today I have five illustrative features that you might not know so follow along
and see how many of the five features in today's list you previously did not know
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to demonstrate the first feature I have the isometric design from Monday's video
and if you missed that tutorial then go back to my channels home page and check
it out if you want to now often when working on a design in Illustrator we
need to zoom into different scales and view our work in different ways it can
be annoying to navigate to run a design especially it's pretty large and
complicated you can of course utilize the zoom to selection option which I
have shown you all before but today's feature is possibly even more useful
than mats now under the View menu you're gonna notice that at the very bottom
it reads Sun Lounger and purple stairs and if I click either/or I'm transported
to these parts of my design and also in the exact zoom item location that I want
to use now this is really handy indeed and to set this kind of feature up
simply zoom in to a part of your design or in this example my entire design and
then come into view and click new view
give it a relevant name and then from now on when you click that view on a
specific document illustrator is going to bring you there in an instant just
like that
now for the second illustrator feature that you might not know I'm going to
expand on a previously existing feature that you probably already know about
when pressing L for the ellipse tour and generating a circle we can then go ahead
and grab the type on a path tool this tool allows us to type along a vector
path and it works for any shape or path
however there are settings you can access in the top drop-down menu that is
going to allow you to have a better control over your text along a path so
now I have my text ready I can come into the type menu and then choose type on a
path in the new panel that appears I have a myriad of different options and
settings open to me as a designer the first ones I don't really use that often
to be honest and these are dedicated to the style of the text around the circle
and also make sure to click the preview box to see your changes in real time
however the align to path settings are very very handy and you can control the
layout of the text in relation to the path itself also in the top right you
have the choice to flip the text and also adjust the spacing below this
window is really handy for adjusting text on a path and not so many people
know about it for some reason
now the third illustrator feature that you might not know is a quick function
when using the rotate tool with an object selected press R for the rotate
tool and then drag your point of rotation to the desired location often
we then click and type measurements for rotations however you can simply hold
down the alt option key and then click and drag your objects and for this
example I'm going to use 45 degrees and then finally press command or control D
multiple times over now the use of the alt/option key can really be useful and
time-saving in certain situations when using the rotate tool moving on to the
fourth illustrator feature in today's tutorial I'm gonna show you a neat way
to use guides and the align window if you can't see the align settings in the
top of your interface simply open up the align window like so now sometimes we
want guides exactly across the middle of the artboards and that can be quite
tricky and also a tedious to count the measurements but if you use the align
window and also the align to artboard option you can highlight your guides and
then align them accordingly in a matter of seconds of course this doesn't just
apply to centralizing the guides on the out board you can also snap them to the
edges as well and that's obviously super precise and quick too
now the last feature again relates to using guides and it's a quick trick
using the adoption key when dragging the guides from the left they are vertical
but that is until you hold down the alt/option key and then click and drag
again this is helpful because you can pull guides from the same ruler location
and still choose to bring vertical or horizontal guides depending on what you
need to use I like to keep my tool bar able the left hand side rulers and just
drag guides from the top using this method so there are five features in
Illustrator that you might not know let me know how many things you learned
today down in the comment section below and next week I have more graphic design
theory based videos and on Friday this week I've got another test type video so
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your future today peace