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10:57:02 Okay.
10:59:39 Hi, Laura. Hi.
10:59:42 Hi, Michelle, how are you doing good.
10:59:44 Great.
10:59:45 Broke the pattern.
10:59:47 Over website for a second, but I think it's back.
10:59:50 I do that all the time.
10:59:51 Oh, my gosh.
10:59:55 WordPress is great until it's not. And then it's.
10:59:58 Yeah.
10:59:59 You see on your toes?
11:00:10 Wow.
11:00:11 That's incredible because you have a huge website and I used to do
11:00:15 WordPress and I do remember like you update.
11:00:18 You have to say a prayer every time you update a plugin.
11:00:20 That's exactly what happened.
11:00:22 I updated WordPress and I'm like, Oh,
11:00:23 That doesn't work.
11:00:25 It's okay.
11:00:28 So, thank you so much for being here. Oh yeah, my pleasure.
11:00:34 So I'm really excited because we're going to talk about graphics
11:00:36 styles today.
11:00:40 And, and I think that, you know, w.
11:00:44 It kind of ties on to an earlier.
11:00:51 Subject, we talked about appearances and this was,
11:00:56 this topic was a request.
11:01:06 From some posts I did in the,
11:01:08 in the forum.
11:01:10 And I think Esther was one and Sandy,
11:01:13 I can't remember who all wanted to hear about graphic styles,
11:01:16 but I think this is a great topic.
11:01:17 So I will dive in and let me do the whole screen
11:01:21 share thing.
11:01:22 Okay, so you should see my screen.
11:01:25 Then I need to go ahead and get out.
11:01:28 Chat box. Make sure I can see what everybody's saying.
11:01:31 Good.
11:01:32 Awesome.
11:01:33 All right. So.
11:01:37 Excuse me so everybody can see my screen.
11:01:43 But, you know, holler, if you can't at some point. So what were.
11:01:56 Going to where I'm going to start is just sort of at the beginning,
11:01:58 if you want more information about appearances,
11:02:01 you can go back to the basics.
11:02:02 And that is in our April.
11:02:05 Talk of 2020. So that's in the archive.
11:02:10 But basically an appearance in illustrator is just a stroke in a
11:02:14 fill.
11:02:15 It's the color that you apply to any shape that
11:02:19 you.
11:02:22 Draw in illustrator, any path that you draw in illustrator and,
11:02:25 you know, as long as you're staying with just strokes and fills,
11:02:28 then you are fine to just do everything, you know?
11:02:41 On the art board,
11:02:43 but if you really want to get into interesting and complex
11:02:46 appearances,
11:02:47 then you need to use the appearance panel and graphic styles are
11:02:51 just saved appearances. So this appearance right here,
11:02:54 and I'm just using type as an example,
11:02:56 because if you start searching for 'em.
11:02:59 Tutorials on graphic styles.
11:03:01 You're gonna find a lot of them have, are type based.
11:03:04 So people use those so that they can come up with an interesting way
11:03:08 of.
11:03:09 Of doing some type and then they can.
11:03:11 You know, just change. Let's see the type tool there.
11:03:15 You know,
11:03:16 They're live so you can.
11:03:17 You know, just.
11:03:19 Work with tight like that.
11:03:46 So over here in the appearance panel is the sort
11:03:50 of recipe. So in this case, what I like to do when I get appearances,
11:03:54 like if I buy some as a kit or something,
11:03:57 I like to sort of reverse engineer I'm and look at what you have.
11:03:59 So basically in this one,
11:04:01 we started out with type that just had a yellow fill on it.
11:04:04 And I used this to put a,
11:04:07 another fill on it underneath.
11:04:09 That's this terracotta color here and it's also offset.
11:04:13 So with this transform effect here,
11:04:15 You can see it's moved that fill four pixels.
11:04:19 To the right four pixels down and that's happening to
11:04:23 this bill here.
11:04:24 And then if I wanted to, I could add a stroke.
11:04:26 So right now this doesn't have a stroke on it,
11:04:28 but I couldn't put a dark blue stroke and make that
11:04:32 thicker.
11:04:33 And right now, why am I not seeing that?
11:04:35 Because I didn't have the eyeball on.
11:04:40 So that's the, you know, the way this works.
11:04:43 And then once you got your graphic style, the way you want it,
11:04:48 maybe take this down a little bit.
11:04:56 You go over to the graphic styles council here,
11:04:59 I have the appearance panel sort of set up how I want it.
11:05:01 Then I just go over to the graphic styles panel and click on the new
11:05:04 graphic style button. And you can see it's added right there.
11:05:07 So then what happens is.
11:05:10 Kind of like what happens with global swatches?
11:05:11 These graphic styles are linked to the objects that you have
11:05:15 them applied to out on your art board.
11:05:18 So you can update graphic styles and see them.
11:05:20 Changed throughout your document.
11:05:22 So, for example, like this right here, if I went and.
11:05:27 Apply apply this.
11:05:36 Okay, let's apply this one here.
11:05:37 So if I wanted to update.
11:05:43 For example, let's see, I'll do this one. If I,
11:05:46 if I wanted to update this style right here, which is applied.
11:05:49 Down here.
11:05:56 What I would do is just take anything that has this new style applied
11:06:00 to it.
11:06:01 Hold down the option are all key and drag it over the original style.
11:06:08 And so now you're see everything is updated.
11:06:10 So that's sort of option driving just to overwrite a style.
11:06:14 You can also let's do something with a little.
11:06:18 Oh, here's another thing I just want to mention that helps when you're
11:06:21 working with these appearances.
11:06:22 So if you draw something like this in illustrator,
11:06:28 Everything you, you know, if you've drawn one thing with this style,
11:06:31 multiple fields and strokes on it, and then the next thing you draw,
11:06:34 generally, you will see.
11:06:53 Has that style like this, like this rectangle I just drew.
11:06:55 But if I go into the appearance panel in the fly out menu, here,
11:06:59 there is a checkbox here.
11:07:01 New art has basic appearance.
11:07:03 So let me go ahead and clear this appearance.
11:07:05 And if I go here and say new art has basic appearance with that
11:07:09 means once this is engaged, is that anything I draw?
11:07:12 We'll have.
11:07:13 We'll have the appearance.
11:07:15 The basic appearance instead of this. So I could draw,
11:07:18 I could select that and then I could.
11:07:21 Go here and draw and I would just have the basic appearance.
11:07:24 So just make sure that you are sort of aware of how the setting works
11:07:27 here. If I disengage that, uncheck it, then when I.
11:07:30 Work with a style like this.
11:07:32 The next thing I draw.
11:07:54 Well, let's see,
11:07:55 I probably have to create something and apply it first there. Okay.
11:07:59 So the next thing I draw we'll have that.
