, you lose that the illustrator menu up here. So just try to remember the FK, again, if you can't quit, make sure you save everything and reopen, and everything should be normal again. 9. The Illustrator Workspace: All right. So this is my art board. And if yours looks a little different than mine, if you come up here where it says Window. Here we see it says workspace if I come down a little bit. And from here, you can choose different work spaces. I have a number here that I've created, but we're not going to get into that, but you can see there's essentials and essentials classic. I like to use essentials classic, and I'll show you the difference. Just take a look at the tools and you see the bar at the top. It's going to disappear. So watch the tools and you'll just see how much they kind of dwindle down. So this is the essentials classic. This is the old way. I like to use it the old way, but I'm going to show you what your default might be here. If I come here where it says Window, workspace, and then I come over here. This window should look a little bit different on yours because I've added a few custom work spaces. We're not going to get into that here, but you can customize your workspace. Here, you can see it says Essentials Classic. I'm going to change this to essentials. So this is what you're likely seeing. And you'll see here, the tool there are significantly less tools over here on the left hand side of your workspace. And there's a options bar that is missing. It's kind of redundant, but I've gotten used to using that, and that's why I like essentials classic. So I'm going to go back to Window, workspace and choose Essentials Classic. Now, to make sure we're in the same spot, I'm going to reset my workspace. I'm going to go window workspace, and then I'm going to choose reset essentials classic. And this reset, it just resets to we'll reset on whatever work space you're working on. I'm going to hit reset Essentials Classic. And you can see it just close that window. So if you open your open the document and Essentials Classic. You should have everything that looks exactly the same as mine. I once you choose that workspace, if it still looks a little different, reset the workspace, reset the essentials classic. And the main difference, as you'll see there's twice as many tools here. And up here, this is called the Options bar. And the options bar changes when you choose different tools. But also, it's pretty redundant of what you'd see here in the properties panel. But the old way, I'm just used to using the options bar. And again, it will show you most of these same tools here in the properties panel, okay? So if you are working on a laptop with a smaller workspace, you might feel more comfortable using essentials classic. But the tools here won't look exactly the same if you are using the essentials workspace. But if you just feel much more comfortable working with the essentials workspace. You'll see right here there's these three dots. If you click there, you'll be able to find any of those tools that are missing right here, okay? So I'm going to unclick that, and then I'm going to go back to Essentials Classic. So Window workspace, Essentials Classic. Okay. So now we are ready to get started. 10. Importing Images: So the first thing we want to do is we are going to create a colored background. And I'm going to go to my, I'm going to go to that mood board that I created earlier. This will kind of set the tone of what I'm doing, and I'm just going to play off of what I have here. All right. So I'm just shrinking this up a little bit. I forget, this is a beginner course. I need to show you what I'm doing here. I'm on a Mac. So what I'm going to do here is click on that and I can just click hold my finger on it, and drag and drop it, okay? And it's still selected. You'll notice it has that X across the middle, and I can click on this and I can scale it down. Right now, it's scaling, but it's distorting. If I keep my finger on the mouse button and I add the shift key, it will scale down proportionately. And I just want it about the size of the document. And I'm going to release the mouse button first. Then I will release the shift key. That's the order. You can do it very quickly, but don't try to lift your hands at the same time because often, what happens when you do that, If you scale it down and say, you see where my cursor is. It's kind of distorted. If I left release the shift key. It does that, okay? So don't try to beat it, re release the mouse first, then the shift key. All right, so I'm going to move this over here. If you're on a Windows PC, I think you can still drag and drop it into the document. But if you prefer, you can also place the file. So you'll go to the file mean you file. And then you'll work your way to find the piece and you can choose it from here, and I'm just going to click that button place. And you'll see it gives me the ability to either click and release and drop it in place, or I can click and drag, and you see it's maintaining scale, and I just scale it up or down to the proper size, and I'm good. Okay, so I'm going to delete that. I'm going to click here on the application frame up in this area right here and move that back into place. 11. Navigation in Illustrator: Okay. Now it's time to get started drawing. I want this to fit to the document. There's the magnifying glass right here. If you'll notice, right here, I can click and drag right and left, and it will scale up and down. Right to zoom in, left to zoom out. And it will scale in the direction, I mean, at the location that I choose. So if I click here on the avocado toast, I'll click right, drag right, and then drag left. No, that's blueberries and toast and something. So you'll see if I zoom in, I can just click. Now, if I want to zoom out the other way, I can hold the option key on my keyboard, hold it, and you see the cursor, the icon changes to a minus sign, and then I click and I can zoom out. The problem with the scrubby zoom is when you click and drag right and left, if you hold it too long, it starts to zoom in automatically. You're like, Whoa, whoa, whoa. So if you use that scrubby zoom where you click and drag left to zoom out or drag right to zoom in, you'll need to do it quickly. Because, again, if you click and hold, it just starts zooming in. So click drag, click drag. So that may take a little practice. Click drag. Oops, I held it too long. All right, so I'm going to zoom out. All right. Now, what I like to do to get everything in the work space, so I can see everything is I'll hit Command zero. All right? Or control zero on a PC. I'm sorry about that. So Mac control Z. I mean, Command zero, and everything fits. Okay? Now, I want to move over to the right, you know, just a little bit. And right here, you can see the I can click here and drag right and left and move over. But for me, that's a little bit cumbersome. It is hard to control. So I will hold the space bar. I'm holding the space bar, and I get the hand tool, okay? And now I can just move it over so I can see everything I need to see. Actually, I'm going to go back to the magnifying tool, the Zoom tool and drag oops drag left just a little bit. I went too far. Oh, boy. Whoa. Hang on. There we go. Space bar, I get the move tool, and I'm just going to zoom in till it goes, and then I'll hold the space bar and get the hand tool. But you can also click on the hand tool. And if you want to use the keyboard shortcuts, you'll see if I move my cursor over that hand tool, there's a little H right there, and it's just telling me that the H is where is what I need to do to get the hand tool. And on the magnifying glass, it's z. So if I tap H on my keyboard, I get the hand tool. I tap Z, I get the magnifier. Now, if I want to want it to go to a minus, I hold the option key on a Mac, and I believe it's also called the option key on a PC. All right. It's that simple. 12. The Rectangle Tool: Here is the rectangle tool. There's a number of tools. I'm not going to get into a lot of them. Most of the tools that we're going to be working with are simple shapes. We'll play around with the curvature tool. We might touch on the pin tool, but I'm not going to get into it really heavily, okay? Alright, so this is the rectangle tool. If you don't see it look for one of these, the circle, this rounded rectangle tool or one of these other tools, okay? If you've been playing around, you may have changed it, but we want the rectangle tool, okay? And any of the tools you'll see here, if it has that little dot next to it means there are other tools nested with it. And you can see there's tons of these. Most of them have other tools nested with them, okay? So, here, the curvature tool doesn't have anything nested with it, right? Not to be confused with the pin tool. All right. So we're going to click right here on the rectangle tool. And what you can do is you can click and drag and release, and you'll have a shape. So here I want to show you how to select something. This is the black arrow and the white arrow or more commonly known as the selection tool and the direct selection tool. If you select this, right now, I'm only going to show you how to use the selection tool. If I click on the black arrow, the selection tool. If I click here, you see, I select this object, and I can move it. Here I click on this one. Now I can click again, and I can move it. If I click over here, I'll deselect it. Okay? Sometimes you'll hear me say, click away, and that just means clicking a spot that's blank and you'll deselect it. So here I can select these. Another way I can select things is by clicking away or clicking outside the shape and make sure I don't click something else. I can click here, hold my finger on the mouse button and drag over and once it touches that, it will select that. Now, watch this. If I click here and I can drag across, I'll select two objects. Notice is only touching. I don't have to encompass the entire squares. So I'll release, boom, and now they're both selected. Same thing here. I can come across that, and I'm touching part of all three of these squares. I'll release, and now they're selected. So now I can click again, and I can move them as a group. Okay? Now, the direct selection tool will behave differently. It goes into more specifically on the points that you'll be selecting, but I'm going to save that for later. For now, stick with the black arrow, and you can't go wrong. Another thing that you can do is if I'm going to move these down here. If I click on that, you see these little anchor points here. If I click on these, I can click and I can drag that out, I can click here, I drag that up. And on this corner, I can, you know, change the shape of this like this. Okay? So that's what those anchor points are. So if you just want to move something, grab it in the middle. If it doesn't have a fill. So if I come over here and click fill with none, if I click in the middle, it's not going to select. The reason it's selected there because I select that little middle point. But normally, if I'll click, you're like, Yeah, it's not selecting, but if I drag out across that line, I selected it but then I go to pick it up and it's not selecting. So since this is filled with none, just to make that a little more clear, I'm going to move it up here. You can see. I just need to select right on top of the line, the path, okay? I'll click, and now I can move it around. And that's if it's filled with none. This is my This is the fill, and this is the stroke. The fill fills it, and the stroke is the outline, okay? And right now you see there's a line through this, so there is no outline. So I'm going to click right here on the fill. And then if I come down here to this nu, you notice there's the keyboard shortcut, which is a slash. I can just type slash on the keyboard, and now it fills with n. This is one of those things that can trip up someone who's new to Adobe Illustrator is if you create a shape and it has no fill and it has no fill in the stroke, you'll click away, and it appears to vanish. It's still there. So if I click out here and drag across, it touches it, okay? So I'll click here, drag across, and it will touch it, and select it. Okay, so be aware of that. So if you make a shape and you release and you go, where did it go? That's probably the reason why there's no fill and no stroke on the path, okay? So again, this is the path. And you can see the cursor is telling me the little pink letters right there, it's telling me that this is a path. And that's because the reason I see the little symbol here is because my smart guides are on. And if you don't see that, you can turn that on up here. I'll go to view. And come down here and you see Smart Guides is checked. If yours is not checked and you want to see them on, you can just move over the view and release on here and it will be and it will be on. For now, I want them on, but I often turn them off. But right now, we're going to stay right here. One thing I do want to mention here is you'll notice if I click on these, it will the color chip here and that stroke, it will switch places. I can also click on this little arrow here that says swap fill and stroke, okay? Now, what these do is if I want to change the color of this, say if I want the stroke to fill with, I'll click here. So if I want to fill the fill to be filled with, I have to click it and move it to the top, and then I can fill it with none. Okay? So I'm going to do that again. I'm going to click on this default colors, okay? Here, you can see I can click here and I can swap the colors, okay? But I want to fill this with none. So I need to make sure it's on the top, so I have to click on it and I fill with none. Now, if I want to fill the stroke with none, I have to click on it. It brings it to the top, and then I can fill that with none. One more time, click here, I can swap, or I can click on it, bring it to the front, and fill that with a. Click on that one. Okay. So let's try this again. I'm going to hold the space bar. I'm going to reposition everything here so I can see everything. Oh, and I still have that. So I'm going to click across. And suppose I want to fill this. Okay, so it's filled with none. So if I click and drag, it's not moving, okay? So if I click and drag across, I can move my cursor right on top of it, and you can, whoops, I missed it. Oh, I guess I did get it. And it's moving, and I can move it down here and I'll release, and you can see it's there. But it's hard to see. Right now, if I go to view, you'll see I am in I'm in preview mode. Well, actually, you can't see that I'm in preview mode. It doesn't say. But right here, if I change this to outline mode, you will see that line, okay? There we go. So now I'm in outline mode. And one thing you'll notice our photograph just appears as a box with an x in it. If I go to preview mode, you can see that picture now. Okay? And you can see here that you can't see this, but when we go oddly enough, when we go to outline mode, you can see this box. So if you lose something, you can change your view if you make a shape and it has no feel or stroke, you can change it. So I'm going to click right here, and now I'm going to go back to preview mode. And we're going to add some color. There are a number of different ways to add color, but I'm going to show you the most direct way right now. 13. The Color Picker: There are a number of different ways to add color, but I'm going to show you the most direct way right now is you'll see the color chip is filled with none. If I double click on that, that's click click, it opens up the color picker, and I can choose my color. So if you look right here, this is a little circle. Okay? Right now, this is filled with none. It will fill it with something once I hit the okay button. But before I increase the stroke on the width, it would be filled with black. Actually, I'm going to hit okay because that is right there that little thing, that's a circle, saying that this is 100% black. I'm going to hit okay. All right, I just want to add a q take a quick little break from the video to show you something else here. So say if I draw this shape out. This is rectangle. And you can see if I click away, it gets lost. It's filled with white, so I can still just click in the middle and reselect it. But the quickest and easiest way to get something so you can see it is to hit the letter D on the keyboard, okay? Right here, you'll see there and you can see it says default fill and stroke, and D is right there. That's the shortcut. I just hit D. And boom, I have a white fill and a black stroke around it. And that's the easiest, quickest way to get this so you can see something. Now, back to what I was saying before. Okay, so this is telling me that it's going to fill with black, but I'm going to move the cursor. And you'll notice the moment that I move it, it registers that there is now a fill, okay? So it's still all the way down there, but I had to click on it, and then it instantly fills, okay? So now, this is black and say I want to make this red. I can slide this all the way up. You can see. Or I can just click there, but I'm going to go ahead and just keep sliding it up until it goes to red. I can move it back down and I can move it back up, okay? And this is called the hue slider. Hue is another word for color, okay? And this is just the pure color. Now, if I click here that you can see these two little handles here, if I click those and drag them up, I can change the color. And drag them down. Okay? Now, if I take my cursor right here, and I click over here in the white area and I change the hue slider. It's not going to change the color. And the reason for that is because black and white are technically not colors, okay? So I slide that up and down. And this is something I'm going over this because it's kind of important. You might open up the color picker. It's white, and then you'll go, I want to make this red or blue, and you slide it up to blue and hit, and you go, why isn't it blue? And the reason it's not blue is because your color picker is you chose you know you change the hue slider, but you need to slide this the light, dark area here, you know, move out of the white over into the hue into the strong hue area, okay? And you can see right here, that's the new color, and down here is the old color. So you can see it was white, but now it's blue. Now, if I move that hue slider up into purple, you can see now, it was white, but now it's purple. I hit. Now if I double click again, you can see it's purple, and now I slide that hue slider to the blue area. It's blue and purple, okay? Now, if I move it to the white, I can just move it to the dark. This is the light and the dark of this particular hue, Okay? I'm not going to go into any of these, but these are where you can actually manually type in numbers to get a very specific color if you want. But we'll save that for another lesson. All right, so I'm going to hit okay. And now we have our blue color. 