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Hi there, in this video
we're going to cut holes in things.
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They're called Compound Paths.
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I'm going to zoom in, you can see...
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I can see through this owl,
through the page underneath.
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I'm also going to do this.
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Everyone loves a bit of abstract
Compound Path making.
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We're going to do that in this tutorial.
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So first up, open up the file
'Compound Path' on your 'Exercise Files'.
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What I want to do is
I'm going to bring in an Image.
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I'm going to bring in an image
called 'Old paper'.
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Drag it out so it kind of
covers the background.
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It's a little big, it's okay.
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So I want this, now I'm going to
'Arrange it', 'Send to Back'.
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What I'd like to do is...
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at the moment there's--
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let's say these two eyes,
these outer eyes here, with the green...
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I want them to be holes.
If they're white...
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which is what we've done in the past...
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obviously we can't see
through the background.
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So what we want to do is
we want to put holes in it.
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So I'm going to select the two eyes,
just drag them off...
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because I want these two selected,
so I'm holding 'Shift', click both of them.
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I'll also do it in one big go, so I want to
cut that out as well, the nose...
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and all from this sky in the background.
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It comes down to Layer Order.
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Whatever's at the back,
gets everything cut out of them...
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so make sure that the owl's body
is at the back, which it is for us.
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Go up to 'Object', come down to
'Compound Path', and go to 'Make'.
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It slices it all up,
and we can see through it.
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Let's get the eyes, I'll move them back in.
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And we're going to select everything.
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Deselect the background,
I'm going to fill it with 'white'.
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Just to match what we had there
at the beginning.
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So that's how to make a Compound Path.
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I want to add a Drop Shadow to it,
just because.
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I'm not so sure about that
while we're here.
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Let's go to 'Effect',
and let's go to 'Stylize'.
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You'll notice, when you add things
like Drop Shadows, watch this.
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I'm going to turn 'on' Preview,
to show you the defaults.
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Can you see, it's kind of bit weird,
and you're like, "Hmm."
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It's all kind of layered, and stuff.
So what you need to do first...
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is have it all selected, then group it.
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So 'Object', 'Group',
and then, if I go 'Effects'...
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and go to 'Stylize',
I can go to 'Drop Shadow'.
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And because they're all one group...
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they all kind of act how
you imagine they would act.
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I'm just going to drop this down
to something not totally messy.
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It's still pretty big, Dan.
Let's go to the one down here.
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That's what I want.
Let's click 'OK'.
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So here's my first Compound Path.
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Next thing I'd like to do is,
I'm going to open up a new document.
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We're going to do that, one we saw
at the beginning, with all the squiggles.
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Same sort of principle.
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I'm going to open up a document.
I'm going to make sure it's RGB.
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So, twirl down 'Advanced'.
Why? Because it's just a better color.
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Look at the earlier video for RGB,
about why.
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What I'm going to do is,
I'm going to grab my 'Pencil Tool'.
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It's underneath the Shaper Tool,
grab the Pencil Tool.
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If we double click it...
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make sure the 'Smoothing' is right up,
and the 'Keep Selected' is unticked.
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It's just going to help us,
the lines look smoother.
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I'm going to draw
a few different squiggles.
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What we'll do is, I'm going to draw
one initial one, around the outside.
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Just kind of doing blobby moving around.
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Watch when I let go.
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Come back to the beginning,
because, you see...
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right back to the beginning...
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and it kind of makes it one shape,
which is cool.
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I'm making another one.
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How many of these do I want?
I think I want five.
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Doesn't really matter.
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This one's going to have
like an extra blob in there.
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Maybe one more.
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It's going to go underneath there.
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I got him down here.
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Exciting myself.
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So I've got all my shapes here now.
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What I'm going to do to make this
easier for everybody to understand--
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It's easier probably just to go,
you're the beginning shape...
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you're the next shape.
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Just keeping a nice bit of
space between them all...
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to make it easy while we're working.
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So I've got all these shapes.
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I would like some rectangles...
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so I'm going to draw
a rectangle that covers the page.
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Doesn't really matter
how big these are really.
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I'm going to grab it...
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and I'm going to stick this--
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What have I got? I've got no Fill,
I'm going to pick a color.
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I'm going to give--
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I'm going to grab it
and select it underneath.
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These need to be at the back, right?
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So we need to go
'Arrange', 'Send to Back'.
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I'm going to have one...
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two.
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I'm holding 'Alt' while I'm dragging,
that's how I'm getting the copy.
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We did it earlier on...
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but you can just hold down the 'Option'
on a Mac, or the 'Alt' key on a PC.
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Here you go, these are all my shapes.
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Now I'm going to pick some colors
because I want to.
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Let's go to 'Window',
we'll use 'Color Themes'.
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We used this earlier on in a tutorial,
I'm using 'Explore'.
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And I'm going to pick
some colors from here.
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So I will pick this color here.
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Let's start with this one,
this is going to be my Base color.
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Actually we need one other color,
that's what we need.
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We need five segments.
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This bold one's going to be this color.
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Green.
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Click on this one,
it's going to be this yellow color.
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Peach.
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I'm going to 'Color names'.
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So now we need to make them
Compound Paths, just like we did before.
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So we're going to start
with this bottom one here.
