0 1 00:00:00,078 --> 00:00:04,578 Hey there, in this video we're going to look at something called a Gradient Mesh. 1 2 00:00:04,820 --> 00:00:06,750 What that allows us to do is do Gradients... 2 3 00:00:06,775 --> 00:00:08,680 that don't kind of follow the straight line... 3 4 00:00:08,705 --> 00:00:11,445 like a Linear Gradient, or a round Radial Gradient. 4 5 00:00:11,485 --> 00:00:13,960 We're going to do things like this where it kind of loops around... 5 6 00:00:13,984 --> 00:00:16,601 then there's different consistencies, and things going on. 6 7 00:00:16,626 --> 00:00:19,031 Even this kind of weird blurry thing at the top here. 7 8 00:00:19,289 --> 00:00:20,773 Plus we're going to add this Film Grain. 8 9 00:00:20,806 --> 00:00:22,200 It has nothing to do with anything... 9 10 00:00:22,225 --> 00:00:24,234 other than I tried to make it look a little nicer... 10 11 00:00:24,259 --> 00:00:25,617 by adding Film Grain. 11 12 00:00:25,650 --> 00:00:28,961 All right, let's go do that now in Adobe Illustrator. 12 13 00:00:29,683 --> 00:00:33,921 First up, open up 'Gradient Mesh.ai' from your 'Exercise Files'. 13 14 00:00:34,699 --> 00:00:36,693 We're going to look at the easy ways and the hard ways. 14 15 00:00:36,718 --> 00:00:39,989 I'm going to grab my 'Rectangle Tool', just draw a rectangle out here. 15 16 00:00:40,395 --> 00:00:44,455 Dealing with simple shapes like this, ellipses and rectangles is super easy. 16 17 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:45,818 Gradient Mesh is awesome. 17 18 00:00:46,107 --> 00:00:49,466 What we're going to do is, there's two ways of adding a Mesh. 18 19 00:00:50,277 --> 00:00:53,387 You can go to 'Object', and go down to 'Create Gradient Mesh'. 19 20 00:00:53,731 --> 00:00:55,730 Decide how many rows and columns. 20 21 00:00:55,755 --> 00:01:00,231 I guess the more rows and columns you have the better control you have... 21 22 00:01:00,256 --> 00:01:04,240 but the harder it is to make it look, maybe smooth. 22 23 00:01:04,630 --> 00:01:06,482 So more detail, but lesser smooth. 23 24 00:01:07,248 --> 00:01:10,037 Let's go with that, and we've got our Gradient Mesh. 24 25 00:01:10,599 --> 00:01:13,255 The other way to do it is, I'm going to grab the 'Rectangle Tool'... 25 26 00:01:13,288 --> 00:01:15,506 draw something, something similar. 26 27 00:01:16,699 --> 00:01:18,744 There's a way of doing using the tool over here... 27 28 00:01:18,769 --> 00:01:20,130 there's a specific Gradient Mesh Tool. 28 29 00:01:20,155 --> 00:01:22,738 This way you can just click in specific parts... 29 30 00:01:22,846 --> 00:01:24,066 it's up to you what you want to do. 30 31 00:01:24,826 --> 00:01:27,818 Once you've got your Gradient Mesh though, the technique is the same. 31 32 00:01:28,005 --> 00:01:29,576 You want to work with your White Arrow... 32 33 00:01:29,601 --> 00:01:32,774 and let's say we're going to select all these guys around the outside... 33 34 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:34,146 so I'm selecting these guys... 34 35 00:01:34,388 --> 00:01:36,980 I'm going to hold 'Shift', and grab the ones at the bottom as well. 35 36 00:01:37,005 --> 00:01:39,027 So I've just got all these top Anchor Points selected... 36 37 00:01:39,052 --> 00:01:40,161 and the bottom ones. 37 38 00:01:40,186 --> 00:01:43,732 I'm going to open up 'Properties', go to 'Fill'... 38 39 00:01:43,765 --> 00:01:45,451 and I'm going to go to 'Swatches'... 