0 1 00:00:00,031 --> 00:00:03,062 Hey there, in this video we are going to use Illustrator... 1 2 00:00:03,087 --> 00:00:05,828 to make this kind of semi flat design. 2 3 00:00:05,922 --> 00:00:07,914 We'll use these icons on the left to get started. 3 4 00:00:07,939 --> 00:00:12,507 Then we'll do some more interesting things with the App Design on the right. 4 5 00:00:13,242 --> 00:00:15,945 Let's go and learn how to do that now in Adobe Illustrator. 5 6 00:00:16,458 --> 00:00:20,578 First up, open up the icons document in your exercise files. 6 7 00:00:20,766 --> 00:00:22,640 What we're going to do is, we're not going to-- 7 8 00:00:22,665 --> 00:00:25,001 these icons here, we're not going to kind of... 8 9 00:00:25,026 --> 00:00:27,289 3D rotate them at the same time as these guys. 9 10 00:00:27,314 --> 00:00:29,031 We want these to have an extreme depth. 10 11 00:00:29,281 --> 00:00:32,242 We want these guys just to kind of plaster to the top. 11 12 00:00:32,859 --> 00:00:35,664 So first of all I'm going to select all these circles. 12 13 00:00:35,689 --> 00:00:38,640 So I can hold 'Shift' and keep clicking, so I'm going to do that. 13 14 00:00:40,336 --> 00:00:41,758 I got them all selected. 14 15 00:00:43,094 --> 00:00:45,843 What we're going to decide now is the effect you want. 15 16 00:00:45,868 --> 00:00:49,333 So if I go to 'Effect', '3D', and go to 'Extrude & Bevel'... 16 17 00:00:49,396 --> 00:00:50,638 when they're not grouped... 17 18 00:00:50,845 --> 00:00:51,945 turn Preview 'on'. 18 19 00:00:52,093 --> 00:00:55,218 What ends up happening is, these guys rotate, but kind of... 19 20 00:00:56,492 --> 00:00:59,180 irrespective of the kind of total group-- 20 21 00:01:00,906 --> 00:01:03,508 let's have a little look. I'll switch it this way around. 21 22 00:01:03,533 --> 00:01:05,164 They're just kind of doing their own thing. 22 23 00:01:05,281 --> 00:01:08,648 I'm going to do a little screenshot here so you can see what I mean... 23 24 00:01:08,813 --> 00:01:10,360 because if I hit 'Cancel'... 24 25 00:01:10,385 --> 00:01:12,944 and say I'm going to group them first, and go to 'Effect'-- 25 26 00:01:12,969 --> 00:01:16,562 Actually I'll bring in that graphic, that's my screenshot. 26 27 00:01:17,977 --> 00:01:19,578 We could use the magic of editing, Dan. 27 28 00:01:20,461 --> 00:01:22,016 No, must do it all here. 28 29 00:01:22,742 --> 00:01:26,242 So I've got this background, I've grouped it, the difference is... 29 30 00:01:26,267 --> 00:01:28,984 if I go to '3D', and go to 'Extrude & Bevel'... 30 31 00:01:29,516 --> 00:01:31,602 and I do the exact same thing; turn Preview 'on'. 31 32 00:01:31,734 --> 00:01:33,784 Can you see, they are now... 32 33 00:01:34,314 --> 00:01:36,508 there's more of an Isometric group. 33 34 00:01:37,289 --> 00:01:38,641 I'll rotate you around. 34 35 00:01:39,461 --> 00:01:40,539 Can you see the kind of... 35 36 00:01:41,133 --> 00:01:44,141 know where eachother are in the world, whereas these are all individual. 36 37 00:01:44,750 --> 00:01:45,930 Hopefully you get the idea. 37 38 00:01:47,102 --> 00:01:51,015 So decide where you want to do it, where you want these things to lay down. 38 39 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,078 Decide on the depth, I'm going to have mine quite thin. 39 40 00:01:55,466 --> 00:01:58,779 Try to forget looking at all the random circles everywhere. 