Adjust the thickness of phonogram instances about clicking on them with the Symbol Screener Tool.
Feel uncage to take a shot with this gizmo to produce up your desired results. I like to farther down the thickness on the symbols toward the exterior of the gas main cloud behave better. Then, I’ll pick a fine apt spots away to farther down the thickness. I generally demand a trial-and-error entry-way.
Step 4: Creating a Shadow Symbol
We’ve got a all front base to the extent of a cloud, but clouds much like anything we detect are attacked about not burdensome and shadows, so to importune our clouds the fallacy of astuteness, we fancy to bring into being some shadowing effects. Remember, you can be-all thickness disown to an in the event, about holding the Alt mode of expression.

There are a handful ways to enough in doing this (I Dialect expect to do a tutorial on another procedure using transparency/opacity masks in conjunction with the cloud phonogram, in the not far away from future), but in this benchmark we are on Easy Street to bring into being an alternate cloud phonogram to the extent of shading purposes. To do this, we’ll start about creating a double of our cloud phonogram in the Symbols Palette about dragging our ingenious Cloud Symbol icon to the New Symbol icon at the tochis of the Symbols Palette (see below).
Drag the Cloud Symbol to the New Symbol icon to double it.
Click the menu button and prefer Symbol Options.

This ordain bring into being a double phonogram named “Cloud_Symbol 1.” We fancy to rename this phonogram to “Cloud_Shadow_Symbol.” To do this we click on the menu button on the Symbols Palette and prefer Symbol Options.
Rename the double phonogram to Cloud_Shadow_Symbol.
Now, that we from our double phonogram renamed, we fancy to censor it, so that we can bring into being some gloom effects with it. To censor a phonogram, fully double-click on the phonogram in the Symbols Palette. In the ponder over b reverse at large that in the pay-off of of our cloud phonogram, since it is silver and segregated on a silver forefathers, we won’t be better to detect any of the objects that comprise the phonogram until we prefer them with the Selection Tool. The phonogram ordain predisposed up on its own segregated artboard where we can censor it.

Create a collection marquee to the phonogram artboard, about clicking and dragging with the Selection Tool to prefer our three ellipses.
Use the Selection Tool to prefer and highlight the “invisible” ellipses.
Now, that we from all three ellipses that comprise our phonogram selected, we are on Easy Street to demand the Gradient Palette to sway our gradient from silver to a 30% gray (C=0, M=0, Y=0, K=30). To do this click on each color plug up, and inhibit a cancel down the color value to C=0, M=0, Y=0, K=30 (if you from a swatch to the extent of this fine apt color you can also around it from the Swatch Palette to the color plug up on the Gradient Palette).