Hi everyone. In this video we're gonna look at graphic styles. We're gonna download somebody else's. I'm gonna show you how to import it. I'm gonna show you how to manipulate it. Most of all, I'm gonna show you  that it can be really tricky using somebody  else's graphic styles, okay?

Because they're all created slightly differently. And I'm gonna show you how to get in there  and like I understand the frustrations so  that you know it's not you. It's just some quirks with illustrator  and graphic styles and whoever made them. There's no like real consistency on how they're created. So requires us to do a little bit of uh, messing around  to try and figure out how they work. Let's jump in and we'll figure out how this one works.

It's cool, huh? Alright, we're gonna be working  with a textile that I've downloaded from free pick.com. Okay? I'm using this one here called Pop Line. Okay? It is free to use kind of, it requires attribution.

So my attribution in this video is  that this came from free pick.com. Okay? So that's where it came from. And this is gonna bring up like if you download anything  from this site, there's loads of sites to go find. Um, graphic styles from. They're all kind of created differently  and have their own quick.

So it's a messy video but it's a messy subject. So I don't want you to feel like,  oh, maybe I'm doing it wrong. Nope. It's just kind of tricky working  with other people's graphic styles. So what happened is I downloaded this one, okay,  and it turned up as an eps. This is it.

It came with pop art eps. EEPs is a file format. Depends on how old school you are. Basically that's used to be kind of  what we use for a lot of vector. You can still use it, but basically it's  in this case basically an illustrator file. So you can just open up this ep s in Illustrator.

Often though they are AI files. So that's the first bit of weirdness for us. Just to make it a little bit easier,  I've recreated this file, okay, under exercise files  and it's called Graphic Styles oh one. If you plan on using this style as well,  go check out free pick and go pick up  and go check out the terms and conditions  that they've got at the moment. You can use it commercially. It's just attribution required.

Okay? So open up this one up in Illustrator. And the first issue with using somebody else's uh, style,  especially when it's text is probably,  you're not gonna have the font, okay? So you can either cancel, okay? And then just click on this and pick your own font. Or you can see if you can sync the font using Adobe fonts  or go find the font for you.

You might sync roboto if you don't have it. Otherwise click on it. Okay? Hit cancel and click on it  and say actually just pick a different font  that you've got on your machine. So that's one thing that can be problematic. The other way is how they're set up.

Okay? Because some files open up with a blank document  and the style hidden under window graphic styles. Okay? And you'd be like, there it is. Huh? This one's not.

I can tell because watch, if I draw this out,  it's got some styles in this file, but it's not what I want. You're like, this is not what I'm looking for. Okay? So this person, whoever made this, did all the style,  which is really cool in the appearance panel,  but never turned it into a graphic style. So it's still here and you can still use  it as a graphic style. Okay?

I can create my own look, I can slick on this  and say make it a graphic style. So sometimes it is the object  In the document that has all the  appearance stuff applied to it. Sometimes it's an empty document  and the graphic style's hiding in the graphic styles panel. Sometimes it's both. Really depends on who created this. So what we're gonna break down now is this graphic style  slash appearance panel.

Okay? Kind of the same thing. Remember appearance panels,  all the stuff, graphic styles, is all of  that stuff saved in a library. So in the parents panel you can see  that there's 1, 2, 3 fills, there's a stroke,  there's all sorts of stuff going on. If you can't see them, you can tour these down. And let's, let's just deconstruct this one  to give you a sense of what you might have  to do when you're working with somebody  else's style that you didn't create.

Especially when they're quite complex like this. Okay? So what I tend to do is uh, turn the eyeball on  and off on each of them to see what they're all doing  because sometimes it's not clear who's doing what. Like this kind of weird box that's dark blue. Okay? I can kind of tell 'cause that's  dark blue, but sometimes it's not.

You're like, okay, so that's doing that. Let's say that I want to mess around with that  'cause it's kind of moving up into the right. How do I mess with that? I'm gonna go into it, okay? And it's gonna be something stacked underneath here. It might be the actual fill color.

Okay? You can go into this and it's just a plain swatch,  so nothing's really going on there. Uh, the transform, if I click on the word transform,  it opens up the transform effects panel, okay? We're gonna cover this more and more as we go along,  but I wanna introduce appearance panel early  so it's not such a big surprise at the end. Okay? And you can see in this one it says, uh,  it's moved it a little bit, a few pixels to the left  and a few pixels down.

So horizontal and vertical. Can you see? So if I wanna move it or move it a little bit,  that way I can adjust it here. There you go. So I'm able to adjust it. I don't want to, I'm gonna hit cancel.

Okay, let's have a look at something else. Let's look at those lines at the bottom. That's pretty cool. Like the 1, 2, 3, 4 little lines. Let's got a stroke. Now is there anything we going on the stroke?

Yeah, the size seems about fine. Transform opacity. Let's go to transform. Okay? And you can see they've done the same thing. We've moved it a little bit to the left  and a little bit down using the horizontal and vertical.

And the fancy thing about this is  they've done it just four times. Let's say I want only three. Okay, I've got three got five. Okay? So we can adjust these things afterwards, okay? And click.

Okay. So you just need to kind  of work through and break them down. They can get quite tricky and complicated. Uh, let's have a look the dots, where the DOT's coming from. So the dots are weird. Um, where are the, what I remember I turn them on and off.

