Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

26.

Select the blocks of black text and assign the global swatch. With

the black arrow tool, click the line of text Hi! I’m Uzz! to select

that text group. Next, Shift-click the legalese at the bottom of

the illustration to add that text block to the selection. Finally,

click the global black swatch in the Swatches panel to apply the

swatch to all the selected text. Press Ctrl+Shift+A (-Shift-A) to

make sure nothing remains selected.

27. Edit the black swatch to make it a rich black. Now that the

black elements have been assigned the global swatch, all that’s

left to do is edit the swatch to make it a rich black. Double-click

the swatch, and change the C, M, and Y values each to 50. Click

OK to accept the changes. On screen, you should see the black

go from a dull gray to a rich, true black. Figure 5-75 illustrates

the difference between the plain black and rich black in print.

Uzz is now ready to make his public debut, and you’re now armed

with a number of new tools to deal with selections and transfor-

mations. Save or discard your work as you see fi t; you’ll be starting

with new artwork in the next exercise.

Scaling Partially Selected Paths

In this fi nal exercise, you’ll use the scale and rotate tools

to transform three simple circles into an elaborate lace

pattern, as in Figure 5-76. While the results may seem

like an impossibility, Illustrator’s scale function, when

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