shape you will enter exact values into the shapes dialog box. Click once out on the artboard. The Ellipse dialog box appears. Enter 5 into the Width text field, then click on the word Height to match the value. Press OK. The circle appears on the artboard. 6 Choose the Selection tool, and then hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key and position your cursor over the ellipse. When you see a double cursor, click and drag to clone (copy) the ellipse towards the lower-right by about .25 inch. Exact position is not important. Hold down the Alt/Option key to clone ellipse to the lower right, and then to the lower-left. 7 Click on the original ellipse that you created and hold down the Alt/Option key and drag to the lower-left to clone another ellipse. For the next step, you will make the fill transparent. 960 8 Using the Selection tool, click and drag so that you create a marquee area that touches all three ellipses. This selects all the ellipses that the marquee crosses over. Click and drag with the Selection tool to create a selection of all three ellipses. 9 Click on Fill in the Control panel at the top of the workspace and choose None ( ). This allows you to see all the intersecting faces that have been created. These individual faces are not individual objects that can easily be filled in with the traditional fill and stroke options available in Illustrator. To fill the faces, you will create a new Live Paint object. 961 Change the fill to None. Converting the artwork to a Live Paint group 1 Make sure that all three ellipses are still selected and then click and hold on the Shape Builder tool ( ) in the Tools panel to select the hidden Live Paint Bucket tool. 2 Position the cursor over the selected ellipses, when you see the message. Click to make a Live Paint group, click. The ellipses are converted to a group of faces that can now be easily filled with color. 962 Use the Live Paint Bucket tool to convert your ellipses to a Live Paint group. Applying Live Paint to the group In this next step, you will select colors and apply them to the individual faces in the newly create Live Paint group. 1 If the Swatches panel is not visible, choose Window > Swatches. Click on the tab of the panel and drag it out into the workspace to undock it from the panel docking area. 2 Select the color named CMYK Red, and then (with the Live Paint Bucket tool still selected) hover over anyone of the faces in the Live Paint group. Notice that the individual face becomes highlighted. When you have picked a face that you want to fill with red (any one will do) click. The face fills with the red color. 963 Hover over a face in the Live Paint group and The result. then click. You might have notices the color selection appearing above the cursor. You can use this color selection to navigate through the rest of your colors in the swatches panel. 3 Hover over another face in your Live paint group, but this time press the right arrow key to navigate to the color to the right of CMYK Red in the Swatches panel (CMYK Yellow), then click to fill the face. 4 For the rest of this lesson, use the colors in the Swatches panel to fill random faces in the Live Paint group. No specific color assignment is necessary. 964 Fill the faces of the Live Paint group with color. 5 Select File > Save, or press Ctrl+S (Windows) or Command+S (Mac OS) to save this file. Keep it open for the next part of this lesson. 6 Choose Window > Workspace > Essentials to reset the panels. Adding a symbol to your artwork Symbols offer the ability to you to create artwork that can be used dynamically throughout your illustration. For example, you can create a snow flake and use it over 100 times in the illustration. Every time you use the snowflake, it is referred to as an instance. If you edit the symbol, all instances are updated. Symbols can also be used to store frequently used artwork, such as logos, or clip art. In this lesson you use an existing symbol to add the retro bus to the illustration. 965 1 Choose Window > Symbols, the Symbols panel appears. There are only a few symbols included in the Symbols panel by default, but many more that you can access in the library. 2 Click on the panel menu in the upper-right of the Symbols panel and select Open Symbol Library > Retro. A separate panel appears with retro symbols included in it. Select Open Symbol Library from The Retro symbols. the panel menu. 3 Click on the Mini Bus symbol and drag it to the artboard. Easily navigate through all of the Symbol libraries by clicking on the arrow buttons at the bottom of an open Symbol Library panel. 4 Using the Selection tool, reposition the mini bus so that it is in the center of the ellipses. 5 With the bus still selected, double-click on the Scale tool ( ) in the Tools panel. The Scale dialog box appears. 966 6 Type 175 in the Uniform Scale text field, and press OK. The bus is scaled to 175% of the original size. Use the Scale tool to enter an exact scale amount. If you want to visually resize the bus, you can position your cursor over any corner point in the bounding box. Click, then hold down the Shift key and drag inwards or outwards to scale down or up proportionally. 7 Press Ctrl+S (Windows) or Command+S (Mac OS) to save this file, keep it open for the next part of this lesson. 967 Expanding the symbol As mentioned earlier, using symbols as clip art is an easy way to access lots of artwork, but perhaps you want to edit the symbol without affecting the original stored version. In this next lesson, you expand the mini bus so that you can recolor some of the artwork. 1 With the bus still selected, choose Object > Expand. The Expand dialog box appears. Expanding a symbol. 