It's time to do some advanced image tips and tricks. 1
There's not much we can do... 2
but there's some cool little work flow things I think you'll like. 3
Let's get started. 4
So first trick is - I'm going to zoom out a little bit. 5
- I want to bring in an image, and crop it... 6
and not use a Clipping Mask, I want to delete the stuff. 7
So I want to go 'File', 'Place'. 8
And we're going to find the one called 'Desk'. 9
Then click 'Place', I want to make it really big... 10
because I want to-- what I want to do is, I want it to fit in a space about... 11
about a third of my document, right? 12
At the moment that's the space I wanted to fill. 13
What we could do is grab this image... 14
and kind of get it to where we want, select both of them. 15
Hit 'Command 7', or 'Control 7' on a PC. 16
That kind of crops it down. 17
We can double click to edit it, get it to how we want. 18
Double click the background to get back out. 19
Now the problem with this is that... 20
you can kind of see, if I hover above the image, there's a red band around it. 21
Means the image is actually still in there... 22
which is kind of cool, I can get to edit it, I understand that... 23
but let's say I want to get rid of it because it keeps the file size really big. 24
Having extra pixels that I don't need. 25
And one of my big grouse is... 26
there's a lot of times when we try to export... 27
kind of do things, and it-- I'll show you what I mean. 28
'Window', if I go to 'Asset Export'... 29
and let's say I want to export this for a website. 30
I'm going to drag it in here... 31
you'll notice it doesn't match up to my Crop Mark. 32
It actually matches up to the full image. 33
So it's not what I want. 34
So what I can do is - I'm going to close that down. 35
- I'm going to undo out. 36
Undo, undo, undo. 37
What I can do is... 38
I want to get it roughly where I think it should be. 39
Actually I'll give this 'no' Fill. 40
So that's the interesting crop that I want. 41
Now I'm going to crop it full. 42
So it's not really anything to do with us, that's handy... 43
but if I select the image, I can go to this one that says 'Crop Image'. 44
And I can grab the images here, and it will snap to that box. 45
So a similar sort of a process is the Cropping Mask. 46
If I click 'Apply', that now is gone. 47
Deleted all the pixels, there's that line around the outside that I don't need. 48
That now is totally gone, if I go inside of it, it's just that image. 49
Keeps the file size small, and when I use the 'Asset Export'... 50
I drag him in, it's just that guy. 51
I know it looks like it's actually on the side, but it's not. 52
It needs to be square. 53
Awesome! Next trick. 54
Our next one is, I'm going to go to 'File', 'Place'. 55
I'm going to bring in multiple images. 56
This is quite cool. I can bring in multiple images at once. 57
Nice thing is your arrow keys. 58
So your arrow keys, can you see, I got one of four... 59
but let's say I want to put them in order. 60
So I don't want this one here, I can cycle through... 61
and say, that's the one I want, I want that one here... 62
and I want the next one, it's that guy, I was just making it up... 63
but you get the idea. 64
That's where you can go. 65
So multiple images. 66
Let's look at bringing in images a slightly different way. 67
Let's go to 'File', 'Place'. 68
There's two ways of bringing in images. 69
We can link them, or not link them. 70
So I'm going to not link this guy... 71
and I'm going to link the next person. 72
I'll show you the pros and cons of both of these. 73
'Bike 1', I'll link this guy, bring him in. 74
One guy's linked, one guy's not. 75
You can kind of tell, one has got the Placeholder... 76
or the big X in the middle of it. 77
Now the trouble with each of them. 78
This guy here is linked... 79
which means-- Illustrator works a bit faster, this guy's embedded... 80
so he's in the Illustrator file, makes the file size quite big... 81
and make the machine run slow. 82
So if you've got lots of images, try and link them, makes them fast. 83
The only trouble with this... 84
is if you go and delete that image off your hard drive... 85
'Bike 1', you're going to hit 'Delete'. 86
It's going to go, "Hey, where did that thing go?" 87
So there's pros and cons. 88
One of the things you can do though, say you got one... 89
and you're like, "Actually, stop being linked," it's a pain... 90
because I want to send it to somebody... 91
and I want it to be all inside the Illustrator file. 92
You can go to 'Window', 'Links'... 93
and in here are my images. 94
Once I have this image here, it means that they're embedded... 95
and this one's not, that's linked. 96
What I want to do is, this guy, I want to unembed. 97
So I can right click it, and say 'Unembed'. 98
It will ask you where you want to put it. 99
Save it on your hard drive, and we'll make it a link. 100
It kind of gets it out of Illustrator. 101
This one here, I can right click... 102
and I can say 'Embed Image'. 103
It will kind of yank it from its link... 104
and now it's stuck inside this Illustrator file forever. 105
That can be handy. 106
This Links panel is quite handy, open it up... 107
because sometimes you've got like-- depends on who you're working with, right? 108
I got things that I work with, and make it work... 109
I don't know how they end up there, but they end up with... 110
like a snail trail of design up there... 111
and you're like, "I wonder why this Illustrator file is big"... 112
and you're looking at it here, and you're like, "Who's this guy?" 113
And you can click on, I think it's this option here, takes you to the link. 114
It shows me all the way up here... 115
here's that file. Cool. 116
I'm going to close that down and move on to our next trick. 117
The next one is creating-- 118
I'm going to create a 'New Document'. 119
I've done a drawing in my note book, I've taken a photo of it... 120
or of a scan, and I want to draw over the top. 121
I want to put it on its own layer. 122
Maybe lower the opacity, make a new layer on top of that. 123
Lock the Background layer, all of that jazz, we've done it before. 124
What we can do is go to 'File', 'Place'. 125
Go down to 'Curvature Tool'. 126
I'm not going to link them, because it's a Template. 127
Let's click 'Place'. 128
It's pretty cool, it goes through and... 129
watch this, I kind of clicked on it, it's faded out... 130
It's on its own layer. 131
It's locked, I've got a new layer to work on, super handy. 132
Last thing we'll do is, we'll start pasting images inside of things. 133
Let's say I want this inside of the text. 134
What I need to do is get it where I want it to go. 135
I'm going to make mine a bit bigger... 136
because I want to do this. 137
Select them both, make sure the text is on front... 138
and hit 'Command 7', or 'Control 7' on a PC. 139
Cool thing about it, the text is still editable... 140
I need to double click it a couple of times. 141
Old gag, I know. 142
I click off, click back in the background a couple of times. 143
So with images inside, and the text is still editable. Super cool. 144
Now getting inside, say a shape like this. 145
Let's say I'm going to-- it's a new shape. 146
I'm going to make it so it's just a part of circles. 147
If I do that with this... 148
and I go, 'Send to Back', try to do the exact same thing... 149
actually it's on its own layer. 150
Sorry, I got it wrong, it's a wrong layer. 151
So I've got you, I've put it at the back, I select you guys... 152
and I'm going to go 'Command 7'. 153
It picks whichever one is at the top. 154
So that's not going to work... 155
so I'm going to select these guys, and group them, 'Control G'. 156
Select these guys, 'Command 7'. 157
It works even worse. 158
So what we need to do is not group them, I'm going to 'ungroup' them. 159
And what we're going to do is make him a Compound Shape. 160
The shortcut is 'Command 8'... 161
or, there's that 'Command 7' that I was just talking about. 162
There's the 'Command 8', that's the Compound Path. 163
Nothing really happens, right? You're like, Whoop Dee Doo 164
But, magic, now if I do it... 165
now if I do 'Command 7'... 166
'Command 8', 'Command 7', that will happen. 167
Awesome! That is it for my tips and tricks for images. 168
Let's get on to the next video.