'cause sometimes you're like, is that it? Is that it? So it's definitely this one here that's giving it the dots. Let's have a look. And you're like, let's go to transform. And you can spend ages in here and go, Hmm, nothing really.

You know, I can move the dots, okay,  but I can't really change the dots. What's happening in this case  is they've done something fancy. Let's say cancel is the actual fill here is a fill of dots. Problem is it's white dots on a white background,  which is like the worst ever. I picked a, I dunno, I picked a style  that had some complexity to it just to kind of show you  that sometimes it can be really hard  to work out what's creating the dots. Okay?

Because you could go capacity  and say, all right, something in here is doing it hard  light, we'll cover, um, color modes later on. It's not what's doing it. 'cause you can  miss around with this phrases. The dots don't, um, you know, the dots don't change. Okay? I can't control them.

I can charge the color  of them, but I'm gonna put that back. It's this fill here. This fill has a swatch. If I drop that down and they're like, Ooh, what's all this? Okay, normally we've just got these basics. But what they've done is they've picked a dot.

Um, that has, can you see I've picked a.swatch. There you go. That's what's giving it that dot. So sometimes you need to kind of like, yeah, spend a bit  of time clicking things in the appearance panel to work out  what the graphic style has done. Then you can make your changes. Okay, I'm gonna pick a different color  and I'm gonna go to my graphic styles panel  and I'm gonna create a new style based on that.

And that's the Dan style. Very similar to the original one, but that's my one. Now. Now I'm gonna show you one more just on my own  because it's a paid for one that I like. It is from this place called Invato Elements. Okay?

It's a subscription. I pay for it every year  'cause I love all the cool stuff in here. Okay? If you want to go sign up,  you can use my affiliate link here on screen. Okay? Um, but there are, ah,  there's loads of good stuff in here.

But the thing I'm looking at now is these uh,  illustrator graphic styles. Okay? And this is the one that I liked. I like this half tone thing and I'm like Ah, cool. I can work out how to do it often in Illustrator  'cause it is effects built into Illustrator. But sometimes it's nice to just cut  to the chase if somebody else designed it  and you go and just change the font.

But using this, the other day I ran into problems. I was like, Ooh, I'll show them in the class. Alright, so let me bring up this one. So I downloaded it. There was a how to PDF, which is cool. And there's these two files.

These will do the exact same thing. The EPS or the ai. Hey, I'm gonna open up the AI file, okay? And you're like, Ooh, nothing's happening. Okay? Remember before, sometimes there's stuff in the document  and sometimes there's nothing in the document.

But can you see in the graphic styles library? There you are. Okay. And I can say, all right,  I'm like cool, I want that style. I'm gonna grab my type  and I'm gonna type in Granada, can't even see it. Granada Donuts.

Okay? And I'm gonna make mine a lot bigger, okay? And I'm gonna say I'm gonna pick a really thick  font so we can see it. And then I'm gonna go bam. And I'm gonna go, oh, what is wrong with this? And it took me a little while.

I'm like,  Hmm, go to the appearance panel. There's all this stuff. There's a stroke applied,  there's some effects. So there's a gradient. There is also rasterized. The way spend age is clicking in all of these, adjusting it,  clicking all of these, adjusting it, okay?

And the way I figured it out was,  well the way I figured it out, it ended up being half tone. Okay? So if I messed around with pixels here  and I went, okay, I get this down some maybe 60. So a lot of trial and error. I was like, okay, maybe down to 10. Okay.

I'm like, did it. What ended up happening is they'd said it  and I'm gonna undo that. They'd set it for a font that was maybe, I don't know,  let's go 1000 pixels. That kind of worked maybe a bit big. Okay? That freaked out.

Illustrator,  there you go. Uh, it is back working again. I'm not sure what happened there, but they  Just designed it around this ginormous font. So whoever made it was working with thousand point fonts. There's nothing wrong with that,  but it just means when I started using it  with my 12 point font, all the effects that  that applied were quite um,  dependent on the font being really big. Do you get what I mean?

Um,  it's not so much how to use this one. It's more there is  when you download somebody else's one, you start using it. You might be a little frustrated at the beginning  to work out how it works. 'cause they're not very bulletproof. They are quite dependent on a few things. Some of them have instructions, some of them don't.

Often what I do is load 'em up,  find them in the graphic styles  or they might be sitting in the document like this one here. Then I go to the appearance panel, I click on them  and I just click on everything to figure out what I need  to change and what will suit my situation  or why it's not working in my one. But yeah, that is graphic style libraries. They are awesome when you find somebody else's one. 'cause I could do all of this a hundred percent okay. But sometimes it's not until you see somebody else's one,  you're like, Ooh, how do we do that?

And then you can pick it apart, change it, take ownership  of it, manipulate it,  and you're like, yeah, look what I made. But we ended up starting with somebody else's graphic styles  and there's some cool things out there. Alright, I hope that was helpful. Basically the name of this video is Graphic styles are fun,  they're awesome, they were shortcut,  but they can be really tricky, okay? To get them to do what you want. And it's not you, it is just graphic styles.

There's so many kind of considerations  and things that are part of it to make it happen. Alright, that is it. I will see you in the next video.