Welcome to the Corner Extravaganza. 1
We're going to turn corners into curves... 2
by using these weird little targets that appeared. 3
Now that looked a little underwhelming. 4
It gets a little bit more exciting... 5
but you should stick around... 6
because some of the tips you're going to learn here... 7
are going to help us later on in the Advanced course... 8
so hang around, let's learn about corners. 9
So Corner Options have been around a little while. 10
A lot of people just ignore them. 11
I'm going to grab my 'Rectangle Tool'. 12
I just got a plain document open, nothing fancy. 13
I'm going to draw a box, and it's these guys... 14
these little targets in the corners. 15
If you can't see yours, they're under 'View'... 16
and they call them 'Corner Widgets'. 17
So you can turn them on and off. 18
They can get annoying, a little bit... 19
when you're using Pen Tool, and stuff, or the Direct Selection Tool. 20
So what they do is-- all I do is drag them in, and I get rounder corners. 21
Not particularly fancy, we can fancy them up a little bit... 22
by grabbing the Direct Selection Tool... 23
the White Arrow, clicking on just one corner. 24
And you can kind of do one side, click on the other side. 25
That's kind of cooler. 26
Where it gets nice, or more advanced... 27
is holding down the 'Option' key on a Mac, or the 'Alt' key on a PC ... 28
and just clicking one of these guys. 29
Whatever you've got selected. 30
And you can see, I can change it from ??... 31
but you get the idea. 32
So it works for rectangles, it works for anything. 33
Grab the 'Curvature Tool', and we start doing weird corner stuff. 34
And you'll see that, if I have my White Arrow here... 35
whenever there is a corner, you can see, I can kind of flatten it out. 36
And that's going to come in real handy later on... 37
when we start joining things with the Shape Builder Tool. 38
That was a pretty bad example... 39
but let's look at the Star real quick... 40
and we'll look at a couple of other options. 41
Don't leave. 42
So I've got a Star, I'm going to drag it over here. 43
I'm going to grab the 'White Arrow'. 44
You can see, there's corners everywhere. I can just kind of turn them up... 45
or I can select just this one, hold 'Shift', and grab all of these guys... 46
and just do the outside ones. 47
It does get better than this, I promise. 48
How much better? 49
There are some extra options. If you double click any of these guys... 50
so double click any of the targets, you get kind of corner options. 51
You can decide on how-- 52
how relative... 53
or absolute. Just different kind of corners. 54
Depends on how the Anchor Points make it. 55
You can obviously change your Anchor Points here as well... 56
and if I go back to the 'Radius'... 57
you can kind of push it in and out, instead of dragging it. 58
Let's click 'OK'. 59
One thing you might run into is... 60
if you're drawing something, say a random shape. 61
I grab the 'Pen Tool', I'm just drawing randomness, right? 62
And if I double click on any of these points... 63
it gives me this kind of Corner Options Panel. 64
You might get, if you're dealing with... 65
say a regular shape, like a Rectangle Tool... 66
it's still a primitive shape, Illustrator still knows it's a rectangle. 67
You can see up there, it says, "I'm a rectangle, not a random shape." 68
Now if I use the 'Black Arrow', and double click on any of these guys... 69
you get a slightly different window. 70
It controls the-- you get a bit more control here... 71
but you can see, these are the corners, and these are the corner options. 72
So it's no real difference, just-- 73
I'm going to increase this up... 74
and you can see, I'm looking at the top right angle over there. 75
Just so you know, you might look at a different window... 76
than I got just a second ago. 77
Now the big thing to do in here though is... 78
say if I-- I'll make this a lot bigger. 79
Scale Corners, I can't remember if it's on or off by default. 80
I've not played with it too many times... 81
but the difference is, if I grab my 'Rectangle Tool' now... 82
and scale this down with 'Scale Corners'... 83
and I'm holding 'Shift', so it scales proportionately... 84
it gets smaller. 85
Whereas if I turn that off, and scale it down... 86
you'll notice it eventually turns into a kind of a weird circley egg thing... 87
because it's trying to maintain those corners. 88
So, turn those on and off as you need them. 89
If you can't get this thing to open up, just go to 'Window', 'Transform'. 90
You end up at the same place. 91
One thing might happen though-- you saw I double clicked it. 92
It might end up looking like this to start with. 93
If you double click the word 'Transform', gets smaller before it gets bigger. 94
So big... 95
medium... 96
little bit... 97
tiny; I'm not sure why that one's useful... 98
but anyway you get the idea. 99
You can keep double clicking that way to get the different options. 100
I'm going to click 'Scale' on, seems like a better way of working. 101
Now what I want to do before we go, I'm just going to go back to-- 102
remember, our whale from earlier? 103
It really annoyed me, this nose here... 104
so I'm going to click on it, and I'm going to-- 105
Remember, I'm using my White Arrow, if I use the Black Arrow... 106
I set the whole shape, and I donât get those little targets. 107
So I'm going to grab this... 108
and I click on just this corner... 109
and that's what I wanted for my friend, a little snubby nose. 110
I'm going to go wreck a few other bits... 111
but you are fine to carry on... 112
and now I'm going to grab you, and just track you down there... 113
so it's just on this top bit. 114
Looks terrible. 115
Kind of looks a little bit more like water. 116
My whale's not like flowers. 117
All right, you get the idea, right? 118
So Corner Option's useful. 119
We're getting that more and more useful as we get through that course. 120
So yes, we need to introduce it now. 121
All right, let's get on to the next video. 122
But before then, I'm going to undo. 123
I'd rather, not like he's ejecting flowers. 124
Anyway, that looked terrible. 125
Okay, now we're going to the next video.