today I have four tools in adobe illustrator that you probably don't use and
which you may want to start considering to use in your graphic design projects
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adobe illustrate four tools you probably don't use very often
the first Illustrator tool is the shear tool the illustrator shear tool is a great way
for making shadows or for your designs
you can find this shear tool here once you select it with an object
pre-selected you will see this crosshair icon appear music on to where you want
the shadow to be cast from and then click and drag if we move the graphic
back in place you can see just how great this shear tool is for making shadows on
your graphic design projects
if you use a standard brush tool in the illustrator you're only going to be
able to fill out a stroke and not fill if you then switch them over this happens
you can outline the stroke to save time you can use the blob brush tool here
select your brush settings you would for any normal brush and then throw out a
line or design now you can be able to add a stroke and a fill simultaneously
then you're going to be able to edit the brush line with direct selection tool as
you would at any other design in Adobe Illustrator
to edit your art board or even add a new one in Illustrator you have to head up
to the document preset up in the document setup window however here you
can find the artboard tool it will allow you to quickly edit the artboard size
you can draw out the new art board as well and also you can duplicate them by
holding down the option key
furthermore you can edit their names all the art boards quickly like so
and finally you have access to these settings at the top here or even a line
you work on the actual artworks
the last one you probably don't use much if I put into illustrator is the rotate
tool I've shown this in three of my recent logo design tutorials but to
reiterate you can take a shape or an object and then choose the rotate tool
you can move the open around to where you want to rotate the shape around and
then click once and then hold down the option key until you see the dotted icon
up here
from there type in your degrees rotation and select preview once happy hit copy
and then command or ctrl key to repeat the operation over and over
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