14. Fill and Stroke: There are a number of different ways to add color, but I'm going to show you the most direct way right now is you'll see the color chip is filled with none. If I double click on that, that's click click, it opens up the color picker, and I can choose my color. So if you look right here, this is a little circle. Okay? Right now, this is filled with none. It will fill it with something once I hit the okay button. But before I increase the stroke on the width, it would be filled with black. Actually, I'm going to hit okay because that is right there that little thing, that's a circle, saying that this is 100% black. I'm going to hit okay. All right, I just want to add a q take a quick little break from the video to show you something else here. So say if I draw this shape out. This is rectangle. And you can see if I click away, it gets lost. It's filled with white, so I can still just click in the middle and reselect it. But the quickest and easiest way to get something so you can see it is to hit the letter D on the keyboard, okay? Right here, you'll see there and you can see it says default fill and stroke, and D is right there. That's the shortcut. I just hit D. And boom, I have a white fill and a black stroke around it. And that's the easiest, quickest way to get this so you can see something. Now, back to what I was saying before. Okay, so this is telling me that it's going to fill with black, but I'm going to move the cursor. And you'll notice the moment that I move it, it registers that there is now a fill, okay? So it's still all the way down there, but I had to click on it, and then it instantly fills, okay? So now, this is black and say I want to make this red. I can slide this all the way up. You can see. Or I can just click there, but I'm going to go ahead and just keep sliding it up until it goes to red. I can move it back down and I can move it back up, okay? And this is called the hue slider. Hue is another word for color, okay? And this is just the pure color. Now, if I click here that you can see these two little handles here, if I click those and drag them up, I can change the color. And drag them down. Okay? Now, if I take my cursor right here, and I click over here in the white area and I change the hue slider. It's not going to change the color. And the reason for that is because black and white are technically not colors, okay? So I slide that up and down. And this is something I'm going over this because it's kind of important. You might open up the color picker. It's white, and then you'll go, I want to make this red or blue, and you slide it up to blue and hit, and you go, why isn't it blue? And the reason it's not blue is because your color picker is you chose you know you change the hue slider, but you need to slide this the light, dark area here, you know, move out of the white over into the hue into the strong hue area, okay? And you can see right here, that's the new color, and down here is the old color. So you can see it was white, but now it's blue. Now, if I move that hue slider up into purple, you can see now, it was white, but now it's purple. I hit. Now if I double click again, you can see it's purple, and now I slide that hue slider to the blue area. It's blue and purple, okay? Now, if I move it to the white, I can just move it to the dark. This is the light and the dark of this particular hue, Okay? I'm not going to go into any of these, but these are where you can actually manually type in numbers to get a very specific color if you want. But we'll save that for another lesson. All right, so I'm going to hit okay. And now we have our blue color. 15. Reseting Workspace: And if ever you mess up your artboard, say, if I tear this off, I move this over, I start closing things and go, Oh, my gosh, I've wrecked my workspace. I've even closed my tools. Oh, no, what do I do? All I have to do is come up here to Window workspace. And again, I'm on the Essentials Classic. As you can see, I just hit reset Essentials Classic, and everything comes right back. I should have told you that a little sooner, but I don't think anyone's messed up the artboard too much already, but that's how you can get things back if you lose things. 16. Sampling Colors: Since I have my mood board here, and I have my color samples here, I'm going to sample that color, okay? So what I'm going to do is come over to my eyedropper tool. So now we want to add sample this color here from my color swatch. So I'm going to select. Again, I'm on the black arrow. I'm going to select my rectangle. And then you'll see right here is an eyedropper tool. I'm going to click on that. Now, I'm going to move move that cursor all the way over here to my color sample, and I'm going to click on this darker blue. And boom, it's sampled the color. All right? I'm going to do that again. I'm going to hit Command Z to undo it. And I'm going to come over here. I'm going to click on the eye dropper tool, and then I'm going to come over here and just click one time to sample that color. All right. So now I want to make this the background. I mean, you can see the artboard is white. I can go into the preferences and change the artboard color. But the problem with that is changing the artboard color would only change the artboard color. And if I print this out, it's still going to come out with the background being white. You know, if I put in a piece of white paper, it's still going to come out white. So we need to change the background for this, right? So I'm going to click here on the black arrow, and I'm going to move this over to the corner of the artboard. And I'm going to go just a little bit over, okay? So if I, you know, export this out, it's going to go blue all the way to the edge, if I save this as you know, a JPEG or something to put on the web. All right. So now I'm going to click here in the corner. And again, I'm on the black arrow, and I'm going to drag this all the way over to here. And I'm going to release. Now, this is going to be my background color. This is going to be my table cloth. The only problem that you may have with this is if you're clicking on things, it may move around, so we want to lock it. So I'm going to come here, where it says object. And then you see right here, it says, Lock, and then we're going to choose selection. And that way, we don't have to worry about it moving around. But I'm going to take it another step further to lock it down. We're going to work on a separate layer. And that's because when you're working an illustrator, if you unlock things, you tend to have to unlock them all if you use a keyboard shortcut, and I don't want to have to keep locking and unlocking this. So again, I'm going to go object, lock, and then choose selection. Okay? And it's locked. And how do I know it's locked? Right there. It's showing me a little lock. If you don't see that lock, don't worry. Just click on it and click hold and try to drag, and if it moves, you know it's locked. That actually is something that's in this new one of the latest versions where it shows you that it's locked. And you can change turn that on and off in the preference. 17. Working with Layers: Okay, so now, I'm going to open up my layers panel. So if I come over here and you'll see here's another set of panels, these are just the same as these panels here, but these are minimized. So if right here that little chevron, I'll click and you'll see now they're wide open, okay? If you're tight on space, you can keep them closed, or you can open them up, right? And that's just by clicking those little double arrows there. Right now, I'm just going to click right here, and that's the icon for the layers panel, and that's what it looks like. And you'll see it says Layer one, and you can see it looks blue. Let me make this a little bit larger. I'm going to click here and this is the flyout menu or the hamburger menu as a lot of people call it because it looks like a little, you know, bun with a couple of things inside. All right, so I'm going to click on that, and I'm going to go panel options, and I'm going to choose large to show these icons a little bit larger. And you can see it's a little bit larger, so that may be helpful to you. You don't need to do that. Okay? Unless things are too small for you. And depending on the resolution of your computer, it yours may be much larger or smaller than mine. All right. So this is the background. And what I'm going to do here is double click on those words, and I'm going to call that BG for background, and then I'm going to hit the interkey. Okay? And I just like to label things so things don't get confusing. All right? As you start to build this out, there's going to be lots of layers, right? So we're going to also want to lock the whole layer down. I showed you how to lock that there, but since this is going to be a separate layer, we're going to go ahead and lock the whole layer down. And you see this area right here. All I have to do is click and you see there is a little lock and that means it's locked down. So not only have I lock this, you see is telling me I can't draw or do anything here, and the same with this with my mood board. Later, I'll need to unlock this and I can delete my mood board, but that's how that's working. And now that's locked. Now I need a layer to work on, okay? So what I'm going to do here is come down here at the bottom of the layers panel, and you'll see it says, create a new layer and I'm going to click. All right? There we go. Layer two. I'm going to double click on that, and I'm going to call this plate. I'm going to add a few more things other than the plate here. But since the plate is there, that's sort of my background. Well, I may add the plate. And then everything else, I think I'm just going to pile on on top of the plate because we're going to want to move those up and down in the stacking order in the layers because the layers are sort of like a deck of cards, and you can pull some out and put it on top of others. So say if I drew something, and I can't see it. You know, you can't see hang on. P. Okay, so I have the tip of this pin, and it's stacked this way. If I turn it this way, you can't see it. So if I make create something and I can't see it, it might just be that it's behind another object. So I have to move it on top in the stacking order. And that's basically what layers are about. All right, so I have the plate layer, so I'm going to make a circle. 18. Making a Plate: Okay. So I'm going to come over here to my rectangle tool. I'm going to click and hold, and I'm going to choose ellipse. I'm going to release. And now from here, I can click and draw out a circle. And it's right. It's in the ellipse, but I'm going to hold the shift key, and now it will constrain it to a circle. And I have to decide the size. I think this is about the size that I want because it'll leave me enough space for a cup of coffee and silverware, okay? So again, as we did before, I'm going to release the mouse button first, then the shift key. And the shift key is to make sure it constrains it so it stays a perfect circle. So again, release the mouse button first, okay? Now I'm going to release the shift key. You can go a lot faster than that. I just want to demonstrate because sometimes, again, I think I've said this already, students will raise their hands, try to go quickly and let them go at the same time, and it shifts because the order was off. Alright, now we want to fill this with a color, okay? I'm just going to start out with white. I may change my mind depending on how I build this out and how much actually 'cause I like the fried egg. But the problem that I'm going to have with a fried egg is when I go to when I make the egg, it's going to there's not going to be enough contrast, and it's just, you know, it's going to blend. If they'll have a white plate with a white egg on there, it's going to blend in. So I need to make this a little bit darker. In this project, I'm trying to avoid lines. I think it has a nicer feel when you remove those lines. So when you work on your project, I hope you'll take the time to remove the lines. But if you like lines, you just love lines, that's fine, but try to be consistent. Don't do some lines and some without, try to stick with your style throughout the entire piece, okay? An occasional choice to remove a line because it really looks better is fine, but don't randomly leave a line on, leave a line off. Okay? Alright, here we go. So we're going to fill it with white. And I can double click here on the color chip. And you see here it is, and I'm just going to slide this over. Actually, I'm going to make this gray. And I'm just going to keep going, keep going. I kind of like that bluish gray color. And I think that looks good. There should be enough contrast. So if I have a white fried egg there, it should pop out without a line. Now, I'm just going to hit. And that is my plate. Now, I'm not going to lock this one. But I'm still going to make a new layer, and I'm just going to call that food. I may eventually put silverware or a napkin or things like that on this layer, but I might not. I'll probably just keep going. So I'm going to make a new layer. So here in my layers panel, again, if it's not open, it's right there. I can just click right here and that'll open it up. And then down at the bottom of the layers panel, there's a little plus symbol. And I click, create a new layer. And now I'm going to come up here, double click on the words and type food and enter. And now I'm ready to go. 19. Color Swatches: Alright. So, now it's time to get into the nitty gritty. And we are going to actually start drawing these items. I always hate the whole setting up part where it takes a while. And I'm sure you do too, especially if you don't know the software, where you're trying to get used to it and get comfortable. But now we can start to have a little fun here. And hopefully, you think this is as fun as I do. Alright, so we have our plate. Actually, we're not going to get into too much fun right now. We still need to figure out how to do this plate. Well, that was going to be the plate, but we're going to add some designs. I may or may not leave those in the final design, but I want to show you how to do it in case you want to do it. Let's say you want you know, a lot of times plates will have decoration. So we're going to add a simple border around the outside, and we're going to add an inner border. Of color there, as well, okay? So I'm going to make a pink border on this. So I'm going to select the plate. Again, I'm on my black arrow and I click on the plate, and that part is very easy. I'm going to come over here to my properties panel. Again, if you don't see your properties panel, all you have to do is go up here to see Window workspace, and then choose reset Essentials Classic. If you don't see Essentials Classic, change it to choose E Centrals classic and then go Window workspace, reset sentrals classic, and you should have your properties panel right here. You can move these around and shift them. I can tear that off of there if I want and put it back. But that takes a little bit of a little bit more finesse. The easiest way is just to reset that workspace. Alright, so here we go. Now, what I'm going to do here is, again, I've selected the plate. All right? Now I'm going to come over here to my properties panel, and you see the fill it's filled with this light gray. Now, what I'm going to do here is choose stroke. You see stroke is the outline that goes around the outside of the image. And I'm going to click here. And these are my swatches panel. So if I click away, I can click here, and it brings up what is called the Swatches panel. I can also access the Swatches panel here. I can click right there. And it's exactly the same thing. If I want to extend this, I can click down here, and also when it's short, I can click, you know, right here to go up and down within that box. But I like to click here and drag that down to extend that panel. But again, that's exactly the same thing that you will see here. I'm going to close that by clicking on the Chevron, and I'm going to click right here. And what I actually want is the I'm going to make this pink so it will go along with my original color choices here, okay? So I'm going to click away from that, well, let's make it pink anyway, and I'll show you that. This is going to be overly pink. I'm going to click right here on this magenta. And if I click away, you can see it. Let me see to click away. You see that it is there, but it's hard to see with the bounding box there. And now that it's selected, I'm going to come over here to the stroke here where it says stroke, and I can click on that arrow that goes up and increase the width of that line. I can also click here on this one, and I can choose, you know, the, how many points do I want that line? And I'm going to go at six. The thing is, this is too bright. You can see if I come over to the other side to the bottom of my tool panel, I can see it right here. I'm going to click to bring that to the top. One way I can double click on this and eyeball it, but I wanted to match this color here precisely. So just like we did before, I'm going to click on the eyedropper tool. I'll click here, and then I'm going to come here and click. This may not go well. The problem is it's filling It's filling with the entire color. