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Styles and Objects

When you're working with colors here, we're showing you how to create colors and color swatches. But sometimes you may just want to go and throw in or just a random color. To do something really quick, you have to go with your colors. Watch to do that. You can actually go over to your color picker right here in your toolbar. Just double click on it. And when you do that, you can actually choose. Either you're seeing, like a or your RGB or lab color here to go and move your little cursor around. Choose your hue and saturation, your brightness and so on. And if you just find a color by doing it visually, you can say, Hey, you know what? I really like that color green. You know, that looks a little bit better. I'm just gonna go ahead and add that right to my swatch panel, just like that, so I don't need to slide my sliders back and forth. It's just a nice way to visually kind of create some colors. You may be throwing something together for your kid's birthday party. You've got seven seco...

nds. You know you need to do it grapes get on here, do it. Pick the color. Say, Hey, that looks nice and tasty. Great. There it is. Now I've got it done. Okay, Now I've gone through kind of applied fills strokes, different types of borders on my containers, and I would like to now go through and I'd like to set this up so that I can create actual styles so I can actually save all of these attributes together in one place. So if I draw a container, I draw a circle or a square, or even just a line. I can actually apply this particular style or all these attributes to my specific objects. And it's not just the fill in the stroke in the style of the TRO stroke in the thickness of the stroke, it goes well beyond them because what we can also do with this is we've got this whole section up here in the control bar that allows us to control everything else with our objects. And one of the things we can do is opacity. So if I put my objects over each other right here, and I can take this slider up here in the control bar and I can control the opacity of my object which allows me to go through at actually let objects show through each other. One word of advice when I go in and I create a tent here in my color panel here a tent does not let me see through the object. I have my object. There is my filled. If I create a tent of this color, I am adding white to the color. It does not mean that I can go and I can see through that at all not the same. So if you want to go through when you want to make 1/10 of a color to specifically make it a lighter value out that color that you have in your swatches panel that is what a tent is for opacity is if you specifically want to see through that object. And here's the crazy part. If I were to take this container and I were to create a tent of 50% and then take that solid container and make the opacity of 50% the color will actually render differently. I don't know why, but it will only use opacity when you specifically want something to show through something else. If you want a lighter value, always use tempt with that just her safety sake right there. So capacity can be controlled through our effects. And this is the quick little shortcut window right here. But in the window menu, we can call up our effects on effects can be applied. Teoh multiple portions of our object. In general, when we go in and we apply our capacity here, it's going to be applied to our entire object. But it doesn't need to be applied to the entire object. I can take my effects right here. And with this I can actually apply the effects just to the stroke. So the opacity, I can have it show through just a stroke right there. Remember what we talked about yesterday with a stroke being positioned inside or outside the box? Here's another reason why we would want to go to a stroke panel and make this of the stroke. It's outside the box. If we did want to create capacity with that stroke, you'll see that we have a stroke built both inside and outside the box. I can set the Phil differently as well so the opacity and the fill can be set differently to the stroke doesn't show through. But the field does. And if I go back to my object, then both the stroke in the fill can be set to have the capacity. I can do the same thing with text. You'll see if I have text selected, I will be able to control the text separately from the fill of my container from the stroke of my container as well. So a lot of different parameters here if you go in and you set the opacity overall. And then you set this stroke to be something different on the feel, something different. And now you've got three different settings. Here's the panic button. Turn it all off. Clear all the effects. Put everything back to normal. You know, collect all the parts before Mom and Dad get home. There it is. You'll be able to click in your object in all of Europe. Ass iti and all of your other effects that you apply here will then be taken off and returned back to the normal effect. Now, effects are not just going in and making anything transparent. And when I say anything transparent? I mean anything. I've got my object. There it is. I can set the opacity of this as well. And that can also show through anything you can put into in design. You can have transparent except a movie movie you can't make transparent. Sorry, you probably didn't even know you could put movies and then decide. We're gonna learn about that tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon. So there's the effects panel, but it doesn't stop at just capacity. I can also click on my drop down menu with my effects. Right here. I've got transparency, which we just showed you, but I got drop shadow, inner outer globe. Evelyn, Boss, all those other options here. You will also have those options and their mimicked right up here in the control bar as well. Same thing. We have just some very basic items here where I can click on my container or my object and I have the standard drop shadow button. Put it on their drop shadow in the camp. Okay? It's like spray cheese and click on any object. And there's a little shortcut. That drop shadow was also under our effects panel as well. So I can apply a drop shadow of Babylon and Boss Inner outer glow. If you're familiar with photo shop, all those layer effects, it's exactly the same. However, the interface isn't as intuitive. So if I have an object here and I've already put my drop shadow on their thankfully because you can't do anything without a drop shadow these days because nobody would get that something is flat, you gotta have dimension, right? So I had more dimension. So here's all my options. No matter what you click on here, it's gonna call up your entire effects panel. Right. So this effects panel now you can go. We have You can control your drop shadow on your object, your inner outer glow shadow. We aren't going to run through all of these. You can do this. You can spend tons of time on this. The's are all the different objects. Styles are effects you can apply to huge panel. So I need to move that kind of out of the way here so we can actually see what's going on there. Become. So I'm just gonna ply my Bellingham boss. Click in the preview here so I can see that kind of crazy beveling and boss I can control how big it is. The depth, how soft, how hard it is. I can do an inner outer glow. Drop shadow control the color of the distance, the fluffy NIST. How long to bake it? You know, whether it sugar free, Does it look fantastic? You know, doesn't make me look skinny. All that stuff you can do here. Okay, you name it. You can do it when you apply all these objects. All these objects effects right here. You really don't know what actually completely applied all the effects to replied Here, you can kind of see them by using a drop down menu and you'll see the check marks off which of those things that are applied but the nitty gritty. You don't really know if I wanted to capture all these settings, heaven forbid and put them on other objects and torture those poor little objects