40 41 00:01:58,857 --> 00:02:00,302 I'll kind of try and steer through them. 41 42 00:02:01,115 --> 00:02:04,458 So once you got a kind of how you want, you can decide as well-- 42 43 00:02:04,623 --> 00:02:08,825 At the moment I'm going for this kind of linear flat, semi flat... 43 44 00:02:10,724 --> 00:02:13,123 Isometric kind of drawing, where there's no perspective. 44 45 00:02:13,148 --> 00:02:14,977 You could though go into here, and say... 45 46 00:02:15,002 --> 00:02:17,099 actually I want Perspective, and crank it up. 46 47 00:02:17,216 --> 00:02:19,716 So there's this kind of full depth. 47 48 00:02:19,741 --> 00:02:22,302 You can play around with the lighting as well, and how this works... 48 49 00:02:22,497 --> 00:02:25,325 but at the moment I'm going to turn 'off' the Perspective... 49 50 00:02:25,350 --> 00:02:26,693 and have them like this. 50 51 00:02:28,177 --> 00:02:30,630 I'll move mine right back to the top. 51 52 00:02:31,020 --> 00:02:32,060 So we're kind of there. 52 53 00:02:32,085 --> 00:02:34,849 Now we need to do the same thing with the icons... 53 54 00:02:34,874 --> 00:02:38,340 but the icons use a different mode, so not using Extrude. 54 55 00:02:38,366 --> 00:02:40,842 What we do need to do is, remember, these angles. 55 56 00:02:40,867 --> 00:02:43,311 I'm going to take a screenshot of this, again... 56 57 00:02:43,577 --> 00:02:48,077 using my, if you're on a Mac, it's 'Command-Shift-4'. 57 58 00:02:48,102 --> 00:02:50,633 You can drag a box around that. Ends up on your desktop. 58 59 00:02:50,891 --> 00:02:53,438 On a PC I think it's just 'Print Screen'. 59 60 00:02:53,463 --> 00:02:55,235 You can just paste it into Illustrator. 60 61 00:02:55,492 --> 00:02:56,961 Either way, let's click 'OK'. 61 62 00:02:57,344 --> 00:03:00,158 We need to make sure these guys are grouped as well... 62 63 00:03:00,666 --> 00:03:01,922 if you've grouped the background. 63 64 00:03:02,242 --> 00:03:05,843 So we've grouped the circles, so we also need to group the icons... 64 65 00:03:05,868 --> 00:03:07,148 which I've already done for you. 65 66 00:03:07,469 --> 00:03:09,502 So, the slight different effect is... 66 67 00:03:09,527 --> 00:03:12,329 'Effect', '3D', we're going to use 'Rotate'. 67 68 00:03:13,133 --> 00:03:14,203 Turn Preview 'on'. 68 69 00:03:14,352 --> 00:03:16,564 What we need to do is match what we had before... 69 70 00:03:16,589 --> 00:03:19,023 and I didn't bring in that extra screenshot. 70 71 00:03:19,274 --> 00:03:20,727 Let's grab a screenshot. 71 72 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,031 You, 'Effect', '3D'. 72 73 00:03:27,765 --> 00:03:28,726 'Rotate'. 73 74 00:03:29,461 --> 00:03:32,633 Preview 'on', and just type out these, this one's '36'. 74 75 00:03:33,235 --> 00:03:34,860 '-35'. 75 76 00:03:35,781 --> 00:03:36,758 '18'. 76 77 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:39,680 If you had Perspective, which we don't, you can match them as well. 77 78 00:03:41,070 --> 00:03:42,375 I'm going to click 'OK'. 78 79 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,117 You can see now, they match the background stuff. 79 80 00:03:45,265 --> 00:03:46,937 We might have to do just a little adjustment... 