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to go to my black arrow. I'm going to click away. I forgot we got a few more technical things. I have a few more technical things to show you before we get into the fun part. Okay, so I want to add this color to my color swatches. Actually, I'm going to add all of these colors to my color swatches before we get going because this is making life a little difficult. So if I open up my color swatches, you can see my colors here, my color theme is not here. So I'm going to add these. So I'm going to click away, make sure nothing is selected. And then I'm going to click here to bring the fill to the front, okay? Now, I'm going to click on the Eyedropper tool and I'm going to click on this pink color here. And you can see the fill is here, the fill is showing it here. So now if I go to my swatches panel, which is right here, I'll open that up. And in the flyout menu, I can choose new swatch, okay. And it gives it here. It shows me that here, and I'm just going to call this my Color one. Boom. And you can see here it is in my swatches panel. So now I'm going to do that with the rest of these colors. I'm going to come down here. First, I need to click on the black arrow, click away. Now I'm going to go back to the eye dropper and click on this tan color. Okay? Now I'm going to go here. I'm going to choose right click New Swatch, and I'm going to call this my color two and hit. And you can see how this is going. I'm going to click on the next one. And then I'm going to choose new swatch, and I'm going to call this my color three. New Swatch. And lastly, Nose watch. My color five. Okay, so you can see all my colors right here lined up. Now, just to make life a little easier, so it's easier. I'm going to select all these. I'm going to click on that one. I'm going to hold the Shift key on my keyboard and click click click click. And again, I'm holding the Shift key. Now, I'm going to come down here to this little folder icon, and it says New Color group, and I'm just going to click on that, and I'm going to call this Colors. You can name them whatever you want, and I hit okay. And now my colors are down here and nice and safe and sound. Alright. So now let's get back to this plate. We've already put an outline around this. So I'm going to go to my black arrow. Now I'm going to choose right here in the properties panel on the opposite side of the screen. I'm going to click on that outline stroke, and I'm going to choose that first, my color one, pink. There we go. Okay. So now, I want to have. Now, we're going to get a little more difficult here, because I want to have that border on the inside. So we're going to learn a couple more tools. And we're going to learn basically what we're going to do is put another circle on top of another and then we're going to align them, and then we're going to just make that little outline, and then we're going to group it all together so that it's one piece. I know that's a lot, but it's not that big of a deal, but you can use these same techniques to create other things. Alright, so I'm going to click on the plate, okay? Hopefully you all are not having any problems. Alright, so here we go. Click on the plate. Now I'm going to go edit, copy because what we're doing is we're going to take a copy of this plate and sort of put it up on our pasteboard up here somewhere. So I'm going to hit copy. If you cut it, it's going to disappear, okay, just in case you're wondering. So we're going to copy it. Now, it makes a duplicate. Now I'm going to go edit paste. Okay. There is a way if I hit paste. If I hit paste in place, it'll paste it in exactly the same spot, but I also want to show you another technique. You may know another way if you're familiar with this to do things. I'm just trying to give you just one or two ways to do things. I'm trying to keep it simple. All right. So now I need to reduce the size of this circle. Okay? So I'm going to move this over here, okay? If snapping is on, you see my smart guides are on. It's sort of snapping in place, and I know that that's right in place. So now I want to scale this down, okay? So if I scale this down, you can see it's distorting. So if I add the shift key, it locks it into a perfect circle, okay? Now, what I'm going to do here is I want to align these so that this is centered, okay? Okay, so I've selected the inner circle. Now I'm going to hold the shift key, and then I'm going to click on the larger circle. So they're now both selected. So, if I click here, I can move these both around at the same time. If I click away, they are separate, okay? So I'm going to hit Command Z to undo that. Okay, so command Z twice. If you're on a PC, it would be control Z twice, okay? Okay, so you can see there, oops, let me do that again. I'm going to hold the shift key and select that second circle. All right. So they're both selected. That's how you can test it. Now, if you have the options bar open, the options bar should appear here because if you're in the w workspace Essentials Classic, okay? So that options bar should appear there. But if not, it appear over here in the properties panel, okay? So you can see these align tools right here and you see the align tools here. That's the reason you see the essentials. They don't have the properties panel because it's not necessary because much of it is redundant of what you will get in the properties panel. Okay? So that's why I like this. But if you have a very small screen, you might want this extra real estate, and then you'll just work with the properties panel. All right. So I'm going to align center both horizontally and vertically. So horizontal align. I'll click right here. And horizontal align. I mean, in vertical align. I'll click here. Now they're centered right on top of each other. I don't like that circle. I still think it's a little too large. So I'm going to click I'm going to click away, so it deselects everything, then I'm going to click the inner circle. And then I'm going to click here. I'm going to add the shift key and make that a little bit smaller. Okay? Now I'm going to hold the shift key again. I'm going to click on that outer circle, and then I'm going to realign horizontal. And vertical again. Now they're aligned right on top of each other. Okay? Now, what I want to do here is I want to I'm going to click away. I want this inner line to be the same thickness as this outer line. So if I click on that big circle, you'll see it says it's six point. So if I click on the inner circle, I can just come right over here to the properties panel and increase that with two six points. There we go. Now, to get this plate to move as a single item, I need to group them, okay? So I'm going to click on the inner circle, hold the shift key and click on the outer circle, okay? Now I need to group them. So I'm going to go object, group. And they should behave as one, okay? So I'm going to click away. Now you can see if I click, I can come back here and they move as one. If by some chance you accidentally chose the white arrow, the direct selection tool, it negates that. So be careful, okay? We haven't gotten into how to use the direct selection tool yet because I'm trying to Let you play around a little bit, and then I'll talk about the difference between the selection tool and the direct selection tool, okay? So, right now, I use the direct selection tool, and I selected that inner circle. So I need to click away, and I'm still on the direct select on the selection tool. When I come back, you can see it moves this as a group, okay? So be careful that you do not select the white arrow, the direct selection tool until we know how to use it. All right. There we go. So, we have a plate. Whoo. Okay, so next is going to be the fried egg. 20. Egg / Pathfinder and Curvature Tool: Okay, so I'm going to click away to deselect the plate. Now we need to make this fried egg. The first thing I'm going to do. Again, remember we're working with layers. Actually, I'm going to click on my layers panel, okay? It's right here. Click. Open it up. Often, I'd like to keep the layers panel open, but I'm just going to leave it here since this is the way the work space is for now. I may change my mind later. So right here, I'm going to click and drag downward to give me a little bit more space. And you can see, plate is right here, the plate layer. I'm going to lock it. If I click right here, It's going to lock it. Now when I click, that plate won't move. If I ever need to move it later, when I start moving things around and when I add a napkin, I think I'm going to need to nudge it to the left. I'll do that. I'll unlock it, and I can move it around. But for now, we're going to lock it and work as it is. The first thing we're going to work with is we're going to make the white of the egg, since that's going to be on the bottom. We can shift things around if we needed to. But for now, we're going to build things in order just to keep things simple. All right, so I'm going to come over here to my tools panel. I'm going to click here on the rectangle tool and choose and click holding my finger on the mouse button and choose the Ellipse tool, okay? I'm going to release. And this egg, we want to be white. Alright? So I'm going to come over to my swatches panel and click. Actually, we can just take this the easy way. You'll see how Here, over at the bottom of the tools panel, it says it shows me the white fill and the black stroke is the default. And you see right here, it says, D. Let me move away and move back. There's a D at the end. That's telling me that's the keystroke that will apply that. So I'm going to hit D on my keyboard, D as in dog, no command, no control, D, and We have black and white, okay? We're going to get rid of we're going to get rid of that stroke in a little bit. So for now, we're just going to go ahead and draw. Oh, so, here we go. So I'm going to click hold out and draw out an egg. If it's a little off. If it's not a perfect circle, that's okay, but I'm going to hold a make a perfect circle here. But if it comes out a little wonky, that's okay because we're going to make some adjustments, right? So that's going to be my fried egg. Okay. If you want pancakes, that can be a pancake because these are going to be super stylized and now you have a pancake. Alright. So the first thing I want to do is get rid of that black stroke. I'm going to zoom in, so I'm going to click on the black I mean, on the magnifying glass. That's the Zoom tool, and I can drag to the right or just hold and it'll zoom in automatically. Alright, now I'm going to go back to the black arrow. Now I want to get rid of this black outline, okay? Want that to be gone because again, when you have these thick heavy black lines, it's really going to change the look of the piece. And the style that I'm after for my piece, is going to be no black lines. But if you decide that you want black lines, I would recommend being consistent throughout, so you don't mix the two styles. It's going to look kind of odd. Um, But it's the choice is yours, but this is the way I'm choosing to work. So I'm going to select that the white of the egg here. I'm going to come over to my properties panel right here on stroke, I'm going to click one time, click and release and choose this area right here where it says none, the white box with the red slash through it, boom, and now it's gone. Okay. Now, I told you that we were going to touch on the white arrow, okay? This is the selection tool. If I click it, I you know, everything, it moves all at once. If I click these anchor points on the on this bounding box, it will distort it, okay? I'm going to hit command Z to put that back, but you can see this will change it, okay? But if I click on the white arrow, the bounding box is going to disappear. Okay. Now, you see we have these anchor points. There's an anchor point here and anchor point here, and you can see this is the path. We can add more anchor points and we can move these. So if I click here in the center, it will move, okay? I can reposition it. But if I click on one of these anchor points, I'm going to click one time and release, and you see we have these handles. You can adjust the handles. If I move out here, I can click on that handle. Woo. Okay. Same with these handles. I can click one time on that anchor point, and then I'll click on that handle and okay. And the same here. Okay, so this is a fried egg. I'm just going to grab this thing. Whoops. All right. What I did is I clicked right here and it stretch that out really quickly. Be careful with that. Try to click right on the anchor point. And again, if you make any mistakes, if anything goes wrong, just use the you know, hit undo Command Z, or control Z on a PC. All right. Now, this is the white portion of my fried egg. You can play around with this. If you want to add more anchor points, you can do that. If you know how to do that, if you want to play around with curvature tool or you know what? I'm going to do it. I hesitate to bring this in now, but let's do it. You can just play around with those anchor points and stop right here. But if you want to be adventurous, come along for the adventure. You can click right here on this tool right here. I'm not going to get into it heavily, but this is the curvature tool. This is the Pin Tools little brother or little sister, okay? Well, click on that. And you see the anchor points changed, right? But say if I want extra points. I'm just going to click here, I can move that. And if I want to add another point, I can click and move that out here and adjust it exactly how I want. Every time I click on that line, I can make adjustments. If I want to get rid of any of these points, say I don't like the way one of these points moves, I can click on it, and then I'll hit the delete key. And it goes away, okay? All right. So here we go. I'm going to add that point back. Alright, so now we have the whites of our eggs. Now we're going to add the yolk, and the yoke is going to be pretty simple, okay? And again, I'm just clicking on those points and shifting things around. Okay, now to do the yolk. The yoke is going to be easy. I'm going to click here on the ellipse tool, and I'm going to click drag out, and I'm going to hold the shift key to get a perfect circle. All right? And then when I'm happy with that, I release release the mouse first, the mouse button first, and then the shift key, and it will remain a circle. Now, I'm going to come over here to my appearance panel, and I'm going to choose Phil. I'm going to click one time, and I think that color, one of these two yellows or yellow oranges should work nicely for the yoke. Alright? Now, we want to highlight on it. So I'm going to click here, drag out another circle, and I'm going to release the mouse button first and then the shift button. And I'm going to give this a nice white highlight. Is that okay? Yeah. All right. Okay, there we go. So this is the egg yolk. Now, what I want to do is I'm going to click. I think that's locked. Yeah. So I'm going to click away the blue area is locked so I can click away. We can either stick with this egg as is, or we can add more complexity. All right. So I'm going to go with this one for a simple egg. First, I'm going to click on that highlight, the white dot. I'm going to add the shift key. I'm going to hold the shift key and click on the yolk and the white of the egg. Now I'm going to go to object group, or you see the key command here is on the MC is Command G on a PC will be Control G. You'll be able to see it here in the menu to double check if you ever wonder what it is. So here we go. Command G, and again, on a PC Control G. Now, if that's all grouped as one object, if I click away, I click on it, everything moves all the same. I'm going to click away. I can move it, click away, move it. But remember, if I use the white arrow, the direct selection tool, I can click away, and if I click and drag on that circle, it's going to move it's going to break this thing apart. Okay? Now, watch this. If I click on the direct selection. I mean, sorry, the selection tool, the black arrow. If I click on it, It's still a group, okay? So, be aware of that. So I'm just going to hit a few undoes to get everything back the way I had it. All right? All right. So now we have an egg. Actually, now I'm going to show you that's one version of an egg. Now I'm going to show you how to do a more complicated version of an egg. So I'm going to take the same egg. I'm going to go edit copy. And then I'm going to go edit, paste. Okay. So say I wanted to do a shadow. All right. So I'm going to click I'm going to click here, and I'm going to ngroup it, okay? We grouped it so I can go object Ungroup, okay? Now they're broken apart. If I grab these pieces with the selection tool, they move around. They're separate now. All right. So I'm going to click on that highlight, move it over here for safe keeping. Now, I'm going to make a little crescent moon here to add a bit of a shadow for this. So I'm going to click on it. I'm going to go edit, copy. And then I'm going to go edit, paste. Okay. And I'm going to move it off to the side here. I'm going to hold the space bar, so I'll get the hand tool or you can click on it right here, but by holding the space bar, I can click drag, move this over, and then release when I am done. Okay? So you see here how the actual egg yolk here, there is a highlight right here, and then there's this little shadow. So we're going to create that little shadow, but I'm going to make my shadows go from the upper left to the bottom right, okay, in this direction here. All right. So I'm going to duplicate this egg yolk again. I'm going to go edit, copy. Edit paste. Okay. I'm going to change you don't need to change the color to do this, but I'm just going to change the color just so you can see the difference, okay? And I'm going to move this on top of this one and this circle. And what we're going to do is slice this top piece away from the bottom so then we'll have a little crescent moon here, okay? Okay. So I'm going to slice that from there, and we're going to use something called the pathfinder. And if you do not see the pathfinder, That's because I, you know, maybe you only have one thing selected, I'm going to hold the shift key, and I'm going to select that second circle. Boom. Now you can see, they're both selected and look over here at my properties panel. This thing here says Pathfinder. And I used this for years and I never knew what pathfinder meant. And I'm just going to show you this, if I move my cursor over this, right here, you see it says path. These are paths, and these are anchor points. So you're finding new paths, I