39 40 00:01:45,476 --> 00:01:47,975 and if you're using my files I've got some pre-made ones for us. 40 41 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,466 I'm going to click on you guys. 41 42 00:01:49,834 --> 00:01:53,567 You can see what it does, it kind of adds our Gradients. 42 43 00:01:53,794 --> 00:01:55,919 Now, nothing very exciting yet has happened, right?... 43 44 00:01:55,944 --> 00:01:58,591 because you're like, "I could have done that with just a regular Gradient." 44 45 00:01:58,740 --> 00:02:02,052 I'm going to grab all these guys in the middle here, and make them green. 45 46 00:02:03,107 --> 00:02:04,630 Still, you could have done this. 46 47 00:02:04,710 --> 00:02:07,146 Where it gets different is if I click on one of these guys... 47 48 00:02:07,171 --> 00:02:09,005 maybe that one, maybe that one... 48 49 00:02:09,271 --> 00:02:11,482 I'm going to go into here, and say, I want you to be pink. 49 50 00:02:11,732 --> 00:02:13,091 That's where it gets a bit different, right? 50 51 00:02:13,116 --> 00:02:15,765 You can actually map out Gradients. 51 52 00:02:16,029 --> 00:02:17,943 In my case, we'll make them look terrible. 52 53 00:02:18,582 --> 00:02:21,459 Let's have a look at what else you can do, you can move these guys. 53 54 00:02:21,484 --> 00:02:23,692 See this guy here, I can move him maybe down to this corner. 54 55 00:02:23,717 --> 00:02:27,224 You can see, this is really kind of interesting Air Brush Style effects. 55 56 00:02:28,662 --> 00:02:29,826 You can move him around. 56 57 00:02:29,858 --> 00:02:32,606 All these guys have handles, you can see, I can adjust this guy. 57 58 00:02:32,647 --> 00:02:34,443 He doesn't have a color, just give him a color. 58 59 00:02:35,246 --> 00:02:36,528 I'll give him black. 59 60 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:40,531 You can start kind of bending these things around... 60 61 00:02:40,556 --> 00:02:42,028 and start distorting. 61 62 00:02:43,028 --> 00:02:45,926 Now that's not a very good example, because I'm just randomly doing a shape... 62 63 00:02:45,951 --> 00:02:50,996 but it gives you kind of a look at how easy it is when the shape is simple. 63 64 00:02:51,301 --> 00:02:54,449 Let's look at doing something with our whale. 64 65 00:02:54,926 --> 00:02:56,356 Now the same thing, right? 65 66 00:02:56,381 --> 00:02:58,605 What I'm going to do is, I'm going to duplicate. 66 67 00:02:58,723 --> 00:03:00,911 You're going to go up there, exciting as you are. 67 68 00:03:01,122 --> 00:03:04,387 'Shift O' brings up my Artboard Tool. 68 69 00:03:04,512 --> 00:03:07,059 Holding down the 'Alt' key on a PC, 'Option' key on a Mac... 69 70 00:03:07,084 --> 00:03:08,481 I'm going to have another option here. 70 71 00:03:09,004 --> 00:03:09,832 I'm going to zoom in. 71 72 00:03:09,857 --> 00:03:13,652 Now, if I select the body of this whale, try to do a Gradient Mesh, it's painful. 72 73 00:03:14,379 --> 00:03:17,301 Just happens when you do really complex shapes like this. 73 74 00:03:18,605 --> 00:03:20,692 I say that, just because, like, it's just honest. 74 75 00:03:20,717 --> 00:03:22,903 I try and use the Gradient Tool, I kind of click there. 75 76 00:03:23,637 --> 00:03:25,348 It's kind of following it, right? 76 77 00:03:25,551 --> 00:03:27,527 It's kind of put in this line, and went around the eye... 77 78 00:03:27,552 --> 00:03:29,255 which is not really what I wanted, but it's okay. 78 79 00:03:30,395 --> 00:03:32,488 It's kind of done some stuff around here. 79 80 00:03:32,513 --> 00:03:34,239 Up here, it's gone really weird. 80 81 00:03:35,481 --> 00:03:36,825 Just what happens with a complex shape. 