Adobe have updated illustrator multiple times this year and a lot of the new useful features might
have actually flown completely under the radar to a lot of designers out there take this one
for example right here in the May 2023 update we can now upload a raster image to illustrator and
then if we come into the Type window we now see an option called retype it's still in beta so we have
to take the results it gives with a tiny bit of caution it's still really cool though I promise
so essentially this thing identifies possible fonts in flattened work or just raster images
the title of this design here is suggested to be Franklin Gothic oh and by the way the text
that reads this is aerial is just placeholder text but as you can see we can cycle through
the raster image that contains fonts that we like the look of and then get some real-time
possible suggestions for fonts and if it's not an exact match then we can get a close enough
suggestion font ways and like I said it also works on outline text and flattened work as well so here
this is obviously canaver grotesque and by right clicking it I can outline the font just like that
retype has matched it up to be a scoping regular which is not of course but it is kind of close
I guess but yeah remember this thing is still in beta mode but the next tool today is fully
flared and fully functional now a huge part of working on Graphics in illustrator is that we
often need to collaborate or share our work with clients with other designers or maybe you just
want to spam it around social media like crazy well now you can spam and share your work easier
than ever before by coming into file and then share for review or you can simply just click
the share button people can even comment without an Adobe Illustrator account which is pretty cool
you can name your link and control settings on who can see it and so forth but there is a
further update to this now we're able to control the amount of artboards we share from a single
document so we can share the whole lot of them a range or just a selection Adobe Illustrator has
finally gotten into the game of image generation well not exactly image generation as such but we
do have a text image sort of process in the new illustrator update come into edit edit colors and
you will see another beta Adobe experiment the generative recolor option I fully expect them to
build upon this and improve it within time but right now we can select a design and then type
in the sort of color palettes that you want to work with this is great if you know an emotion
or a tone you want to express with your design because then you can just quickly apply a color
palette accordingly also we can explore specific color systems such as complementary micromatic and
so on this obviously has many different uses and it will save time as well as exploring different
design Avenues in your projects being able to use Adobe Illustrator is all well and good but
a huge part of getting your clients to say yes to your designs and getting more work from them
is completely smashing the design pitch that's where this awesome tall Walling steps into the
Limelight now it's a visual tool for organizing your day-to-day Life as a graphic designer and
presenting your Concepts or your designs but it also helps you streamline your workflows and your
processes with organizational tools such as notes tables schedules and so on and that's all smartly
laid out with the ability to color code your walls you gotta love that next level organization
Chef kiss also walls and Walling are optimized for phones so that means your clients can view
and interact with your walls on the go anywhere anytime importantly you can decide which wall
section to share with your clients or your colleagues and then keep other sections
totally private but as I mentioned before one of the main reasons why Walling is so beneficial and
useful to designers is the presentation pitch Factor this project right here has everything
from the logo design itself down to the tone of the brand identity and this would go down
like a treat drawing the client pitch you can start organizing your workflows designing your
best work and pitching like a pro right now today and as we're heading over to Walling via the link
in the description box below I only ever talk about or work with brands on this channel that
I feel are beneficial to graphic designers and I would actually use myself and Rawling the sponsor
of today's video is no exception so again thanks to them so here's some lovely bold paint splatter
across an equally bold and captivating exam of typography with a new feature in illustrator
2023 we can now have some fun with this in quick and real time so come up to objects intertwine
and make and you'll find a few things with this tool that you should keep in mind firstly when
you hover your cursor over a selection you can see a faint feel of the behind object so you can
then just go to town and highlight areas of the behind objects that you want to come to the front
this might take some time to experiment with but you can make some pretty cool stuff in a matter of
seconds or minutes and of course all vectorized now quick and a cool update that you might have
missed is that when you come into the edit toolbar menu as you hover your cursor over each tool we
can now see the label of the tool and also the corresponding keyboard shortcut let's face it
though that that should have been there since day one right also as a side note it's always really
helpful to look down here at the bottom to know what kind of tool you're using at that present
moment this will help you know what shortcuts work as well tool and just in case you get lost
the next feature or shall I say tool has been given a huge Adobe facelift
I actually remember using the image Trace tool back in around 2012 and back then it
was super clunky and it was pretty much just a mess it has improved over time
but we have some really useful additions to play around with in the recent updates
now the first one I really like is the ignore color option if you remember before we could
only ignore white but now we can choose to ignore any other color which obviously just makes a whole
lot of sense then another cool addition is that we can simplify the results here and of course
this will be helpful in specific situations not necessarily here with this Eagle design weirdly
enough Adobe did give a redesign to the image Trace window itself and it looked like this in
the previous updates but I updated AI to 27.8 today which is the most recent update as of
making this video and the panel has reverted back to the old style of UI Adobe probably has
some kind of negative feedback to the new change but still the recent changes to the tool itself
the image Trace tool are pretty good and Adobe Illustrator is a highly detailed highly intricate
design program but if you want to learn things that most designers don't know about in this
software just click that video on screen and until next time guys design your future today [Music]