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now the first technique today is to do with color when we have a logo design or
pretty much any designer for that matter illustrator for working on prints we
normally have the color picker set to CMYK now what if I actually want to
lower the brightness or heighten the brightness or maybe drop the saturation
a little bit that's quite difficult to do using the CMYK sliders say for
example I want to make the same color purple a little bit brighter it's kind
of difficult so instead heading to the fly down menu and select the H s B color
values these stand for hue saturation and brightness now at the top we can
toggle the hue left and right but more importantly we can adjust the saturation
and the brightness which can really help to adjust your designs in terms of their
saturation or brightness you can easily make monochrome designs using this and
it's also something I use for my logo designs we are experimenting with color
and different tones
so you don't always stick to CMYK or RGB the HSB method is actually really useful
now the second tip today in illustrator for Lego designing involves the grid now
I know many of you and myself included we do like to use grids for graphic
design especially logo design now the problem you might face when using the
grid is that when you go to design a logo on there you might think that
you're lining up your vector pass along the grid lines precisely but in fact if
you take a closer look you're pretty far off and this is probably because you
don't have the snap to grid setting activated in the view drop down menu
after activating the setting and when you go back to draw your pen tool path
lines you will see and feel how other vector paths snaps to the grids when you
take a closer look you will notice that it perfectly aligns along the grid and
yes this also works for shapes too resizing shapes and generating them will
all conform to the grids also you can enter into outline mode by pressing
command or control Y on your keyboard and there will still be the main larger
sections of the grid present for you to see not a third technique or tip for
Lego designing is a quick pointer to a specific way you might want to design
your Legos and that is the drew inside function that many people don't even
know exists so let's make a circle here and you're going to find at a bottom the
color palettes the drawing the side option so now whenever you take the
brush tool for example or the pen tool anything you drill will actually be
enclosed in that shape and this is a quick way to make some new designs for
you know potential logo design and it might even be the way the dribble
logo was created if you take a look at that logo for yourself now moving on to
the fourth of five tips in today's video on liga design techniques i have to
remind you all of compound paths yeah I know I've talked about them before on my
channel is something that many designers underestimate and especially for Lego
designing so if I make a compound path of these two shapes here cutting the
wolf head into the circle I've actually made the incision into the shape itself
but the cool thing about compound paths is that I can take the group selection
tool and then click on my design and then press V and I can actually move
around scale and adjust the shape inside of the other shape using the Pathfinder
option doesn't allow this and this is why it's an awesome non-destructive way
of working with your Lego designs also you can release the compound path when
you're finished as well now the last technique or tip when logo designing
illustrator is to use the outline mode now this is especially useful when you
have different design elements of the same color just press command or control
Y to enter into outline mode and then you can see your design with precision a
say for example if I want to bring my design up to the circle edge I can do
that properly and completely precise with the outline mode
so now after you've heard the five techniques for Lego designing it's time
to test your knowledge and your attention spans in this last part of the
video so in the illustrator color picker what does HSB stand for the answer of
course was hue saturation and brightness
where is the snap to grid setting in Adobe Illustrator it's located under the
view top drop-down menu where is the draw inside option located within a
debut illustrator you can find this just below the color palettes which was
bottom left of my screen now what kind of scheme and did I say it was easy to
make using the HSV sliders monochrome is the correct answer
and it's a lot of fun making monochrome designs using those sliders which
selection tool did I use to move objects around after making a compound shape the
answer here was the group selection tool
what is the keyboard shortcut for the outline mode in Adobe Illustrator this
one's pretty easy so you should all get it and then its command or control Y and
lastly what is the main reason for using a compound path on a logo design the
answer is it's a non-destructive workflow method and it allows you to
make edits to the design later in the workflow remember if you want to join
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