Hi there, in this video we're going to look at creating
dotted lines and dashed lines, perforation lines.
We're going to do wavy lines and strappy lines and all lines,
Let's go and do that now.
To put the border around the outside,
we're going to start with a rectangle.
The rectangle tool, not the rectangle frame tool,
and what I'd like to do is you saw
earlier that I had to perfectly away from the edge now.
What I can do is I can draw it exactly the right size,
remember, that is actually the edge of the page.
This bit on the outside here is the bleed, remember.
I'm going to draw the actual size, my half letter.
It's a nice big rectangle,
now we've got a fill of green and a stroke of nothing.
I'll leave it there for the moment just while we're practicing this because if
I grab my selection tool and I try and scale it down proportionately,
one of the keys, that's,
Command and Shift on the Mac,
and Control and Shift on a PC.
If I hold them down and I make them proportionately smaller.
You'll notice that if I put it here in the middle is
actually doesn't scale the way we want.
We want equal distances around the outside.
I first scale it down even more.
You can see it's a lot bigger in the sides than it
is in the top and the bottom just because it's scaling that way.
What I'd like to do is I'm going to undo,
it actually fills the outside.
What we can do, you can see at the top here it's got a width and height,
it's perfect, it matches my off data.
What I can do in here is some basic math.
These little boxes, any of these little white boxes,
you can do some little math, which is really handy.
In here, I can go minus and I'm going to turn up half an inch 0.5.
You'll see it's exactly half an inch.
Do the same here, minus 0.5.
You can do times, If I did times 2,
it will be times 2 inches,
it's that little asterisks,
and it's a whole lot told them that needs to be, I undo.
I'm going to get minus 0.5 minus plus all that stuff works,
and to get it in the middle,
you could use your line tools.
There's mine at the top here,
or there was a panel that we saw earlier,
but actually it's just easier to grab your black arrow click "Hold",
and you'll notice that it just snaps.
You see those two purple,
pinky lines just saying, "Hey,
there's the middle," and you'll see visually it looks like it's in the middle.
It's actually 0.5, half an inch from all the sides and it looks nice and perfect.
Now, to make the line dotted.
We're going to give it no fill, click on my fill,
I'm going to get a none, and this one here,
the structure on the outside, I'm going to make a white, or paper.
This is the stroke here, how thick it is.
At the moment it's one point,
it's probably what I want,
but let's make it nice and big just as an example so we can all see what we're doing.
So bump it up to four points and now we need to find our stroke panel.
Mine is there, if you can't find yours here go to Window,
go down to Stroke and turn it on.
Now, yours might look a little different as well,
yours might be these little flier means new that
higher options and if yours looks like mine,
you've got really basic control.
Click on this option and say "Show Options" and you get
the big aggravation with all the details that we
need and the one we need the moment is type.
That's going to allow us to change it from a solid line that
we know it to all these other options.
There's some wind ones,
ones that I've never used Thick-Thin, you might like them,
White Diamond I've used,
Dotted lines and Dashed lines are the ones that we're going
to look at the moment and there's two kinds of dotted.
Here there's dotted and
some reason the Japanese like their dots a little bit closer together.
Japanese thing not sure.
There's my dots around here,
so if you want a dashed,
is dashed, this at the squiggly line.
You might like the squiggly line.
Isn't way things and they're okay,
but we're going to go to dotted and we're going put the size down to something,
I don't know, I'm putting two points.
Now, you might use dashed lines as a visual thing, like I'm doing here.
There's nothing this dotted line just for pretty sake.
What we're going to do is maybe it's snip here,
this is this like cut this bit off for the reading your coupon.
What you can do is instead of doing for this rectangle,
you can do the exact same tricks with just a straight line.
The straight line here I could draw,
and what am I do actually is draw it straight up and down.
If you want to draw a line straight up and down,
it's the similar technique we did when we made a circle.
remember, we held on Shift and it was a perfect circle.
That same technique makes it a perfect line.
So I hold down shift before I start drawing it out.
You can see it really wants to go straight up and down.
Say, that's going to be my perforation line where I want people to snip it off.
It's got a line fill,
and the liner on the outside is going to be white.
I'm going to make it two points just so you can see
it and then you can see the exact same controls.
Hey, somebody's calling.
Let's go to dashed lines.
I'm going to pause there, go take the phone, I'll be right back.
I'm back and this dashed line, I don't need it,
so I've selected with my black arrow and just hit "Delete" on my keyboard,
just tap the key on the keyboard and it's gone.
Dashed lines, dotted lines, wavy lines,
curly lines, all of that.
Let's move on to our next video.