All right, it is time to move on to images... I'm going to start with a nice little trick... where we can turn an image that we might be using over and over... it might be our Hero image or an illustration that we're using everywhere... instead of having to import it every time and put it into things... what we can do is we can take it, turn it into a style...
apply it to loads of things all at once, it stretches and fits, it's awesome... and then we get really creepy and show you how to do two of them at once... with Dan's creepy face... the image style is useful, let's check it out... and just ignore the creepy Dan face. To get started I want you to get an image...
and I want you to get a frame and draw a circle, and type some text... the image, I just got mine from Unsplash, from the app... just put in abstract, and found one, there it is right there... and I am going to select it... and what you'll notice over here in the Properties Inspector, is that... actually, an image is just a Fill...
and we know from earlier that we can make Fill Styles... like we did with our primary colors, same, same. So I'm going to go into there and hit '+'... and this is going to be the name for my Style... this is going to be "Image Abstract 1"... I know I'll end up with another one...
and that's kind of it, then you just go and apply it, so I'm going to say, you... let's have a Fill of, not Primary50... I'm going to go get rid of that, I'm going to say... you have a fill of one of my 'Styles', and Image Abstract 1'... there we go, look at that. The one thing you might run into problems with, unlikely, sometimes...
with it selected, if you've cropped it first... say you've cropped it, the Style for this thing here... now under Fill is Set to Crop... and it just might give you problems because we want it to set to... 'Fill', so that it kind of resizes itself to fill the different shapes... so when you create the style just make sure it's set to Fill...
and then you can go over and select a few things and say... all right, I want my Fill Style of Abstract image... look at this, so I'm over here, my Event Card... I'm going to 'Show More Properties', there's my Fill Image... I can go, actually let's just use that one... nice, now if you're thinking, actually, you know what I really want, I need...
a weird creepy face of Dan's... so same thing, I'm going to break the link here and create a new Style... it's going to have this image background, I'm going to have another Fill... and I click on it, and I'm going to say let's have an 'Image' Fill... I'm going to pick the mad image, pick 'Dan's Head Repeat2'... from the Images folder, in your Exercise Files...
and what I'm going to do is tile it... make it a lot smaller... oh... and what I probably need to do is play around with the opacity. If you add a second layer it defaults to 20, so I'm going to put it 100%... if your Layer Order is wrong...
can you see, next to it, the little lines, you can say... I actually want that in front of that, you just drag it up... now I can turn this into a style, and this is going to be... the "Creepy Dan Style"... now I can say, actually, I want you to be 'Creepy Dan Style'... look how cool that is...
it's also my worst mask ever... don't look too closely at it. That is how to turn an image into a style... especially useful if you've got like a Hero image or a kind of... illustration or graphic that you use loads and loads... turn it into a style, share with the team, everyone can use it...
save some time digging around, trying to insert images everywhere... all right, that's it, on to the next video.