What you don't want to do when you're clicking and
dragging is you don't want to cross, I call it cross swords,
cross the adjustment handles and this is an adjustment handle.
And if I let go of this you will see that there is the actual that is going to print
but this green thing with the little balls on each end is
not going to print that is just and adjustment handle.
And it's for changing the shape of the curve later and
manipulating it so you can get it more precise.
It doesn't have to be precise the first time you draw it.
So I don't have to come back to this point to start my curve continued.
This is already selected that point and it's ready for receiving the next point.
So I'm going to click over here and drag.
Do you see the adjustment handle coming out of this point?
It is now crossing the other adjustment handle.
Do you see, it's making an x there, kind of like crossing swords.
If you keep doing that, it's going to cause these misshapes in your line.
So if I keep doing it this way, and this way, and
this way, you'll start getting these misshapes.
because you're drawing way too far.
You're exaggerating that adjustment handle way too far.
So when you're drawing again.
You want to keep especially with a short little coastline.
You want to keep those adjustment handles away from each other.
So I'm going to click and
this if I start to get close to that it's going to create a bump in my line.
Fine, so I'm going to just stay away, and same with this one,
I'm just going to stay away.
And then I'm going to curve and stay away.
And you're going to want to pull in the direction you're kind of going
with that adjustment handle.
Make sure that the line behind it is doing what you want it to do.
And if it's not, you can see it's forming it right there.
Don't let go, just keep sort of getting that shape about where you want it and
then let go, handles away from each other.
So now let's go over to Oregon and I'm going to go ahead and start in the corner
here and I'm going to just draw, I'm going to simplify this coastline.
What you might want to do is go really in, very close and draw every detail.
It depends on what the map's going to be used for and
what size it's going to be used.
If it's going to be very large you want to make sure that you get a lot of detail on
that coast line.
If it's not, you can be a little more vague about the coast line and
I'll show every single inlet.
So you can see here that I'm clicking and dragging and clicking and dragging.
There is a little inlet there, so I'm going to just come up to the side there,
click and drag.
See how short those adjustment handles are?
And continue up.
There's a little bump right there, and I'm just going to go click, click, no pulling.
And come up to the beginning of the Columbia River there.
And I'm going to go along the coastline here.
And now I'm going to just draw along the Columbia River.
There's Portland coming all the way along like this.
Around this corner dragging with two fingers on my pad up to move the map up.
You can also hold the spacebar down to move the hand up.
Move the map up you're going to hand and continue with your drawing Now we're back
to straight lines and I'm going to click on here and finish that off there.
So if I zoom out by going command 10 minus minus, you can see there's Oregon and
that looks fine.
Let's fill this in with a color.
I'm going to go ahead and click on the Fill box here and
put the Line color box in the background.
You see that's the stroke.
When I click on this it says fill.
Whatever's in the foreground is what's going to happen.
And I'm going to go ahead and just click a color.
And now that's green.
So here I'm going to go ahead and, now I'm going to double check and
make sure I'm on the right layer.
You know what I'm going to double click on this land and Im going to call it Oregon.
And then under it I'm going to click on the layer below it and
I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to call it other states.
Why not?
Just get down on those layers.
So, now I'm going to be on the other state's layer and
I can turn Oregon on and off.
I'm going to turn it off for now and
make sure I'm still on the other states because I'm going to be drawing there.
And I'm going to get my pen tool and
zoom in a little bit and draw those other states very simply.
Now watch what I'm about to do here.
I am not going to redraw this coastline.
The map of Oregon is going to be on a layer above what I'm drawing now,
so whatever I do now is going to be covered by the map of Oregon.
So I'm just going to ignore that complete coastline there.
Do you see what's happening?
I am drawing with a fill turned on, and that's why I say don't draw with a fill.
So I'm going to hit the escape key and get out of that pen tool and
I'm going to click on no fills so I get back.
And when I go back and pick up that point and go ahead and
continue this Oregon Coast.
Now again I'm being very simple and vague here.
I'm going to come to this corner, hold the space bar down and
drag this down and come back here and come over here.