2 Leave the options in the Expand dialog box the same and press OK. Most of the vector paths are now accessible and ready for you to edit. This has also removed any link to the original symbol. 968 Saving swatches The Swatches panel allows you to store colors for multiple uses in your document. You can create colors using several different methods in Illustrator, and, by adding them to the Swatches panel, you can store them for frequent and consistent use. Storing a swatch of a color that you plan to reuse guarantees that the color is exactly the same each time it is used. Let’s create a new swatch for your document. 1 Click on the artboard (the white area surrounding the page) to deselect any objects in your document. You can also use the keyboard shortcut, Shift+Ctrl+A (Windows) or Shift+Command+A (Mac OS). 2 Double-click the Fill color at the bottom of the Tools panel. 3 When the Color Picker appears, type the values of C:0 M:70 Y:100 K:0. Press OK. 969 [...]... a dot in the lower-right of a swatch indicate? 2 Where, in Adobe Illustrator CS5, would you look to identify the fill and stroke properties of a selected object? 3 True or false: You can share swatches that you created in Adobe Illustrator CS5 with other Adobe CS5 programs 4 What is a global color? 5 What is the benefit of using Live Paint? 984 Answers 1 If a swatch has a dot in the lower right corner,... Live Paint 986 Starting up Before starting, make sure that your tools and panels are consistent by resetting your workspace See “Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS5 Preferences” on page 3 You will work with several files from the ai03lessons folder in this lesson Make sure that you have loaded the CS5lessons folder onto your hard drive from the supplied DVD or online ePub users go to www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/cs5... that can be imported into other CS5 applications 4 A global color is one that is dynamically linked to all instances in the illustration Use a global color if you want color updates to be less time consuming 5 The Live Paint feature allows you to individually paint faces of an illustration without defining new shapes 9 85 Illustrator Lesson 3:Working with the Drawing Tools Adobe Illustrator includes a number... document There is also an option called Save Swatch Library as ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) in the Swatches panel menu This performs a very similar task to Save Swatch Library as AI, except that the ASE format is interchangeable with other CS5 applications These swatch libraries can be opened within 973 Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign, making it very easy to share colors between multiple applications... created is a perfect vertical line 11 Continue holding down the Shift key while clicking at labels 4, 5, and 6 Doing this draws the line between points 4 and 5 at a perfect 1 35- degree angle, as the Shift key constrains the angle to 45- degree increments Pressing Shift while clicking allows you to create 90- and 45- degree angles with the Pen tool 12 With a final anchor point at label 6, hold down the Ctrl key... Congratulations! You have completed the lesson Self study In this lesson, you were introduced to several great new features of Adobe Illustrator CS5, as well as some features that aren’t so new, but deserve further investigation nonetheless 983 The Appearance panel is a highly underused feature of Adobe Illustrator; practice on your own by exploring the capabilities harnessed it Start by drawing a line with the... dialog box appears, navigate to the ai03lessons folder and select the ai 050 1.ai file Press OK This is a practice file containing several different line templates that you will work through in the following exercises 2 Choose File > Save As In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the ai03lessons folder and type ai 050 1_work.ai 989 into the Name text field; then press Save In the Illustrator Options dialog... displayed This is another benefit of using a global color You can easily applies tints of a global color 4 Click on the slider and change the value to 50 % By defining this color as global, you now have the ability to use it multiple times at various shades 5 Click on a color (any) that was not defined as global to notice that all four CMYK color sliders appear in the Color panel 6 Using the color slider... not defined as global 977 8 Choose File > Save Then choose File > Close to save the illustration Adding Pantone (Spot) Colors In the next example, you will open a completed color logo and convert it to be used as a logo on a business card When creating artwork that will be printed in multiple locations on various media, it is important to use spot colors Spot colors When designing a product that will... view of the Pantone Solid Coated panel 4 Click on the Pantone Solid Coated panel menu and choose Small List View The Pantone colors are now listed with descriptive text 5 Sype 300 into the Find Field Pantone 300 is highlighted in the list 981 6 Select the Group Selection tool ( ), then click on a shape on the artboard, then click on the highlighted Pantone 300 color in the list The shape is filled with . interchangeable with other CS5 applications. These swatch libraries can be opened within 973 Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign, making it very easy to share colors between multiple applications. Unfortunately, any. Shift+Command+A (Mac OS) to deselect everything. 971 5 Double-click on the Hippie Orange swatch in the Swatches panel; the Swatch Options dialog box appears. 6 Type 50 into the M (Magenta) textbox, and press. as ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) in the Swatches panel menu. This performs a very similar task to Save Swatch Library as AI, except that the ASE format is interchangeable with other CS5 applications.