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graphic design hacks which
will show you how to use Adobe
Illustrator like a boss
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illustrator graphic design hacks that
without a doubt will make your design
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now this is something very few people
know about and I myself only found out
about this new recently what is it silky
you may be asking well the tilt key is
on your keyboard and it should be an
upper left corner it looks like this in
Adobe Illustrator we can use it to
create some amazing equal shapes and
geometric freehand athens select any
shape tool so let's do the star and make
sure you have the stroke option selected
without any cell hold down the tilt key
and then click and drag rotating as well
if you like you can have some serious
fun with this and utilize it in many
different shape goals i'm using adobe
illustrator CC 2016 so i'm not sure if
this works throughout the other versions
of illustrator let me know if it works
for you
for some strange reason Adobe
Illustrator does not yet have a feature
that allows you to create a line of
thought so easily but there is a hack
for it either drill yourself a line with
a pencil or make an outline of the shape
then go to window and open up the stroke
panel from here select dash lines and
set the value to 0 for the gap you're
going to have to play around different
measurements for your angle design
finally we must make sure the round cap
option is selected I'm Allah you have
yourself a dotted line
if you have to design I'll end up using
many different shades or terms with
specific color it may take a little
while for you to shop around different
color swatches or groups in Illustrator
there was a hacker however that makes
things a lot easier simply select a
baseline color you wish to use so let's
say the screen here and then I open your
color guide menu like so you would then
be shown different shades of that color
as well as a few other colors that will
match it within the design so you have
yourself present harmony in color in the
matter of seconds
a lot of these hacks a shortcut may not
come so naturally at first and they will
take some time getting used to but with
time they become second nature and the
lifesavers for example I don't even
realize most of the time when i use this
specific hack with the space by simply
hold down the spacebar until you see
this icon appear and then you can click
and drag to move around and if you are
bored this really does save a lot of
time and I use it every single day if
you haven't designed many different
components to it and you want to copy
and paste different aspects there is a
faster way to locate each part of your
design easily and duplicate them
normally you would have to search for
that pie and then hit command Z and
command me to copy and paste instead of
searching a design for the parts you
need you can save each shape or pass as
a save selection go to select and save
selection
name your selection something clever so
that you can reselect it anytime within
your design process if you then
conveniently paste it and then keep
going on with your design without losing
your data it comes in handy when
designing artwork as many sections are
repeated this is another very handy and
cooler shape tool hitting away
illustrators arsenal tools take the
shape tool this works best with a
perfect circle so i would suggest
choosing the ellipse tool make a circle
that is only a stroke another fill and
then goes object path and and anchor
points
from there go to effect the store in
transform and then choose the path grey
and blue tool play around with the
slider and you will see you can make
some cool shapes and designs you can
also open up the stroke window here to
round off any corners or editors style
like so this will be useful when
designing something like a flyer least
little greeting card pretty much
anything that needs a decorative design
we will probably know that when you want
to create a shade that this perp is
impersonal you must hold down shift and
then click and drag however this can be
annoying if you want to have the shape
generated in a specific place there is a
quick keyboard hack that will help you
with this issue soul into shape tool and
then hover the cursor over where you
want to generate the shape in the exact
center of the tail hold down alt and
shift was clicking a dragon
lastly for today's illustrator hacks and
falls list I'm showcasing the align tool
many of you will know about this tool
I'm sure but some of you will not it's
very very handy and I use it every
single day with my design work so I
thought I'd get a mention you can open
it by heading up to window and then a
line here you can learn shapes or paths
vertically and horizontally you can also
even space objects up and down as well
as where it's an arrange them in more
group sections
so they have it another list of adobe
illustrator graphic design hacks I hope
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