81 82 00:03:36,850 --> 00:03:40,988 I can say I want to have a couple of points following along here... 82 83 00:03:41,013 --> 00:03:42,832 because this is kind of what I want to do. 83 84 00:03:42,857 --> 00:03:45,411 I want to make kind of a Gradient that follows this line. 84 85 00:03:45,833 --> 00:03:48,317 The problem with that though is all that kind of complexity. 85 86 00:03:48,606 --> 00:03:50,426 I'll hold 'Shift' and grab you. 86 87 00:03:50,451 --> 00:03:52,536 Every time you do one of that crossover... 87 88 00:03:52,809 --> 00:03:55,668 it creates another joining path, and gets a little confusing about... 88 89 00:03:56,340 --> 00:03:57,981 where you are actually going. 89 90 00:03:58,527 --> 00:04:00,957 I'm holding 'Shift' with my Direct Selection Tool. 90 91 00:04:01,568 --> 00:04:05,200 Now I'm going to, say that color there, it's kind of working. 91 92 00:04:06,403 --> 00:04:08,801 The more you add, the harder it becomes. 92 93 00:04:08,902 --> 00:04:11,949 So what I tend to do-- you can mess around with that, it's fine. 93 94 00:04:11,974 --> 00:04:13,434 Use a Gradient Tool. 94 95 00:04:13,583 --> 00:04:17,262 What I tend to do is, I'm going to duplicate this first Artboard. 95 96 00:04:17,543 --> 00:04:19,801 So 'Shift O' on my keyboard. 96 97 00:04:20,254 --> 00:04:24,028 Holding down the 'Alt' key on a PC, 'Option' key on a Mac to make a duplicate. 97 98 00:04:24,719 --> 00:04:25,898 What I want to do is... 98 99 00:04:26,032 --> 00:04:29,176 instead of trying to turn this into a Mesh, I'm just going to use a simple shape. 99 100 00:04:29,201 --> 00:04:30,685 I'll use Ellipse, just because. 100 101 00:04:31,161 --> 00:04:34,591 It has, I guess, quite an elliptical shape. 101 102 00:04:34,935 --> 00:04:36,050 Use that, or a rectangle... 102 103 00:04:36,075 --> 00:04:38,364 something super simple that matches what you're doing. 103 104 00:04:38,389 --> 00:04:39,888 Make sure it covers the whole thing. 104 105 00:04:40,137 --> 00:04:41,364 Actually what I'll do - I'll delete that. 105 106 00:04:41,818 --> 00:04:45,021 - is I want it on its own layer, because I want to use this guy on top. 106 107 00:04:45,513 --> 00:04:46,896 This is going to be my whale. 107 108 00:04:47,458 --> 00:04:50,333 I'm going to have another layer that I want just underneath it. 108 109 00:04:51,926 --> 00:04:53,607 And you are going to be my Gradient. 109 110 00:04:55,021 --> 00:04:57,349 A little trick is... 110 111 00:04:58,435 --> 00:04:59,953 let's actually grab my Ellipse Tool... 111 112 00:04:59,978 --> 00:05:02,344 on a Gradient layer, I'm going to draw that big guy. 112 113 00:05:03,035 --> 00:05:04,339 So he's just underneath. 113 114 00:05:04,464 --> 00:05:07,113 Now what I'd like to do is be able to see through this whale. 114 115 00:05:07,246 --> 00:05:09,136 I could go to my Outline Mode... 115 116 00:05:09,644 --> 00:05:12,886 which is 'Command Y' on a Mac, or 'Control Y' on a PC. 116 117 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,699 Actually what I want to do is, there's a little trick with the whale. 117 118 00:05:15,724 --> 00:05:17,092 I'm going to lock him so he doesn't move... 118 119 00:05:17,117 --> 00:05:19,068 but also, if I hold 'Command', and click him... 119 120 00:05:19,698 --> 00:05:20,852 just turns into Outlines. 120 121 00:05:20,885 --> 00:05:23,020 You can turn it off by 'Command' clicking as well. 121 122 00:05:23,331 --> 00:05:24,826 So I'm working on a Gradient layer... 