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Targeting the contents of a group

Targeting the contents of a group - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Targeting the contents of a group

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- [Voiceover] Alright now I just know there's some highly observant person out there that's looking at this, and going wait a second, why are these cubes casting shadows based on their color groups? In other words, if this blue cube right here is casting shadows onto the purple cubes to the right of it shouldn't it also be casting a shadow onto the blue cube below it, which would end up looking something like this. And so the difference here ultimately boils down to groups and their contents. So in other words, in the case of the artwork we created in the previous movie, we're assigning dynamic effects to groups whereas in this case here, we're assigning dynamic effects to not only groups in the case of the big glow, but also the contents of those groups in the case of the shadows. And so let's see what that looks like. I'll go ahead and switch my artwork so far, and I'll click not on the red cube, which is just fine as you can see, because it's not a group that contains other groups…

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