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- [Voiceover] In this movie
I'll show you how to use

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the 'Transform Each'
command which allows you

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to transform multiple selected objects

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each around its own
independent origin point.

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So for example,

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lets say I wanna make these
guys right here larger.

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If I were to click in
the upper right corner

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of this layer, in order to
select all of the flowers,

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and then select the Scale tool

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from that Reshape tool fly out
menu, and press the Enter key

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or the Return key on a MAC, and then enter

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a uniform value of 120%
and press the Tab key,

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you can see that in addition
to scaling the objects,

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I also move them farther away

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from the center of the art work.

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And that is part and parcel of function

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of using the Scale tool
inside of Illustrator.

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It does have the potential to move objects

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on the art board, that's obviously

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not what I want however,

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so I'll go ahead and
click the 'Cancel' button

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in order to cancel that operation,
and instead I'll go up to

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the Object Menu, choose
'Transform', and choose

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this guy right here 'Transform Each'.

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Which has a keyboard
shortcut of mash your fist D,

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not sure if that's really
super useful to you or not,

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but it is based on D for duplicate,

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even though it does not duplicate objects.

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That said, I'll go ahead
and choose the command

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and you'll see that immediately up comes

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the familiar Transform Effect dialogue box

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and in fact the Transform Each command

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works exactly like the Transform Effect

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with the big exception
being that it produces

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static results as oppose to dynamic ones.

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Alright, so as you can
see both my horizontal

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and vertical scale values are set to 120%

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and I'm scaling with respect to the center

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of each one of the objects,

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which is why none of the
objects are moving on the screen

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after which point I could
click the 'Copy' button

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and create a copy if I want to,

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but I'm just gonna click
'Ok' to accept that change.

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Now, I do have a problem here,

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you'll notice if I zoom in,
that I went ahead and scaled

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every single one these objects

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with respect to its own
center, and as a result,

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I've kind of squished
things together right here.

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So this is before and this is after.

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That's not what I want,

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so what I need to do in advance

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is combine all of these guys

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into either groups, you could do that,

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or because they all share the same fill

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and stroke attributes,

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I could express them as compound paths,

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which is what I'm gonna do.

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By pressing Control+Zero,
or Command+Zero on the Mac

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to zoom out and then I'll press

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the V key to switch back
to my black arrow tool

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and I'll go ahead and
marquee this group of shapes

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and I'll go up to the Object Compound Menu

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choose 'Compound Paths' and choose 'Make'

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or I could press Control+Eight,
or Command+Eight on the MAC,

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as I will be doing in the future,

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because I have to repeat this
operation a bunch of times.

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So I'll go ahead and select these guys

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press Control+Eight, or
Command+Eight on the MAC,

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I'll select this group,
press Control+Eight,

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or Command+Eight on the MAC,
and then select these guys

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and press Control+Eight, or
Command+Eight on the MAC.

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Alright now, instead of a bunch of distant

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path outlines we have
what Illustrator considers

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to be four paths, one in
each corner of the artwork,

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and so now I'll just go ahead and click

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in the upper right corner
of this flowers layer

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to select all of them.

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I'll also press Control+H,

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or Command+H on a MAC,
to hide my anchor points

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and then I'll return to the Object Menu,

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choose 'Transform' and
choose 'Transform Each'.

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And this time notice
if I set the horizontal

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and vertical values both to 120%,

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because the dialogue box

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does remember throughout your session,

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then I can see that each
one of these objects scales

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independently with respect
to it's own center.

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If I wanna change that, if
I want them all to scale

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with respect to their bottom most points,

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then I could select the bottom point

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in this little reference
point matrix and so forth.

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But in my case, I want
everything to stay centered

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so I'll go ahead and select that point

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and then click 'Ok' in
order to apply that effect.

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Alright, so this is a static effect,

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meaning if I switch to the Outline Mode

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by going to the View Menu

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and choosing 'Outline' or
I could press Control+Y,

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or Command+Y on a MAC, we
see that these path outlines

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have indeed gotten bigger.

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So, this is before and this is after.

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Compare that to the Transform Effect,

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I'll go ahead and undo
Transform Each and I'll press

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press Control+Y or Command+Y on a MAC

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to switch back to the preview mode.

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Bear in mind these objects
are still selected,

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it's just that their
anchor points are hidden.

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And so now I'll go up to the Effect Menu,

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choose 'Distort and Transform'
and choose 'Transform'.

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And that's gonna bring out that very same

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dialogue box that we saw before.

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The Transform Effect doesn't
really remember things

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so I'm gonna have to
manually enter 120 into both

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the horizontal and vertical scale values.

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But we have the same control
over the reference point

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and we can turn on the
preview check box to see

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all of the objects grow, and again,

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they're all growing with respect
to their own origin points.

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So this upper right guy
is expanding with respect

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to his center, the upper
left one is growing

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with respect to her center,

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as long as we're assigning gender here,

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and so forth.

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The one difference inside the dialogue box

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is that we have this copies value,

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which is not really gonna help
us very much in this case,

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but you know, we could create some

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weird effect like this if we wanted to.

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I'm just gonna set copies to zero

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and then I'll click 'Ok'.

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The other big difference is
that this is a dynamic effect.

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So, if I were to zoom in
on this guy right here

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and press Control+Y,
or Command+Y on a MAC,

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you can see it grow smaller.

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This becomes even more
obvious if I switch back

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to the preview mode and press Control+H

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or Command+H on a MAC, so
that we can once again see

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the anchor points and the segments

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which are obviously smaller than

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the previewed effect on screen.

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Alright, I'll go ahead
and press Control+Zero

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or Command +Zero on a
MAC in order to zoom out.

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So, the two things to
remember about Transform Each,

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it scales multiple selected objects,

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each with respect to its own origin point,

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and it is ultimately a static version

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of the Dynamic Transform Effect.

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And that folks wraps up
my look at the old school

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but still very powerful world
of static transformations

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here inside Illustrator.