122 123 00:05:24,938 --> 00:05:26,902 and I can kind of see the outlines of these. 123 124 00:05:27,746 --> 00:05:30,816 Why do I do this? It's because when I start using the Gradient Tool - 124 125 00:05:30,964 --> 00:05:32,058 Just grab him here. 125 126 00:05:32,269 --> 00:05:34,246 When I say Gradient Tool, I mean Gradient Mesh Tool. 126 127 00:05:34,605 --> 00:05:37,269 - is when I start kind of clicking, say in here... 127 128 00:05:38,417 --> 00:05:40,097 more consistent lines appear. 128 129 00:05:41,025 --> 00:05:42,350 Let's say I've got this one... 129 130 00:05:42,375 --> 00:05:47,687 and I grab my Direct Selection Tool, and I can start bending this around... 130 131 00:05:47,712 --> 00:05:50,252 to kind of fit the forms and the shapes of what I need. 131 132 00:05:50,277 --> 00:05:52,792 And what I might do is, bring him around. 132 133 00:05:53,010 --> 00:05:54,979 My Ellipse is maybe a bit big for what I need... 133 134 00:05:55,004 --> 00:05:56,534 but you're getting the idea, right? 134 135 00:05:58,253 --> 00:06:01,128 And if you need more points, I'm going to surely but slowly... 135 136 00:06:01,153 --> 00:06:04,495 remember, the least amount of points becomes a lot easier. 136 137 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,144 I'm going to follow that line along, add another one. 137 138 00:06:06,597 --> 00:06:09,738 'White Arrow', and I'm going to start bending this around. 138 139 00:06:14,183 --> 00:06:16,909 I don't even know what I'm doing, just kind of following some curves. 139 140 00:06:17,613 --> 00:06:19,429 I'm going to cross my fingers... 140 141 00:06:19,454 --> 00:06:21,512 this thing's going to look half decent when I'm finished. 141 142 00:06:21,792 --> 00:06:23,566 I'm going to add another one there. 142 143 00:06:24,378 --> 00:06:26,222 'White Arrow', just the 'A' key. 143 144 00:06:26,753 --> 00:06:28,644 And this guy here had to be made... 144 145 00:06:29,597 --> 00:06:31,183 to kind of make this thing consistent... 145 146 00:06:31,208 --> 00:06:35,323 but what you can do is, grab him, and drag him up there. 146 147 00:06:35,348 --> 00:06:37,081 Make sure these guys don't overlap. 147 148 00:06:39,488 --> 00:06:42,535 I could spend ages, I should spend ages to make it look really cool. 148 149 00:06:44,144 --> 00:06:46,019 I'm kind of happy with what we're doing. 149 150 00:06:47,542 --> 00:06:49,292 This guy here, what's he doing? 150 151 00:06:49,696 --> 00:06:51,347 If this guy's in the way, you can drag him off... 151 152 00:06:51,372 --> 00:06:53,581 so he doesn't kind of influences him much. 152 153 00:06:53,606 --> 00:06:56,448 He's going to be up here. 153 154 00:06:57,519 --> 00:06:58,933 You are going to come up. 154 155 00:07:00,433 --> 00:07:01,964 This Anchor Point's going to come up here. 155 156 00:07:02,597 --> 00:07:03,855 Get on with it, Dan. 156 157 00:07:05,086 --> 00:07:06,855 I'm getting on with it, I promise. 157 158 00:07:09,446 --> 00:07:13,164 What I'm going to do now is click on, maybe this guy. 158 159 00:07:13,946 --> 00:07:17,396 And maybe, holding 'Shift', grab this guy as well... 159 160 00:07:17,607 --> 00:07:19,193 and this guy, so I've got three of them selected... 160 161 00:07:19,218 --> 00:07:20,498 I'm going to go to my 'Properties Panel'. 161 162 00:07:20,623 --> 00:07:24,638 I'm going to go to 'Fill', I'm going to use some of that Gradient. 162 163 00:07:26,646 --> 00:07:28,310 That's the way to kind of do a Gradient Mesh. 163 164 00:07:28,359 --> 00:07:30,763 Yes, I could have just done that with... 164 165 00:07:30,949 --> 00:07:32,904 just a, maybe a Linear Gradient. 