guess, when you do this. So All right. So both of these are selected. Okay? Now, what I'm going to do here is subtract this top piece from the bottom, and it's easy enough to do here. I can just come over here. The pathfinder, you see. The first one says, Unite. The second one says, minus. It says minus front, okay? So it's going to take that front piece from the bottom piece, and it should leave the color on the bottom piece. And then this one is intersect, and this one is excluded. There are a few more. If I click on these three dots right here. The only one I use. These are repeating the first four here, again. And the only one I usually I use on a regular basis, maybe this one that says divide, but usually it's just the first two, the join and subtract. All right. So I'm going to hit subtract. And again, this is exactly the same as that. So I'm going to go, subtract, boom. Now we have a nice crescent. All right. Now I can move this into place, and you can see the colors match. And the easy way to fix that is to click on the color chip here over at the bottom of my tools panel. I'll just double click. And I could just eyeball moving this over just a little bit. And you can see now I have a little bit darker color, and you can see this is the in color, and right here is the start color. And I just hit Okay. Now, I could just fit that in there, but you'll notice even on the egg. You see there's this dark area, and then there's a lighter area across it. So I'm going to make this a little bit smaller. And you can see here on the bonding box, if I move my cursor to the outside, here, I get this curve and I can rotate it. I'm going to hit Can Z. Or I get that double headed diagonal arrow, which means I can scale this up or down, okay? So I'm going to move it here. I'm going to click and start moving, and if I add the shift key, it locks it. It constrains it so that it is, you know, it doesn't distort it. And when I get it about the size that I want, I'll release the mouse button, then I can release the shift key, and then I can click on it and reposition it. And I think that looks good. I don't know how this is going to work here, but I'm going to try to do the same thing here with the egg yolk, okay? So I'm going to go edit copy. And edit paste. Okay. I'm going to paste it again, edit paste. Actually, I think I hit paste in front, and that's why I landed in the same spot. There we go. Okay. So there the two of these things are. I want this to be a bit of a shadow, and I know I have some grays here, so I'm going to click right here and I'm going to add a very faint gray, something very light. And then I'm going to drag this up, move it in the place, and this is just going to be a little shadow. Hopefully, this will work out. Maybe I'll make that a little lighter. Okay. Here we go. So now I need to select both of these. I'm going to click on the top one. I'm going to hold the shift key, and I'm going to click on the bottom one, and then we'll go over to the pathfinder and we'll choose minus. Ooh. There we go. Now I'm going to click on it, move it into place. And I think I'm going to scale this down just a little. I'll click on that anchor point, drag it in. I'll hold the shift key to make sure it constrains it. And I think that looks good. And I still have this highlight from up top. I'll just drag that into place. Let me zoom out and see how I feel about this. Okay. I like it. Alright, so I'm going to hold the shift key, and I'm going to select all the rest of these pieces, okay? So I'm going to click on this one first because it's smaller, and then that one. An easier way. This is locked. Remember, we lock the plate layer. I can just click and drag across out here if the things are locked and release, and I can select everything that way as well. Or I don't even have to go all the way as long as it touches on each of them, it will select it. So, see, if I click here, drag across, it's touching every single piece release, and now I can go object group. Okay. Now, if I click away, I can move this one and I can move this one. Now, at this point, it's up to you to decide, do you want to go with a nice simple design or do you want to go with a more complicated design? It's up to you. I think I'm going to go with a little bit more complicated design. Or maybe I might duplicate my artboard and do the more complicate, 'cause I kind of like a more simple plate. Alright, so for now, I'm going to drag this other egg off to the side of off of my artboard and leave it on the side, in case I decide I want that. But for now, I have completed my egg, and I will see you in the next video. 21. Sausage / Outline Path: All right. So now we're going to make a sausage. And if sausages bother you, let's just say it's it's a vegetable based sausage. All right. Okay, so I'm going to come over here to my to my tool bar here. And you see there's this diagonal line. And this is my line segment tool, okay? So we're going to make a line segment. I'm just going to click here. You can see the egg is still selected. It doesn't matter. It'll deselect it once I start to make this line segment. I'm just going to click drag across, and that's about the length that I want it. And I'll release. Okay. The line, you can see there is nothing, there is no fill or stroke. So if I release if I click away, so if I go to the black arrow, I click away, it disappears. What you did or what I did is still there. It just doesn't show up. So if I go to view and I go to outline, you can see this is just the shape, these are the lines, okay? And it is there. So I can select it, okay? And then I'm going to change my view again. I'm going to go view preview. And if you see something that says GPU preview or something like that, that's okay. Just put it on one of the views previews, and you'll be good. But you can see it's still selected. Now, an easy way to make sure that I don't lose this is right here, I want to fill this. I'm going to fill it with a default. And remember, the default keyboard shortcut is the letter D. So I'm just going to tap D on my keyboard or I can click right here and you can see it fills it with a black line. And when we're going to bend this, okay? And when we bend it, it's going to have a fill. So it's going to have the fill and the stroke, okay? So we've used the line segment tool to make a line. And again, I'm trying to ease you into all of the tools. The curvature tool and the pin tool are excellent tools, but they can be a little confusing. So we're going to use them a little little by little, and work our way into it, right? Okay, so I'm going to click on the curvature tool, and you can see there's this line attached to that line segment. But even though that rubber band is what I believe it's called, if I click right here in the middle, you see I move the cursor on top, it gives me a little plus symbol, okay, when I get near the path. And when I click and hold, I'm going to hold and drag, And now I can add a curve to it. I'm just clicking holding and dragging. And don't worry about the white space. That white. So when I click away, you can see that's what it looks like, but that white space is the fill. You see, we have the black line and the white fill. So if the fill is on the top here, right here. So if I click on fill with none, it gets rid of that, all right? Now, just so I don't have this rubber band here. I'm going to click on the black arrow. And now we have a bounding box, okay? Because I do find that rubber band a little irritating when it's there, and I don't need it. All right. So now I'm going to come over to my properties panel. And just like we did before, we're going to increase the width, okay? Increase the width of that stroke. So here's the stroke, and I can click until we get something that looks about the right thickness for a link sausage, or I can click here and choose one of these pre made widths, okay? I'm going to go down from there. That's a little When I get something that I'm happy with, I'm going to stop. Right there looks good. Okay, so you probably think that this doesn't look much like a sausage. All right. So now we're going to fill it with a color. I'm going to click on the stroke color, and I'm going to choose one of these brown colors, okay? Now, to get the rounded in, you don't have to do much work. All you have to do is come here where it says, stroke, the words stroke. We're going to click on it. Okay. I had to click away to close the color. Now, and then I click here on stroke, so I had to click it twice to select it. And right here, you see where it says cap. If I click on that round cap, and the one in the middle, the top row, the one in the middle, it gives me a nice round cap. And there we go. We have a sausage. If I click away, that is a sausage. Okay? Now, I'm going to show you a couple of things you can do to change this up a little bit. Right now, you see how I I click here, it's hard to select it, but I have to move my cursor over that little path in the middle, and then I can select it and move it around. Okay? So let's say we can stick with this, and this is going to be our finished piece. So I'm going to copy this edit copy. And edit paste. But I want to add a little more detail. So I'm going to move this off to the side, and we'll just put that over here. So if that's the style that you're after you're done, okay? But I'm going to complicate this a little bit more. I'm going to add this little shadow. All right. So what I'm going to do here is we're going to duplicate this. I'm going to go edit, copy again. Actually, we've already copied it. It's still up in the pasteboard. I haven't replaced it. So I'm just going to go edit, paste again, paste and there it is. So this is going to be the shadow. So I'm going to come to where it says stroke. Click here in my properties panel, choose a darker color, and then I'm going to just reduce the size of this till I get something that looks good. And then I can move that into place. And maybe the bend seems a little off. So I'm going to come over to the curvature tool. And if I click here at the end, hang on. Let me select it with the black arrow first. And I'm going to come to the curvature tool, and you see here are the three points. And I know that rubber band is annoying, but if I move right on top of the point, I can reposition that and reposition that, and it lines up. And then I'll go back to the black arrow. And it deselects it. Now I'm going to click here on the plate again. Everything in the background is locked. Just drag across a little. It selects them both, and then I can group these. Object Group. Okay. And now I have the sausage, okay, a little bit more complicated sausage. All right. So I'm not real pleased with this. So what I'm going to do is change this line, this shadow Object and group. Into a high light. So I'm going to move that up here. I'm going to go back to my curvature tool and just sort of bend these guys into place. Okay? Now, what I'm going to do is turn this into a highlight. So I'm going to make sure I'm on the over here in the tools panel. I'm going to make sure that I have the stroke selected, and then I'm going to come over here to my swatches panel. Again, if you don't see it, you can toggle that open here, or you can just double click here in the properties panel, actually. Is that lined up? Oh, hang on. This isn't fitting. There we go. Okay, so what I'm going to do here is click on that and choose a lighter color. And this is going to be the highlight on the sausages. So if I click on I'm going to click on the white arrow and then click away. Whoops. Click on the white arrow and then click away. You can see now it looks more like it's a highlight. But I'm still not pleased with it. So what I'm going to do is select it again. It doesn't matter if I go to the black arrow or the white arrow at this point, and I'm going to thicken that line up, okay? Now I'm going to go back to my curvature tool and curve that down because I'm just sort of tweaking these and ignore the rubber band, you know, just act like it's not there. I know it may be difficult. Alright. So now I'm going to go to the again, the black arrow white arrow doesn't matter. I'll click on that and then I can click away. And now it's sort of a highlight. But I want this to be a little more interesting. So what I'm going to do is select that line, okay? Now, watch this. We're just going to erase part of the line, okay? And when I mean erase, it's going to erase part of the path, okay? It's not going to erase that stroke. So we're going to come over here to our tool bar. And this is the eraser tool. You can see here it's saying it shows what the quick key is, but I don't use it that much, so I typically don't remember what that quick key is. So I'm going to move it over here. And you can see right now that's the size of the brush. And for what I want to do, it's a little too large. So I'm going to reduce the size of that. Now, to reduce the size of the brush, I'm going to use the bracket key right here. To make this larger, I can use the tap the right bracket key to make it larger, and I can tap the left bracket key to make it smaller. Just make sure that the eraser tool is selected. And that's about the size that I want. I may do a couple of passes. Make sure that this stroke that, you know, this line that's going to be our highlight is selected, and I can run the brush right through it, and you see it broke that line. And now I'm going to go across the bottom and do the same thing. If I don't want this to stick. I'm going to do this, but you can see I can break this or erase on part of that, and it does something like that, but I'm going to hit Command Z to undo it. And now, if I want to make this at maybe make this just like it's a dot, I can trim a little bit off of that line. Oops, I took too much. Then that's the problem with erasing like this. If it gets too small, it just makes it go away. But we can take this with the white arrow. I'm going to click away, and then I'm going to select just this top bit here. I'm going to zoom in so I can see what's going on here. And this anchor point, there's an anchor point on the end on both ends. These are handles. This adds to the curve. So this might be a little confusing, but if you look very closely, you can see the two shapes in the middle are circles, whereas the ones on the ends are rectangle. And I'm just going to grab that outward rectangle and just move that inward just a bit so that this is almost like a circle. And then I'm going to stop right there. Now, let's see what this looks like. Okay. So that is how we can add highlights to this. I am still not happy with this. So what I'm going to do here is leave that. And what I'm going to do here is I'm going to select the original line. If I can find it, I'm going to go Command Y, or you can see, I'm going to change my view view and go to outline. And that line is the sausage. The main part. This is the highlight, okay? So I'm going to go back here or Command Y. Control Y on a PC into preview mode. Now, I need to change this for what I want to do. And before I do that, I'm going to duplicate this off to the side. And in case you're wondering how I duplicate that rather than going edit, selecting it, and going, edit copy, and then edit paste. I'm on the black arrow. And by holding the I can click on this. And by holding the option key, you see, I get that double headed arrow. And when I get that double headed arrow means it's going to duplicate, and I can just drag it and it'll duplicate. So you can copy and paste because this is one of those things that you may or may not feel comfortable with, but just copying it the other way is perfectly fine. But I just want you to know so you'll see what I'm doing. You won't wonder what's going on. All right. So now I have these two versions of this sausage. I have to find that line. It's kind of difficult to find that line. Now, what I'm going to do is convert this to outlines. Right now, you can see it's a stroke. I'm going to go Command Y. You see, there's the shape. Now I'm going to go up here to object and choose path. Remember, those are the paths. And we're going to choose outline stroke. And basically, rather than having a thin line with that stroke applied to it, we're going to just change it so that it is a shape. All right? Now, watch what happens to the sausage. I made the outline, okay? Now, I'm going to take this I hit undo. So now we're going to go back in a preview mode, and we're going to take a look at it. Now, nothing's going to change here. You saw everything happen in, you know, in outline mode. So right now, I'm going to go object path. And choose outline stroke. And you can see it almost appeared as nothing happened. Nothing changed. Visually, nothing changed, but structurally, it changed, okay? So if I hit command y, you can see this sausage is different from that one, okay? So again, visually, they appear the same this way, you can see how they are constructed. Now, if I want to select this one, I have to find that thin line to move it. Was this one, it's like an outline. This is an outline now, and I can click right in the middle. And it's a lot easier to select. But the other advantage of this is if I want, I can go to my white arrow tool, the direct selection tool. And now, these are all fresh new anchor points, and I can move these around and play around with them that way. Alright, so I'm going to hit undo. Okay, now, catch up to me. Make sure you're in this spot where you have the sausage and then it's outlined. Again, these are different. Command Y. That's just a stroke, and this one is like that. Control Y on a PC, and make sure you see that. Now, what we're going to do is go to edit, copy or Command or Control C. Now instead of going command V to paste it, because if I do that paste, it paste it in the center of my artboard. I don't want that. I'm going to hit undo. And what we're going to do is go edit paste in place. And that means it will paste it from the same location that we copied it from. So paste in place. All right. Now the image has disappeared. And the reason for that is it's covering over everything else we pasted it and it appeared on the top. So I'm going to hit Command Z. We want this to be in the exact same spot. Now, if I want to see those highlights, I can go to object arrange and I can go Send backward and note the key commands. I usually use those key commands, but we're going to go send backwards, which is command Right left bracket key, okay? And I'm sending it backwards one step at a time. And on a PC, this would be control left bracket key. All right? So you see it went behind one, and I'm going to use the key commands. Okay. Now, remember, we have two of these sausages they're laid on top of each other. