in today's video I've got a list of ways you can adjust your preferences in Adobe
Illustrator to really benefit your graphic design workflow so stay tuned
here is a toh graphics or what is that people welcome back to Sartori graphics
the home of graphic design content right here on YouTube now this is something
many people overlook when using your debut illustrator and that's the
Preferences windows and all of the options they're available to you as a
graphic designer I'm going to show you my top ways on how
to adjust and edits them for your graphic design workflow when working in
a debut illustrator the first illustrator preference setting that you
need to know is one I've only been utilizing for a short while myself
however we first need to access the Preferences settings in Illustrator
which you can press command or control K to open them up
in the type section in the settings there's a setting that allows you to
control the amount of fonts that you're actually recently used to show up in the
type window and also what size you can see the previews to be
I like mine quite loud so I can clearly see the fonts that I'm looking at you
can press command or control t to open up the type window and then as you can
see here at the very top with a section of recently used fonts that I have used
this helps a lot for your graphic design workflow as I often revert back to the
same collection of fonts on my projects
the next illustrator setting is going to help with saving time you can also
access the Preferences here in the general section there is an option where
you can turn on or turn off the isolate function this function is crucial for
working on busy designs as many different components it allows you to
double click a specific object within a selected group and then edits that
object independently of everything else
the next illustrator preference at iing is a big one for me and again in the
general settings at the very top you can actually edit the size of a single nudge
function so basically when you press the arrow keys on your keyboard to move an
object you can change how far it moves so maybe you'll find that every time you
load an object it moves too far along your screen you can come into the
preference settings and change it to be smaller if I stood in the general
section you'll find the two settings that are very important to know about
the scale corners and scale stroke setting there's gonna be times where you
need these turn off and other times when you need them to be turned on I find I
need them on most of the time however I can edit a live corners to make the
corners rounded but when I scale down the shape the stroke and the corners are
going to stay relative to the size of the object
but if I then turn these settings off the stroke and the collar size is going
to remain the same well if the shape becomes smaller so be aware of these
settings when you're working on designs especially with strokes and corners this
is a new setting with illustrator CC where you can change the size of your
anchor points I like to make them fairly large so they're easier to see and click
on but also you can turn on the multiple handle view an option this allows you to
see other handles on the veldt object when you have one set of handle selected
this can benefit you when working on the shape of a vector object seeing where
the handles are directed and located
it's always best to see as much of your vector path as possible when working
illustrator or at least that's what I found anyway
the next illustrator preference settings that you need to know is one I've
mentioned many times before but it's one of the most important settings you can
be using in Adobe Illustrator so go into the smart guide section and play around
your settings here but this is what I'm currently using
when you're working on graphic design projects you're gonna have magenta smart
guys appear when the objects are lined up or at certain distances up higher
this is super helpful and I always have them turned on in the performance
section the preference window that are setting I showed you in a previous video
and that is the fact that you can change how many undo moves you have so when you
make a mistake in your graphic design workflow you can press command or
control Z to move back step this setting r allow you to have 50 100 or 200 and
deer moves so finally today in the user interface section of the illustrator
preference settings you can adjust the color of your workspace I personally
like to keep it very dark in general and this is because as designers we're
stirring screens for long periods and you want to take care of your eyes if
you have a glaring white screen staring at you all day you're probably going to
do some damage sooner or later so be mindful of that everyone so there is
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