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Assigning an effect to an entire layer - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Assigning an effect to an entire layer
Over the course in the next few exercises we're going to transform our snowflake so far, which I'm calling Kings with crowns.ai, into this beveled effect here, in which we're building up a bunch of different stroke effects and I've gone ahead and rotated the entire snowflake about 15 degrees. Now if I set in applying the strokes to the group as it is so far, then we're going to run into problems, because basically because we have all these dynamic effects piled on top of each other they respond to everything we do and the simple act of adding a stroke actually shoves the path outline outward a little bit and messes up our alignment. And we're going to see some other dynamic effects along the way as well. So I'll switch back to our illustration at hand. And I'm going to select that group by just kind of generally marqueeing in this area of the screen with my Black Arrow tool, and that goes ahead and selects all the paths inside the group. And we can see that the group is selected here…
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My favorite features in all of Illustrator1m 21s
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Introducing the Transform effect5m 30s
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Repeating the last effect you applied4m 51s
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Applying multiple passes of a single effect5m 21s
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The wonders of editing dynamic artwork7m 13s
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Applying effects inside effects5m 11s
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Assigning an effect to an entire layer5m 42s
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Building a complex bevel effect5m 44s
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Placing artwork as a Photoshop Smart Object4m 55s
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Editing that Smart Object in Illustrator4m 21s
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Rotating continuously overlapping objects5m 34s
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Adjusting a dynamic transformation origin6m 21s
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Vector vs. raster effects5m 46s
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Introducing the Scribble effect5m 23s
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Copying effects between layers4m 20s
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Introducing Graphic Styles6m 50s
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Controlling the Filter Gallery preview2m 28s
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Document Raster Effects Settings4m 31s
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Combining and saving styles4m 32s
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