11:08:00 So that's a setting that's important to be aware of.
11:08:03 New art has basic appearance when you're working with graphic styles
11:08:05 and you're kind of wanting to just get in the flow of it.
11:08:07 Makes sure that you have that unchecked if you want to sort of
11:08:11 continually use these. Okay.
11:08:13 So that's just some basic information about graphic styles.
11:08:16 Another a way to use graphic style.
11:08:18 Styles is let's see.
11:08:20 Here we go.
11:08:22 This is a set of graphic styles that I bought for a project a while
11:08:24 ago,
11:08:25 where I had to have some sort of stitching effects here and knees.
11:08:29 So, you know, you can create this sort of a patch.
11:08:31 Stitching effect or here I have one that's that
11:08:35 I was using to kind of add like some stitching over here.
11:08:38 So if I have a pattern here and I want to grab my.
11:08:41 Pencil tool and just sort of draw I'm drawing with a mouse.
11:08:44 So it's kind of looking.
11:08:45 A little crazy,
11:08:46 but you can see I'm actually able to draw with this graphic style
11:08:49 because I had new art has basic appearance.
11:08:53 Unchecked meaning I could sort of work with the enhanced
11:08:57 appearance.
11:08:58 That I'm getting from this graphic style.
11:09:00 So let's look at this one in.
11:09:03 The appearance panel, just to sort of break it down.
11:09:13 And you can see it's got, it's called graphic style nine. Here is my,
11:09:16 you know, graphic styles panel with all of those same styles in it.
11:09:20 And here, if I just take this and kind of.
11:09:38 Turn off all these eyes,
11:09:40 then I can co I can sort of start from the beginning and see where,
11:09:43 you know, how this was built, for example. So in this case,
11:09:47 this is just a stroke that has a
11:09:50 three-point dash stroke on it, and then the appearance panel,
11:09:53 and you can click on any of these links and see what's going on here.
11:09:56 So we can see dash line is checked.
11:09:58 We have a six point dash a five point gap.
11:10:00 And it's three points. So there's all the settings for that stroke.
11:10:07 And then there's an outer glow on it. So if I turn that off and on,
11:10:10 you can start to see the outer glow there.
11:10:12 And then I have a stroke on top of that. That's two points.
11:10:15 And then I have another stroke on top of that. That's one point.
11:10:17 So what we're seeing is kind of like this person who created this as
11:10:21 sort of trying to create this dimensional.
11:10:23 Affect by stacking.
11:10:24 A dark stroke and then a lighter stroke.
11:10:26 That's a little smaller and then lighter or stroke,
11:10:29 that's even smaller than that,
11:10:30 so that they have the sort of dimensional.
11:10:32 Effect happening. And then finally on top, it has a rough-in.
11:10:36 Effect on it, which is what's making it, do that.
11:10:38 And if I click on this, you can see.
11:10:48 The options here. So you can crank up the detail,
11:10:52 make it really rough and strange looking and,
11:10:55 and all of those sorts of things.
11:10:56 So that's another example of a way to create a graphic style
11:11:00 and how useful they can be.
11:11:02 So.
11:11:13 One other thing that I wanted to say about this is when you're working
11:11:16 with graphic styles and working with the appearance panel,
11:11:19 it's important to sort of make sure that you're
11:11:22 understanding sort of the stacking order of things.
11:11:24 So just like we're concerned about the stacking order in the layers
11:11:28 panel or inside of our groups and things, we're also really.
11:11:31 It's important that.
11:11:32 The stacking order inside the appearance panel is important.
11:11:35 So of course we have the dark stroke,
11:11:36 the medium stroke and the light stroke, the fixed stroke, the.
11:11:39 Slightly thinner and the slightly thinner stroke in that stacking
11:11:42 order. And then the,
11:11:43 the appearance of Ruffin, this effect,
11:11:47 and you get these effects by the way, just by going down here to the.
11:11:50 Affects menu and choosing them here. In fact, I think this one.
11:11:53 Distort and transform is right here. Ruffin.
11:11:56 These are all of these right here and distort and transform are a lot
11:11:59 of fun to play around with.
11:12:00 But it's important where this falls.
11:12:05 In the stacking order.
11:12:06 So I want this Ruffin to apply to every one of those strokes that are
11:12:11 stacked up there. So that's why it's at the top.
11:12:16 And all of these strokes and fills here, you can go back to that,
11:12:19 talk in April about applying them, but basically we have a, a stroke.
11:12:23 Button here. Add new stroke, a fill button here, add new fill.
11:12:26 And that's how these were done. Just taking you.
11:12:32 Going right here and adding a new stroke on top of that and so forth.
11:12:35 And then just like the appearance panel,
11:12:37 you can drag these around and change the stacking order of them.
11:12:41 Once you've got something set up like this, again,
11:12:43 you just go to the graphic styles panel and click the plus button.
11:12:46 And that adds that to this panel now.
11:12:49 Graphic says are kind of like.
11:12:50 They're like swatches.
11:13:02 In a way because they come the carry along with your document.
11:13:05 So whatever you put in this graphic styles panel,
11:13:08 we'll just travel along with this document.
11:13:10 But if you want to have the styles.
11:13:13 Accessible in another document, then you can go down.
11:13:15 To the menu here and.
11:13:17 To save graphic styles.
11:13:19 And.
11:13:20 Here, I've got my stitching styles and it actually opens up.
11:13:24 This menu, where they go on my system and then I can click save.
11:13:28 And then when I go back.
11:13:31 Down here to user defined.
11:13:33 Just like if I was working with color swatches.
11:13:38 I've got my stitching styles right here.
11:13:40 They open up in a little library menu, and then you can.
11:13:42 You know, drag him over or do a little, you know,
11:13:45 bookend click here and move them.
11:13:47 Like that.
11:13:49 If you want to make a library.
11:13:51 Like this, that you can.
11:13:53 You know, have just these styles.
11:13:57 Like, cause I have some styles here. Let's see,
11:13:59 this is one that I use.
11:14:00 My masks.
11:14:13 These are like, you know,
11:14:14 masks that I use to mask out artwork that goes outside of the
11:14:18 art board. So I have these here that I can use in any document.
11:14:23 So saving those in that user defined is, is a good thing.
11:14:27 But what I had to do in order to get it down to just these two styles.
11:14:42 Is go and use just like you do in the swatches panel,
11:14:45 whereas it select all anew.
11:14:47 So any styles that are unused in the document,
11:14:50 you throw those out first,
11:14:51 then you save the panel and that panel kind of becomes that library
11:14:55 collection.
11:14:56 Cause you can get, when you go down here to use your define.
11:14:58 So those are kind of the basics.
11:15:01 Let's see if anybody has a question so far.