And so now I have drawn those other states and I can click on the swatch tools again,
swatch colors and let's just pick the color randomly right now and
we'll make that orange.
And now watch what happens when I come to my layers palette and
I turn Oregon back on.
It covers up that little messy job I did under here.
So what you can also use the polygon above what you're drawing to cover up the map.
There's no need to redraw.
A boarder's up there going to be behind another of shape.
I need to turn off those two layers.
And I'm going to go to my roads layer and
I'm going to draw some roads, to give you an idea of how to draw them.
And it is drawn just like,
I'm making a mistake of drawing again with the filler color on so
I'm going to come over here And hit No Fill, without even leaving the Pen tool.
And I'm just going to draw route five, coming down.
I'm going to be very general about this.
The important thing is that you would be spending the time to draw this
really well.
And I am just showing you in general how to do this.
Clicking and dragging all the way down and now I'm going to hit the Escape tool.
And get out of that Pen tool.
So, now I have my two roads and those are on the roads layer.
If you look carefully here,
you can see there is the image of the elements that are on that layer.
This circle off to the right of the layer, just as a selection bar,
it will select everything that's on that layer, so
I click that circle, it will select both roads.
I'm going to click on the Shapes tool and
you can see there are different things you can do.
I'm on the Ellipse tool and I'm going to, if I hold down the Option+Shift key,
I can draw out from the center.
If you don't hold down the Option key and
just the Shift key, it'll draw from the side.
If you don't hold down either, it'll be hard to conform that to a circle.
So I'm holding down Option+Shift and drawing out from the center, and
you can see I have a Line Color but No Fill, and
I dont really need a line on this, I just wanted it to be a fill.
So what I'm going to do is I can just drag that color into the Fill Color and
then I can just click leave the Line Color in front and say No Line.
And now I just have a circle.
So I'm going to hold down the Option key and hover over the circle.
And if I click and drag, it actually will duplicate that circle.
But first, now before I do that, I want to shrink it down.
Hold the Shift key down and just drag to the side.
And drag it diagonally.
And now, I'm going to hold the Option key down and duplicate a few of these.
And I'm going to just spread them around.
Here, we'll put one at Redmond.
So now we have all of those cities.
One thing I neglected to do is to lock my base map.
Do you see these blue lines coming through?
That's an x that means that the background map is selected.
And I don't want to accidentally move it, I forgot to lock it.
So, I'm going to click the lock space right here next to the eyeball and
I can always turn off that eyeball to see how my map is looking too.
So, I'm going to go back to the roads and I'm going to click on these roads, or
I could just select in the selection thing and I'm going to make them red.
So, I'm going to come up to the Swatches palette and I'm going to make sure that
I can also switch between line and fill here, and here it actually
has the line in the foreground, so I'm going to click a red color for that.
Now, you'll see that when I changed the roads to red, it actually turned
the outline to all of my cities red also because they were on that layer, and
when I selected the circle to the right of the layer here,
it selected everything on that layer.
So I mistakenly drew my circles on that layer and
I want them to be on the same layer as my label, so
I'm going to do Cmd + Z or Ctrl + Z on the PC to undo that.
I'm going to deselect these roads just by clicking on the background.
I want to select all of the dots that I drew here.
I don't want to hold the Shift, I could hold the Shift key down and
go through and select them all, but
I know that they're the only think I have that is filled in black.
I have a black line here, but these are the only things that are filled in black.
So I can go Select > Same > Fill Color and it will select all of those dots.
Now that those dots are selected,
you see that there is this little blue square next to the circle on that layer.
That blue square indicates what layer those dots are on and
to move them to a new layer, all I have to do is click on that square and
drag it up to the new layer.
So now I know that my city dots are not on my roads and
I can just hide those dots by turning them off.
Go back to my roads layer and click on the select on that layer, or
I could hold the Shift key down and select the two roads.
And now I'll go back and I'm going to color them red.
And that's great, go back to my layers.
I'm going to lock the roads layer.
Go to the Labels layer and turn that back on.
And so I'm going to go ahead and add some type to this.
I'm going to click on the T for type, and I'm going to click here,
and I'm going to type in Portland.