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to make a shadow. First, I'm going to click on that. I'm going to click over here in the properties panel on the color, and I'm going to make that a darker color, a darker brown. Now we're going to go back to that eraser tool, and we're going to erase this out, okay? Now, this is going to take a little bit of skill. So if you can't you don't feel comfortable doing this, you can always skip this step. It's not important. This is your style, and you can choose how much detail you want in this or not. So I'm going to go to my eraser tool. I um, hang on. I didn't click. There we go. And I'm going to make this larger by using the right bracket key. And that looks like a good size for me. So now what I'm going to do is just come in here and erase the area that I don't want. So it's going to leave this shadow along the bottom, because remember, we're going to have the light is coming from the upper left to the bottom right. All right? So, make sure it's selected and I'm going to click and drag across. I know it's showing that white area, but it's all going to disappear once I release my finger from this mouse button. I'm going to release. And you can see, that's what's happening. Okay? So I'm just going to come in here. And if you don't have a steady hand, don't go all the whoops I went too far. I'm going to undo it and try that again. So if you make a mistake, just hit undo, okay? I can catch that bit there. I'm going to come across here. And there we go. The only problem I'm having with this is you can see it's not very clean looking. So what I'm going to do is come over to my curvature tool and see if I can click on these and raise that up, raise that one up. I'm going to double click, and now you see it changed it. And now you can see it changed it from a corner point to a curve. And one thing about the curvature tool is you want to be careful because sometimes when you click on an object with the curvature tool, it does change it. It adds curves in the places that you don't want to appear. But this seems like it went okay. All right, so now I'm going to click away, and let's see what that looks like. I'm still not grooving on this. Oh, and another thing that you want to be careful of is keeping things consistent. You can see I'm starting to add more detail into this. So because of that, it might start to require me to add more detail to other things. So you don't want to go too detailed or more detailed on one object than you are on another. All right. Okay, so I'm going to hit Command Y so you can see what this looks like, okay? And you can see, again, this is the old one is just a line. Now, so again, to clarify, I'm going to go to the black arrow, and I'm going to click on that dark area. You can see it's just overlaid on that, and then there's a sausage and the lines there. So I'm going to hit Command Z, command Z, and everything is back into place. Okay. Now, I want to show you something else you can do. If you use the curvature tool and it wasn't quite coming out just right, I want to show you another tool. I don't know if you can see these are just a little bit bumpy. I hit command. Why. Now, the other tool I want to show you, and I'll show you this later, and it'll be more. Well, I'll give a little demo. I'm going to come over here to the I want a free hand. I want the pencil tool, okay? There's the pencil tool. And now, if I draw this line here, you can see how bumpy that is. And if I come over here, there's this thing if I click here, and you can see the Shaper tool is the one on top. There's the pencil, and then here's the smooth tool that the thing that looks like a little candy cane. All right. Now, if this is selected, this line I made. Now, if I drag this across that line, you can see it's starting to change that line and starting to smooth it out. Okay. So that's just to say if you make a line and it's too bumpy or something, you don't like the way it looks, just run the smooth tool across it. Actually, All right, so I'm going to try this again. You can see, hang on. You see how many points are in here and you see how jaggy this looks. Now, if I use the smooth tool on this, it may be a bit more apparent what's happening. There you go. This is a little more obvious. Even on that corner point, if I rub it enough, it will completely smooth it out. Hang on. Maybe Hang on, there we go. It's starting to curve. There we go. It's taking a little bit. But you can see how this went from a very jagged line into a nice smooth line. Alright? So I'm going to delete these guys because we don't need those. Now, the whole point of that was to show that I'm not real happy with that line there. So I'm going to go to the either the white arrow to black arrow, actually, the white arrow, and I'm going to click on that sausage. And you can see it's got a lot of lines here. Now I'm going to click on the smooth tool. And I don't want to go over here because I like what it's doing here. I'm just going to start right here, and you see it's removing some of those lines, and it's smoothing these other ones out. So now, it seems a little smoother to me, okay? Now I'm going to click away. Alright. Now, one thing, another thing that's happening is this is kind of dark. Rather than change the color into something lighter, I'm just going to reduce the opacity, okay? So I'm going to click on that dark area, the shadow area, and come over to my properties panel. And you can see right here, it says, the opacity is at 100%. I'm going to change that. I'm going to click here and then drag that down to about I don't know, 50%. And just whatever looks good to you. And then I can click away. And I think that looks nice. It's a little more subtle, and it's not too heavy handed. Actually, I can try this on the highlights as well. Make sure you don't click everything. I just want these highlights. And remember, these are not outlined. These are just a stroke, so you may have to find it, find it. It may be a little more difficult. But if you go to command, you know, into outline mode, it may be a little easier to select those. So from here, I'm going to drop the opacity. And I'm just going to eyeball it, Okay, I think 70%, 75% looks good to me. I'll click away. And I think I like this. So now I'm going to drag across. Remember, I locked up this plate. It was on a separate layer and it's locked, so I can click and drag across and select all of this. If by some chance you are accidentally picking up other things, you can click on each object here and hold the shift key and keep selecting. Sometimes you'll miss it, and then you select all the pieces till you get them, and then I can go Command G or object group or Control G. And now, if I click away, as long as I'm on the black arrow, everything moves as a single object. Okay? Now I'm going to get rid of this. I don't need that anymore. All right. Okay, now I want to duplicate this sausage. I'm going to go Command or Control C, and Command V or Control V. And I don't want to completely rotate this to a different direction because now you see it messes up the shadows, okay? So I'm just going to rotate this. I hit Command Z a few times to roll that back. And I'm just going to rotate it just a little bit so that it looks like they are, you know, they're on the plate, and the shadow is still moving in roughly the same direction. And that's it with the sausages. 22. Pancake and Syrup / Opacity: Okay. Now, let's see what are we going to do next. We're going to do pancakes next. Pancakes are easy. I'm going to again, okay? So I'm going to click on that egg, and now I'm going to select the Ellipse tool here, click hold and choose Ellipse, and I'm just going to click and drag that out, hold it till I get a nice little circle. That looks like that's about the right size for a pancake. I'm now going to click on my swatches panel and choose a nice brown. If I don't like the colors that they have, I can change them like this. Maybe I'm looking at this picture here. I'm going to make this a little bit more a little bit more orange. Although if I go to orange, it almost seems like it's blending in the value, you know, the intensity of the light and dark is blending in a little too much with the gray background. So I want to maybe keep that a little darker, and I'm going to hit okay. All right. Now for this, you can see here on my pancake, on the pancakes, the edges are a little lighter. So what I'm going to do is go to the curvature tool. I'm going to click and try to see who you see, I don't know if you notice what happened since this was selected. When I clicked on it, it started adding to that. So I'm going to click on the black arrow, click away. Now I'm going to go back to the curvature tool, and I'm going to just start clicking on the inside. And later, I'm going to come in here and adjust these points so that it's a little bit wobbly. And you see I can click in those empty spots and add some points and just kind of move them around. And if you like your pancake to look perfectly round and nothing else, you don't have to add this detail. It's totally up to you. Okay? Now, I'm happy with that. Now, what I'm going to do is go to the white arrow, and I'm going to click on that on the outside area. And I want to make this lighter. So rather than come to the color swatches panel again, I'm just going to double click right here and nudge that over till I get something that I like. And I'm just going to go with something kind of subtle. And hit Okay. Alright, so now we have a pancake. I just need to group it. I'm going to click on that top area. Hold the shift key and click on the bottom, and I can hit Command G or Control G on a PC. Now, if I click away, you can see it moves all together. Alright. Now, just to sell this a little bit more. If I look at, there is right. I was going to make a pat of butter here, and there is a pat of butter on my pancake. Without the pat of butter, it doesn't tell you that this is a pancake, okay? When you put that pat of butter on it, it says, I am a pancake. All right. So that's going to be easy to do. And then we're going to add some syrup. All right. So right now, I'm going to click on the rectangle tool, okay? I could go with the rounded rectangle tool, but it's kind of unnecessary, so I'm going to go with the rectangle tool here, right? I'm going to draw out a square. I'm going to hold the shift key so we make a nice perfect square. I'm going to come over to my color swatches and choose a nice yellow color. I don't like that. That's a little too orange, and that's a little too yellow. So I don't like this. So what I'm going to do is double click on that, and I can adjust my hue slider, make that a little bit more orange. And move this around till I come up with something that I like and hit okay. Now, that's a custom color. It's not in my swatches panel. If I decided that I did want to save that, I could easily come right here. I'm in the Swatches panel, and then here's the flyout or hamburger menu as some people call it. Click here and choose New Swatch and just hit. And now you see there is my custom color. It's slightly different from that one, so you may not even notice. All right, so I'm going to zoom in. And Hmm. So this is a little hard to see the anchor points and things. So I'm going to duplicate this and make it a darker color so that all these little objects stand out. There is a way to go in here and change the colors here, but I don't want to throw of the anchor points on each layer, but I don't want to throw too much at you. So here's a quick fix, alright? Now, once you can see, and again, you can see them here, cancel. Hang on. You can see them here. They're just a little harder to see. But if I click right here, you see these little circles here. And if you look at the arrow that I have here, it's showing me a curve. And that's telling me that these are going to be a curve make curve lines. And I can click on that and drag inward, even so much that it becomes a circle. But we're just going to come in and round those curves just a little bit so that it takes the edge off of that and makes this look more like an actual butter pat. Again, I'm not going to go into it right now, but you can round each of these curves individually by using the white arrow by selecting them. But we're not going to get into that, right? So I'm going to hit the delete key. I'm going to select this one, and I'm going to grab that corner and round that butter pat. And just for kicks, I'm going to move my cursor to the outside till I get those curved lines and rotate it ever so slightly. All right. Now we have the butter pet. Now we need some syrup. Alright, so I'm going to click on the curvature tool, and I'm just going to click. And again, you'll get the more you use this tool, the better get Whoo. Okay, that's the easier to get to use. That's one way to make the syrup. All right, but I'm going to show you another way, okay? Just to show I can show you something different. I'm going to click on the Ellipse tool, okay? Click on the rectangle tool, choose the Ellipse tool, and I'm going to make a circle here. Okay. Actually, I'm going to change the color of this so that it stands out a little more. I'm going to make a circle. This is going to be my syrup. You can also use this to make clouds. You know, doing something like this is a good way to make clouds. And now, I'm going to use the black arrow, move these guys around. Maybe I'll just go with that as We'll just make a little blot of syrup on the plate. So now I'm going to select all of these. I'm going to click and then hold the shift key and select all five of these circles. Then I'm going to come over to my pathfinder. Again, it's in the properties panel. And if by some strange chance you clicked all of these and you don't see it here in the properties panel, it's probably because you are using the white arrow. I don't know why it does that. If I click away, I'm selecting the same objects. But no, it does give me the pathfinder. Okay, I take it back. Oh, I know. And if you do that and say you accidentally click on one of the anchor points, it doesn't show you that. But there is a path finder window and you can go and find it here, and it will do the same thing. But if that happens, just try to use the black arrow. All right. Everything is selected now. Now I'm going to merge them all. So here, the very first object here in the Pathfinder is Unite and boom. Okay? Now, here's going to be the fun part. We're going to use those. I'm going to go to the white arrow, and you see we have these little curves right here. We're going to just click on one of those and drag that upward uhouho It's not letting me do this. Okay, the reason it's not letting me do this is because probably right here, one of these things, it hits a point where it's just locking me out and saying, you can't push that further. So we'll have to do these individually. So I'm going to click on this anchor point right here, and then I can drag that. There we go. To whatever degree did I like. I'll click on this one and drag that way. I don't know if you noticed over here before it was showing me a red line. And that was just its way of saying it's maxed out. I don't know why it maxed out there, but you can always do them individually, okay? And if I was working with a square, I could do the same thing on a square and just select one corner point in round one corner at a time. Okay, so I don't like the way this is going to maxed out right here, I guess, because there is an anchor point right here. So it maxed out. But we'll deal with it like that. That's fine. Okay, so now we're good with this one, and now we're going to change the opacity. So I'm going to come here and drop the opacity. Okay? That's it 38%. So I'm going to change this one as well to match that one. Oh, no. I'm going to brighten this up. Just use my eye till I get something that I like because the problem that I'm having is the color is showing through this gray and making this look gray. All right. So that looks good. Now, what I want to do is send this behind the butter. So I'm going to go object arrange and send backward. Or again, there's the key command, the command left bracket. And it made it behind the butter. Sometimes it will get behind. You have a lot of things to go behind, so you might do it a few times, and you just have to keep repeating it. But since we just made the butter, it was the next thing in line. So that was not a problem. Alright, now we want some highlights here. We're going to go back to the curvature tool. And again, this is think about this shiny syrup. And I'm going to click at a line here. And then I'm going to first, I'm going to fill it with none, and I'm going to click on that and make this. Since this is going to be very shiny, I'm going to see what white will look like in the stroke. So I'm here in the property s panel and white. Now I'm going to fatten that lineup. And you can see it has that hard edge. I don't want that. So as we did before, we're going to click on the words that say stroke right here, and we can change that cap to a round cap right there, and there we go. And it looks a little bright, so I'm going to click here on the percentage on the opacity, and I'm going to make that 80%, and that looks good, and then I can do the same. If I want to make another one of these lines, I have to click away, so I'm going to click on the black arrow, click on the background. Now I can go back to the curvature tool, and I can add that shiny bit. All right? Now, I'm going to click away. An easy way to click away is to just hold the command key while I'm on the curvature tool, and you say I get the black arrow. Now I can click in the background and deselect that and I can continue clicking. Okay. Mmm. That's one problem that I have is now this is no longer. It doesn't have the same attributes as the other one. So what I'm going to do here is come over to the eye dropper tool. It's still selected, and if I