459 Islamic design 5: Coloring and sculpting

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now, as you may recall, over the last couple…of weeks, we have been working on this highly…geometric Islamic design, which I am also calling…an Arabic pattern, just to, you know, cover all my bases.…This week, in this very episode, we are going to take…our design so far as created in Adobe Illustrator,…and we are going to turn it into a…work of stained glass by coloring all…of the panes and sculpting the strokes.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…

Alright, so here's the final document,…just so you have a chance to see it on screen.…I will go ahead and switch over to the…file that contains all the dynamic effects, and…the first thing that we need to do is…convert the remaining layers that are dynamic effects…into static path outlines, and those…are these two layers right here.…So I will go ahead and click on corners and then,…shift + click on the center layer, and then…I will click on the fly-out menu icon, and choose…Duplicate Selection in order to…