Miracles Without Expiration Dates

Do you have a story about a miracle that you personally experienced? A lot of us do. Even if you don’t, you might have a friend or family member close to you that shared their story. The surprising thing about everyone’s experience here though is that the experience itself is easily forgotten!

It is a surprising attribute. Miracles are supposed to change your life for the better. They are supposed to inspire you to change your lives, and the lives of others for the better. They are supposed to be deeply meaningful, but in the end… they are not. In fact, they might not even be memorable. There is some comfort here though, and that comfort resides inside you.

Everyone human contains a unique property in this world: there is no one like them and they are here for a reason. That is miraculous. That miracle is inside of them and it is always with them. That miracle is untarnishable and it has an even more important property:

That miracle inside of you hasn’t got an expiration date. You will never forget about it. To simply be who you are in this world is to share it. There isn’t anything that you need to tell anyone about it.

You are your own miracle without an expiration date. It is the sole reason for your having taken birth as a human. Your job is to figure out that reason and start living it as quickly as possible.

Chapter 31. Working In Isolation Mode 4:32

  • Way to get to individual pieces in groups
  • Find a group, Double click on it
    • Top area shows that you are in that group
    • Rest of screen greys out
  • The greyed out areas are isolated from everything that you are doing
  • Double click again on an object and everything else greys out
  • Top area left arrow or escape-key lets you get out
  • Selection Tool → Option-Double-Click progressively selects
    • By double clicking on object in a group progressively selects all objects in inclosing groups

Chapter 33. Object Rotation And Smart Guides 5:16

  • Smart Guides shows useful information about context on artboard
  • Rotation tool
    • Set anchor
    • Drag to rotate
    • Alt-Drag to put a copy at the new location
  • Operate upon multiple objects
    • Select all objects
    • Click Rotate tool
    • Object → Transform → Transform Reach
    • Enable Preview
    • Remember that X, Y, and W are the transform panel
      • You can do the same thing there
  • Is it safe to align everything to pixel grid at the very end?

Chapter 32. Resizing Tricks 5:51

  • Won’t be resizing keycaps or symbols on them
    • Probably just font sizes
    • Might skips to chapter on text
  • Preferences → General → Scale Strokes & Effects
    • When you make something bigger the strokes and effects will get bigger
  • We tend to be creatures of comfort when it comes to workflow configuration
    • Every once in a while go into a pulldown and explore something new
      • Go to Help and type it in
      • It is possible that you need to know that
    • Get to know these program!
  • Select an entire groups
    • Command-Click it to select it all showing the bounding box
    • Keep holding Command
    • Resize it however you want
    • Hold Command-Shift to keep it in proportion
    • Hold Command-Option-Shift to resize it in proportion staying centered
      • Remove the Shift key and it will still remain centered
    • Holding Shift on rotation gives you 45° and 90° shifts
  • If you either have the bounding box of or want more precision you can do the same thing with the Scale Tool
    • Select the object (or group)
    • Select Scale Tool S
    • Click the point where you want to lock the object and a crosshairs will appear there
      • Hold Alt and click to show the Scale modifier panel with detailed options
    • Select the object/group with no modifier and now you will resize it relative to that point
      • Unsure how to rotate it
    • X, Y, and W in the top-middle section also bring up the Transform panel
  • The transform panel is where you would do precise transformations like
    • Change the width and hide by specific percentages
    • Rotate it by specific degrees

Chapter 31. Working In Isolation Mode 4:32

  • Way to get to individual pieces in groups
  • Find a group, Double click on it
    • Top area shows that you are in that group
    • Rest of screen greys out
  • The greyed out areas are isolated from everything that you are doing
  • Double click again on an object and everything else greys out
  • Top area left arrow or escape-key lets you get out
  • Selection Tool → Option-Double-Click progressively selects
    • By double clicking on object in a group progressively selects all objects in enclosing groups

Chapter 30. Selection Via Attributes 3:57

  • Say that you have the same logo color in everything
    • You gotta change it
    • Select it everywhere
    • By some criteria
    • And change it
  • Multiple selection lets you do bulk changes by some criteria
  • Also lets you search for and discover things
  • Tons of features
    • Layer
  • Select → Objects → Stray Points
    • You can accidentally leave stray objects in places
    • This shows them
    • Then you can delete them
  • Select → Objects → Not Aligned To Pixel Grid
    • Means it will look bad rasterized
      • Doesn’t show fix yet
  • Selection by attribute lets you make global modifications