click on this one, it will copy those same attributes, just like that. Actually, this has I want that percentage. So I'm going to go ahead and click on this one. Boom. Now I'm going to hold the command key and my and that eye dropper changes to the black arrow. Click on that line, release and click on the eye. Oops, I missed it. I just keep clicking till I get it because sometimes I clicked into sampling from the syrup, and I'll click again. And there we go. Okay. So now we have pancakes and syrup. I'm not crazy about that syrup, though. It looks off to me. Let me try. I'm going to hold the shift key and select these lines here. And I'm going to thin them out, make them two points. That looks a little better. Now I'm going to come over here with the curvature tool and see if I can add a little curvature into the butter. I mean, a little shine into the butter. That doesn't look right, so I'm going to double click there. Double click there, and that changes it to a line. But now this is a line, but all I have to do is come in the inside, click and drag that out, and we have a nice little curve. And then I can readjust these as needed. Okay. Now we have this other spill of syrup, and I'm going to use the ellipse tool and just make a nice little circle there. And I want the fill to be inside to be white. I'll just flip that. There we go. Oops. And you see, I'm trying to move it, but it started rotating. So if you ever run into that problem, you can just click away, click on, you know, in the background, and then you can click on it, and you don't have to worry about accidentally, you know, selecting, rotating it, or doing something you don't want to do. Alright, so now I'm going to change that to 80% fill, and there we go. Something I want to try is I don't want to get too much into right here, it says opacity. And you'll see here it says normal. This is something called blend mode. And blend mode changes the way the color will interact with black, white or gray. But I don't want to go into that now, but just trust me, we're going to change this to multiply. And you see how it made that color a bit richer. Okay, so I'll save that for another lesson explanation. You can always just Google it. You'll probably find a video on photoshop that'll be explaining blend modes, but it just changes the way this interacts with colors with the colors beneath it. Okay? So maybe it will make the white in the image that you have disappear or make the black disappear or we'll make the gray disappear and some other things. But I don't want to get into it, but it just trust me on this one. Let's change this one to multiply as well, and it'll make it just a little bit richer. So again, I'm going to come over where it says stroke. No. Sorry. I'm going to come to where it says opacity. And right here where it says normal. You see, it highlights it and says, blend mode. I'll click there and choose multiply. And it. It became a little richer. One problem is because there is an opacity here, and there is no opacity here. You're not getting a true sense of, you know, the color because gray is showing through. So I'm going to show you a little cheat. What we can do is we can copy the color by coming to the using the color chip and try to match this color to that. Alright, so one problem that I'm going to have with this color chip, I'm going to try to, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Poo, to do two. Okay, so I have this little droplet that I'm going to use here, and I'm going to try to match it up with this. So if I click if I select it, and I click right here, it's selecting that, but the problem is I have that multiply mode and the opacity. So I'm going to drop the opacity. I mean, crank the opacity back up to 100%. And then I'm going to change the multiply. The only bad thing is it doesn't readily show you that I've changed the blend mode, so I'm going to put this back to normal. So now what I'm going to do is just try to eyeball it. I'm going to double click on this, and I'm just going to try to match that this color right here to that color. And it's on the orange, and let's see, Okay, see, it's going live. So, there we go. It doesn't need to be perfect because in real life, the color would actually be showing through. So in a sense, it's more realistic to have it look kind of gray. But I'm going to go with it. Maybe a little bit like that because even though it's true, you know, it's an honest color portrayal, people might not get that's what that this is still the same thing that this is syrup if the color is slightly different. And that looks good. It's not 100% perfectly matched up, but I think it works. All right. Now, on to the color the next food, 23. Grouping Objects: Okay, so now I'm going to click away. I think I'm going to do a little jiggering of the objects here just to fix the composition because it looks It looks a little boring to me right now. So I'm going to click right here and make sure, actually, let me click away. Okay, no, everything's not grouped. So I'm going to click away, and I'm going to click and drag across. And I think I have all the pieces here. And now I can go object group. I'm going to grab this highlight and the drip of syrup, and I'm going to group that as well. And this time, I'm just going to go Command Control G on a PC. Now, I can just sort of move these around and play around with them. I think I'm going to make this pancake a little bigger. I'm holding the Shift key as I do this because you see as it looks like right here, the way it looks is just kind of play because everything's all the same, and there's nothing that sort, you know, really grabs me. So I'm going to drag that out again, grabbing them by the anchor point and dragging that out. I can move that over. And I'm just again, everything is grouped, so I don't have to worry about things falling apart. And you just got to go by your gut feeling about how things look, how they fill that space. And I think This is starting to work for me. But don't just drop things in the place and just let them go. If it doesn't feel right on that gut level, move it, push things around. If you move something and you made it worse, and you're like, I liked it exactly back in the other space. Just hit the command Z button or control Z button and undo it. And then keep playing. One thing that I am seeing with this pancake is this should be a stack of pancakes. I have one pancake. All right. So what I'm going to do here is I want to double click. I mean, I want to copy this pancake. A problem, and I probably should have mentioned this sooner. If I click here, I double click on that pancake. On that group, everything grays out, and I can't move anything. And what that is is I'm going inside of the group. If I double click on the background, I'm back out. And I'm going to double click on the pancake. I'll double click out here to go back out. And I'm going to double click on the egg. Now you see everything else is grayed out because I'm inside the egg, and I can move these parts around. I'm gonna hit Command Z, Coman z. Command Z, and I'm going to double click outside. Now, I'm going to click on one of these sausages. Double click, and I'm inside of this sausage. And one thing to notice up here in this bar underneath the options bar, you'll see food and group. And this is the level of the level of where I've gone into that group. So here you can see group. Now I can click on the food, and it brings me right back out. And then I take it one more like here, if this wasn't locked it, I wouldn't move, but you can see it's grade out. So I'm going to click right here, just underneath the options bar. I'll click one more time, and boom, everything is back to normal. So again, if you run into that problem, if you double click, just double click on the background, or just click one time in this gray bar right here. If you really get stuck and you can't figure out how to get out of it, just save the document, quit and reopen it, okay? So save the document. Actually, you don't need to quit. Just save the document, close the document, and then reopen it. And you should be able to get out of it. But again, you're just going inside the group, click on that gray bar, and you're out. 24. Stacking Pancakes: All right. So now I want to make this look like a stack of pancakes. So I'm going to zoom in just a bit here. And what I'm going to do is duplicate this bottom pancake. So, you see, if I click on that drag, I need to ngroup this to get into it. But another way around this is if I double click to go inside of it, I can click on it. Hang on. This was apparently I grouped this before. So there's a group inside of a group, so I'm going to double click to get inside of that. Now I can click on this. Now I'm going to go edit copy or command C or Control C. And now I'm going to get out of the group by clicking in the gray bar, and now I can hit Command V to paste it. And I'm going to click away to double check. Okay, so you can see these are separate objects. Now, what I'm going to do is drop this pancake here. But before I do that, I'm going to change the color. I'm going to double click on the color chip here at the bottom of the tools panel, and I'm just going to make this a little bit darker. I just wanted to stand out, and I'm going to hit. Now I'm going to go object arrange, send to bag. Now it's behind. All right. And I'm just going to move that in a little. Now I'm going to do another one. Actually, this one, I'm just going to use that little technique that I showed you earlier where I click on the object. I hold the option key. Hang on. And you see I get the double headed arrow, and I can just drag out another one. So now we have the pancake there, and now we have another one here, and Hmm. I'm not sure that I'm grooving on this, I think, 'cause it needs to be a different color. So I'm going to double click on that, maybe make this a little bit lighter and hit okay. Now that works for me because now I have a pancake here and a pancake here. This might be one of those times when you might have that urge to play around with colors. I mean, with lines, but again, stay away from that black outline. Like if I put a black outline here, You know, it just looks horrible. If I click away, that at least to me, it looks terrible. It looks like a mistake. All right. So I'm going to click on that. And if I want to select the shape inside of a group, I can also just go to the white arrow. I'll go there. Click. Now what I'm going to do is change this to a line that is the same color as the plate, and that will cut it out. It will define the shape. But without being very distracting, right? So I'm going to click here, and I can come right here. This was the color that I use. Remember, it is one of my safe colors that I colored the plate. I'll click right there. And now you can see, I have a No, this wasn't. Alright, so what I'm going to do is sample the color. I have it selected. I'm going to come over here to the eyedropper tool, and I'm going to sample actually make sure that stroke is on top. Now I'm going to sample that color, although I think it's going to go pink. Yeah. All right. Mmm. I think what I need to do is get away from this. I need to unlock the plate. I'm going to make a new color. And I'm going to sample it. So let me see. Color sample the plate. Then I'm going to come over to the swatches panel. I'm going to choose new swatch. And now I'm going to hit Okay. All right, so there's the new swatch. So now I'm going to click here using the white arrow. I can click on that pancake, and I can select that. Whoops is filling it. So now I have to remember to come back over here, put the stroke on top. And now I can choose that color swatch right there. And I'm going to thicken this up, make this two points just so it stands out a little. And then I'm going to do the same to this one. I'm going to make that same stroke and make that two points. And I'll do that last one too. I don't Yeah, actually, I'm going to go for it. I'm going to click stroke and make that same color and make that two points. It's good to always be consistent. And now let's click away and see what that looks like. So, whoops. It's not two points. There we go. Two points. I'll click away. And now you can see it just sort of adds this kind of funky little these little lines here. It's not realistic because nothing's going to have that white line around it, but I think it adds a nice artistic element. Now I'm going to go back to the black arrow and move this sausage away because remember, on the white arrow, I'm going to be selecting pieces of it. And I just want this to stand out a little. Yeah. All right. And I like what's happening there. And I'm going to click away. All right. I'm happy with that. You know what I'm going to do because I have that line here. I may get a little more artistic and put that same colored line around these objects. You don't need to do this if you say, Hey, look, I'm happy with what I did. I'm going to stick with it. But I kind of like that funky look that this has separating these from the background. So, this one, I need to do the same with this sausage, I'm not sure how this is going to work. I'm going to go one, two, Hang on two points, and it's already blue. Hang on. Let me hit undo. See, the problem I'm having with this one is it is I have some other shapes on top. So what I'm going to do here is undo this until it goes back to zero. Now, what I'm going to do is copy that. I'm on the white arrow. I'm going to select that background. Command C, Command V to paste it on top or paste in place. Now I'm going to fill this with none. So I'm going to flop that, so now it's filled with none, and then I'm going to change the stroke to that nice blue color, and I'm going to crank that up to two, and there we go, and now it cuts that line like that. And again, this is just some extra stylistic choices that I'm making. You do not have to do the same thing. But I'm going to do the same thing here. One other way to do this is like this, you see, it's on top. Hang on. Let me go to the black arrow. It's on top, and I need to group those together again. So now it's a group inside of a group. This one, I'm going to double click to go inside of this. Now I'm going to click on that. Hang on. Let me go back. One, And I'm going to make sure. Okay, so it's there. I'm going to go copy and paste. But I'm inside of the group doing this. So it will I will remain selected. So I'm for the fill. I'll click none. And for the stroke, I will click that nice blue color, and I'll crank that up to two points. And now I'm good. Now since I went inside of the group to do this when I click away, It remains inside, so I don't have to group it. This is a group inside of a group. This I went into the group and made the changes. Now, one thing to be aware of. Again, I like the look of this where it breaks these lines as an artistic choice. But if I move them over here, you know, I may or may not want to keep those those lines, okay? So I'm going to hit undo, bring everything back, and I'm good to go to the next step. 25. Napkin / Round Rectangle Corners: Okay, so, next, what I want to do is to create a napkin. So I'm going to toggle open my layers panel here. And in order if I'm going to make a napkin here now. So I'm going to zoom out a little bit. And the napkin, I'm just going to use the rectangle tool, click and drag that out. And I'm going to fill this with a color. Just so this matches up, I'm going to go with one of these colors for my color theme, so I'm going to select my eye dropper tool and click there, and I like that. Now I'm going to go to the white arrow, and I'm just going to click on one of these dots in the corner and drag that in to round the corner. All right. Now from here, I'll just maybe move that up a little bit, and I like it kind of rotated. Just to add a little make it a little more dynamic. Maybe I'll reduce the height of this just a little bit. Here we go. I like that. Now I want this to go behind the plate. And if I go object arrange, send to back, it's not going to go back. You know, it's on the food layer, okay? So it's in the back here now, but I want it to go behind the plate. So I have to come over here. So my layers panel is open. And I'm going to you can see, here's my food layer. So I want to put this on the plate layer. So I'm going to select it. It's selected, and I'm going to go edit cut. Or command C or control C, and now I need to unlock it to put it on the plate layer. So I'm going to unlock that, select the plate layer, and I'll go edit paste in place, okay? If I go paste, it'll paste it in the center of the document, and I can reposition it. That's not a problem, but I like to since I've already made that choice of where it's going to go, I'll just put edit, paste in place. Okay? Now, you see it's on the plate layer. Now when I go object, arrange, send to back, it will go behind the plate. And now we are ready to bring in the forks. I'm going to lock that layer out. Okay. 26. Silverware / Pathfinder: Alright, so now we're going to create a fork and a knife. Well, actually a spoon, as well. And these shouldn't be too difficult, but we're going to be using the pathfinder a bit more. And we're going to mostly be working with just straight shapes. So I'm going to move my cursor over to the rectangle tool, and I'm going to click right here. Right now, actually, I'm going to build this on top of the napkin, and we're going to build this straight up and down. You see how I have the napkin tilted, so hopefully that won't throw anyone off. Alright, so I've selected the rectangle tool, and you can see it's telling me that it's not going to let me draw. And that's because I'm on the wrong layer. If you notice my layers panel, I'm on the plate layer and it's locked. So I need to select the food layer, and you can see that goes away. Okay, so here this is we're going to draw a fork, and it's going to be and it's going to be simplified. So this portion right here, I feel like a doctor explaining something important right now. But anyway, this portion right here is going to be a rectangle, and each of these prongs on the fork is going to be a rectangle. And this piece here is going to be a rectangle. We're going to manipulate them a little bit, and then we're just going to merge everything together. There's actually A couple of ways you could