11:15:03 Okay.
11:15:04 Yeah.
11:15:06 How do you know when or how do you decide when to use a graphic style?
11:15:09 I think that the main thing is.
11:15:12 When it's.
11:15:13 You know, when you want to have.
11:15:16 This to be able to apply it to other things.
11:15:20 Over and over again. And also when you want to be able to update.
11:15:33 Things. So for example, if this, you know, style right here,
11:15:37 this stitching style,
11:15:38 I've been using it and I've got it applied all over my artwork.
11:15:41 And then I decide, you know what, actually, I want this to be.
11:15:43 A different color. So let me go ahead and.
11:15:46 Change this stroke too.
11:15:48 That color, and this is going to kind of mess up the style,
11:15:51 but just to give you an idea,
11:15:53 So I want it to be that way.
11:15:58 Then I go over to my graphic styles panel and either I can save it as
11:16:02 a new style, then it won't update anything.
11:16:04 But what, but if I want, I can save it.
11:16:06 I can overwrite the original style. So just going option.
11:16:11 Let's see, I'm not exactly sure what style this was to begin with.
11:16:14 Let's go here, click on it.
11:16:17 I think it might be this one.
11:16:20 Not sure.
11:16:22 Nope. That's not it.
11:16:35 But anyway, you know what I mean? Like, so it just allows you to,
11:16:37 I sort of lost track of what style this was to begin with,
11:16:41 but it allows you to update everything across your artwork.
11:16:43 So it's kind of like,
11:16:44 It's a saved appearance and it works a little bit like a,
11:16:47 a global swatch.
11:16:49 In that it changes everything. If you want it to.
11:16:51 So one of the things.
11:16:55 So, those are kind of just some fun ways to use it,
11:16:57 but let's go to.
11:17:02 I want to show you sort of a path, a good pattern way to use it,
11:17:05 or the, the reason the way I sort of use it the most.
11:17:07 And, you know, if you look here before I move on to another.
11:17:10 Document, let me go to this graphic style.
11:17:13 Now I need to.
11:17:14 I need to have a new document, cause it's not in this one.
11:17:19 Just starting up a plain old.
11:17:24 New document. So if you look in the default graphic styles here,
11:17:31 You know, here's the default ones. Add a drop shadow.
11:17:34 I have this needs of color first.
11:17:44 The default ones you can use to, you know,
11:17:46 add a plain old drop shadow at any of these kind of cookie effects.
11:17:50 But right here,
11:17:51 These two here, have those fond glitch, repeat patterns.
11:17:54 In them.
11:17:55 And what's great about these and this is what reason I use graphic
11:17:59 styles.
11:18:02 Is because you can have a pattern fill on top of a
11:18:06 solid fill all on one.
11:18:08 A shape like this. So.
11:18:10 That means that you can sort of test out different colors.
11:18:15 On your lower fill,
11:18:16 you can test out different patterns on your upper Phil.
11:18:23 And then you can save this. So for example,
11:18:26 if I want to go ahead and option drag this over that original style.
11:18:30 Then everything that was had that artwork applied to it in my
11:18:35 file would update.
11:18:36 But also, I'm going to show you, I'm going to jump over to the.
11:18:39 So the examples that I have here.
11:18:41 So here's an example.
11:18:50 Of a nice way to use sort of a graphic style that you can
11:18:54 kind of update and work with.
11:19:02 But let me go back to, before I take you through this,
11:19:05 I want to go back to sort of how this workflow starts so I
11:19:09 can show you the whole workflow.
11:19:10 So let's see.
11:19:12 What file is that?
11:19:15 Color. Okay, here we go.
11:19:26 All right. So this is kind of a project that you could do
11:19:29 to use graphic style. So remember, last time we were talking.
11:19:33 Back last month we were working with these, the new repeats feature.
11:19:37 I'm an illustrator that allows you to sort of make these really super
11:19:39 quick.
11:19:40 Repeats on the art board and play with the spacing.
11:19:43 I like that.
11:19:49 And I made that from some artwork here.
11:19:52 And this is artwork that came over from fresco. I did this with.
11:19:55 Fresco brushes.
11:19:58 Vector brushes and then use the send to illustrator feature to have
11:20:02 this.
11:20:03 Come up.
11:20:06 Here inside of illustrator and one thing.
11:20:09 Before I continue with this.
11:20:12 Is that.
11:20:19 This is one of those points where, and I'm just showing you the,
11:20:21 sort of the original art that came from fresco.
11:20:23 And I know I always harp on the whole anchor point.
11:20:26 Complexity thing.
11:20:27 But when we're working with graphic styles,
11:20:29 it's like pricking and pattern editing mode. It's just.
11:20:31 It adds it it's more.
11:20:35 It doesn't have to be processed or intensive, but if you feed it.
11:20:38 A ton of anchor points.
11:20:42 You're just going to be compounding your systems.
11:20:52 It's going to be harder to, for your system to work.
11:20:54 So the point that I always make is when you're bringing art into
11:20:58 illustrator, especially like those.
11:21:04 Fresco vector brushes that we've talked about before,
11:21:07 it's really important to optimize your work before you start using
11:21:11 graphic styles or pattern editing mode, or really any of this stuff.
11:21:13 So, for example, if I just kinda.
11:21:17 Grab this and use my,
11:21:20 a key for the direct selection tool you get.
11:21:22 You can see how many anchor points are in here.
11:21:24 And I can tell you.
11:21:26 Let's go here. Cause I have my.
11:21:28 Document info.
11:21:36 Eight 89, nine. I mean,
11:21:39 it's almost 90,000 anchor points in this design right here.
11:21:45 So, what I did was the thing that I always do.
11:21:47 You can use vector first day by Stu graphics. You can use object,
11:21:51 path, simplify.
11:21:53 But once you've done that, let me go ahead and select this art here,
11:21:56 which looks virtually the same. You can hardly tell the difference.
11:21:59 I have 1,342 anchor voice.
11:22:02 So I've.
11:22:04 I've gotten rid of over 80,000.
11:22:11 Excess anchor points. And if I hadn't done that,
11:22:15 everything that I would be doing here, you know, playing with this.
11:22:24 The spacing look how fast that's moving.
11:22:26 And that's just because I took a way all those anchor points that we
11:22:29 don't need.
11:22:30 So that's always should be your first step before you go into.
11:22:36 All of this. So then I have this, you know,
11:22:38 pattern that I made using the repeats feature that we talked about
11:22:41 last month. And then I went over here and by the way,
11:22:43 this pattern is kind of.
11:22:46 You know, I didn't spend any time on the spacing,
11:22:48 so it's not very good right now,
11:22:50 but just as a way of making an example here, then I could take that.