165 166 00:07:32,929 --> 00:07:34,469 Let's go further. 166 167 00:07:36,227 --> 00:07:39,548 Couldn't have done that with a Radial, or a Linear, maybe you could. 167 168 00:07:39,983 --> 00:07:42,480 So when it gets down to things like this... 168 169 00:07:43,098 --> 00:07:44,923 this guy, let's force him in here... 169 170 00:07:44,948 --> 00:07:46,314 I'm going to start doing some cool kind of... 170 171 00:07:46,539 --> 00:07:49,906 pushing around of these things. 171 172 00:07:52,923 --> 00:07:55,524 So, it's that kind of really tricky Gradient. 172 173 00:07:56,445 --> 00:07:58,160 You can see, it's kind of really sharp over here... 173 174 00:07:58,185 --> 00:07:59,797 it starts getting quite furry over here. 174 175 00:07:59,822 --> 00:08:04,438 Just because the distances between these Anchor Points are quite big. 175 176 00:08:04,891 --> 00:08:07,587 So go through, or what we do now is-- 176 177 00:08:07,821 --> 00:08:10,157 You spend a bit longer doing it than I did. 177 178 00:08:10,532 --> 00:08:12,211 Man, it's bad. 178 179 00:08:12,548 --> 00:08:14,063 So I'm going to grab this guy. 179 180 00:08:14,133 --> 00:08:15,637 And we're going to go to our 'Layers panel'... 180 181 00:08:15,662 --> 00:08:17,759 and hold the 'Command' key to turn that back on. 181 182 00:08:17,923 --> 00:08:20,047 And what we want to do, they need to be on the same layer now... 182 183 00:08:20,072 --> 00:08:21,946 because we want to turn them into a Clipping Mask. 183 184 00:08:22,868 --> 00:08:24,930 Do they need to be on the same layer? That's a good point. 184 185 00:08:24,955 --> 00:08:26,766 As long as the whale is in front... 185 186 00:08:26,791 --> 00:08:29,133 I'm pretty sure I might be able to 'Shift' click this guy... 186 187 00:08:29,876 --> 00:08:31,727 and hit 'Command 7'; it did work. 187 188 00:08:32,352 --> 00:08:35,423 So 'Command 7' is the shortcut for Clipping Mask. 188 189 00:08:35,665 --> 00:08:38,633 If you want it the long way... 189 190 00:08:38,844 --> 00:08:41,313 there's 'Make a Clipping Mask', it's not very long as a button. 190 191 00:08:41,477 --> 00:08:43,902 If you're on an older version of Illustrator... 191 192 00:08:43,927 --> 00:08:46,008 'Object', 'Clipping Mask', 'Make'. 192 193 00:08:46,602 --> 00:08:48,844 Either way, that's what I'm trying to do. 193 194 00:08:48,869 --> 00:08:52,641 It's easier to do this Gradient Mesh inside a simple circle... 194 195 00:08:52,666 --> 00:08:55,766 but it is to try and do on top of the actual shape. 195 196 00:08:56,001 --> 00:08:58,430 How good is this? This is pretty bad. 196 197 00:08:59,180 --> 00:09:00,340 My color... 197 198 00:09:00,365 --> 00:09:01,489 Seemed like a good idea... 198 199 00:09:02,618 --> 00:09:05,735 get caught out live and direct,you guys watching me. 199 200 00:09:07,836 --> 00:09:09,836 Now one more thing we might do before we go is... 200 201 00:09:09,861 --> 00:09:11,801 often people want to do kind of a Gradient Mesh... 201 202 00:09:11,826 --> 00:09:12,853 that looks kind of like... 202 203 00:09:13,368 --> 00:09:16,298 they want to do-- they think they need a Gradient Mesh when they don't. 203 204 00:09:16,410 --> 00:09:19,087 Let me show you another way that I often do things. 204 205 00:09:19,274 --> 00:09:21,407 I'm going to grab my 'Pen Tool'... 205 206 00:09:21,563 --> 00:09:23,368 and draw-- 206 207 00:09:23,735 --> 00:09:27,524 I'm going to turn the Smart Guides off, 'Command U'... 