Transcript for:
Mastering Fill and Stroke in Design

all right excellent i hope you guys all worked on uh zooming and you know fitting into window and understanding how the selection tools work now let's talk about filling these objects with color i call this fill and stroke i'm going to use my command plus to blow up i'm going to hold my space bar to scooch my marvel over okay now because i don't because i want to select individual pieces what tool am i going to use if you were here you would tell me the direct selection tool that's right that is the white arrow i'm going to click on the white arrow and i am going to choose this red box now let's talk about how this red box is created this red box is made of something called an anchor point this is an anchor point and what we could do with that anchor point is we can actually click on it and move it and we're going to do that in a few minutes but i just wanted to show you that now so you understand what it is that we are selecting we are selecting an anchor point and if you remember back to geometry two points create a line and that's what happens here anchor point one and anchor point two we're gonna click on the color of this vector shape and we're going to look down here in our toolbox down in the bottom left you're going to see the toolbox here in the bottom left you're going to see a red fill if you hover over it you see it says fill and a stroke this stroke is no color you could tell that because it has a red line through it so if we want to change this color we're going to go up here to window now you guys should be writing this down i've told you this before i'm going to tell you a hundred times write it down and watch the video first before you try to do anything and we're going to just go to swatches down at the very bottom they are in alphabetical order and you can see here we can pull out these swatches now you'll notice there's only red and black in here that's because somebody deleted all the swatch colors that they were not using because back in the olden days it made the file smaller so what we can do when there's only two swatches we can do two things well let's do one thing let's do two things we can do two things we can bring up the color palette and the color palette gives us this red color with a slider bar at the bottom you can see we can click on that slider bar and make other colors we can also go up to the four little lines and we can choose cmyk cyan magenta yellow and black when we do that we can then drag these sliders to create our own custom colors i call this digital color theory all right eventually you're gonna have to take that 13-week color theory class with lots of gouache mixing things together this is color theory we can move these colors around okay the other thing we can do is we can go down here and just watches to this little stack here it looks like books it's called the swatch library menu and we could click on that library menu and we can choose these different color selectors okay there's patterns which we'll talk about in a few minutes there's a color books which are like pantone books that you would use to do professional printing there's nature things like foliage and flowers there's food i love this one fruit so you can pull up the fruit colors and if you click and hold here you can enlarge these screens and you can make this you know a fruit color all right you can also then click off when i say click off just click in a white area and you can click on one letter at a time like marvel and choose another color if you put the stroke in front going over here to the left hand side we can put the stroke in front in the toolbar and then we can stroke that as well then we can click on the a clicking on the fill color choosing a color clicking on the stroke color and choosing another color pretty neat huh so that is filling with basic um color the other thing you can pull and see how i can just move all these little windows around these are windows and when they're open they get little check boxes next to them see that so i could go back to the books here and i can also fill with pattern and i can go to nature and animal skins i always use this one because it's pretty fun and now look what i get stacked on top of fruit i get animal skins and see how i can separate those by clicking and dragging and then putting them back clicking and dragging and putting them back now they're very small i don't know about you but i can't see those so under the hamburger or the four little lines you click and you can say large list view and that will blow that up so you can see what they are now we can click on the r oh you notice the r and the v are one right right here those vector shapes were joined and that's why they are one and then we could click on like the jaguar oh see it did a stroke because i had my stroke selected but if i don't want my stroke look over here in the toolbar on the left hand side i can just click this little nun box the little red line and go none then i can click on my fill and i can choose jaguar pretty cool huh all right let's stop here and i'll have you guys try that okay