11:22:57 Put a background on it and just sort of do a little,
11:22:59 recoloring just sort of figure out what I wanted to do in terms of,
11:23:03 you know, my color palette and that sort of thing.
11:23:10 And then I thought, okay, well,
11:23:11 I like the way some of these circles are looking in here.
11:23:14 I really want to create a background, like an intermediate pattern,
11:23:17 something that is layered so that this.
11:23:19 So I can kind of have something in the middle of Brown there.
11:23:22 And so what you might normally do is work with a pattern on
11:23:26 one.
11:23:27 That's applied to one rectangle,
11:23:29 and then you have your background pattern here.
11:23:30 That's applied to another.
11:23:32 Because, you know, doing this inside of pattern editing mode,
11:23:34 when it's all flattened down is extra difficult.
11:23:40 I mean, if, as long as you keep things grouped, I suppose, but,
11:23:42 but it's hard to do those kind of little quick.
11:23:46 You know, things where we want to see,
11:23:47 just check out and see if something looks good or not.
11:23:56 It's you know, not easy to do in pattern editing mode,
11:23:59 much easier to do here out on the art board.
11:24:01 But even if I'm going to work with a layered pattern here,
11:24:07 And I'm going to try and like grab this one.
11:24:09 I keep grabbing the wrong one and I want to grab this one and put it
11:24:12 up. It's just, it takes forever to work this way. And this is why.
11:24:15 A graphic style could help here. So what I could do is.
11:24:19 Get.
11:24:20 Blank space here.
11:24:22 You know, just create.
11:24:23 A.
11:24:24 Plain old rectangle and.
11:24:26 Put a background on it.
11:24:31 Go into the appearance panel. And let me go ahead and get,
11:24:33 this is a pretty busy workspace.
11:24:35 Go into the appearance panel.
11:24:38 Add a fill.
11:24:40 It adds it up here.
11:24:43 Then I'll pick.
11:24:44 A pattern.
11:24:52 And then I want to put a background pattern behind this.
11:24:55 So let me go to the solid fill.
11:24:57 So I can, when I hit the, add a fill button,
11:25:00 it's going to go right on top of that.
11:25:02 And then I'm going to look and see.
11:25:05 I wonder I don't. These are so small. There's one.
11:25:08 Here's my background.
11:25:10 Bill then what I can do.
11:25:14 Is turned down the triangle on this background, Phil.
11:25:20 I go to the opacity setting and I can dial that back and see if
11:25:24 I like.
11:25:28 You know how it's looking in the background.
11:25:29 Maybe I want to try a multiply blending mode,
11:25:31 then I can adjust the opacity on that.
11:25:33 You know,
11:25:45 Screen blending mode. Let's see how that looks.
11:25:47 So it's kind of a way of just being able to preview
11:25:51 something, you know, instead of doing it manually like that,
11:25:54 I have it kind of all contained here.
11:26:00 In this appearance. And then if I decide, okay,
11:26:03 I like the way this looks. I want to save it as a graphic style.
11:26:07 So then I can go over here,
11:26:08 click on this new graphic style button and I've saved it there.
11:26:12 And then what this enables me to do is use it as a way of sort of
11:26:16 previewing it, maybe in a mock up or something like that.
11:26:18 So let's see.
11:26:20 These are all.
11:26:21 Stylist.
11:26:22 I mean, it's kind of amazing. This file has a ton.
11:26:25 Of pattern in it all over the place and it's not slow.
11:26:28 At all. And that's because I.
11:26:29 You know,
11:26:42 Did the step of optimizing the pattern first before I, I used it,
11:26:45 but, okay. Here's another way to use the graphic style.
11:26:48 So let's say I liked, well, let me go ahead and show you like a,
11:26:52 a mock-up, because this will be a.
11:26:53 So I'm going to copy this.
11:26:55 And then I'm gonna bring it over here.
11:26:57 And I'm bringing it into this file by pasting
11:27:01 it. And then while it's selected,
11:27:03 I've got the graphic styles panel open here, and I'm just gonna.
11:27:06 Add it to my graphic styles panel.
11:27:07 And then I can delete this.
11:27:09 And I can go to my journal.
11:27:11 Mock-up here and let's see if I go.
11:27:17 Down into the layers panel and fine, this.
11:27:19 This little.
11:27:22 Rectangle that the pattern is applied to.
11:27:38 And select it just by clicking on this empty space here.
11:27:40 I selected that rectangle now,
11:27:43 even though it's kind of inside and down here underneath some shack,
11:27:46 shading and shadowing and.
11:27:48 And that sort of thing.
11:27:49 Even inside of a cook group,
11:27:50 I can find it here inside of the layers panel. And then I can.
11:27:54 Try my graphic style out on it.
11:27:56 So this is just the combination that I came up with and the other
11:27:59 file.
11:28:00 And I've got a whole bunch of combinations here that I'm kind of
11:28:03 working with and trying to see.
11:28:05 You know what.
11:28:06 What I like color wise, what's happening.
11:28:18 You know,
11:28:19 with that background pattern before I go in and start really,
11:28:23 you know, fine tuning it.
11:28:24 But this is kind of giving me some inspiration and direction on where
11:28:28 I might want to go with this.
11:28:29 So let's say I look at this and I'm like, okay, well,
11:28:32 That I like that,
11:28:33 but I really want the scale to be smaller.
11:28:36 Well, it's going to be easier with a graphic style.
11:28:39 So I'm going to click just to get to some empty space here.
11:28:43 Okay. And I've, I've just created a rectangle using that style,
11:28:47 but let's say I just quickly want to see what this looks like.
11:28:50 If I take this scale down, like, what if it's this size?
11:28:53 Well, I'll go ahead and add that to my graphic styles panel.
11:28:56 Delete it.
11:28:59 And let's go back to select this in the layers panel.
11:29:03 Right there.
11:29:06 And now I can try it out at a different scale.
11:29:12 So that's another thing that a graphic style makes, you know,
11:29:15 kind of easy.
11:29:19 Work of how, how, how does,
11:29:22 do you guys have any questions so far?
11:29:24 Or what do you think of that? Or do you think that's useful?
11:29:29 I'm going to grab a sip of water.
11:29:38 Okay. Great. Great, great, great.
11:29:41 So.
11:29:47 So, yeah, it's just a way to work with the appearance panel.
11:29:50 Save it.
11:29:56 And kind of work with that flexibility.
11:29:58 If I wanted to let's see.
11:30:09 I mean, it's kind of amazing what you can do with these.
11:30:12 You can bring this in, you know,
11:30:14 into Photoshop as a vector smart object.
11:30:16 And then, you know, once you've worked on it, work.
11:30:20 Once you have it sort of working in your mock-up, maybe in Photoshop.
11:30:33 Then you can double click on that vector smart object.
