today some Adobe Illustrator headaches and their remedies courtesy of dr.
Satori stay tuned in to the very end we're have an absolute lifesaver for you
to use in the form of a free plugin so the first problem that might cause you
some huge problems is the align to pixel grid function now in CC that's situated
here but in older versions our debut illustrator I think it's under the fly
down menu in the transform window and that's located in the top right corner
you're going to need to uncheck the setting called align to pixel grids but
in CC you just click this button here but anyway how is this seemingly benign
setting a headache well it's activated in C when I go to
move an anchor point around like so I cannot place it where I once because
illustrator keeps snapping it specific locations and I can't even place it in
line with my design now if you're not aware of this setting you can go
literally insane trying to figure it out
the next headache that you might encounter randomly new graphic design
workflow comes from a setting hidden in the preference menu now if you're having
some issues with screen renders you might want to turn off this setting here
to see if there are fixes things because the GPU performance setting can create
all kinds of problems so as you can see on screen now designers have encountered
some weird and annoying problems simply because this setting was activated
during their workflow the GPU setting is meant to boost performance but it can
also cause some issues on specific machines the third headache that you can
encounter is dealing with hex color codes now a client might actually
require that their design uses a hex color code and you can find the hex
color codes in the color palette here now the problem with this is that a hex
color code is strictly related to RGB color designs and documents so take a
look at a color code here it ends in CC but once I actually add it to my design
and then duplicate the object then go back and check it's actually been
changed to a different color code this is because I'm gonna CMYK document
the way around this is to simply explain to your clients that you need a spot
color or a CMYK color for your print project and not a hex color code now
I've actually encountered this myself a couple of times in the past and a client
would understand if you explain it to them properly so the fourth headache
before I reveal to you guys the awesome plug-in that is gonna save you some
frustrating times is related to a command on your keyboards so here I'm
trying to select my design and see the path and the anchor points but whatever
I do I can't seem to do that now the issue here is that I've accidentally
clicked command hate by mistake on my keyboard and all I need to do is simply
repeat this command to revert things back to the default view so the last
headache today is when you forget to save your work and then illustrator
crashes on you but there's no need to worry anymore because there's a free
autosave plug-in that you can actually download and I have linked it down in
description box below so head away to that website and grab it for yourself
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