Adobe Illustrator - Path Menu - Class 19 - Tech Learning 4U :

Assalamualaikum, 

Welcome to Tech Learning 4U. I am your Teacher Zohaib

this is our class number 19th

ok keep in mind that this are our last classes

may be this is our second last class

after this class, there will be only one last class and our illustrator course will be over

and after that

i will give you small tips to you

and now further topics are not so large

so it don't need larger time to explain and this classes and i will not say them classes

i will give tips and tricks or tutorials on some small topics

it's length will be 5 minutes

or 10 minutes ok

so what we will see today ?

there is a sub menu in the object menu

that is path menu and path related some things

which are very useful are given there

so let's start

so first of all Let me show you first

where is your path menu? go to your object menu and then path option

Path is written here

in this path menu there are some options are given

such as join average outline stroke offset path

and now these all are disabled

why they all are disabled ?

because

we don't made any path or object

so let's make something

i made a simple rectangle and

now i am going in object menu

then i am going to path and these things

i had taught you in my previous classes that was Pen tool's class and

i had discussed these topics such as join and average

so if you didn't saw that then i am giving you link

watch it (kindly watch it)

i mean that pen tool's class

Now outline stroke, ok

what outline stroke do

if you

remembered our pathfinder class

we had converted strokes into fill

i mean we had expand it

so if you expand it

from here it will ask you

what you want to expand fill or stroke

but if you want to expand it directly

to convert your stroke into outline or shape

then simply go to path menu

and do outline stroke

without asking anything , it will convert into fill

so if i will do resize of it ,

see this it is resizing finely

outline stroke is simply expand but

only for strokes, ok

i did undo

and we came again to our stroke

this is also well known to you but i have to explain it for you because

it is also important to explain this here

when i taught you about offset paths

may be at that time i didn't explain in details

or may be people didn't given importance to this

but this is important and in many things it is very useful

for example here is my rectangle made by me and

i want to make a big rectangle than this

first option is that i can make it and second option is go to path menu

and then do offset path. And in offset path

it will show you the value which you used last time

if i want to increase it's value then it is increasing from here

and it is giving another rectangle

How much value you need you can give

from here

in offset there is 15 points

if you look it carefully

15 points is written here that means

15 points from all sides ok

and if you do ok from here then one more copy is generated

from here which is big in size

it is not necessary that it will be applied only in square or rectangle

you can do it in any shape

for example i made an oval here

let say i take my that egg shape

and i want to make a big oval around this oval

or i want to make a small oval around this oval

so go to path menu and

from offset path we can adjust it

so on your preview , here 15 points is showing large shape

if i will go towards minus it

will show smaller shape

it is very useful sometimes

we need a outline of an object i mean outline in outside

at that time we can use it

ok

next thing you have is

reverse path direction

i know as such you will not get understand this

but one thing i will tell you that that stroke

i had said you one thing that

this is our stroke panel

there is one option here which is arrows

let say i started from here and

i ended this from here ok so

so i am taking this here

and here i am taking this

ok see this illustrator knows that i started from here & ended from here

or whaterver i did i mean started from here and ended here,

but if i want to reverse the path

so i will select this path

and i want this arrow head here

and this back part to come here

one way is to come and change this from stroke panel

and second way is go to path menu

and then you do reverse path direction

then also it will do that

so your starting or ending point will adjust it by itself

i mean whatever you want to do

you can easily do. Ok

then another option is Simplifier

ok this is very interesting

and very useful

sometimes we make our path with pentool and

we put many anchor points on them

ok suppose i did this

i don't know

what is this

i think it is potato

i made a potato and inside this shape

there are many anchor points here

and i want to decrease it's anchor points

and i want to make this path simplify

simplify means i want to make this path little bit smooth

i want to decrease it's anchor points

so simply go in path menu and

then click on simplify

and

Preview, and see if we will decrease it's anchor points

then shape will change little bit

and if you see this originally

here 32 points are given

and currently here is 5 point from here

we can adjust it

so i am increasing curve precision from here

let say 89 % and here is 20 points

ok and one more thing which is given here is

angle threshold , from this

it will not give you big difference

main thing is curve precision

this will help you here for your work

originally we have 32 points and

currently here is 11 points

plus one more option is

straight lines

here no curves will come

we don't want this

and here is best thing is show original option

from here you can see that from original how much your new shape is different

by turning it on

we can make our best shape by this

i think this enough, 32 points is

converted into 10 points and do ok

remember that it is showing you when you are doing this things

ok now i will do ok then

our object is simplified

extra all the anchor points are disappeared

ok

the most important thing shape was maintained in this process

now ahh..

and after simplified next is add anchor points

and this is also

as said this overall menu is very useful

these are small things but these are very useful

for example we have

a rectangle and

we all know that it have 1,2,3,4 anchor points (4 anchor points)

and i want to add more anchor points here

how much ?