80 81 00:03:46,962 --> 00:03:48,274 to get them right in the center there. 81 82 00:03:49,039 --> 00:03:51,336 That's how to do semi flat icons. 82 83 00:03:51,361 --> 00:03:53,117 Now, what I'll quickly do though is... 83 84 00:03:53,142 --> 00:03:55,096 we'll do a Shadow on it, then we'll get into... 84 85 00:03:55,121 --> 00:03:57,375 that thing you saw at the beginning of the application. 85 86 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,406 So skip over here if you don't want to learn how to do a Shadow. 86 87 00:04:00,820 --> 00:04:04,000 So what we're going to do is, I just want the circles. 87 88 00:04:04,149 --> 00:04:06,867 I'm going to make a duplicate of it, because I don't want-- 88 89 00:04:07,227 --> 00:04:09,094 We're going to fake a shadow. 89 90 00:04:09,119 --> 00:04:10,758 You could use the Drop Shadow Tool. 90 91 00:04:10,783 --> 00:04:13,156 I find I never get good success with that. 91 92 00:04:14,131 --> 00:04:16,810 So 'Effect', 'Stylize Shadow', if you want to do that. 92 93 00:04:17,005 --> 00:04:20,122 What I'm going to do is, first of all expand these, because the-- 93 94 00:04:20,763 --> 00:04:23,584 they're driving me mad, so 'Object', 'Expand Appearance'. 94 95 00:04:23,609 --> 00:04:24,841 Now I want to join them all up. 95 96 00:04:25,661 --> 00:04:27,576 To join them all up we need to make sure they're not grouped... 96 97 00:04:27,601 --> 00:04:29,506 so I'm going to click off in the background. 97 98 00:04:29,771 --> 00:04:32,295 And you are all grouped, so I'm going to right click, 'Ungroup'. 98 99 00:04:33,654 --> 00:04:35,292 They're ungrouped, these guys are grouped. 99 100 00:04:35,317 --> 00:04:38,592 So I'm going to select them all, ungroup them again. 100 101 00:04:38,904 --> 00:04:40,154 What are we left with? 101 102 00:04:41,052 --> 00:04:42,263 Now it's a kind of a testing. 102 103 00:04:42,288 --> 00:04:44,974 So they're all ungrouped, I know this is probably not going to work. 103 104 00:04:45,459 --> 00:04:49,028 So grab my 'Shape Builder Tool', and drag a box around them all. 104 105 00:04:49,881 --> 00:04:52,232 It meant to join them all, if it doesn't do that... 105 106 00:04:52,257 --> 00:04:55,037 it just means some of the parts, like this guy here is-- 106 107 00:04:55,062 --> 00:04:57,544 right click, 'Release Clipping Mask'. There's some-- 107 108 00:04:58,018 --> 00:05:01,463 3D ends up with some artefacts, so I've got all these guys. 108 109 00:05:02,607 --> 00:05:04,108 If you're doing it with squares... 109 110 00:05:04,133 --> 00:05:06,404 I tested this before, it didn't have this problem. 110 111 00:05:06,429 --> 00:05:08,177 'Release Clipping Mask'. 111 112 00:05:08,315 --> 00:05:11,299 You might have to do some ungrouping, releasing Clipping Mask. 112 113 00:05:11,808 --> 00:05:14,089 Now I've got them all, Shape Builder Tool 113 114 00:05:15,081 --> 00:05:16,714 Fill color, I'm going to pick black. 114 115 00:05:21,597 --> 00:05:24,698 I'll hold the 'Shift' key down, just drag them all, and hopefully... 115 116 00:05:25,542 --> 00:05:28,440 it's going to stem into one giant thing. 116 117 00:05:29,206 --> 00:05:32,487 So now what I want to do, I want to group them, just for no good reason. 117 118 00:05:33,347 --> 00:05:37,643 Grab the right tool, the Black Arrow, I'm going to put them just underneath. 