today I have six tricks for you to use an adobe illustrator for your graphic
design workflow what is that people welcome back to you Satori graphics the
home of graphic design content right here on YouTube I've got many videos on
this channel relating to tips and tricks for Adobe Illustrator but always keep
things fresh for you guys and so today I have six more tricks or tips for you to
use in your graphic design workflow when using a new video straighter
the first illustrator trick for your graphic design workflow allows you to
paste an object in the same position across multiple artboards so if you take
the artboard tool here and then hold down alt option key you can duplicate
the eye board many many times so let's say I'm gonna create a heading with the
type tool I can then copy with command or ctrl C
but if I then press command or control + Alt + shift + + V they will be copied
across many different artboards in the same position this is a great tip for
when you're designing multiple page documents such as brochures or magazines
when you have many objects on your artboard you can hide a specific
selection of them with this illustrator trick press command or control 3 when
you have a selection of objects to hide them and then you can press command or
ctrl Alt + n 3 to allow you objects to be shown again this helps you organize
and see your work when you have a very busy designer illustrator
this next illustrator trick for your graphic design workflow is very useful
when you have a selection of objects you can group them together with command or
control G and most of us know that already
but then if you double click the selection a gray bar will appear you can
now move an object independently around or the other ones with the selection
tool even though they are grouped together you can then also press a on
your keyboard to access direct selection tool and edit the curves and anchor
points and once you're done click the gray bar once illustrator and things
will return to normal with the group selection the fourth graphic design
workflow tip is really interesting to play with and it's great for digital
illustrations press command will control R to show your rulers and then make a
rectangle around the entire artboards using a stroke only in no fill
then pull a guide from the rulers on the left side aniline is centrally done the
document in Illustrator so go ahead and open up the layers window here where you
can locate in the drop down menu create a new layer like so and then access the
pencil with P on your keyboard
draw a straight line down the middle of your new layer and then increase the
stroke way if need be I moved away the guide select the bottom layer in the
layer window and then in the appearance window click the effects tab you then go
to the store and transform and transform
type-in reflect one copy and check the x box here on the right now you can select
the brush tool with B on your keyboard and then when you draw on one side you
have a reflection the other side this is great for symmetrical illustrations and
you can also use shapes and pen tool paths but everything is going to be
reflected over the other side I'm sure you can have some fun using this
illustrator trick and you can use more than one reflection mirror if you won
for this next illustrator trick to help your graphic design workflow make sure
you have a stroke and no fear in the color palette press M to select the
rectangle tool load before and generate a box around the entire document then go
to object path and split into grid
you can now have control over how many rows and how many columns you want to
use for your graphic design layout you can then go ahead and select every
single box and lock it down in place this helps you create design work evenly
spread out across the district's document
the last trick in today's video helps you learn objects to a specific object
so select everything then simply click once more on an object you'll notice a
thick blue line appearing around there so now when you go into the line window
and press an align function everything will be orientated around
that specific object that you selected this has multiple functions across your
graphical design workflow such as aligning typography layouts and so forth
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