do it. I think I'm going to show you the second way to do it after we finish. The first way is going to be additive. The second way is going to be subtractive. All right. So rectangle tool, I'm going to click and drag out a box. Again, that's the middle portion of the fork. There's no color Oh, actually, there is color in it, and it's getting lost here because it's the same color as my as my napkin. So I'm going to come over here to my swatches panel, click on that, and I'm going to choose a darker color here. Actually, you can see it's selecting the it's changing the color of the stroke. So I'm going to click right here. I'm going to flip those colors, and then I'm going to fill that outside with that stroke with none, and that stands out nicely. So that's the middle part of the fork. Now I'm going to draw out another one of the prongs, okay? And don't worry that there's not a point. We'll fix that later. Okay? Actually, we're not going to put a point. Maybe I'll show you how you can do that on the next version that we do. All right. So now we have the fork with the first prong. Now the problem that I'm going to have is you see it's not lined up with the outside of the fork. So I'm going to just move that inward, okay? Now I'm going to hold the shift key. Again, I'm on the black arrow, and I'm going to click on on the bottom portion of the fork or the base of the fork. And now, the prong and the fork base are selected, and I'm going to come over to my properties panel and select align left, and you see everything aligned left. All right. Now I'm going to duplicate this prong. Again, edit copy, edit, paste. And earlier, I did show you how to hold the option key, and you get the double headed arrow and you can drag out a copy. All right. So what I'm going to do with this one is I'm going to put that here inside, you know, just to the left of the base of the fork. If I move it out here and I do this align right, it's going to shift over away from the other one. So that's why it's important to do it here. So I'm going to make sure they're both selected and align right. Okay. Now we just need a couple more. Here are the other two prongs. Okay. Now you can see they're not even. So we're going to select all four of the prongs. I'm just holding the Shift key. And then, again, I'm in the essentials classic. So this Options bar is here, and I can choose the align tools up here as well. I'm going to click to go up. Now they are aligned that way. All right, EZP Z. All right. Okay, so now I'm going to drag out the handle, right? I'm just going to move that down here. And one problem that I'm going to have is if I align the center, it shifts the it shifts the bottom. But we'll get to that later. So I'm going to bring this out. I'm going to stretch that out. And now we have the base of the fork. I'm going to align them. All right. Now, what I'm going to do here is I want the base of this fork to be a bit wider, okay? So I'm going to zoom in. Okay. Now we're going to use this the white arrow, because right now with the black arrow, I'm the selection tool. I control it by using the bounding box. But if I use the direct selection tool or the white arrow, I can control it by using selecting each of these anchor points. And we're going to move each of these points out so that it looks, you know, a bit wider on the side. All right? Now, what I'm going to do here, I can use the scale tool to do this. Or I can do it. I'm going to show you both ways. All right. One quick easy way is to click on that point right there. And then, here I want to give the fork a wider base. So I'm going to click here with a white arrow, click to select it, and then I can click that anchor point there. Now I'm going to tap to the right, using the arrow tool and I'm going to count one, two, three, four, five, and then I can click on the other side, click and go to the right, one, two, three, four, five. And this is just so that it's symmetrical. I can use the I'm going to show you another way 345, one, two, 345. I'm just doing it. Now, if I come here, the other way, if you've done that, I find that the easiest, simplest way to do it. But if I click out here and drag across, I've selected these two anchor points. If you'll notice the anchor points up here are not selected. Now, if I come over here to my scale tool, I can click on that, and then I'm going to click anywhere, but I'm just going to click right here, and drag to the right, and you can see it expands it equally on both sides. So whichever way you're more comfortable with, you know, go for it. Alright. So now I'm going to move this down, I'll zoom out a little bit, and I'm going to merge these. So I'm going to hold the shift key. I'm going to select the base of the fork, and I'm going to go to my pathfinder. And for some reason, the pathfinder is not showing up. So I'm going to do this again. I'm going to click away, click, click, and now the Pathfinder is showing. I'm not sure why it didn't show up before. Now, so here, I'm just going to click on the union to merge these two. And I'll click right there. Boom. There we go. So now we can fix this alignment. I'm going to click on that left prong, and I'm going to hold the shift key and click on the bottom of the fork, and then we'll align left, and everything should be just the way it needs to be. All right. Now, I could group these prongs, but I want to do something a little bit different. So I'm going to click out here, drag across to select everything. And then we're going to merge everything using the pathfinder. Okay? Now, Now, if I go to my white arrow, you see I get these little circles. Hopefully, they will allow me to do all the curving that I want. So I'm going to click on one circle. They're all are selected, I'm going to drag out. And you see I have a nice rounded corners on everything, and it's nice and stylized, okay? If you decided at one point you wanted to make these a little point here, we could use that same little trick where you, you know, scaled each of these things in inward, and then it would have a bit of a point. But anyway, I'm happy with that fork. I'm going to move that right here. Now, I've made a bit of a mistake. I wish I'd save that the handle of the fork to use for my knife. But that's okay. I'm going to copy that. Again, I'm just holding the option key and dragging. And I'm going to cut off the top. So I'm going to make a rectangle. I come over here to my rectangle tool, drawbox on top, and then I can just subtract, okay? Make sure they're both selected and subtract. All right. So now, and one thing I want to point out, you'll just have to keep switching tools. I'm using keyboard shortcuts. So say if I'm on the rectangle tool right here, if I want to get back to the black arrow, I can just hold the command key and it changes back to the black arrow on a PC control. So keep that in mind. All right. Okay, so now we have the This is going to be our knife. And I can line that up here, not crazy about that. I'm going to keep that angle right here, but I'm going to click here, let's see. And I'm going to drag that out to the I clicked on the anchor point. I'm going to drag that out so that it's going straight up and down. And then I can move this down. Actually, I'm going to align it left. Oops, I hit the wrong button. A Lign left. All right. Now I'm going to click and drag this upward And I can drag this over. And this is going to be the head of the knife. Now, I'm going to hit I'm using keyboard shortcuts. I hit A to get to the white arrow. I can click and I can drag that inward there. Hopefully, this will look right. I'm not exactly sure. Actually, maybe I'll try to bring that down like that. All right? Now, I'm going to merge the two of these. I'm going to click on the black arrow, hold the shift key, and select the other. Again, I'm not getting my pathfinder. If I can click away and re select and get the Pathfinder, another way to do it is just go window and open the Pathfinder, and you know, it's always there, okay? And boom, now they're merged. Now, I'm going to go to my white arrow and click on one of these circles, and I might be limited by this point here. Let's see what we get. Mmm. That looks good, but I want this to be rounded more, so I'm going to click out here. Remember my napkin is locked so I can click out there and drag. If things aren't locked, I can always just go Command Y and click in this blank space to select it and it won't select it when I'm in that outline mode. But anyway, I can click on this dot and do this one individually. Just this one. Nothing else. It's going to lock out once that anchor point touches the other one. But you can see I got a nice little curve there. All right. This knife actually looks better than the or more natural than the fork. The fork looks a little stylized and fake. To make this look a little more natural, I'm going to select the fork, and I'm going to click drag across here. Grab that circle point. Actually, I'm going to click hold the Shift key and select the other side and see if I can round just these. And it's going to lock out. There we go. But I think that matches the knife a bit better. It looks a little more natural. Starting to look a little like Bart Simpson. I'm going to hit undo and try that again because I think I rounded those corners more than I really wanted to. And I think that looks good. And I'm going to click away. All right. Now, I promise to show you a different way to make a fork. One thing I do want to add to this is you can add reflections to this, but I kind of like leaving them totally flat because they almost sort of recede into the background, bringing your attention to the food on the plate. But if you want to add reflections and play around with it, that's perfectly fine. And I haven't thought about how I would do that. Maybe I'd add a bit of, you know, a line here. Usually, knives will have something that separates the blade from the handle and maybe a reflection or two here on these edges. But anyway, the way we can do this fork or yeah, the fork subtractively, is I can draw that's the head of the fork. And here, I'm going to draw the entire head of the fork. This is going to be the base of the fork. All right? Now, first thing I'm going to do is select them, and I'm going to align center. Now I'm going to click on the white arrow. I'm going to click and drag across there. So just these two anchor points are selected, I'm going to go to the scale tool, and I'm just going to click hold my finger on the mouse button and drag to the right. Okay? Now, I'm going to click on the rectangle tool, and these are going to be the spines. Or the prongs, right? So I'm going to change the color just so you can see the difference here, right? So this is going to be the hollow area. This is the empty space, okay? So I'm going to come across, drag across to make a new copy and drag one more out. And again, I'm holding the option key to do this. Now, this is going to be a little more tricky because I want these to be spaced out, but I have to kind of eyeball it here to make sure they equally spaced. I guess a trick would be, hang on. A good trick would be to make five and then get ready the others. So I'm going to hold the shift key. Actually, hang on. I need to ig these up with the outer edge. This doesn't need to be 100% precise because I'm going to delete these on the outside. Okay? So all five are selected. I'm going to align the top just so that they align down here at the bottom. Okay. And right here in my options bar, I want the space between these to align, but I don't see it here. So I'm going to come over to my properties panel, and you see these three dots, okay? And you see Distribute Spacing. All right. So I can click right here, the horizontal distribute spacing and click. And you see it make sure everything is nice and equal. Now I can click away and I can delete these two on the outside. These were just there to help me align everything. So now I'm going to subtract these from the head of the fork and everything should be good. So Pathfinder this time, rather than adding will subtract. Alright. Now we're going to do another little trick here. I'm going to go to the white arrow. I'm going to drag across. Actually, I don't know if this is going to work. I'm going to see if it'll let me do these all at once. So I've clicked out here, dragged across, so just these top of the tops of the prongs are selected. I don't think this is going to work. But let me go to the scale tool and I'm going to drag to the right. You see, it's bending everything in. Actually, I don't mind that. My goal initially was to do something like that. And but if I do it this way, I just kind of have to eyeball it. Okay. Hang on. So what I'm doing here is I'm holding the command key to get to the white arrow. I'll drag across, and then I can release and drag that in, hold the command key to get to the white arrow, drag across to select these two anchor points, release now I'm back on the scale tool, and I can drag to the right. Now, another way to do this. Let me do this is I can select these two. Now I'm going to double click on the rectangle tool. And I want to scale them horizontally. Let's just say 50%. And vertical I'll just leave that at 100%. And I hit. And you can see, now it's very precise. So I'm going to hold the command key. And this is a little technical. Don't even worry about it. I find it most of the time I just eyeball it. But if I was doing something a professional job and it needed to be very precise, yeah, I would take the time to do it this way. And I'm going to double click. And you see it. Remember what I did the last time I just hit. I'm holding the command key or control key on a PC to get the white arrow, so I don't have have to go back. And if you're having trouble with the key commands, just click on the white arrow. And again, then I drag across, and I'll double click, and there it is. Boom. White arrow. Double click. Boom. Okay, now I want to merge, actually, I need to center these. A line center. Okay, now I'm going to merge them using the pathfinder, okay? Now, I'm still on the white arrow. Ideally, I'd like these points to be closer, but we'll just go with it as it is. And if I click right here, I'll drag it. No, that's not what I want to do. I'm going to click right here, and I get one of these circles, and I can drag uh oh. The problem is they're locking out very quickly because these points are really small. But that's okay. If any of these I want to soften these up here, I can click drag across that anchor point. I'll hold the shift key, click and drag across that one. And since the only these two are selected, I can round these a lot nicer. Okay? All right. I got one more trick to show you with this one. I'm going to change the color of this so that it stands out against this blue and say I want to add a little bit more shape in here. I can click on the m, I want the curvature tool? It's easier to use, but I'm going to go with the pin tool. I'm going to click hold and you'll see within the pin tool, I haven't gone to the pin tool, and I'm trying to avoid the pin tool because it is it has a bit of a learning curve. So I'm trying to avoid it, okay? And if I move my cursor over that line, actually, first, I'm going to go to the white arrow, select now back to the pintol and when I move my cursor there, No. Okay, there we go. When I move my cursor there, you see when I come right here. It's very subtle. When I have the asterix, it's going to make a new point. If I move it right here, it gives me a plus symbol, and that's telling me that it is going to add a new point. And I can just click Boom. And then I'm going to move over to the other side when I get that plus symbol, boom, okay? They're slightly off, but I think I don't think it's really going to matter much, but now I'm going to click on the white arrow, drag across to select these two anchor points. Go to the scale tool, and I'm going to drag inward. And now you can see we have a nice little shape right there. And now, let's see, if I go to the white arrow, they're not close enough to let me round these out. So I'm going to go ahead and click. I may change my mind and come back away from this, but I'm going to double click on this with the curvature tool. So now I've added that, actually. I'm going to go ahead and click on Oh, got to be careful with that. Let me undo that, although I kind of like that. Oh, that's a nice shape. Oh. All right. I'm going to do that. But be careful, don't you can't move them. If you want to move these anchor points to align them ahead of time, you have to do it ahead. Let me try this. White arrow, white arrow. I'm going to click drag across. So only these two anchor points are selected. And then I'm going to come up here to my align tool, and align them center, and boom, they are now aligned, okay? Perfectly aligned. Now I can click away, and that is another fork. I'm not crazy about this fork. It needs some refinement, but let's see, if I'm on the white arrow, I'm going to click drag across. I'm going to zoom up so I don't accidentally hit the wrong thing. I'm going to click on one of these anchor points. Hold the shift key so it doesn't move, and I can drag this up and down. And I'm holding the shift key so it doesn't so I don't accidentally bend it the wrong way. As long as I stay reasonably close, it should be okay. Alright, so I'm just going to toss that off to the side. Alright, so here we are. We have the fork and knife. If we want to spoon, I think you all can figure that out. I'm going to duplicate this knife. I'm going to chop the head off of the knife by using the path finder and boom. Now I'll just go to the ellipse tool and drag that out. I'm going to align them center. Let me go to the black arrow and align center horizontal boom, and I'm going to unite these with the pathfinder, and now we have a spoon. Okay? And I'm just going to kind of a can I like things just slightly askew just because I find it a little bit more interesting. I'm not crazy about the size of the head of this spoon, but I'm just going to stick with it. So I don't spend too much time going back and forth. All right. Now, I am going to make a cup of coffee. 