Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To,
and today I'm going to show you how to use the new repeat features in Adobe Illustrator.
So this is radial repeat, grid repeat and mirror repeat. Alright, let's get started.
Okay, we're here in Adobe Illustrator, and I'm just going to go ahead and Create New.
We'll come up here to the top to Print. I'll choose Letter, and then we'll Create. Now if
you have an iPad and you've played around with the radial features on Illustrator for the iPad,
you'll notice that a lot of it works the same way as on the desktop - actually it was on the
iPad first. So you can start something over there on the iPad and bring it into Illustrator on the
desktop, and it will stay a repeat object. You can modify it really easily on the desktop too.
There are three types of repeat: radial repeat for objects around a circle, grid repeat, which kind
of is like a pattern, and mirror repeat, which just mirrors the artwork. So first, we're going
to try radial repeat. I'm going to open up some artwork from Vecteezy with CMD O or CTRL O on my
keyboard. And I'm going to choose this branches one. We'll open that. And it looks like these are
all grouped together. So I'll go up to Object and Ungroup them. I'm liking this one right here, so
I'll copy that with CMD C or CTRL C, and go back to my original document and paste it in with CMD V
or CTRL V. And I'm going to make this quite a bit smaller by holding Shift and getting on a corner
and just resizing it down a little bit. So what I want to do with this branch is make kind of a
round wreath with it. Alright, so let's go to Object > Repeat and Radial. Now we get
a few different controls. This button over here will increase the number of branches.
I'm going to put it down to about right here. When you click and drag this little pin at the top of
the circle, you can slide right and left to rotate it, and you can make the circle quite a lot bigger
or smaller. Then we have these little handles right down here. If I click and drag this, it will
start removing parts of the branches, however far I slide it to. So if you only needed half of it,
this would be a good option. I'm going to slide this one right back up here to the other one.
I will say these are a little bit touchy. Sometimes they won't allow you to
get them any closer than say this amount. Of course, you can grab a handle all the way out
here, hold Shift and resize the whole thing to change the size of your branches. Now,
you've probably noticed that these branches aren't really facing the right way for a wreath. So I'm
going to click on it, and then double click one of the branches. And this will put it in isolation
mode. You're probably used to this for grouping things and that kind of thing. So it kind of makes
everything grayed out except the one thing you're working on. Now we can make this smaller, we can
rotate it and get it around more like a wreath, which is more what I had in mind. Another cool
thing about isolation mode is you can add pieces to your design. So I'm going to zoom in here.
I'm going to reduce the size here a little bit, and then I'm going to add some brush
strokes. So I'll hit B on my keyboard for the brush, which is right over here.
And I'm just going to click once. Okay, this is a little bit big, so I'm going to put my stroke
down to point...we'll do .5. And I'll add some other dots here. I'm going to reduce this again,
and maybe we'll move it over a little bit closer to the dots. And now I think I want to add a swish
in here. So I'll hit P on my keyboard to get to the Pen tool. I'm just going to click out here.
Yeah, that looks nice. I might smooth this up a little bit by hitting Shift S,
which will get me to the Smooth tool. And I'll just do this. Okay, that looks pretty good.
Now I'll get on my Width tool, which is Shift W,
this one right here. I'm just going to click in the middle and drag it out a little bit
to get kind of a nice swishy look. So now that we're done making changes to our wreath,
we can just click the arrow right here or we can hit Escape to get out of isolation mode.
Then when we click back on it, we get our other controls back, which might be very interesting.
Okay, we're down with the radial repeat. So I'm just going to move this off to the side. And
now we'll use grid repeat. For this I'm going to open some little bird artwork that I also got from
Vecteezy and that one is right here. It's an EPS, so I'll just drag it onto my Illustrator icon.
Okay, and I think I like this one right here. So I'm going to select it,
copy it, and come back to my document and paste it.
I'll resize to make it a lot smaller. I'm holding Shift and OPTION to resize proportionally from
the middle. This time, we'll come up here to Object > Repeat > Grid. And as you can see,
we've got a little grid going on now. Now we can move these buttons to reveal more birds. We can
do that vertically if we want. And this button up here will change the spacing between them.
So we can move them in really close if we need to, and also vertical spacing. Now let's open
our Properties panel. So we'll go to Window > Properties. The Properties panel will change with
whatever tool you're working with, so it might be a good idea to keep it open a lot of the time.
Right down here we have repeat options. These numbers are like moving this, so they'll change
the spacing. And you can see that change once you let off your mouse. We can also change the grid
type right here. So we're on this first one, and now we'll try brick by row. And you can see it's
kind of offset them. So this one is farther to the right than this one. The third button is for
brick by column. If we use that one, we'd probably want to add a little more space between this way
and reduce the space this way. Okay, I'm gonna put this back to brick by row, and then I'm going to
click Flip Row. And now you can see that some of these birds are facing the opposite direction.
If we do Flip Column, we're flipping every other bird right and left. And now of course,
we can increase the spacing here, we can decrease it here to move them closer together.
If we hit Flip Vertical, it's flipped them upside down. So with all four of these checked, you'll
get a result similar to this. Don't forget to that you can double click and get into isolation mode,
and rotate them or resize them however you like. So just play around with it. You can end up with
some really cool results. I'm going to get out of isolation mode and just move this off to the side.
And now we'll talk about mirror repeat. I'm going to open another graphic from Vecteezy.
This one is 'ornament.' So I'll pull it onto my Illustrator icon. I'll copy this and paste it
into my document. I'm going to make it quite a bit smaller, then I'm going to rotate it.
So I'll come up here to the Rotate button. And I'm just going to click and drag and hold Shift
until it's on its side. Now I'll come up here to Object > Repeat > Mirror Repeat. With mirror
repeat, you'll go into isolation mode right off the bat. You can see it right up here.
So now let's take a look at all these handles. We've got a button right here in the middle,
and if we click and drag to the right and left, it'll move that part out
or closer together. These two buttons at the top and bottom will rotate it. So you could
come up with a completely different design just by doing that. I'll undo to get back to our original.
I'm going to zoom in. And since we're already in isolation mode, we can just start drawing in here.
So I'm going to get on my Pen tool by hitting P on my keyboard, and it's right over here also, and
just click here and then click and drag and make some cool little parts of this art. And you'll see
it mirror itself over here. We can also hit B to get our Brush tool and just draw whatever we want.
You can use almost all of your tools, but some tools aren't meant to work with it ... like the
Graph tool. So if I click on this, it'll give me this little icon with a 'prohibited' symbol on it.
And then other ones like the Symbol sprayer - that one's right here - I can't use this, but
it doesn't have the little prohibited symbol on it. So I'm guessing that might work in the future,
but it just doesn't right now. But feel free to play around with these tools. I think the repeat
tools are really fun to work with and they can save a lot of time. And you can go back and forth
with the iPad now like I mentioned before. All right, if you liked this video, please click on
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