118 119 00:05:37,894 --> 00:05:39,160 This is what I'm doing for Shadows. 119 120 00:05:39,931 --> 00:05:42,182 And with them selected, under 'Effect'... 120 121 00:05:42,207 --> 00:05:44,495 I'm going to go to 'Blur', and I go to 'Gaussian Blur'. 121 122 00:05:45,284 --> 00:05:48,784 Turn Preview 'on', and just adjust this radius until you feel happy. 122 123 00:05:48,809 --> 00:05:50,331 It's going to be too dark to start with. 123 124 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:55,573 I want kind of a light one there. 124 125 00:05:57,151 --> 00:05:59,245 You can either play with the Fill color, or the Opacity... 125 126 00:05:59,270 --> 00:06:01,292 and just turn it down, so it mixes well with the background. 126 127 00:06:01,472 --> 00:06:03,339 What you also might do is play around with... 127 128 00:06:03,371 --> 00:06:05,276 under 'Opacity', under these Layer Modes... 128 129 00:06:05,301 --> 00:06:08,706 you might find one of these that works better with the thing underneath. 129 130 00:06:09,136 --> 00:06:11,232 Ours is going to work just fine under 'Normal'... 130 131 00:06:11,257 --> 00:06:13,269 because we have a really flat background color. 131 132 00:06:13,698 --> 00:06:16,573 How much do we like those? Not sure. 132 133 00:06:17,175 --> 00:06:18,815 I'm going to try and find these guys. 133 134 00:06:20,235 --> 00:06:21,837 We don't mind, we just want to get on to the next bit. 134 135 00:06:21,862 --> 00:06:23,759 Let's get on to the next one. 135 136 00:06:23,930 --> 00:06:25,243 The next one is... 136 137 00:06:25,291 --> 00:06:28,508 I've made an Artboard, and I've kept it quite far apart from the first one... 137 138 00:06:28,533 --> 00:06:30,358 just because, remember, flipping things around... 138 139 00:06:30,383 --> 00:06:31,697 we need a little bit of extra room. 139 140 00:06:31,852 --> 00:06:34,102 I'm going to bring in the App mockups. 140 141 00:06:34,127 --> 00:06:36,946 Now I've mocked these up in a program called Adobe XD. 141 142 00:06:37,610 --> 00:06:39,805 You can mock them up in Illustrator or Photoshop, it doesn't matter. 142 143 00:06:40,164 --> 00:06:42,311 But I've done this job, now I want to kind of... 143 144 00:06:42,336 --> 00:06:45,524 make this Isometric laid down thing. 144 145 00:06:45,549 --> 00:06:47,077 So I'm going to bring in all four images. 145 146 00:06:47,102 --> 00:06:49,665 It's in your 'Exercise Files', under 'XD Mockup'. 146 147 00:06:50,071 --> 00:06:53,485 Bring him in, click once, twice, three times, four times. 147 148 00:06:54,141 --> 00:06:56,594 Now, 'Black Arrow', click off. 148 149 00:06:56,930 --> 00:06:59,110 I want you, I'll use him later on. 149 150 00:06:59,376 --> 00:07:02,368 These three guys I would like to lay out now. 150 151 00:07:03,024 --> 00:07:06,063 I'll use my shortcut, remember, I'm selecting all of these. 151 152 00:07:06,157 --> 00:07:10,149 'Command-Function-F12' is my 'Distribute these Centers'. 152 153 00:07:13,345 --> 00:07:15,579 So to get started, I want to group these... 153 154 00:07:15,604 --> 00:07:18,211 because I want them to be kind of operating together. 154 155 00:07:18,236 --> 00:07:21,720 Then we go to 'Effect', '3D', 'Extrude & Bevel'. 155 156 00:07:22,212 --> 00:07:23,298 Turn the Preview 'on'. 156 157 00:07:25,868 --> 00:07:27,816 Because we're using images now, and not just vector... 