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Select both things, go to
'Object', 'Compound Path', 'Make'.
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'Select', 'Object',
'Compound Path', 'Make'.
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You see the shortcut there.
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It's 'Command 8' on a Mac,
or 'Control 8' on a PC.
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I use it all the time.
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I've got them all.
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Next thing I want to do is
select them all, and give them 'no' Stroke.
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Goodbye, Stroke.
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I'm going to stick them up,
you are at the bottom.
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Your next is going to be
some Layer Order issues, hmm, not.
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We happened to do them
in the right order.
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So that guy's behind that guy.
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So I just need to make sure...
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with them selected,
'Arrange', Bring to Front'.
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Now I'm going to my Layer Orders.
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'Arrange', 'Bring to Front'.
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Just so you know, it's not really a--
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it's kind of an intro class
for shortcuts...
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but 'Command Shift',
and the outer square rectangle,'['.
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It's near your P key.
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It's 'Command Shift' and outer,
or the second square bracket, ']'.
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It's 'Control Shift' if you're on a PC.
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So I've got all my colors.
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They're all lined up...
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and what you saw at the beginning though...
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there was this nice little effect
applied to them.
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So kind of like--
or, it is the Drop Shadow.
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Makes this look a little nicer.
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So, I am going to select it all.
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I'm going to close down Color Themes...
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and I'm going to go 'Effect'.
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Then we go to 'Drop Shadow'.
Under 'Stylize', 'Drop Shadow'.
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We're going to play around with this.
Make sure Preview is 'on'.
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I guess this will come down
to the size of your page...
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kind of squiggles you did.
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So, by default, it's a bit smaller,
'1', '1', '1'.
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I'm going to go to--
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I'm going to pretend like
I'm just freaking this...
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like I practiced this before the video...
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to try and make it look awesome.
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'7'.
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'7'.
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And this one here looks good at '20'.
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The Offset is just like left and right,
so it's kind of sun shining up there.
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The Blur is, you watch, it will change
from this kind of really hard edge...
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to a really kind of soft edge.
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Doesn't look great?
It's okay.
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Let's click 'OK' on this.
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Now one thing before we move on...
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is that you might find your machine
is running super slow.
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The reason for that is because--
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it's called the Raster Setting.
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So, if you're finding, like it's
just impossible to work...
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you can go up to here, go to 'Effects',
'Document Raster Settings'...
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and change it from 300 ppi to this, 72 ppi.
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The only problem with that,
it's going to change the resolution.
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So when you flip it up with this...
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so when you go to 'Print',
it's not going to look as good...
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but while you're working,
it actually just speeds things up.
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So now I'm working, I go and resize that,
it's super quick...
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whereas back at '300'...
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even just clicking the 'OK' button
takes forever.
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There you go.
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So now when I drag it out,
it goes, 'Recalculating', and then--
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Like, I got a pretty fast Mac,
and it's still pretty slow.
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So what you need to do is,
you can change it to '72'...
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and just before you go to 'Print',
or when you're finished doing...
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go back to '300', it will look nicer.
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So I've got this, I've done better ones...
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but let's say that I like this--
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It looks good as a kind of
abstract slice rather than the whole thing.
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So what I might do is,
I'm going to grab the 'Rectangle Tool'...
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and grab, like a chunk of, maybe this.
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Maybe just that bit.
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So I've drawn a rectangle along this top,
I've selected everything.
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Then I'm going to go to--
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I can't do it over here,
with the Quick Actions...
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because I've got too
many things selected...
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but it still works. It's under 'Object',
'Clipping Mask', 'Make', or 'Command 7'.
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Now it looks kind of cooler.
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I'm going to slice down
to a little piece.
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So one last thing we'll do
with Compound Paths before we leave.
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Let's open a file in our 'Exercise Files'.
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It's called 'Smartphone.ai'.
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Here it is here. Now this has been
downloaded from Adobe Market.
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It's free to use.
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I'll show you Adobe Market
in a video coming up.
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Basically...
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It's cool, it's got a hole cut in it...
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but, say I want to kind of
pull it apart...
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and I go to 'Object',
and go to 'Ungroup'...
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and that works.
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Button, it's kind of not part of it now,
then I go to 'Object'...
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I can't ungroup it anymore,
but it's still stuck together.
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It's because it's a Compound Path.
There's a hole cut in the middle of it.
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Actually there's lots of holes.
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All these guys here, you can see through.
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There's a page there,
they're all Compound Paths.
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You need to pull it to pieces.
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Now that we know what a Compound Path is,
no problem.
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'Object', 'Compound Path...
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and instead of Make,
we're going to 'Release' it.
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I'm going to click off in the background.
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Now it's all it's kind
of constituent parts.
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You can go and adjust
to change colors.
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You might want to go back...
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adjust the edges of this, then make
a Compound Path again.
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It's up to you, but now you know.
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There will be lots of instances of this...
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where you're given an image...
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you've downloaded it from the net,
or a stock library site...
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and it's just really hard to work with.
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The magic potion is to...
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go to 'Object', and go to
'Release Compound Path'.
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All right my friends, you are now
a master of Compound Paths.
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Go forth, cut holes in things.
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And I will see you in the very next video.
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