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Breaking a symbol link and envelope fidelity - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Breaking a symbol link and envelope fidelity
I have saved my progress as Tiki circle.ai. In this exercise we are going to set about editing the central tiki mask. And then in a later exercise we will update all the other instances to match. Now let's say what I want to do with this guy is I want to make a little more evil. Currently he's got this sort of slack-jawed look and he is kind of has zombie eyes. He's not the least bit scary in my opinion. And I think it'd be more interesting if he was scary. So I'm going to give him kind of an evil grin ultimately. And one way to modify the symbol would be to double-click on this Instance in order to enter this symbol isolation mode. And I can see the tiki in the context of the other tiki's, which is great. However the big problem is that all of my local adjustments, the fact that he is scaled to 200%, the fact that he was moved to a different location inside the illustration and of course, his drop shadow, they are all lost to me, I can't see them. And I don't want to work that way. I…
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How symbols work1m 2s
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The power of symbols5m 1s
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Creating new symbols6m
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Enabling the new 9-slice scaling4m 24s
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Adjusting your 9-slice scaling guides6m 54s
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Previewing and acquiring symbols4m 12s
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Finding a symbol and creating an instance4m 13s
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Duplicating and replacing instances4m 19s
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Breaking a symbol link and envelope fidelity5m 26s
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Distorting and expanding a symbol4m 54s
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Updating an existing symbol definition3m 40s
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Recoloring a symbol definition4m 13s
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Applying a basic "local" color adjustment5m 20s
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Applying a more elaborate local color adjustment5m 4s
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Laying down a random symbol set5m 35s
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The eight symbolism tools6m 55s
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Editing selected instances4m 11s
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