now if you use Photoshop or illustrator it doesn't really matter because you've
probably missed having some tricks in these Adobe programs and that's what I'm going to
show you in today's video and that starts right here in Photoshop so this is the wrong way to do
something that a lot of people actually do in the workflows they make a selection of something and
then they use the alt option key to duplicate it all over the design doing things this way
takes a long time and the end result looks pretty poor but this is what we do instead
grab the Marquee tool and then make a selection over your object like this
then hit up the edit and Define path to open this window
give a relevant name to your object pattern and then hit OK
now simply press command or control D to cancel your selection and we
come back into edit and this time we're going to use fill
now we want to use a pattern option in Contents and in the custom pattern choose the one that
you've just saved I like to use the random fill for this script here and make sure to keep the
blending mode set to normal and then you're ready to go so in the new window the first four sliders
would dictate the style and orientation of your Arrangement and for the desired effect
I'm going for keep the bottom two sliders set to zero and there you have it a random pattern of
my object in a matter of seconds pretty cool now we're stepping into the world of vectors
with Adobe Illustrator this is a relatively new feature and it was actually possible in
older versions but it was a giant headache and just a annoying workaround so now when you're
designing something you can actually come up to object repeat and mirror whatever you're
working on will be mirrored over to the other side of this line and I personally find this so
awesome for creating symmetrical logos or shapes that are symmetrical such as arrows and so forth
and I simply just saves a bunch of time and we can be 100 certain our design is symmetrical and when
you're done just click the gray bar at the top to release the mirror UI and bingo just like that
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we're going to get back to more useful tricks and tips in Adobe programs this trick in Photoshop is
just so cool so have a flattened design or image and then press command or Ctrl J to duplicate your
layer now we want to isolate part of our design and you can do this in many different ways but
I'm selecting the subject and then using the quick selection tool to neaten up my selection
foreign
mask in the layers window like so we need some typography and for my
design here white is probably going to work best make sure you're happy with your text
because we're now going to convert it to a Smart object by right clicking here move
it into the middle of your layers make a duplication and move that one to the top
crucially on the top layer bring the fill down to zero percent but leave the opacity at 100.
now we're going to apply a stroke to the top layer via the effects panel and of
course you can apply whatever stroke you like I'm personally going for a thin one here on my design
so with the top layer selected hold down the alt option key until you see the icon appear
between these layers and then just click hold down the command or control key and select both
the layers and then link them here now you should have this cool text effect that whenever you move
it the mask knocks it out which is really cool I saw this one on Tick Tock a while ago but I can't
remember the original poster but yeah let's just step back into illustrator for this next
trick now if you have a logo a typographic or not we can do some cool things with it select
it and then come into the brushes panel we are going to look at two different brushes but first
let's look at the Eye Brush now these settings will work just fine for what we need to do today
okay so the cool thing is that we can actually press B for the brush tool and just draw out the
logo in many many different ways this is pretty fun and actually it can work well for certain
branding materials for certain clients we can also generate Vector path shapes and apply the
logo brush to them like so changing the stroke weight Alters the logo itself as you can see here
but let's drop the logo into the brushes panel once more and this time for a pattern brush
you can experiment with these settings and it will depend on your design and
what you actually want to do but I'm going to run with these ones here
and let's generate a circle and apply the pattern brush to it
this time the logo is going to be repeated until it joins back again and changing the
stroke weight will increase or decrease the amount of times the logo is applied
and again we can go wild with the brush tool and just print out the logo with ease in any
kind of way we want and yeah this is pretty cool with logo symbols too so we're back in PS for
more rasterized fun and this one is a real Time Saver if you want to remove this dude from the
background you might opt for using the Clone snap tool which will actually take a long time indeed
instead grab the lasso tool and make a selection around things that you don't
want to have on your design you can hold down shift to make multiple selections all at once
but when you have your selection right click and use the content aware fill option you want to
carefully remove any green areas that are covering your subject on the design and you can change the
brush size for this as well then click OK and just wait for the results to render in it might not be
perfect but it's a really great starting point and it's a whole lot quicker than the Clone stamp tool
and we're back in AI this one's thanks to Will when you want to export designs such as logos to
screens it's a quick and easy method to save a bunch of designs at once right but did you
know there is actually a resolution setting here which allows us to save our designs at super high
quality it's one of those settings that is pretty hidden away actually so this resolution setting
is something not many people know about but if you want to learn seven new hacks in illustrator
just click that video on screen and until next time guys design your future today peace [Music]