when i will come here and go to this path menu and then add anchor point

then it will not ask us anything and where to add them

it will always

just add one anchor points

itself in you path

so we have here , here, here and here

one extra anchor points

if i will show this ,

it is now like this

and if you need more anchor points then let it select again

and then go to object path and

click on add anchor points

so see here

this had given you this

this

this

and this anchor points i mean it had added this anchor points for you

in short in your all straight lines

,it will add anchor points on them

obviously i made

a strange thing but

i hope you all understand this easily

this is very calculative task as it will give you a anchor point in

the center of between two anchor points

where some place are given

it will add anchor points whenever you will do add anchor points

ok

your next topic

is for example

you have a path and

let me tell you about this remove anchor point first

this is doing very interesting thing that

some times we have many anchor points

on our path

or i want to delete some particular points

let say this shapes is also little bit different like this

i made this shape

anyways

i want this , this and this points to be reomoved

ok then select them and go to object menu and then path and then

remove anchor points it is similar to

like i am deleting (minus) from my pen tool one by one anchor points

this is doing same thing . It will

remove all the

selected points which you had made

that's it

simple

Next is your divide object

below see here

i have many object which is made by me

and i simply made a path

that is one line and i want to cut this together

of course we can select and

do divide also but if i will divide

then this is also overlapping path here

in path finder's divide which you all had seen it earlier

ok

so let's open pathfinder

and if i divide from here then yes

it will divide but this all

overlapping will divide

right which i don't want to do

that i made this line and

i want that three shapes to on this line

so please select this line

and go to object

then path and then go to divide objects below

here is written objects it means

it will divide all the below objects

doesn't matter how many objects are there

see this when i divide this

and

see this

all are divide and cut into like this

and you can move them together also

ok

so see this

i hope you all understand this

i mean this path menu

and inside this there is one thing

that is split into grid

this is not used in many times yes

but we use them some times for making grids

you can make any shapes but i

t is maximum used for rectangles or squares only

what is grid ?

grid making means

what i can say about this grid i mean it is like a graph paper

and in illustrator we have grid also

in illustrator i had

not shown you

i don't want to see this

i want to make my own grids

let's turn this off

i mean right click and then click on hide grids

let's say i made a rectangle here

and in this rectangle

i want to make grid

on this

rectangle's size

how we will do this. Please go into path menu and then split into grids

then it will ask you that how many rows you need

and how many rows you need and when you are increasing your rows or columns

it is

give you

give you a copy ()

which have square boxes

it will become like that notebook of math during our childhood times in Pakisthan and other countries

and if you to give some specific height or width

then you can also give it

there is one also best thing here which is Gutter

what is Gutter ?

Gutter is space between this boxes (rows and columns)

for example i am giving 5 points gutter here and

5 points gutter here and

ok if you

look carefully

here some gapes are coming

plus you can add

more guides

if you look carefully

now you have guides and

this is very thin guides

and it will also moves

and if you want then you lock your guides also

or whatever you want to do you can do it

ok i am locking them

i am going to object then lock and then clicking to

section (control + 2)

now you can remove this boxes if you want

what's the benefit of that if you go in design's theory

then i will tell you about this definetely

and its uses also

so from here we can make our personalize guides

i mean we can make our personalize grids also

i hope this will also useful for you but now

it will be useful in

further classes

Clean Up, this is very important

if you make anything at anytime

usually new students and they don't know that

here we have strokes and fills

sometimes, sometimes these both are off (nun)

because we don't notice them that these are off and we are making things and

things are making in continuous way

but not visible to us

ok remember that

this are those objects which don't have any color

one more mistake which is happens maximum specially new comers

sometimes we make some object from our pentool

and then we decide we don't want to make then we press delete

i did delete but see this ,i

t is one extra anchor point

is left here and sometimes we also select objects and

then delete in wrong manner

i selected this and this and this point and then deleted them

and see some

extra paths are coming here and if press control + Y

we all know what is control + Y, this is known as outline mode

see this, these are known as stray points

ok

these are known as

non color or your empty path

one more thing is empty text path

now what is empty text path

sometimes we typed a text and

after typing the text we selected

them all and delete it

see here cursor is blinking

if i will take selection tool

see a empty

text box is coming here

ok , alright so i didn't removed it

these types of small things

which are made here but not visible to us

for cleaning this types of things

clean up option is given here

when you will go there it will ask you something

one is your stray points and stray points are

those which are left and not visible to us

right

unpainted objects

these are those which i made and which doesn't have any stroke and fill

these are unpainted objects

and now empty text path, correct

here all are marked by check marks

you can select them as per your own choice. I mean if you want only to delete stray points then you can select it only

usually i suggest you to select all these three check marks

and see this is delete option

right and do ok and your all

extra data will deleted from your artboard

sometimes

due to this stray objects our selection becomes very strange

because they are all small objects which are not visible to us

sometimes we select small objects but bounding boxes are showing very large

because of this small stray points

and yes if you think some extra things are disturbing you

then please use this clean up

i hope you all people liked this path menu

i mean you got understand this

i know you got understand this

THANK YOU