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what is that people welcome back to you Satori graphics the home of graphic
design content right here on YouTube I've got lots of great content lined up
this week and tomorrow I've actually got a video on different ways that you can
use a clipping mask in Adobe Illustrator the first annoying alliterative problem
that you might face is something you can activate by mistake in Illustrator
every single vector object is made up of a vector path if you press command or
control H you can actually hide these paths if you press this by mistake and
you didn't mean to it might be confusing and alarming it is always handy to know
as many shortcuts as possible when working in Illustrator so if your vector
paths disappear now you know why the second illustrator problem you might
encounter is working within the Pathfinder window firstly let's drag out
a pathfinder window from the sidebar so we can access the functions fairly
easily with these shapes on my canvas I want to cut out the blue rectangles into
both the sides of the gray shapes if we select everything and then go
ahead and use the minus front option in the Pathfinder window you will see that
is not the desired effect that we want we can group the gray shapes with
command or control G but even doing that illustrator doesn't
do what we wanted to do the trick here is to hold down the alt option key and
then press the minus front option this turns the shape into a compound path
which then allows us to do what we want to do with these shapes the third
problem that you're going to face I can quickly show you now with these shapes
here how can we move one section of the design even though it's one combined
vector shape one way is to press a on your keyboard for the direct selection
tool and then click all of the anchor points you want and then you can move
them as you wish stay tuned for more useful problems that
you might encounter from working illustrator in today's video do you know
what the type area tool is if you don't then you're going to soon can actually
locate it under the type tool by holding on a click like so this is going to help
us easily type inside of shapes and custom shapes something some people
might have problems with so let's generate a shape like so using the
polygon tool we can press Shift + X together to flip the fill over to a
stroke because we want to see the vector path easily
you need to select the shape first with the selection tool and then take the
type area tool and click exactly on the vector path of the shape
illustrator will place text into the shape and now you can go ahead and enter
the character styles of the text as you can see this is a very easy function to
use and you can even take the pen tool and make some custom shapes to put your
tags into the next illustrator problem is one that you might have already
experienced sometimes your text or your designs might not seem crisp and clean
around the edges right now my text is fine but if I wanted to fix the problem
they're not being crisp and clean I can actually try going up and turning off
the GPU setting located here this is one of the main reasons for graphics looking
blurry or pixelated in adobe illustrator on your screen
another illustrator problem they might have activated by mistake is that you
might have hidden the bounding box around the text or an object when we
select a design element in Illustrator it has a box around it allowing us the
scale rotates and to easily move the object around you can hide and reveal
this here in the drop-down menu
another simple problem designers might encounter is that the toolbar disappears
on their screen now again this can be alarming or confusing but all you need
to do is to head up to the drop down menu and then activate it again you can
also press the tab key on your keyboard that's gonna hide all panels and
toolbars press it again to reveal them back
the last illustrator problem that you might encounter is when generating a
shape with a shape tool the transform window is going to appear now I've shown
this on my channel before but I'm going to mention it again because it is so
common now listen get really annoying because it's gonna keep happening unless
you deactivate a setting in the transform window so go ahead and open
the transform window and then turn off the setting here
now when you make a shape any kind of shape illustrator will not open up this
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different ways that you can use clipping mask and a really straighter and so
until then design your future today peace