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Transforming patterns without paths - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Transforming patterns without paths
In this exercise I am going to show you how to do the opposite of what we learned in the previous exercise, that is, how to scale and move an otherwise transform tile patterns independently of their objects. So you don't change the objects, you change the tile patterns instead. I have saved my progress as Green man in circle.ai. And I am going to go ahead and zoom in on this graphic a little bit here. And I will select all the objects on this layer by clicking on the black wedge in the upper left corner of the test shape layer. And now everything is selected. And I'm going to double-click on the Scale tool, because let's say I want to go ahead and scale my tile pattern at this point. But I don't want to scale the objects. So I'm going to turn off Objects and that's going to automatically turn on Patterns for me. And this is what I should see. I should see all of my tile patterns changed, including inside of the strokes. So inside the circle, along the stroke of the circle, outside in…
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What was old is new again39s
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Introducing tile patterns6m 11s
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Determining the points of intersection6m 51s
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Extending paths from the intersections5m 40s
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Crafting symmetrical subpaths5m 38s
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The final flawed subpaths5m 52s
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Reconciling misaligned paths5m 34s
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Completing the core path outline6m 14s
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Making a symmetrical modification6m 47s
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Adjusting the interior elements8m 26s
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Coloring paths and testing the interlock9m 29s
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Establishing a rectangular tile6m 22s
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Defining a tile pattern3m 43s
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Creating a few color variations8m 50s
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Protecting patterns from transformations6m 9s
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Transforming patterns without paths5m 30s
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