All right, in this video we're gonna look at editing  vectors that already exist that we've downloaded  and we want to start playing around with  and kind of adjust them a little bit. We're gonna do it to this little simple arrow down here. We're gonna change the stalk size  and adjust it a little bit along with the color. Okay? We're also gonna mess around with them, make them kind  of rounded and do all sorts of fun stuff. Alright, let's go and do that now.

Okay, so let's start with editing. A nice simple one. We're gonna use this arrow that I've downloaded. I've got mine here in the library  'cause I've downloaded it from the marketplace,  but I've got an example in the exercise  files that you can download. Go check it out. It's called uh, icon arrow,  which shouldn't be hard to find.

So go to file and place that in. Okay? Make sure it's vector. And we are going to use, we,  we've used the black arrow, remember to move things around  and we've limitedly used the white arrow to do adjustments. So we're gonna look at that. So this is the white arrow.

This is how you adjust existing vectors. Okay, let's say that I wanna make this a little shorter. So what I do is I can click on this corner here. So first of all, click in the background,  make sure nothing is selected. Click in this anchor point that I wanna move. These little dots in the corners are called anchor points.

Now I wanna select him. Okay? And I can move him around, okay? Can adjust it and say, yep, this is what I wanna do. My lovely arrow. Okay,  so you can make some basic adjustments with the white arrow.

I'm gonna undo that. Okay? And let's say I want to kind of tuck this in a little bit  so it comes, you know, so it's a shorter stalk on this. So I'm gonna click on this first one. So remember, click in the background,  click on the first one, and then hold down shift. Okay?

And that will add to your selections. You've got two bits selected. I'm gonna click and drag it down. Okay? And I'm just gonna lower that stalk so it's a lot shorter. Okay?

You can do the same for this. I can drag this guy in. I'm gonna drag him in a little bit. Grab this guy, drag him in a little bit. Okay? So I'm kind of adjusting my arrow.

Um, another thing you can do is at the moment it's got sharp  edges and I think I want that. Okay, I'm gonna leave that. So I'm gonna make a copy of it. I'm gonna go using my black arrow, selecting it, copy paste. I'll leave him up there. And you'll notice  that I'm working over here in this gray area.

It's a really easy, nice place to work without the kind  of being hindered by all the graphics  and guides and stuff over here. So with this selected, I'm gonna go back to my white arrow. And what you'll notice is,  can you see these little white dots here? Okay, these are how to round corners, which is,  if I, I'm gonna zoom in a little bit. If I grab this guy down and drag them in  because I have the all the corners selected,  okay, they'll all get rounded. Okay?

That's how to round. It doesn't have to be an arrow, it could be a rectangle. Okay? You draw a rectangle, grab the white arrow,  grab the corners, and you can round corners that way. What you also might do is say you want only one around one  of the corners is grab the white arrow, okay? And click on, it's called the direct selection tool.

I keep calling it the Y arrow  because that's easiest to figure out,  but it's called the direct selection tool. But if you click on one of them,  you can see I only got a dot on one of these  and I can kind of round this corner here. And this corner body loves these kind  of teardrop factor oily boxes. Okay? So that's how to uh, convert stuff, uh,  into these rounded corners. Another thing we're gonna do is we're gonna look  at converting them.

'cause at the moment that it's kind of like,  it's quite a unique rounded corner,  what we're gonna do is let's grab this guy. We'll copy and paste him, okay? And what I'd like to do is start kind  of adjusting it in a bit more of a free hand style way. So I'm gonna grab my white arrow,  I'm gonna click on this corner here. And instead of just making it this rounded corner, okay,  which is really symmetrical with it clicked up here,  you can convert it from, at the moment it's a corner. You can kind of tell it's a nice sharp corner.

You can click on this one here  and this will add smooth it out. Okay? It'll give out anchor point, these handles so  that you can see the pastel actually  goes through the anchor point. Okay? It was there, okay? Now it's been kind of stretched out  by these little handles here.

I think of them as like little gravity things that kind of,  the line still has to pass through the anchor point,  but these little handles are just how it passes through. And you can start playing around with it, okay? To kind of give it a bit more of a freeform shape. You can also break these. 'cause the moment they're kind of the seesaw, okay? Where you do one side, it affects the other.

So what you can do is you wanna snap them,  hold down the alt key on your PC  or option key on a Mac and watch this. So I click one of them, they kind of snap. So they're still bending the line,  but they're no longer doing that seesaw option. Okay? So there's a few little things we've learned here. One is we can round the corners  by grabbing these dots, okay?

But if we want more of a freeform shape,  we click on the corner  and we say, I'd like you to be a smooth one. And then if you wanna break it,  because at the moment it's kind of, it's cool,  it's smoothing it across. But there is an interaction  between the two which keeps it smoothing. But say you don't want that, you can hold down the alt  or option key, break them  and you can start messing around  with these things a little bit more detail. Because the next thing I wanna do is color it. Now I've downloaded,  normally you just click on your colors here  and it works okay?

But this particular example,  and this is, this is likely  what you're gonna get from icon finder  or from the marketplace, is watch this. If I click on it and go you, it won't color. Okay? It'll use these switches down here. Weirdly, it feels like a bug and illustrated than anything. Okay?

I am undoing to get rid  of the colors is you can do one of two things. One is you can keep double clicking it, go  inside this arrow, double click it again to go  inside the path and then I can color it. Okay? Weirdly, it's this kind  of like weird combination that somebody has saved. Okay? I'm gonna undo that.

Come back out by double clicking the background. I find the easiest way is these color themes here. I'm gonna right click it and go to add to swatches. And you'll notice down the bottom here, my swatches panel,  my pre-made little colors is the colors. You can see little versions of that. Okay?

And I can click on this and say down the bottom here,  there he is there the colors. Or keep double clicking it until you get right inside of it. And then change the color. Then make sure you double click  the background to come all the way back out here. And we're gonna use this guy. So I'm gonna copy him.

I'll leave those guys over there. I'm gonna zoom in and I'm gonna use this little arrow here. He's a bit big hold down shift, remember? Okay, to scale proportionately. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna scale it down  and I'm gonna rotate it around. Now you there is a rotation tool.

Uh, there he is there, okay? You can click on that and just rotate 'em around. What most people do though is just using the black arrow. If I zoom in, if you hover above any of these so  that we've used the edges lots for resizing, but watch this. If I have a hover just outside,  you can see there's this like no man's land. So that's scaling rotation, nothingness, rotation, scaling.

So we want the rotation one with a little bent arrow  and you can rotate it around. And if you hold the shift key down while you're rotating it,  can you see it locks it into 45 degree angles. And that's gonna work from my arrow. I want to go that way. Alright, there's my little  arrow, okay? And I've customized that a little bit.

Not much brought the stalk in,  but we've learned a little bit about customizing uh,  Victor Graphics that maybe we haven't created. We'll move on in the next episode  and look at creating our own graphics. Alright, I'll see you in the next video.