157 158 00:07:27,841 --> 00:07:29,446 it is going to freak out your computer a bit. 158 159 00:07:29,471 --> 00:07:31,649 So if you're finding it really slow... 159 160 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:34,117 you might have to go and close down every program you can... 160 161 00:07:34,142 --> 00:07:36,759 to kind of try and facilitate this. 161 162 00:07:37,079 --> 00:07:37,938 So I'm rotating it around... 162 163 00:07:37,963 --> 00:07:39,681 I've got a little bit of Perspective in this one. 163 164 00:07:40,455 --> 00:07:41,533 How much? 164 165 00:07:43,994 --> 00:07:45,837 Cursor in there, just using my up arrow. 165 166 00:07:47,955 --> 00:07:49,260 Little bit of Perspective. 166 167 00:07:50,322 --> 00:07:53,376 See, it's taking its while to catch up, because it is-- 167 168 00:07:54,517 --> 00:07:55,595 I'm just going to type it in. 168 169 00:07:56,681 --> 00:08:00,079 I'm trying to record using screen capture software as well... 169 170 00:08:00,104 --> 00:08:03,477 which is stressing everything out, 3D, it's all going nuts. 170 171 00:08:03,939 --> 00:08:06,610 So that's what I really want to do, a little bit of Perspective... 171 172 00:08:07,595 --> 00:08:11,189 and get the angles how you want them. 172 173 00:08:11,525 --> 00:08:13,025 I'm not sure I'm happy with them yet. 173 174 00:08:14,491 --> 00:08:15,420 Yes, looks good. 174 175 00:08:15,460 --> 00:08:16,741 So don't want more Perspective. 175 176 00:08:19,444 --> 00:08:21,499 So let's click 'OK'. 176 177 00:08:22,296 --> 00:08:25,061 Next thing to do is, either Drop Shadows. 177 178 00:08:25,086 --> 00:08:27,992 We'll now as well do the Drop Shadows now before we do this thing. 178 179 00:08:28,709 --> 00:08:30,248 It's essentially the same as this first up. 179 180 00:08:30,273 --> 00:08:32,896 I'll show you a couple of extra tricks as we go. 180 181 00:08:33,967 --> 00:08:35,108 It's worth hanging around for. 181 182 00:08:35,225 --> 00:08:37,678 So what I'm going to do is duplicate these guys. 182 183 00:08:40,264 --> 00:08:43,397 Duplicate these guys, so I've got an extra copy. Get that guy out of the way. 183 184 00:08:44,514 --> 00:08:48,092 And we're going to-- remember, exactly like we did before. 184 185 00:08:48,413 --> 00:08:50,459 And I go to 'Object', 'Expand Appearance'. 185 186 00:08:50,795 --> 00:08:52,772 So they're no longer editable 3D. 186 187 00:08:53,099 --> 00:08:56,833 And what we'll also do is, right click, ungroup. 187 188 00:08:56,905 --> 00:08:58,948 We want to use the same trick as we did before. 188 189 00:08:58,973 --> 00:09:00,335 I'm right clicking, ungrouping. 189 190 00:09:00,412 --> 00:09:03,967 There's probably going to be some tricks we need to do. 190 191 00:09:03,992 --> 00:09:06,920 I've ungrouped them a few times, let's give it a whirl. 191 192 00:09:07,202 --> 00:09:08,685 Let's go to Shape Builder Tool. 192 193 00:09:08,959 --> 00:09:13,131 Hold 'Shift', and say, "All of you fellows join up." 193 194 00:09:14,538 --> 00:09:16,436 And all undid, except for the one I didn't select. 194 195 00:09:17,522 --> 00:09:18,694 Awesome! 195 196 00:09:21,647 --> 00:09:24,936 This, I'm going to give them all a Fill color of black. 196 197 00:09:25,155 --> 00:09:27,170 And what we're going to do is... 197 198 00:09:27,787 --> 00:09:29,021 there are some bits underneath. 