Hello. Hey, this video we are going  to look at randomizing things inside of Illustrator. Okay? We're gonna take this simple hat here  and then bam, spin it around, shrink it, move it around. It's awesome. It's meant to be kinda like a wrapping paper  wallpaper background type thing  that is meant to be a winter's hat.

There's a winter Christmas wrapping paper style thing. We'll start with the easy way of how to do it. Then we'll build on it throughout the video to add, uh,  build in some of the techniques  that we've learned previously. Repeat grids, symbols so  that we're not just randomizing things,  we're doing it in kind of like boss mode level  because we are now advanced illustrator users. Alright, let's jump in. Let's get going.

Alright, to follow along, uh, open up the random  AI from the exercise files. That is a hat. We're going for the winter theme here. Okay. It's a very happy winter theme hat. Um, so we're gonna select it, okay?

And we're gonna go to, actually we need a few versions  of it 'cause we need to randomize it. You can copy and paste or I'm gonna use the uh, option hold  and drag. Okay on a Mac alt on a PC  and just drag it out for a duplicate command D  maybe grab a few of them. Do it again. Okay, so let's start with this group. Let's go to object.

Go to transform. And we're looking for this one that says transform each. Okay, this is the magic one. The first thing we're gonna realize is  that the thing needs to be grouped first. I'm gonna pretend I did that on purpose. Undo a few times.

Group it, it's command G, CTRL G or it's down here group. I'll speed through to that same position. So now with them all grouped  and selected, they're all not  grouped together just separately. Okay, I got them selected. Object. Transform, transform each.

Okay? And yours will look much like mine. The magic thing in here is the random turn that on. It does nothing until you start  playing with any of these sliders. If I rotate it just a little bit, okay,  it doesn't matter which one it is,  it's gonna then randomly kind of assign anywhere in  that angle to these guys. Look at them all random.

It's look at move. If I move them horizontally, it kind of  like it stays within the bounds of this. Okay? But kind of random and moves 'em around in here. Don't worry too much about what the numbers  are, it's random now. It will work when that's turned off.

Okay, this moves them over. Okay? But I wanna say random. Uh, technic the scale. Let's turn the locking icon on. If you turn it off, watch this.

If I scale this one quite extensively this way,  you see it's mix and mine kind of like thin in  between like the full size and really thin version. I want to turn that back to a hundred, lock 'em together so  that when I drag both of them, the high  and width gets scaled. Look at that random things. Make sure previews on if it's not, have a play  around with these options here. Depending on what you might have on by default,  I'm pretty sure this is all default. If you've got a problem with your stroke,  then turn the scale stroke  and effects off that might work for you.

Alright? So that's the basics. Let's click okay and let's move this one over here. We are going to actually, I'm gonna go back to the beginning  'cause I want to restart  and kind of like flesh this out a bit more using some  of the tools we've learned already. Okay? So I'm gonna go to file  and there's this one in here called revert.

I don't use it very often. I use it a lot in these  Tutorial file. Revert  says I'm gonna go all the way back  to the beginning of this document. Now anybody had to hit the undo way too many times like  smashing away command Z  or control Z way too many times file revert. We'll get it to the last time the document was opened, okay? So that can be like a huge big jump forward,  but it wipes everything you've done.

So be careful. Alright,  so let's do this more advanced like, 'cause we're advanced people now. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna tie together. The first one's gonna be a symbol. So I'm gonna a window, I'm gonna go down two symbols, okay? So symbols remember are like a reusable thing.

And when I update one, all the instances updates. So that's gonna be handy. So I'm gonna hit plus I should  give it a name, but I never do. Okay? And there is my little symbol that's a symbol. Excellent.

Now I want lots of them. So I'm gonna start maybe here  and I'm gonna use the sweet object, repeat and look at that. We're gonna use repeat grid. Okay? How many do I want? I don't really know.

When you are dragging this out,  don't drag it to the edge of the screen. Uh, just so it's just um, it'll be clearer in a second. How many do I want? I want loads of them. So I'm just dragging them in. It's more just how many versions of this have I got?

Okay, so I don't really mind about the overlapping,  I'm not gonna worry about how they go here. Okay? So I need to release all of this, uh,  from this repeat grid. Okay? I'm gonna go to object. I'm gonna say expand.

Okay? And it's gonna expand it  and it gets rid of all those extra fancy repeat stuff I had. Now it's in a group, okay? And it is masked. You can see the kind of edges of some of them. So I'm gonna ungroup it.

You are like, I didn't do anything. Ungroup it. Again. Sometimes there's just  groups inside of groups. It depends on how illustrators kind of created this thing. There were two groups.

Now you're like still,  still really not ungrouped. It's actually inside of a mask. Okay? So over here I can release the mask. There it is. And the reason I showed you  before, not to drag it right to the edge.

Um, the rectangle is  'cause there is actually a frame in here somewhere. Can you see it there? It's hard to find. See this thing here, it's this invisible frame. That's what was using to mask this. The easiest way to find it is, can you take a guess?

That's right. Outline mode, which is command Y on a Mac,  control Y on a pc. And you'll have to dig it out. It's, I wish there was an easier way,  but sometimes there's just like this leftover mask. It was used to mask all this. And when it unpicks it goes, here's your mask.

It has no stroke, no fill. Good luck finding it. Okay, so there you go. Command Y  or control y to turn it back off. I've got all of this stuff. So I'm gonna say you, not you.

So I'm gonna grab everything but  that little drawing over the side here  and that'll become clear in a sec. Actually, it's pretty clear. It's where I  stole the colors from. So now I'm gonna use my random just like before. So I'm gonna go to object, I'm going to go to transform,  transform each and it's, remember the last thing I did? Look how random and awesome it is.

Loads of them. I'm gonna leave it as is. That's cool. So the perks of doing it this way is we got to use some  of the skills that we've already learned. Got to pick apart one of those repeat grids  and we got to use the symbols. So to update the symbol, I can do it two ways.

I can double click out in here. Okay? Or I can double click it over here in the symbols panel. Sometimes like this one here,  I could probably do, it's quite simple. Double click  It. It's, it's gonna say, I'm gonna  show you the symbol.

Yes, kind of flips it around  to its original size and up the right way. So now I can say, all right, I like this one  but needed a bigger pompom. So I'm holding shift and my option ke mac  or ke pc and it's got a bigger one. Actually don't hit enter. Okay? Uh,  let's hit double click the background  or click this arrow a couple of times  and now they all have a giant pompom.

We're using symbols. Look at us. Alright, I'm gonna zoom out now  and what I might do is grab the rectangle tool,  which is your M key from rectangle, okay? And I'm gonna make sure my smart guides on,  I don't think they are smart guides are not on. I want it to snap to the edge here  and put one kind of like a border that goes around  and we're gonna basically re-ask it. So I'm gonna slick you.

Grab my black arrow,  select everything except for the unicorn and go. Who remembers the shortcut for masking? Okay, it's called a clipping mask. There is a button over here. Don't click the button. Go to remember the shortcut.

It is command seven  or Ctrl seven on a PC goey. There we go. Look at our random awesome wintery  wonderland design thing. It's actually wrapping baby, remember? Alright, that is it. Random.

We did it simply  and then we tied in some  of the other tools we've used, okay. To be, uh, more advanced, more awesome. All right, that's it. I'll see you in the next video.