207 208 00:09:27,938 --> 00:09:32,305 because what I want to do is create kind of a shape up here. 208 209 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:40,434 Kind of does this kind of thing. 209 210 00:09:42,774 --> 00:09:45,078 I got it in my head, let's make it reality. 210 211 00:09:45,790 --> 00:09:48,923 So you want kind of a jelly button kind of thing. 211 212 00:09:48,948 --> 00:09:51,673 So instead of trying to do that with a Gradient Map... 212 213 00:09:52,383 --> 00:09:54,899 it's easier often just to give it the right color. 213 214 00:09:55,024 --> 00:09:57,410 I'm going to click down here, and I'm going to say... 214 215 00:09:57,435 --> 00:09:59,141 I want you to be white. 215 216 00:10:01,243 --> 00:10:02,634 Then just use a 'Blur'. 216 217 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,645 So I'm going to go 'Effect', go down to 'Blur'... 217 218 00:10:06,670 --> 00:10:09,567 and use 'Gaussian Blur'; cheap trick, turn Preview 'on'. 218 219 00:10:09,951 --> 00:10:11,483 You can kind of see what it's going to do. 219 220 00:10:11,508 --> 00:10:15,334 Same kind of thing that we maybe would have been able to do down there. 220 221 00:10:17,342 --> 00:10:18,639 Getting the Blur right. 221 222 00:10:19,381 --> 00:10:21,334 I'll lower the Opacity a little bit. 222 223 00:10:21,897 --> 00:10:23,235 I wanted this kind of... 223 224 00:10:23,260 --> 00:10:24,764 yes, that kind of effect. 224 225 00:10:25,069 --> 00:10:27,170 I'm going to do one last little shape. 225 226 00:10:28,131 --> 00:10:29,803 What I'll do is, I'll duplicate him. 226 227 00:10:30,217 --> 00:10:33,412 And you my friend, I'm going to trim off with a circle... 227 228 00:10:33,639 --> 00:10:35,834 to get kind of a better layer thing going. 228 229 00:10:37,224 --> 00:10:38,631 I select 'Outline Mode'... 229 230 00:10:39,201 --> 00:10:41,849 just so I can grab you, select both of them. 230 231 00:10:42,819 --> 00:10:46,123 And I'm going to go, not to Outline mode because it's kind of confusing. 231 232 00:10:46,998 --> 00:10:50,217 I'm going to use my Shape Builder Tool, 'Shift M'. 232 233 00:10:50,592 --> 00:10:54,029 I'm going to delete these bits, I just wanted this kind of chunk. 233 234 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,194 What I might do is turn down the Blur of this. 234 235 00:10:56,219 --> 00:10:58,920 So where you've got some sort of an effect applied... 235 236 00:10:58,945 --> 00:11:00,896 you need to go to either the Appearance panel... 236 237 00:11:00,921 --> 00:11:03,600 which is under 'Window', or in my case I can see here. 237 238 00:11:03,858 --> 00:11:05,748 I'm going to turn this way down. 238 239 00:11:09,764 --> 00:11:12,646 Now I've got this kind of, like dual effect here... 239 240 00:11:12,671 --> 00:11:16,350 where the top part has converted different Blur levels. 240 241 00:11:16,928 --> 00:11:17,953 You get what I mean? 241 242 00:11:18,404 --> 00:11:20,381 Man, I was hoping that was going to look better. 242 243 00:11:21,584 --> 00:11:23,795 Hopefully you understand it in technique. 243 244 00:11:24,161 --> 00:11:27,880 Gradient Meshes can be tricky, sometimes it is easier just to... 244 245 00:11:28,106 --> 00:11:30,489 make things like that, and just blur them out. 245 246 00:11:30,684 --> 00:11:32,364 One last thing before we go is... 246 247 00:11:32,389 --> 00:11:36,262 often Gradients, especially Gradient Meshes and stuff in Illustrator... 247 248 00:11:36,287 --> 00:11:38,309 it has a really kind of vector look that... 248 249 00:11:39,645 --> 00:11:41,676 maybe isn't as popular at the moment. 