198 199 00:09:29,357 --> 00:09:30,726 It's kind of weird when you work in 3D... 199 200 00:09:30,751 --> 00:09:32,779 there's all sorts of Clipping Masks, and bits going on. 200 201 00:09:32,804 --> 00:09:34,717 I don't need you, just want you three. 201 202 00:09:35,139 --> 00:09:39,154 And I group them, then I go to my cheap Drop Shadow trick. 202 203 00:09:39,413 --> 00:09:42,131 'Effect', 'Blur', 'Gaussian Blur'. 203 204 00:09:43,264 --> 00:09:44,272 'Preview'. 204 205 00:09:45,889 --> 00:09:46,975 It works for me. 205 206 00:09:47,506 --> 00:09:49,506 And I'm going to stick them underneath. 206 207 00:09:52,912 --> 00:09:55,198 And what I'll do is lower the opacity in a second... 207 208 00:09:55,223 --> 00:09:56,991 once we get the other image underneath. 208 209 00:09:57,225 --> 00:10:00,240 So now this guy, I need to work out what angle to put him on. 209 210 00:10:00,265 --> 00:10:02,477 I didn't take a screenshot, so I can go back in... 210 211 00:10:02,502 --> 00:10:05,000 select it, click on '3D Extrude & Bevel'. 211 212 00:10:05,656 --> 00:10:07,969 Now, screenshot. 212 213 00:10:11,945 --> 00:10:13,586 'File', 'Place' that screenshot. 213 214 00:10:19,779 --> 00:10:22,701 You're thinking, "It better be worth me hanging around." 214 215 00:10:23,683 --> 00:10:25,940 Because it's the same thing over, kind of is. 215 216 00:10:26,308 --> 00:10:29,128 There's a gem at the end, I promise; skip to the end. 216 217 00:10:29,815 --> 00:10:31,276 So we're going to go to 'Effect'. 217 218 00:10:32,386 --> 00:10:34,073 We're going to go to, not that one... 218 219 00:10:34,698 --> 00:10:37,800 'Effect', '3D', and we're going to go to 'Rotate'. 219 220 00:10:38,323 --> 00:10:41,331 And in here, I'm going to copy, '59'. 220 221 00:10:41,886 --> 00:10:44,026 '-26', '8'. 221 222 00:10:44,308 --> 00:10:46,339 And the Perspective was '25'. 222 223 00:10:46,714 --> 00:10:48,674 I'll leave Preview off, stop it freaking out. 223 224 00:10:48,699 --> 00:10:49,932 I'm going to try and adjust it. 224 225 00:10:52,026 --> 00:10:54,477 All right, you, done your job. 225 226 00:10:54,579 --> 00:10:57,547 And you should be the same Perspective as this stuff. 226 227 00:10:57,915 --> 00:11:00,204 What I might do is just scale it up. 227 228 00:11:01,111 --> 00:11:03,266 I'm going to crop it at the end. 228 229 00:11:03,430 --> 00:11:05,229 Scaling it up freaks it out. 229 230 00:11:09,508 --> 00:11:12,703 If you're wondering how to speed up, if you're doing a lot of this... 230 231 00:11:12,728 --> 00:11:15,735 there's a whole video series on how to speed up Illustrator. 231 232 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,117 In this case it's going to be 'Effect', 'Rasterize Settings'. 232 233 00:11:19,391 --> 00:11:20,500 That will-- 233 234 00:11:21,047 --> 00:11:23,657 At the moment we're doing it too high, they're 300dpi... 234 235 00:11:23,969 --> 00:11:25,477 but I'm just dealing with it. 235 236 00:11:26,697 --> 00:11:29,719 I'm going to push this to the back. 236 237 00:11:30,766 --> 00:11:33,766 What I might do with this is, I'm going to crop it all out in a second. 237 238 00:11:34,377 --> 00:11:35,680 There's a couple of things I want to do. 238 239 00:11:35,938 --> 00:11:39,570 One is, I want to move these guys so they're kind of just off screen. 