0 1 00:00:03,382 --> 00:00:06,109 Welcome to the Corner Extravaganza. 1 2 00:00:06,304 --> 00:00:09,108 We're going to turn corners into curves... 2 3 00:00:09,133 --> 00:00:12,241 by using these weird little targets that appeared. 3 4 00:00:12,460 --> 00:00:15,187 Now that looked a little underwhelming. 4 5 00:00:15,398 --> 00:00:17,452 It gets a little bit more exciting... 5 6 00:00:17,477 --> 00:00:18,569 but you should stick around... 6 7 00:00:18,594 --> 00:00:20,350 because some of the tips you're going to learn here... 7 8 00:00:20,375 --> 00:00:22,467 are going to help us later on in the Advanced course... 8 9 00:00:22,492 --> 00:00:25,499 so hang around, let's learn about corners. 9 10 00:00:27,562 --> 00:00:29,828 So Corner Options have been around a little while. 10 11 00:00:29,853 --> 00:00:31,507 A lot of people just ignore them. 11 12 00:00:31,687 --> 00:00:33,203 I'm going to grab my 'Rectangle Tool'. 12 13 00:00:33,228 --> 00:00:35,515 I just got a plain document open, nothing fancy. 13 14 00:00:35,780 --> 00:00:37,470 I'm going to draw a box, and it's these guys... 14 15 00:00:37,495 --> 00:00:38,797 these little targets in the corners. 15 16 00:00:38,827 --> 00:00:41,156 If you can't see yours, they're under 'View'... 16 17 00:00:41,181 --> 00:00:44,241 and they call them 'Corner Widgets'. 17 18 00:00:44,266 --> 00:00:46,007 So you can turn them on and off. 18 19 00:00:46,259 --> 00:00:47,960 They can get annoying, a little bit... 19 20 00:00:48,694 --> 00:00:52,421 when you're using Pen Tool, and stuff, or the Direct Selection Tool. 20 21 00:00:53,390 --> 00:00:56,530 So what they do is-- all I do is drag them in, and I get rounder corners. 21 22 00:00:57,015 --> 00:01:00,210 Not particularly fancy, we can fancy them up a little bit... 22 23 00:01:00,429 --> 00:01:02,293 by grabbing the Direct Selection Tool... 23 24 00:01:02,318 --> 00:01:04,483 the White Arrow, clicking on just one corner. 24 25 00:01:04,508 --> 00:01:07,343 And you can kind of do one side, click on the other side. 25 26 00:01:08,734 --> 00:01:10,398 That's kind of cooler. 26 27 00:01:11,187 --> 00:01:14,178 Where it gets nice, or more advanced... 27 28 00:01:14,445 --> 00:01:17,788 is holding down the 'Option' key on a Mac, or the 'Alt' key on a PC ... 28 29 00:01:17,813 --> 00:01:19,062 and just clicking one of these guys. 29 30 00:01:19,273 --> 00:01:20,499 Whatever you've got selected. 30 31 00:01:20,631 --> 00:01:25,250 And you can see, I can change it from ??... 31 32 00:01:25,905 --> 00:01:27,405 but you get the idea. 32 33 00:01:27,570 --> 00:01:30,257 So it works for rectangles, it works for anything. 33 34 00:01:30,282 --> 00:01:34,036 Grab the 'Curvature Tool', and we start doing weird corner stuff. 34 35 00:01:35,372 --> 00:01:38,661 And you'll see that, if I have my White Arrow here... 35 36 00:01:38,686 --> 00:01:41,310 whenever there is a corner, you can see, I can kind of flatten it out. 36 37 00:01:41,526 --> 00:01:44,018 And that's going to come in real handy later on... 37 38 00:01:44,043 --> 00:01:46,456 when we start joining things with the Shape Builder Tool. 38 39 00:01:46,604 --> 00:01:47,846 That was a pretty bad example... 39 40 00:01:47,871 --> 00:01:50,115 but let's look at the Star real quick... 40 41 00:01:50,140 --> 00:01:51,643 and we'll look at a couple of other options. 41 42 00:01:51,668 --> 00:01:52,651 Don't leave. 