11:30:35 You're launched back into illustrator.
11:30:37 And if it's the file that has all of these little dude ads in it,
11:30:40 you can easily switch them out. And that sort of thing.
11:30:42 Let's see.
11:30:48 Well, that's about me.
11:30:49 Can you show us how to optimize a decent number? Anchor points again?
11:30:51 Yeah, Valerie I'll do.
11:30:52 That was the second background pattern already in repeat.
11:30:56 Yes.
11:30:57 Okay.
11:30:58 So, and Linda wants to know about.
11:31:00 Wants to know about a student.
11:31:01 Plugins. I'm going to talk about another plug-in here at.
11:31:06 A little further along than I think you might enjoy. Okay.
11:31:09 So let's see.
11:31:10 Optimize reduce the number of anchor points.
11:31:17 What is the second background pattern already in repeat. Okay.
11:31:20 Let me do that one.
11:31:28 All right. Let's see. So what I did here,
11:31:31 Is I, I.
11:31:37 I have this,
11:31:38 this is the artwork it got recolored when I was playing around with
11:31:41 it, but this is the artwork.
11:31:44 That I showed you earlier that I got from fresco and that I
11:31:48 optimized.
11:31:49 And I just.
11:31:56 And this could be probably how I set up my art board in fresco.
11:31:59 But if you see this as 16 centimeters on the 16 centimeters,
11:32:03 Square. So I think that's what I was working on in fresco.
11:32:09 And then what I did was I selected some of these little bits here and
11:32:12 I just made a, this is actually a space fill.
11:32:29 Pattern here. So we talked about that last month.
11:32:32 That's an astute graphics plugin that allows you to sort of
11:32:35 jumble everything up inside of a container. In this case,
11:32:38 it's a square. And this,
11:32:40 I started out with a square that was, let's see.
11:32:43 Right here. It's a seven and a half by 7.1 centimeters.
11:32:46 So it's close to eight centimeters.
11:32:48 So what I was able to do is to take these into pattern editing mode.
11:32:51 Here's that.
11:32:52 That background.
11:32:54 If I go into object.
11:32:56 Pattern make.
11:32:57 Then I can go right here,
11:32:59 change this to eight centimeters.
11:33:01 You know,
11:33:19 Enlarge this work with it. I mean, it's definitely,
11:33:21 we're seeing lines and everything cause it's,
11:33:23 hasn't been worked with yet,
11:33:24 but this is the background pattern that is eight centimeters that
11:33:28 fits with the, with the foreground pattern that is 16 centimeters.
11:33:32 So they divide evenly into each other.
11:33:34 And they also divide into a 32 centimeter repeat.
11:33:37 So that's kind of how you want to create layered patterns like this,
11:33:41 making sure that they're.
11:33:42 That they're divisible like that.
11:33:44 And so that's sort of the quick way.
11:33:47 Of doing it here. Let me cancel out of here.
11:33:53 And once I was able to create, you know,
11:33:55 these two patterns in pattern editing mode.
11:33:59 So I have working pattern fill swatches,
11:34:01 then I could start playing with them.
11:34:02 Like this, let's see.
11:34:04 All right. So let me go back to make sure I capture this question.
11:34:09 About updating, I mean, sorry about optimizing these.
11:34:12 So let's find that file.
11:34:21 Cut flowers. I probably just, I probably just shut it down. Let's see.
11:34:25 Any points there it is.
11:34:31 All right. So to do it.
11:34:34 You can use object.
11:34:37 Path.
11:34:39 Simplify in.
11:34:41 Illustrator.
11:34:43 And.
11:34:45 Simplify does a pretty good job.
11:34:49 It looks like if that, if I open this, if I expand this panel,
11:34:53 It's gone from 90,000 down to 4,000.
11:34:56 Anchor points you can play with the slider.
11:34:58 And, and all of that.
11:35:01 And then hit. Okay.
11:35:03 In that process is done.
11:35:15 I actually use vector first aid. So if you have a student graphics,
11:35:18 plugins, I would say that's probably,
11:35:20 to me has been one of the most valuable plugins in that set is vector
11:35:23 first aid.
11:35:37 And in that case, you just go here and you go through,
11:35:40 I would do like a whole checkup through here.
11:35:42 I'm not going to go through all that because I've showed it to you
11:35:44 before. But you know,
11:35:45 then you have this super smart removed and it goes through and removes
11:35:48 anchor points. So those are just two ways of doing it.
11:35:50 One in illustrator, one.
11:35:52 Using vector first aid.
11:35:54 But I think that the one thing that I like about vector first aid is
11:35:58 that it's removed more anchor points.
11:36:00 It just does a slightly, you know,
11:36:02 Nicer job.
11:36:03 Of it, but I say the illustrator feature is still pretty good.
11:36:06 So once you do that, I mean, in the art looks exactly the same.
11:36:09 So that's.
11:36:10 As amazing a cabin.
11:36:11 I'm going to go.
11:36:12 Shut that down. Then you have these two.
11:36:15 And let me just repeat this just in case I'm kind of.
11:36:19 You know, jumping all over the place and I'm not making it clear.
11:36:21 You know, when I, when I first started playing with this.
11:36:24 Let me get back to my.
11:36:25 Less cluttered workspace.
11:36:29 All of this art here.
11:36:35 Was created all of this repeating was created with this.
11:36:39 Repeats tool that we talked about last month.
11:37:04 This is really quick and dirty way to just get something in repeat,
11:37:07 but it does not have the depth that pattern editing mode
11:37:11 has. And it does not create feels swatches,
11:37:13 as you can see right here in my swatches panel,
11:37:16 I just have some colors here, but I don't,
11:37:18 none of these patterns are actually pattern fill swatches.
11:37:21 So when I'm moving into talking about graphic styles,
11:37:23 The step in between here is going into pattern,
11:37:26 editing mode and getting those things in pattern editing mode so that
11:37:28 you have swatches to work with,
11:37:30 and then you can layer them up like that.
11:37:31 All right. Let's see.
11:37:33 When you get close to final art, do you have to expand?
11:37:35 All right.
11:37:36 So when you.
11:37:39 I mean, okay.
11:37:41 So are you T you might need to help me understand a little better.
11:37:44 So are you talking about,
11:37:45 let me close stitching styles are not going to work with that anymore.
11:37:48 The final art.
11:37:49 Let's see.
11:37:51 Maybe this is the one that would help here.
11:37:53 Like this right here.
11:37:58 And I'm not even sure if this is the right size for a repeat.
11:38:01 It's not.
11:38:02 This right here is this one.
11:38:03 Nope.
11:38:05 Where do I have a repeat here?
11:38:14 There's 32 centimeters. Okay. So this one,
11:38:17 the rectangle actually fits.