239 240 00:11:39,595 --> 00:11:43,352 So you, plus-- it's a little hard to grab. 240 241 00:11:44,258 --> 00:11:46,282 So you fellows, I want to be a little bit bigger. 241 242 00:11:47,290 --> 00:11:48,641 Prepare for freaking out. 242 243 00:11:50,735 --> 00:11:52,821 Scanning is the worst offender. 243 244 00:11:53,813 --> 00:11:56,594 I want to come off. It's really even hard to see my Artboard now. 244 245 00:11:56,836 --> 00:11:58,969 I wanted this kind of effect, you saw at the beginning. 245 246 00:11:59,352 --> 00:12:00,547 Cool, my Shadows. 246 247 00:12:01,076 --> 00:12:02,725 A couple of things we didn't do. 247 248 00:12:02,943 --> 00:12:05,006 One was, in my Shadows here... 248 249 00:12:05,031 --> 00:12:08,787 I just left-- so I'm trying to get a hold of my Shadows underneath. 249 250 00:12:09,584 --> 00:12:10,771 There they are. Cool. 250 251 00:12:12,357 --> 00:12:14,263 I'll lower the Opacity, or you can go-- 251 252 00:12:14,288 --> 00:12:16,935 because there's something underneath it now we can go to 'Opacity'... 252 253 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,607 and have a look at some of the Blending Modes. 253 254 00:12:21,169 --> 00:12:22,709 Soft Light's probably going to work. 254 255 00:12:25,779 --> 00:12:27,654 Maybe not what I wanted. 255 256 00:12:28,357 --> 00:12:29,318 Overlay. 256 257 00:12:31,623 --> 00:12:33,318 Dan, you should have practiced this first. 257 258 00:12:33,615 --> 00:12:37,395 I'm going to go back to 'Normal', and just turn the Opacity down. 258 259 00:12:40,274 --> 00:12:41,266 Yes, looks good. 259 260 00:12:42,998 --> 00:12:44,600 You're waiting for the secret trick. 260 261 00:12:44,867 --> 00:12:48,453 So what I'm going to do is draw a big rectangle out the back here. 261 262 00:12:48,547 --> 00:12:50,406 I'm going to lower the opacity, because I want... 262 263 00:12:52,094 --> 00:12:55,695 I want this background image to be not as strong as these. 263 264 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,492 So I'm going to send it backwards until.. 264 265 00:12:59,671 --> 00:13:02,535 I've kind of-- maybe it's a bit too dark now. 265 266 00:13:07,067 --> 00:13:09,426 If I've lost you with this 3D mess here... 266 267 00:13:09,473 --> 00:13:11,005 it's okay, I'm a little lost myself. 267 268 00:13:11,030 --> 00:13:12,528 Basically I wanted this gray box... 268 269 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:17,245 to make this big shape at the background just a bit darker... 269 270 00:13:17,270 --> 00:13:19,566 so that these apps which are that kind of focused... 270 271 00:13:19,591 --> 00:13:21,271 seem a bit more in focus. 271 272 00:13:21,598 --> 00:13:22,739 We'll speed this up. 272 273 00:13:24,402 --> 00:13:25,308 Hates it. 273 274 00:13:25,333 --> 00:13:29,583 So, the trick that I was holding at the end here... 274 275 00:13:29,608 --> 00:13:32,051 it's kind of a nice trick when you've got really busy stuff here. 275 276 00:13:32,076 --> 00:13:34,294 We were all confused, what's masked, what's not. 276 277 00:13:34,319 --> 00:13:36,161 I wanted to just clip it down to the Artboard. 277 278 00:13:36,364 --> 00:13:37,811 There's a cool trick in Illustrator... 278 279 00:13:37,836 --> 00:13:40,108 if I draw a box the same shape as my Artboard... 