In this lecture you're going to learn the Transform Each tool and one application
for its use is to create patterns. So we have a pattern here, there's a pattern here.
How do we create these? Well the Transform Each tool and I actually learned
this technique years ago at a advertising design firm that I was
working at. So go ahead and go to File, New, click OK and we want to create some
kind of pattern. Let's just create this kind first, alright. So click and hold onto the
Ellipse tool and then click and drag and hold SHIFT if you want a perfect circle,
and let's make sure the Fill has some kind of color and then we're going to set the
Stroke here to None and what we do, a quick way to make a pattern is to just
hold ALT on the PC or OPTION on the MAC and click and drag it over. Hold SHIFT to
maintain that 90 degree angle or that level angle. And then what you want to do
while this is still selected ,don't deselect it. We're going to go to Object, Transform,
Transform Again. I like to just do the shortcut, so either CTRL D on the PC or
Command D on the MAC. So each time we repeat that process the new one is
selected so CTRL D, CRTL D, CTRL D. You can actually just hold on to it and then
so if you want to bring these down, click and drag around them with the selection arrow and
then I'm going to hold ALT or OPTION on the MAC, click and drag down, hold SHIFT
and then CTRL D, CTRL D and so on.
And then if you want to change certain colors in here we could but that's
creating that kind of pattern. That's not the Transform Each command but it is
using one part of that. If you go to the object, Transform, Transform Again.
But what if we want to create a pattern more like this one? Well what you would do is, just go ahead
and go to File, New and let's just create a star. Click and drag this out.
I'm going to set this to a different color and I'm going to have Stroke set to None.
Pull it over in the corner here and we're going to do, instead of duplicating it with ALT or OPTION,
click and drag, we need to go to Object, Transform and then Transform Each
So on this menu we have Horizontal scale so the size, the Vertical scale so you
can make it smaller, you can make it larger. So for this example, I'll just keep it at 90%.
So very single time it transforms, it's going to transform to 90% of the
one that's selected. And then we can also move it so if you want to move it to the left
or the right or up and down and so on. So this example. You can toggle Preview back and
forth to see the before and after. So for this example, we need to move it a little
bit more. Actually maybe a little bit closer. Let's see it overlap, and Vertical, I'll just keep that at 0
as we're going to have it level. And then for this, since this is a star, we could have it rotate.
If it was a perfect circle, you won't be able to tell the difference but with a star we can.
And so once we have some kind of settings that we want, click Copy, not OK. We need to hit Copy.
That copies it and then press CTRL or Command D and just keep doing that.
And then for the example that you saw earlier, you just click and drag up here and then ALT click Down
or OPTION click Down, hold SHIFT and we just need to rotate it,
so go off the edge here, click and drag, then hold SHIFT, same angle, I'm just going to bring it up a little bit.
Then you could you repeat the process, ALT, click and drag or OPTION, click and drag
and so on. You could actually, instead of deselecting, if you ALT or OPTION click and drag,
and then CTRL D, CTRL D, CTRL D, CTRL D
So that one looks a little bit different from the other one So that's one application of the Transform Each
command. It's basically when you transform something.
You know there's a couple of options here when you do go to transform,
like Move, Rotate Reflect, Scale, Shear,
but if you go to Transform Each then we can repeat that process after the fact
by pressing CTRL D or Transform Again and then you can customize the colors in
your pattern if you want. You can change specific elements. So that's using Transform Each
to create patterns. I will see you in the next lecture.