11:38:19 The size of the repeat.
11:38:20 So I can kind of just tile this out.
11:38:22 You know, like that.
11:38:24 And so I think maybe what you're asking is.
11:38:35 You know, with this,
11:38:36 with everything sort of expressed in live
11:38:40 pattern fills, is that final art and would I expand it?
11:38:43 I would expand it, actually, I would, I like.
11:38:47 I mean, I think.
11:38:50 This is really super functional for a lot of things, but you know,
11:38:53 when it comes down to having just a nice clean.
11:38:57 You know, piece of final art.
11:38:58 I like my final art to be expanded.
11:39:01 I would not.
11:39:04 And I hope I'm answering this, you know what you were asking,
11:39:07 but if you expand this right, if you just go.
11:39:12 And expand this. You're going to wind up with so many clipping masks,
11:39:15 so many, so much overlapping art. And so.
11:39:18 There, you know, there is a bit of a.
11:39:20 Of.
11:39:21 Work that you have to do to make that.
11:39:23 You know,
11:39:32 It might not be the way that I would do it.
11:39:33 What I'm kind of using this whole thing for here is just sort of
11:39:38 working fast, finding inspiration.
11:39:47 Finding a layout that I like,
11:39:49 and then being able to create from there. Like, for example,
11:39:53 there's a lot of, and this is obviously, you know, kind of a mess,
11:39:56 but there's a lot of transparency in here and I don't really want to
11:39:59 have.
11:40:00 My final art have transparency in it.
11:40:03 If I really truly want it to be, you know,
11:40:05 a limited color palette because.
11:40:07 Transparency creates so many other colors.
11:40:09 Corey. I hope that answers your question. Or if I,
11:40:11 maybe I got more confusing.
11:40:12 Tara says, can you use the recolor artwork tool on a graphic style?
11:40:15 Yes.
11:40:17 So you can't use recolor artwork on that.
11:40:20 Repeat that I showed you with the little handles.
11:40:22 That doesn't work.
11:40:23 You have to expand.
11:40:25 That first, but here this graphic style. Yes. So if I go here.
11:40:29 And just.
11:40:33 You know, do some.
11:40:36 Swapping around just by clicking that button.
11:40:38 When I leave here.
11:40:41 This graphic style.
11:40:43 I will have to go and save it.
11:40:45 But.
11:40:46 You know,
11:40:48 Can you just, I can just drag it into the panel.
11:40:51 To add another one, then I can add this.
11:40:53 Elsewhere.
11:40:54 Like that.
11:41:08 So, yeah, recolor artwork, it's basically, you know, just,
11:41:12 and we're not actually recoloring the actual style,
11:41:14 but we are recoloring this art easily.
11:41:17 And then bringing it back into the graphic styles, piano.
11:41:21 Let's see courses. Thanks.
11:41:22 I was wondering because some of the effects and the appearance panel,
11:41:24 this seems good for trying it to yes. Okay. Corey that's right. Yeah,
11:41:27 the effects and the appearance panel,
11:41:28 all that transparency and everything.
11:41:30 It's just like to me, it's not going to.
11:41:32 Ultimately be the best.
11:41:34 Sort of piece of.
11:41:38 Of mechanical art. You know,
11:41:40 I don't even know if that's what it's called in textile design,
11:41:42 but that's what it was called when I went to school for.
11:41:49 You know, graphic design for all the printing that I did.
11:41:52 And you know, when you want to hand over something that you can say,
11:41:55 that's that color, that's that color that's that color.
11:41:57 And somebody can take it and make and put it on a press.
11:42:06 Yeah. So I find that this is really for comping up stuff,
11:42:10 and then it helps you to sort of know what you want to
11:42:14 get. In fact, you know, if you wanted to know what, well,
11:42:18 I could go off on a whole new.
11:42:20 Tangent, but what I want to do.
11:42:21 Because somebody else asked about the astute graphics.
11:42:24 I want to show you.
11:42:25 A plugin. Let's see, here it is.
11:42:28 That is helpful.
11:42:30 I think for working on art like this,
11:42:33 and it's called the supermarket tool.
11:42:35 So here it is under the selection tool.
11:42:37 And the supermarket tool, what it does.
11:42:46 I mean,
11:42:47 it allows you to just sort of drag over and select things like any
11:42:50 Marquis selection.
11:42:52 And then when you have the astute buddy panel open,
11:42:55 you can see sort of all of the options here, all the.
11:42:57 A shortcut. So you can use with this.
11:43:01 So, what it does is by default, like if I'm going to drag over,
11:43:05 like, let's say,
11:43:07 I want to get the center part of this flower where all the little
11:43:09 stamen are.
11:43:11 What I can do is I'm using a circular Marquis with this,
11:43:14 and I'm going to hold down the space bar. This is the shortcut.
11:43:17 For a lot of things in illustrator. When you,
11:43:18 when you kind of want to suspend and move.
11:43:21 So I'm moving around this selection. Hopefully you're seeing that.
11:43:23 Let me see if I zoom in better.
11:43:25 Okay.
11:43:32 And then I can kind of center it right where I want it.
11:43:38 And if I decide, okay, I don't want to get that purple.
11:43:40 I really just want this light blue things. As long as I.
11:43:43 The, by default, the supermarket is going to select.
11:43:46 Only things that are completely within the Marquis.
11:43:51 So, because I just dragged over that little extra.
11:43:57 Purple there got a little purple outside of the boundary.
11:44:00 Then I was able to.
11:44:08 Not select the purple and only select these parts in the middle.
11:44:12 And then when I release, I've got this copy.
11:44:25 And paste or I could, you know, group it and move it aside,
11:44:28 but that's just a way to sort of dig into your pattern art and get
11:44:31 stuff out, which I think is makes this tool really helpful. You know,
11:44:35 the lasso tool is great for some things like I could lasso around some
11:44:38 of this.
11:44:39 This here, but for anything that's kind of, you know,
11:44:42 clustered in that.
11:44:43 Area the supermarket.
11:44:45 It is pretty cool.
11:44:46 Let's see,
11:44:47 I've got some other things that this I wanted to show you that it can
11:44:50 do.
11:44:52 So, you know what I, one thing that I was showing you there is.
11:44:54 Using it as a round Marquis.
11:45:00 You can also use it as a, you can down here in the shortcuts,
11:45:04 the bottom right hand of my screen, I can.
11:45:06 Click on the X button.
11:45:15 And turn that into a square or click again and turn this into
11:45:19 like an UN Oh, well that's a circle. Let's see. This is a rectangle,
11:45:22 it's sort of a toggling thing. So every time you hit X, you get.
11:45:25 Different Marty style. So this is sort of this free form rectangle.
11:45:29 And then this is a freeform ellipse.