42 43 00:01:52,846 --> 00:01:55,742 So I've got a Star, I'm going to drag it over here. 43 44 00:01:56,034 --> 00:01:57,378 I'm going to grab the 'White Arrow'. 44 45 00:01:57,559 --> 00:02:01,237 You can see, there's corners everywhere. I can just kind of turn them up... 45 46 00:02:01,526 --> 00:02:05,346 or I can select just this one, hold 'Shift', and grab all of these guys... 46 47 00:02:05,371 --> 00:02:07,026 and just do the outside ones. 47 48 00:02:07,276 --> 00:02:08,987 It does get better than this, I promise. 48 49 00:02:09,909 --> 00:02:11,190 How much better? 49 50 00:02:11,722 --> 00:02:15,245 There are some extra options. If you double click any of these guys... 50 51 00:02:15,401 --> 00:02:18,987 so double click any of the targets, you get kind of corner options. 51 52 00:02:19,112 --> 00:02:20,523 You can decide on how-- 52 53 00:02:22,815 --> 00:02:24,877 how relative... 53 54 00:02:26,112 --> 00:02:28,456 or absolute. Just different kind of corners. 54 55 00:02:28,534 --> 00:02:30,878 Depends on how the Anchor Points make it. 55 56 00:02:31,704 --> 00:02:33,875 You can obviously change your Anchor Points here as well... 56 57 00:02:33,908 --> 00:02:35,828 and if I go back to the 'Radius'... 57 58 00:02:35,853 --> 00:02:38,430 you can kind of push it in and out, instead of dragging it. 58 59 00:02:39,321 --> 00:02:40,391 Let's click 'OK'. 59 60 00:02:40,516 --> 00:02:42,012 One thing you might run into is... 60 61 00:02:42,037 --> 00:02:44,235 if you're drawing something, say a random shape. 61 62 00:02:44,290 --> 00:02:46,375 I grab the 'Pen Tool', I'm just drawing randomness, right? 62 63 00:02:46,555 --> 00:02:48,164 And if I double click on any of these points... 63 64 00:02:48,189 --> 00:02:50,488 it gives me this kind of Corner Options Panel. 64 65 00:02:51,352 --> 00:02:53,320 You might get, if you're dealing with... 65 66 00:02:53,345 --> 00:02:55,633 say a regular shape, like a Rectangle Tool... 66 67 00:02:55,658 --> 00:02:59,368 it's still a primitive shape, Illustrator still knows it's a rectangle. 67 68 00:02:59,477 --> 00:03:02,204 You can see up there, it says, "I'm a rectangle, not a random shape." 68 69 00:03:02,454 --> 00:03:04,969 Now if I use the 'Black Arrow', and double click on any of these guys... 69 70 00:03:05,126 --> 00:03:06,399 you get a slightly different window. 70 71 00:03:06,571 --> 00:03:08,868 It controls the-- you get a bit more control here... 71 72 00:03:09,438 --> 00:03:12,930 but you can see, these are the corners, and these are the corner options. 72 73 00:03:12,955 --> 00:03:14,930 So it's no real difference, just-- 73 74 00:03:15,095 --> 00:03:16,472 I'm going to increase this up... 74 75 00:03:16,497 --> 00:03:18,883 and you can see, I'm looking at the top right angle over there. 75 76 00:03:18,915 --> 00:03:21,383 Just so you know, you might look at a different window... 76 77 00:03:21,408 --> 00:03:22,992 than I got just a second ago. 77 78 00:03:23,259 --> 00:03:25,438 Now the big thing to do in here though is... 78 79 00:03:25,463 --> 00:03:28,274 say if I-- I'll make this a lot bigger. 79 80 00:03:28,462 --> 00:03:32,298 Scale Corners, I can't remember if it's on or off by default. 80 81 00:03:32,384 --> 00:03:33,930 I've not played with it too many times... 81 82 00:03:34,102 --> 00:03:37,077 but the difference is, if I grab my 'Rectangle Tool' now... 82 83 00:03:37,102 --> 00:03:39,439 and scale this down with 'Scale Corners'... 83 84 00:03:39,649 --> 00:03:42,016 and I'm holding 'Shift', so it scales proportionately... 