279 280 00:13:43,005 --> 00:13:44,005 that was pretty close. 280 281 00:13:45,222 --> 00:13:46,510 If we go to our Layers panel... 281 282 00:13:46,535 --> 00:13:49,198 what we'll do is select everything on this Artboard here... 282 283 00:13:49,223 --> 00:13:51,708 and we'll put it on its own Layer, so I'm going to make a new Layer... 283 284 00:13:51,895 --> 00:13:54,294 I'm going to drag this blue dot, the green dot... 284 285 00:13:54,473 --> 00:13:57,208 and now I want to have three, let's lock this old Layer. 285 286 00:13:58,145 --> 00:14:00,481 That's these guys that we're working on over here. 286 287 00:14:01,012 --> 00:14:03,044 Now if I twirl down this Layer... 287 288 00:14:03,153 --> 00:14:05,903 and I make sure that new rectangle I drew is at the top. 288 289 00:14:06,145 --> 00:14:09,606 Here he is, along the top, if he's not, just drag him up. 289 290 00:14:10,044 --> 00:14:13,106 And the cool thing about it is, if you click the word 'Layer 3'... 290 291 00:14:13,131 --> 00:14:14,908 you don’t click anything else, click 'Layer 3'... 291 292 00:14:14,933 --> 00:14:16,122 and there's an option here. 292 293 00:14:16,147 --> 00:14:18,356 This is 'Make Clipping Mask'. 293 294 00:14:18,474 --> 00:14:21,817 Just a cool thing where it makes everything on that Layer... 294 295 00:14:21,849 --> 00:14:24,816 it takes that first object, and turns it into a Clipping Mask. 295 296 00:14:25,691 --> 00:14:28,770 My box wasn't quite ready there... 296 297 00:14:28,803 --> 00:14:31,090 but this might be something-- it's quite useful... 297 298 00:14:31,145 --> 00:14:33,681 because you might have seen this in-- 298 299 00:14:34,396 --> 00:14:37,840 What's really nice as well, they're all still kind of individuals in there. 299 300 00:14:37,903 --> 00:14:40,106 So I can grab the Shadows in the background here. 300 301 00:14:40,131 --> 00:14:40,963 I'm not going to move it... 301 302 00:14:40,988 --> 00:14:43,200 because that thing there takes forever to move around... 302 303 00:14:43,403 --> 00:14:45,801 but they're all kind of just hiding through this window. 303 304 00:14:45,826 --> 00:14:47,450 We're not having to do it for every shape. 304 305 00:14:47,482 --> 00:14:50,551 If you're like me, in the past you would have just drawn like... 305 306 00:14:50,730 --> 00:14:54,160 you would have five boxes, and then Clipping Masked all at separate parts. 306 307 00:14:54,185 --> 00:14:56,333 So this way is just a nice little extra trick. 307 308 00:14:56,358 --> 00:14:58,051 Worth waiting for? 308 309 00:14:58,333 --> 00:15:00,903 I hope so, but anyway... 309 310 00:15:02,044 --> 00:15:03,583 I'm not super happy with my layout... 310 311 00:15:03,608 --> 00:15:05,277 but you're all watching me the whole time... 311 312 00:15:05,309 --> 00:15:07,457 so I can't even get a chance to kind of... 312 313 00:15:07,661 --> 00:15:10,505 stick the tongue, and go, "Yes, I want a bit more of this." 313 314 00:15:10,530 --> 00:15:13,488 And the patience with the 3D Revolve... 314 315 00:15:13,723 --> 00:15:15,794 I guess, because we're videoing. 315 316 00:15:15,819 --> 00:15:17,044 I don't need that anyway. 316 317 00:15:18,211 --> 00:15:21,289 That's it for this one, let's look at the-- 317 318 00:15:21,438 --> 00:15:22,703 Let's go on to the next video.