11:45:32 And so on. So it has all of those kind of.
11:45:36 Different modes that it works in. And I used it here just for fun,
11:45:39 just to create this sort of thing. Right.
11:45:41 I got rid of everything in the center here.
11:45:43 By selecting it with that.
11:45:45 With that tool. So if I go over here,
11:45:47 I can.
11:45:50 Grab this again. Let's see which Marty I have.
11:45:52 And it hit X.
11:45:53 Till I get to an oval.
11:45:56 There we go.
11:46:04 So then you can say, okay, well I've got, you know,
11:46:06 everything that is inside of the Marquis.
11:46:11 Nothing that crosses the boundary is selected.
11:46:13 And then I can delete that and you see, it leaves me some things.
11:46:16 Or I can go and use this.
11:46:28 In, in the, in a different mode mode,
11:46:30 it's more like the other selection tools in illustrator
11:46:33 is let's see, it's toggle and closing mode. That's E.
11:46:39 Then that just gets everything at the Marquis is touching.
11:46:42 So it brings more into your selection.
11:46:44 So it's a super versatile like that.
11:46:46 And then that looks even a little better there.
11:46:48 This is another thing that it does. That's sort of interesting.
11:46:50 So here I have just a whole bunch.
11:47:00 Of objects here.
11:47:02 And let me go ahead and toggle. So I've got an oval.
11:47:05 I'm going to hit the X key until I get a little bit more.
11:47:08 Let's see a rectangle that I can sort of freeform this. All right.
11:47:11 So, and, you know, if I hadn't.
11:47:14 Reduced anchor points on these little circles.
11:47:17 This would be really slow right now.
11:47:19 All right. So now I've got all of these selected.
11:47:21 And then what I can do is go into random mode, which you just tap are.
11:47:30 And now you can see if you look in the very lower right-hand corner of
11:47:33 my marquee, it says random,
11:47:35 and there's 32% of 510 objects selected.
11:47:38 I can use while I'm holding this,
11:47:40 I can use my arrow keys and I can go down and change that that was
11:47:43 32%.
11:47:44 Now I'm down to 26, 25.
11:47:47 21.
11:47:52 And so once you get to sort of whatever percentage of random selection
11:47:56 that you want, then you can go and, you know,
11:48:02 Give all of those objects, a color. So it's just,
11:48:06 that's crazy, but that's just sort of a way of,
11:48:08 if you have a bunch of that kind of tossed.
11:48:10 You know, background, confetti, whatever it is.
11:48:13 It's nice to be able to just go through.
11:48:15 A whole pile of that and have the randomizer of this marquee tool.
11:48:25 To allow you to either delete, like, let's say it's getting too dense.
11:48:28 You want to delete some of this stuff.
11:48:29 Just that way you get it out of there rather than click, click, click,
11:48:32 click, like that.
11:48:33 Or change the color, you know, anything like that.
11:48:39 So that's a fun, that's a fun tool, the super marquee.
11:48:42 So we've talked about the supermarket last time we talked about space.
11:48:45 Bill, which was really, really cool.
11:48:47 And of course vector first aid. So those are kind of my,
11:48:49 my favorite plugins.
11:49:02 Right now. And I'm just going to keep, you know,
11:49:04 highlighting one in every one of these sessions that we do so that we
11:49:08 can kind of all get more and more familiar with those plugins.
11:49:12 All right. Let's see.
11:49:13 So back to this journal.
11:49:15 So, I don't know.
11:49:16 What I'm.
11:49:17 I have a few more minutes here.
11:49:20 And.
11:49:21 I could.
11:49:22 I'm kind of wondering what I should do because I could go down.
11:49:26 So many different roads. And I,
11:49:27 I apologize if I sort of bring in a whole ton of stuff, but it's like,
11:49:31 There's so much you can do here. It's kind of amazing.
11:49:32 But one of the things that I.
11:49:37 You know, once I'm sort of previewing all of this and figuring it out.
11:49:39 Let me see.
11:49:46 I'm just going to change that to, so right here.
11:49:50 Here's something that is important to know.
11:49:52 So once you're working on these multilayered,
11:50:03 Graphic styles here I am. Here's my appearance panel.
11:50:07 This is what I have selected here. I try to change the color.
11:50:10 I try to just go back to making plain old rectangles.
11:50:15 Here and I found, Oh, wait, I can't do that.
11:50:17 And that's partially because I have new art has basic appearance
11:50:21 unchecked. So anything I draw now.
11:50:25 Is going to have the last style,
11:50:27 the last appearance that I worked with automatically going to be
11:50:29 applied. And then when you want to just go back to having a.
11:50:33 Plain old orange rectangle.
11:50:34 It's not going to be as easy.
11:50:36 So it's important to know that when you're working with appearances,
11:50:39 The further you get into this.
11:50:41 Really pay attention.
11:50:51 To what selected on the appearance panel. So, you know,
11:50:55 if I want to, like, maybe I want to take the fill off of here,
11:50:58 this pattern fill and get rid of it.
11:51:00 And.
11:51:01 Cancel.
11:51:03 And take this green Phil.
11:51:06 And get rid of it.
11:51:07 And now where what's going on with this orange pill. Well,
11:51:10 that orange bill still has that.
11:51:13 10% Screen blending mode on it. Like what,
11:51:17 how did that happen? Okay.
11:51:19 Well it's because it came from that other graphic style.
11:51:21 So I need to take that out. And now I'm finally back.
11:51:39 To just a plain orange rectangles. So, you know,
11:51:42 when you're doing that, if you come over here,
11:51:44 you're working with your graphic style and you're like, okay,
11:51:47 now I just want to go back to drawing normally and illustrator,
11:51:49 you can go here and you can say clear
11:51:53 appearance that just.
11:51:54 Takes you back to a naked path.
11:51:56 You can go here and go.
11:51:58 Reduced to basic appearance.
11:52:00 And that takes you down to one.
11:52:02 Phil there.
11:52:03 So, as we can see in the appearance panel that got rid of the bat,
11:52:06 it got rid of the solid color. It got rid of the top color.
11:52:09 And now I have.
11:52:10 You know this, which I can assign it,
11:52:13 whatever color I want to. So we don't see that you.
11:52:19 Phil that pattern field has gone.
11:52:21 So that's just something to be aware of as you're working on this,
11:52:23 that new art has basic appearance and how that gets up continuously
11:52:27 applied.
11:52:28 Esther has to go.
11:52:29 Oh, cool. Thank you for being here, Esther. Always good to see you.
11:52:34 So anyway, when you're working, you know,
11:52:36 with this graphic style here,
11:52:43 Let me reapply it since I stretch this out.
11:52:48 I'll click on it again, get it back to the size that I.