with the beveling and Boston A drop shadow. You know, I need to make sure that at least I have some type of consistency. If you ever want to shut them all off, you can use your effects panel here and you can just say clear all your effects, which will take all of those off. Same thing is gonna happen at the bottom of the expect effects panel here where you can just go in and say, get everything back to normal. If I apply all these effects and I would like to now continue applying these effects to everything around my document and every document from here on out because they are so awesome, I'm gonna create an object style out of this which is going to capture all these settings for every single thing that I would like to apply this to. An object style can be a simple as a fill or stroke or size or a layer effect earn opacity or combination of all those. And I'm gonna find that under the window menu going to go down to styles. By the way, if you're looking for a particular window, most people don't notice this. This is all in alphabetical order, folks, because people have the hardest time finding this in this really long list. If you know where s falls in the alphabet, you're gonna find it right there. People are just like, Oh, I never noticed that because they're always go hunting down, trying to read it. It's alphabetical order, you know, you learn something new every single time. We have a session of this class for what we're doing here. That's right. Object styles. So styles, object styles. And here is my object Styles panel. The way we have styles in the way I describe styles is programming remote control. You program all these things into one function and one button. So when you hit that button or that one function, it's going to do all the things that are programmed into it, which is exactly what I want to dio. You don't program your remote control and go to your television, your cable box in your row, coup and everything else and get all the buttons and make it all happen. No, you do it so you can do all those functions and features from them. One button, and that's exactly what an object style is. It could be one function or feature 10 30 whatever you want. So I've created this container with my sage green and my orange and my devil in my boss in my drop shadow and this is gonna be whatever I'm using it for in my document. And I want to capture all these attributes. So I'm gonna select my object. I'm gonna go into the cheese grater of the object styles, and I'm going to create a new object style and it comes up. And these are all the settings that we can have fill the stroke, the options, the transparency, drop shadow, all these things, lots of options that we can apply to our object. So I've applied in my object, and this is going to be my orange and stage box with fantastic effects. Big long game. Okay, there it is. So there is my object style created right there. Now, if I click on any other object in my document and I would like to go ahead and apply all those styles, I formatted my remote control my object style. And now I can click on that and everyone that I click on, we'll go ahead and we'll grab those styles. Even my picture. If I do that with my picture, it will put the border around there. It will do the drop shadow, the Belleville in and boss all that. That's applying all those attributes to every single one that I have now when I'm doing my layout for my documents, I always do this because when I take the screenshots of the particular items that I want to show is we're walking people through this. I would like to have a very small border with a drop shadow and it text wrap around my objects so that every time I bring in a picture it's going to go ahead and drop into a box that already has all those objects done instead of reapplying it every single container, I would make that an object style. So we import my picture. I click on my object style and everything gets formatted exactly the same. Aiken size it all the attributes of the same. The big thing with this is that once I create an object style here, if I edit this object style, it will change all the attributes that this Waas applied to. So if I have my object style and I right click on this and I edit this, I can always go back in at any point, and I can edit this and say, Oh, you know, I've got this feel this color or the stroke is here. It's like, You know what? When I program this in, I would now like to change the programming of this remote, and I'm going to make the borders blue. So when I click OK every place where this style was applied, I am now able to go in and apply the attributes universally and globally so that I don't have to edit each and every object separately. It's a collection of all these options and effects and easily controlled from one central location easily edited. It's that simple. If for some reason I do not want these effects on my objects, I can click on any object, and I could go back to my object styles, and I could just simply say, Hey, I want no style on it and it'll strip it of absolutely everything that just took everything away from the container. But if I have my image container and I want nothing on there, it just simply returns it back to the static image container with the image and no other fill stroke or any other effects being applied to it. So is that something that you can save in your work space so that you can have another computer or you're getting the hang of this pretty good, aren't you? We do all this stuff in your like I want to use it someplace else. Absolutely. Because under the object styles, do you see how we have load object styles? So if I save it in this one and I go to a new file, then I will be able to go in and I will be able to load my object styles from an existing in design document. They will load in there also to if I go in and because I have an object style applied here. If I copy it from here and I pieced it into another one because the object style is applied, that style comes into same thing with colors. If I copy objects that have colors that were created in the swatches panel pace into another one, they will come in as well. This is kind of the easy cheating way. It's not really cheating. It's just really easy. But if I had a Siris of these styles which will create later today using paragraph in character styles, I can load the men in one fell swoop and then get it all in one point. So object styles are absolutely fantastic. Yes, You can use your eyedropper tool if you just have a couple. If you're building large documents or your building some type of corporate identity or you're gonna have multiple pieces that you're building, consistency is the key. And so you really need to create objects style so that you don't need to say, But what size with that border? What color was it? You know, Did we have a drop shadow or your job? Evelyn Boss looks different than mine. It's like, OK, capture everything is an object style. So fantastic way to do that. Now, One other thing. You know, we're getting a lot of items on the page here, and things begin to stack up on top of each other, and we've got text containers over things and all this and it's like, wow, you know, how do you actually navigate through all this stuff so I can actually see, And I can do grab a hold of these items and make them so that I don't have to have them in the way And so there it is. There's everything. It's all in the way, and it's like good grief. You know, this is crazy. I think this needs a border around it. There we go. OK, yeah, now it is. Now I've got to go in and I've got to drill through all these items. And so the classic example is people start moving everything out of the way to get to the objects from behind. That's fine. It's crazy. But it's fine. And you know who you are sure to do that. So under my object menu, I'm able to go through and I'm able to arrange these things, bring things to the front, send things the back, send things backwards, bring things forward. Well, what's the difference between bring forward and bring two fronts and backwards send back, you know, good question.