84 85 00:03:42,041 --> 00:03:43,455 it gets smaller. 85 86 00:03:43,487 --> 00:03:46,211 Whereas if I turn that off, and scale it down... 86 87 00:03:46,251 --> 00:03:49,735 you'll notice it eventually turns into a kind of a weird circley egg thing... 87 88 00:03:49,985 --> 00:03:52,071 because it's trying to maintain those corners. 88 89 00:03:52,103 --> 00:03:54,641 So, turn those on and off as you need them. 89 90 00:03:54,759 --> 00:03:58,883 If you can't get this thing to open up, just go to 'Window', 'Transform'. 90 91 00:03:59,103 --> 00:04:00,774 You end up at the same place. 91 92 00:04:02,188 --> 00:04:04,313 One thing might happen though-- you saw I double clicked it. 92 93 00:04:04,625 --> 00:04:06,844 It might end up looking like this to start with. 93 94 00:04:06,876 --> 00:04:10,274 If you double click the word 'Transform', gets smaller before it gets bigger. 94 95 00:04:10,299 --> 00:04:11,048 So big... 95 96 00:04:11,073 --> 00:04:11,899 medium... 96 97 00:04:12,072 --> 00:04:13,079 little bit... 97 98 00:04:13,111 --> 00:04:15,031 tiny; I'm not sure why that one's useful... 98 99 00:04:15,056 --> 00:04:16,438 but anyway you get the idea. 99 100 00:04:16,463 --> 00:04:19,189 You can keep double clicking that way to get the different options. 100 101 00:04:19,422 --> 00:04:22,274 I'm going to click 'Scale' on, seems like a better way of working. 101 102 00:04:22,571 --> 00:04:24,961 Now what I want to do before we go, I'm just going to go back to-- 102 103 00:04:24,986 --> 00:04:26,345 remember, our whale from earlier? 103 104 00:04:27,024 --> 00:04:28,484 It really annoyed me, this nose here... 104 105 00:04:28,509 --> 00:04:30,538 so I'm going to click on it, and I'm going to-- 105 106 00:04:30,563 --> 00:04:32,884 Remember, I'm using my White Arrow, if I use the Black Arrow... 106 107 00:04:33,477 --> 00:04:35,735 I set the whole shape, and I don’t get those little targets. 107 108 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:37,954 So I'm going to grab this... 108 109 00:04:38,110 --> 00:04:39,687 and I click on just this corner... 109 110 00:04:41,267 --> 00:04:43,407 and that's what I wanted for my friend, a little snubby nose. 110 111 00:04:44,048 --> 00:04:45,509 I'm going to go wreck a few other bits... 111 112 00:04:45,534 --> 00:04:47,680 but you are fine to carry on... 112 113 00:04:47,705 --> 00:04:50,517 and now I'm going to grab you, and just track you down there... 113 114 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:52,235 so it's just on this top bit. 114 115 00:04:55,147 --> 00:04:56,178 Looks terrible. 115 116 00:04:57,577 --> 00:04:59,170 Kind of looks a little bit more like water. 116 117 00:04:59,928 --> 00:05:03,537 My whale's not like flowers. 117 118 00:05:07,896 --> 00:05:09,232 All right, you get the idea, right? 118 119 00:05:09,257 --> 00:05:10,725 So Corner Option's useful. 119 120 00:05:10,750 --> 00:05:13,529 We're getting that more and more useful as we get through that course. 120 121 00:05:13,561 --> 00:05:15,888 So yes, we need to introduce it now. 121 122 00:05:16,045 --> 00:05:17,889 All right, let's get on to the next video. 122 123 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:19,819 But before then, I'm going to undo. 123 124 00:05:20,092 --> 00:05:23,451 I'd rather, not like he's ejecting flowers. 124 125 00:05:24,047 --> 00:05:25,359 Anyway, that looked terrible. 125 126 00:05:25,609 --> 00:05:27,258 Okay, now we're going to the next video.