27. Coffee: All right. Now, I am going to make a cup of coffee. All right. So let's take a look at this cup of coffee, and I chose this one right here specifically for this because I like the bubbles. If you want to make the cup of coffee, just a circle, add the handle to it, and then the brown on the inside, a cup of coffee often has no bubbles, but I just thought it added a little bit more visual interest, adding the bubbles. But it also might be a problem because everything else is so simple, and if I add bubbles in here, it might look off. So I may change my mind on this as we're going. All right. So I'm going to put the cup of coffee here. Although we have a etiquette thing here. I think typically you'll put a cup of coffee over, you know, on the right side, I'm going to break the rules for the visual visuals on this piece here. All right. So we're going to put the cup of coffee here. All right. Let's just say this is for a left handed person and We're going to put this over here. All right. So I'm going to make that cup of coffee white, right? Now, to make the coffee, I'm going to copy this. So edit copy or command or Control C, copy. And I'm going to paste this in place. Actually, say if I paste it and it comes out over here, you can still just align those quite easily. But first, I'm going to change the color. That's going to be my coffee. Maybe a nice light roast. What I would do here as far as light or dark is make that call depending on how else, you know, how your image looks. Like, right now, I think that nice dark roast is too heavy, and it's drawing my eye there. So I'm going to lighten that up. And you can always change the color. But I'm going to go with this color because I don't want it to match the syrup. All right. Now, I can eyeball this and try to line it up. But the easiest way is make sure I'm on the black arrow. Hold the shift key. They're both selected, and then I can align them by the top and align. Center or left, okay? Now they're perfectly aligned. Now I can click away because they're both selected, click here, and here to scale it down, I can hold the shift key. Okay? Let me try this. So I can hold the shift key, but it'll scale down. But if I want it to scale and that'll make sure it remains a circle. If I take my hand off of the shift key, you see, it goes wonky, okay? So I'm going to add the shift key, it makes a perfect circle. And now I'm going to add the option key, okay, and it will scale from the center. So then I can just bring that out and I have a nice little mug, a. And now I'm going to release on off the camera here. Hang on. Ooh. There we go. There we go. It's off camera. I'm going to release the mouse button first, finger up. Now I can release these other keys, okay? That's very crucial because if I release the keys first or try to release them at the same time, it may shift because I didn't get the timing right. All right. So now we have the coffee. Now, let me take a look at that. I'll save the foam for last. Let's put the handle on there. Handle. We're going to do the handle just like we did the sausage. We're going to come over here to this line segment tool. I'm going to make the handle down here. I'm going to click drag that across. Okay. Release. Now, you can see it has no fill or stroke. We need a stroke. So I'm going to go over to my properties panel. Click on that and choose white. Now I'm going to thicken that line up so that it matches the width of the cup. And when I'm happy with that, I don't know if you all remember. I give those of you think you remember a chance to get it, how to round the edge of that handle. Okay, if you didn't, no big deal, we're going to click on the words stroke. Okay? And then we're going to come down here to where it says CP, and we're going to click on round cap, the one in the middle. Boom. Now, we have a nice round cap. The problem that I'm having, and hopefully you all can see this is the round part of this cap is pushing into the coffee, so I'm going to shorten that. And I'm going to shorten this handle just a little bit. There we go. Okay, now, this is actually a mug. And I'm going to stick with this with a mug. But if you decide that you want to have a proper, you know, like, a cup of tea, and you want to have the saucer, I think you can figure that out. Okay, so here we go. And I think this works. We're almost finished with this. And I'm going to zoom in a little bit. Now, let's figure out how to do this coffee. I mean, the foam. All right. So The way I would do this is I'm going to separate this. I'm going to copy this hold the Option key, and the foam is kind of that light tan. I may change my mind and go with something a little darker later depends on how the visual balance of the image is working. Okay, so now I'm going to go to my curvature tool. Okay. And again, I'm going to move it over here so we can see that cup of coffee there. Oops. Hang on, while we're doing this. There we go. Let me close that path finder window. All right. So first thing I need to do is click away. And now I can click in here, and there's the first point. This is the curvature tool. And I'm just going to kind of click and just let it see how it goes. The thing is, if you don't, the curvature tool isn't doing what you want, after you click all the points is when you can go back and move these points around and get them exactly where you want. Okay, so this is going to be the foam. Now, anyone have any ideas how we're going to make this foam work on the cup of coffee. Yes, that is right. We are going to subtract this shape from that shape. Let me change the color just so you can see this. And I'm going to make sure they're both selected, and I can subtract. Now, another way to do it is I could simply match the color of this and it would visually serve the same purpose. I use the eye dropper here and that select the eye dropper and sample the coffee. That serves the exact same purpose. But I know I'm going to select them both and use the pathfinder and subtract. All right. So that way, if I decide to change the color of the coffee later, it will automatically change. Alright, so this is the same size as this, so I can just use the alig. I'm going to line them up as best I can because it may shift when I go to move this. So I'm going to go command y, control y, and try to line these up visually, okay? Whoops. It's a little hard to select it in outline mode. And then you can see I can line them up that way and command why. Now, if I really want to just make sure these are selected, I'm going to click on the coffee and the foam, and I can align center and align what's that center Vertical? All right. So they're lined up and actually, I need to group these I'll save the grouping to last. Alright, now we need to add some bubbles, okay? So the bubbles. I'm not going to worry about cutting holes in this, but I'm just going to sample the eye dropper boom and add a few bubbles. I'm not sure how many bubbles I really want to add. And you'll see, I'm clicking away when I drag these because sometimes it's easy to accidentally click on the click on the wrong, you know, like, if I click here and drag, I may accidentally click on one of these anchor points and start skewing this thing in a way that I don't want. Hmm. All right. These bubbles, I'm not right here if I click, it's just going to it may start rotating. But it seemed to work. Okay, now, let's see if that does, those look like bubbles to me. I think that works. I kind of like that little swirly thing that's going on there in the middle. I don't know if I can get that to happen, but let's see. I'm going to go to the curvature tool. I'm going to click here. I'm going to double click here to get a point. I'm going to double click here and double click here. Double click means we get the nice pointy bits. Okay? Now I'm going to go to the eye dropper, sample that color, go back to the curvature tool, and I'm going to just kind of curve that over. I'll click here. It adds a nice curve. And now let's see if I can line this back up. Actually, it's not. So I'm going to click. And I'm just trying to match the curve so that it works, and then I can drag that down. Maybe reposition that a little bit. I'm not sure if I'm crazy about this, but Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't. I'll leave it to you if you decide you want to add that little touch in there or not. But I just need to make sure they lined up. No gaps here. I'll click on the black arrow, click away. It's not quite right. You can see there's a gap here, and that doesn't line up. So I'm going to go to the white arrow, click here. Line that up. Here, there's a little handle. I can just click that and drag that down and you can see it bends. If if you're not comfortable with that, just go right back to the curvature tool and add a new point, and you can just kind of move these around. And if by some strange chance you are covering over any of these bubbles, you can just bring them to front, okay? All right. Now, let me see what this looks like. Mm, let me see what it looks. That's with and without. I think I kind of like it with. Alright, so I'm going to click right here, drag all the way across and group everything. 28. Shadows / Blend Modes: If you want to take this to the next level, you can start adding little shadows to this, as well. Like here, let me unlock these layers. All right, I'm going to duplicate that. I am going to fill that with the same colors as the background, then I'm going to double click and then just make that a little bit darker, send it to back. Okay. The only problem is that shadow is cutting into this. Now, earlier, remember when we did that I talked about the multiply. If I come over here to opacity, I can click on the word opacity, and then I come here where it says, normal. And I'm going to click and change that to multiply, and it will show through. It basically will make the white disappear, okay? The white within the color. So you can see if I zoom in here, you can see that napkin is showing through, right there. Okay? That's what that's doing. Now I'm going to click on that and reduce the opacity, let's say, 50%, and now it's a bit more obvious what's happening. And if you want to go through and do more of this sort of thing, you can, but I think I'm going to go with the cup. Whoops, I never group these. I'm going to click on the black arrow for the coffee cup. I'm going to group everything. Command G, Control G on a PC. Now I'm going to drag that off. I'm going to hold in the option key to duplicate that. I'm going to move it down here. Now, I want this to be a shadow. So I'm going to double click to go inside of this. If I just try to merge these, I believe I'm going to lose that handle. So if I go to a path finder, merge everything, see, I lost the handle because it's a stroke. So I'm going to click on that handle and hopefully remember this object path. This is what we did with the sausages, and I'm going to choose outline stroke, and now it's a shape rather than just a simple path. It's, you know, the whole thing drawn out. Now, if I come across that, select everything, I can merge everything, and now I'm going to double click to get out of this group, you can see here. I'm inside of the group. I'll just double click here, or I can click on the gray. Now I'm going to cheat a little bit. I want to copy this shadow here. So I'm going to select the eyedropper. I'm going to click on it. And now I can send this to the back, so I'm going to go object arrange. Send to back. And it's behind the cup of coffee. I have a nice shadow. And I've applied a few shadows here, which I think work. Let me do one more. I'm going to go I copy that napkin, eyedropper, sample, send it to B. I just use the key commands to do that. And I think that works. If you decide you want to add more, I think it will help for the realism, but to add it to the spoon. But I think it works as is for me. But you can go in and add shadows as you like. If I like using the solid colors, but if you're happier, using gradations, that's fine, too. But I haven't shown you how to do that. But the gradation tool is here if you want to play around with that. 29. Clean Up: Alright. Now, one of the important things you want to do as far as presentation is, well, what I'm going to do is hit File Save, alright? Make sure you're saving regularly. But if this is my final presentation, you want to clean up your document. So I'm going to unlock that background, get rid of my mood board and this extra stuff off to the side. Now I can hit Command zero on my keyboard. And I am good to go. And hang on. Let me close that up. All right. Actually, I'm going to go on a presentation mode. This is something that I usually teach right in the beginning. If you touch on the tab key, you see it goes and it changes, it gets rid of your keyboard shortcuts. So that's something to be aware of. If you remember the Gotcha video, if you hit the tab key that cleans things up, gets rid of the menu, or I can tap the the FK, and I taped it again. And now we are in presentation mode. So if you want to show your finished piece off to, you know, someone in the same room, you have a nice clean look. Anyway, I hope you had fun with this, and I really look forward to seeing what types of pieces and variations you come up with. And since this is going out to the world, I really am interesting to see what other types of breakfasts that you come up with that are, you know, non American breakfasts. I'd love to see some, was it? Blood sausages and beans? Maybe a Danish, maybe. Hey, maybe you just like a nice doughnut for breakfast. I'd love to see all these things here, so please upload them. Don't be shy, and I look forward to seeing what you do. Bye bye. 30. Save / Export Project: Now, once you've completed this, you'll need to save the file. So first, you'll want to go File, Save, okay? Now, that's going to be your reference file, your Adobe Illustrator file, the one that you can use to edit, okay? You can go back if you decide I want to change some things around. That's what you're going to use. But in order to post to the project area, you'll need to save it as a ster file, okay, because this won't show up if you just upload the Adobe Illustrator file. So you'll need to export a copy. You choose the file menu. And choose port, and then export S. Okay? And from here, you can choose either P and G or a JPEG. The default is P and G. Let's just go with that. And I'm going to click right here where it says art boards. So as long as you line everything up here in the art boards, it's going to export it out perfectly. If you don't check artboards, if you have some things off to the side, they may show up. So make sure you Use artboards, especially if you have extra items off to the side. It'll cut those out. All right. So I'm going to hit port, and you can see it says breakfast drawing, and I'm going to hit port for this assignment, right here, you can change the resolution. You know, that's the quality of it, how many pixels there are. And we're going to go with 72 PPI. You can always come back to the original file and save out a high resolution version if you like. But I don't want to overwhelm the system by uploading a file that's too large. So we're just going to go with 72 PPI. And you can see this is what the image is going to look like. If you look at this little image right here and it shows you something, you know, extra stuff. Maybe you did leave something off to the side, just cancel and re export it and make sure you check artboard. And it says the background color is transparent. I'm just going to put white, but there really isn't a background color. But this may make the file size just a little bit smaller. And I'm going to hit. And then from there, you'll just upload that to the project area. 31. Upload Project: All right. So now that you've completed your illustration, and you've exported it as either a JPEG or PNG, you can come here on the class to projects and resources. So I'm just going to scroll down here to this bottom area, and you can see about et cetera, and projects and resources. And from here, you can see it says right here to submit the project. And I'm going to click right there. And right here, it says, upload image, and you can see it says cover image. And it's kind of odd when you upload it, it's going to upload it as, again, a cover image, and it will probably crop the image. So I'm going to click right here and choose upload the image, and you can see, and then you can find your image, you know, navigate to where the image is saved, and I'm going to select it and choose open right here. And you'll see, actually, this is pretty close to fitting with the size that I chose. I can scale this up, but you can still see that it's cropping it just a little bit. For me, I think this would be fine, but for demonstration purposes, I'm going to show you the next step. So say if you did something that was vertical and it doesn't fit in here properly, and it's being cropped off, hit submit. And then you'll come down here and you can add the image. Right here, you see where it says, add more content. But before I do that, I'm going to choose project title, and I'm just going to put instructors demo, and I'll type here for project description. If you want to let me know if, you know, you had fun doing this or you had any trouble with it, or if you want to ask me to hey can you show me how to make a waffle or something like that. You can put all that kind of stuff in here. And I'll just say here is my project. I hope you had fun. All right. So now I'm going to upload the image a second time. I'm going to hit a return here just to make that drop back, and I'm going to click here image, select the exact same image, because again, the first one was a preview image. But you can see here, it's showing full size. And I don't know if you noticed it said the maximum size that you could send this is something like I believe 8 megabytes. So pay attention to the size. And other than that, once you're done, right here, you can make this project private or add some tags. I'm going to leave both of those alone, and I'm going to hit this button right here that says Publish. And I'm done. 32. Thanks for Taking the Class: Hi. Thank you for taking the class. I hope you enjoyed yourself. And please, if there are any comments or suggestions that you might have, please let me know. Also, I hope that you uploaded your project to the project area. I can't wait to see it. Anyway, once again, thank you, and I'll see you in the next class.