11:52:52 Saved it at and I go to the appearance panel.
11:52:58 And I'm looking at the background here. That's 10% screen.
11:53:02 And then at some point, you know, I may really want to make.
11:53:10 This pattern here so that it has that,
11:53:13 that coloring and it's not being created.
11:53:16 Bye.
11:53:17 You know, this screen blending mode.
11:53:19 So what I would do.
11:53:23 There are so many.
11:53:25 Different ways to go about doing that.
11:53:30 But I'll take this top pattern off.
11:53:35 One way to do it, and maybe I should make this a little bit.
11:53:57 Hang on a second.
11:54:11 Okay. One way to do it is to.
11:54:15 Expand the transparency and use this kind of as a.
11:54:20 A guideline in a sense. So I'm going to take this.
11:54:24 It's live. It's got a pattern fill that has a.
11:54:34 Blending mode assigned to it. It's got a solid fill behind it.
11:54:35 So those two things are creating the color that I see here.
11:54:39 And then I'm going to go an object.
11:54:40 Flattened transparency.
11:54:45 And I'm just going to leave everything as it is here. The default.
11:54:48 And let it flat and let's see what happens then.
11:54:52 This is a group.
11:54:57 And this is a clip group.
11:55:06 Release the clipping mask and just make sure that this is actually.
11:55:10 Solid artwork here.
11:55:11 All right.
11:55:14 Now, let me get.
11:55:18 Plain old rectangle.
11:55:22 I just want this to be white for the moment.
11:55:28 Get my eyedropper tool out and sample that color.
11:55:30 And there's that color.
11:55:42 So you can't sample that color as a solid color until
11:55:46 you flattened the transparency.
11:55:48 So now I have these two colors that are solid colors that I can save
11:55:51 as swatches.
11:55:52 That I got from a combination of transparent colors.
11:55:56 But I had to go ahead and flatten in order to make this happen.
11:55:59 But if I like all of these colors, for example,
11:56:06 I could easily grab them by selecting this art right here,
11:56:10 going over to my swatches panel and clicking on this new
11:56:14 color group folder icon.
11:56:16 And then it just.
11:56:17 Gives me the option to choose selected artwork.
11:56:19 I'm going to leave that.
11:56:26 Option on,
11:56:27 and then what I have here and I had Global's check by the way. Now,
11:56:30 what I have here are all of those solid colors.
11:56:33 They started out as a transparent effect that was happening between.
11:56:36 Two fills that I created in the appearance panel and
11:56:40 because I flattened the color now I have.
11:56:50 All of those, you know, subtle colors that I can use.
11:56:53 And then when I go back and I take this art and I create an actual
11:56:56 pattern out of it,
11:56:57 I've got colors that I can use and I don't have to rely on those
11:56:59 transparent effects. So hopefully that makes sense.
11:57:03 All right.
11:57:04 Almost run out of time here.
11:57:05 Sandy says,
11:57:06 can you use image or pixel based parts in a graphic style?
11:57:10 That's an interesting.
11:57:12 Thing.
11:57:13 You know what? I'm not sure.
11:57:15 Let's see.
11:57:16 Which file do I have here that has an image in it.
11:57:19 Going to this little thing here.
11:57:20 Cut flowers, recolor.
11:57:27 Okay. So what I have here are just some images,
11:57:29 this little kitty cat here.
11:57:38 That I, I put on my,
11:57:40 I dragged into my file just to kind of see if I could get some good
11:57:44 color combinations out of these using a recolor artwork.
11:57:47 And let's see if we can.
11:57:49 Can you add this to the graphic stuff?
11:57:50 What happens?
11:57:52 Ah, okay. So what it does is it gives you that, you know,
11:57:57 Basically the appearance of this object is nothing.
11:58:01 If I look at it in.
11:58:02 It doesn't have a fill.
11:58:04 Doesn't have a stroke.
11:58:06 It has pixels, but I don't think it's really getting that.
11:58:14 I don't know if I made,
11:58:16 could I make this into my drag it in here? Okay. So now it's like,
11:58:20 A pattern fill.
11:58:21 Let's see.
11:58:24 There it is. Okay. So now this is a pattern Phil made out of.
11:58:27 Of an image.
11:58:28 And I, can I save this?
11:58:31 As a graphic style.
11:58:35 Hmm, what does that, maybe it does work.
11:58:37 Yep.
11:58:48 Yep, you can. So it was really, the image itself is not,
11:58:52 it's not gonna work in the graphic styles panel because it doesn't
11:58:55 have an appearance.
11:58:56 But when I make it.
11:58:58 The image into a thing illustrator in this case, or.
11:59:02 A pattern.
11:59:03 Phil spot. It works.
11:59:04 You can use images and brushes, so I'm sure.
11:59:07 If the.
11:59:08 If a brush was part of my graphic style or my appearance.
11:59:15 And it had an image in it. Yes. You could use that.
11:59:17 Interesting question, Sandy. I didn't know.
11:59:20 I didn't know until I tried. That's really cool.
11:59:23 All right. Anybody else have any.
11:59:26 Any questions about.
11:59:31 The plugins, the graphic styles.
11:59:35 If you want to know more about.
11:59:39 Working with something like this, a Maka.
11:59:41 I did do a.
11:59:43 I did do.
11:59:54 A session on this. And now I can't remember when it was, but it's,
11:59:58 I think it's clearly marked mock-ups in,
12:00:01 it's in the archive so that you can.
12:00:02 You know, see more about how that works, but I think it's really.
12:00:06 Fun to work with and it involves using the layers panel and to be
12:00:10 able to drill down into there, and then you can.
12:00:12 Play around with the.
12:00:13 Graphic styles that way.
12:00:15 It's like, I didn't have a selected.
12:00:22 Looks like I have too much stuff on this layer now.
12:00:25 Gotten out of control there.
12:00:27 Here we go.
12:00:35 Now I must have the wrong thing selected anyway.
12:00:38 That's all.
12:00:42 Thank you so much, Laura.
12:00:50 Oh, you're so welcome.
12:00:51 And Jenny says I'm so ready for the illustrator class candidate to
12:00:53 brush up so I can use all this amazement more easily. Yeah.
12:00:59 I mean, that's the thing.
12:01:00 I don't think this stuff is necessarily advanced.
12:01:03 It's not hard to do. The hard thing is the fact that it's.
12:01:23 Appearance inside of maybe groups inside of layers is just
12:01:27 like a cascading, you know, nested doll thing.
12:01:31 And half the time things don't go your way and illustrator, it may,
12:01:34 it has to do with what you have selected at any given time.
12:01:37 And so I think those really basic things that we're going to talk
12:01:39 about in this new illustrator class.
12:01:42 Is going to help because once you really have a foundation in,