249 250 00:11:41,849 --> 00:11:44,763 Cool trick is, you can select all of this stuff... 250 251 00:11:44,788 --> 00:11:48,051 and add a cool effect in here, under 'Effect'-- 251 252 00:11:48,224 --> 00:11:49,872 I'm sure I'm going to redeem myself. 252 253 00:11:51,654 --> 00:11:52,685 Somewhat better. 253 254 00:11:52,762 --> 00:11:55,622 'Effect', and go to 'Artistic'. 254 255 00:11:56,396 --> 00:11:57,661 It's not under Artistic... 255 256 00:11:59,247 --> 00:12:01,208 Down to 'Texture', go to 'Grain'. 256 257 00:12:03,143 --> 00:12:05,428 I had kind of one part of it selected... 257 258 00:12:05,453 --> 00:12:08,358 I wanted the part that I have-- did I have it all selected? 258 259 00:12:11,670 --> 00:12:13,726 It's actually just picked whatever the top piece was. 259 260 00:12:13,751 --> 00:12:15,194 You can kind of see what it's doing, right? 260 261 00:12:15,219 --> 00:12:17,218 Assumed a little bit, it's adding this kind of... 261 262 00:12:17,297 --> 00:12:19,136 like Film Grain texture stuff to it. 262 263 00:12:19,161 --> 00:12:22,148 You can decide on the intensity and texture. 263 264 00:12:22,382 --> 00:12:24,139 It does something weird with the edges though. 264 265 00:12:24,172 --> 00:12:25,265 I'll show you how to get around that. 265 266 00:12:25,781 --> 00:12:28,664 It only picked one piece even though it has done it to all of them. 266 267 00:12:29,671 --> 00:12:31,975 I find-- forget the edges... 267 268 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,851 but it kind of adds a nicer effect to these guys. 268 269 00:12:35,015 --> 00:12:40,085 So to get around the pixelation of the edges... 269 270 00:12:40,210 --> 00:12:42,866 I'm going to undo that, and it's easier to do this. 270 271 00:12:43,015 --> 00:12:44,515 Grab our 'Rectangle' Tool'. 271 272 00:12:45,046 --> 00:12:47,538 Draw this over the top, and you apply it to this... 272 273 00:12:47,563 --> 00:12:50,187 basically into a Layer Mode, so I'll do you... 273 274 00:12:50,812 --> 00:12:52,913 and apply the exact same one, 'Apply Grain'. 274 275 00:12:52,961 --> 00:12:54,983 This I wanted to be here for you... 275 276 00:12:55,008 --> 00:12:57,757 if you haven't done it before, it's like repeat that thing I just did. 276 277 00:12:58,335 --> 00:13:02,460 Apply it to this, then under here, under 'Opacity', switch this to 'Multiply'. 277 278 00:13:02,851 --> 00:13:04,226 Does a same kind of effect. 278 279 00:13:04,266 --> 00:13:06,506 Does something to the background as well, which maybe is not what you want... 279 280 00:13:06,531 --> 00:13:09,460 but it definitely fixes up these edges. 280 281 00:13:09,608 --> 00:13:11,843 And what I might do is adjust it a bit more. 281 282 00:13:12,062 --> 00:13:14,093 Under 'Appearance' panel here, click on 'Grain'... 282 283 00:13:14,398 --> 00:13:17,562 and 'Contrast', I need to go up, maybe. 283 284 00:13:17,757 --> 00:13:20,093 'Intensity', let's go up, click 'OK'. 284 285 00:13:20,687 --> 00:13:23,148 Is it better? Have I redeemed myself? 285 286 00:13:23,444 --> 00:13:24,546 Probably not... 286 287 00:13:24,571 --> 00:13:26,428 but you, my creative friend... 287 288 00:13:26,453 --> 00:13:28,202 I got to make it look he's better than me. 288 289 00:13:28,258 --> 00:13:29,492 You got the techniques. 289 290 00:13:29,517 --> 00:13:31,750 All right, that is going to be it. 290 291 00:13:32,258 --> 00:13:33,873 I'll see you in the very next video... 291 292 00:13:33,898 --> 00:13:36,118 where I will do something that looks nicer, I promise.