today we're going to look out for important illustrator logo design tools
but if you want to skip the intro move to the time stamp in the corner these
are Illustrator tools don't have to strictly be used for logo design but
they're very important when it does come to logo designing I'm not only going to
show you them I'm going to show you how to use them in today's tutorial
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four important illustrator logo design tools
the first tool for local design we're going to be looking at is the shape
builder tool I've made a group of circles here with the ellipse tool you
can experiment with the whole house of shapes to create different Lego designs
but the idea is to create shapes and spaces within other shapes
here is a she bit a tool here but you first need to select all of your
shapes and then select a shape bit at all
you will notice by default is a plus sign above the cursor you can now draw
within the areas that you want to use to join together for your logo design
to remove the areas that you didn't want for your logo design hold down the
alt/option key until you see this icon appear then carefully go around your
design removing areas that you don't want the shape builder tool is great in
Illustrator because you can quickly make shapes for a logo designs that you could
not make in the Pathfinder window you can then flick the stroke over to a fill
and then go about adding text to your design essentially completing the logo
this is obviously not amazing logo design I just wanted to show you guys
how to use the shape builder tool for logo designing the Pathfinder tool is
something I've used on my channel quite often granted there are some things that
you cannot do with there and that's why I showed you the shape builder tool
previously the Pathfinder has many settings but I'm going to show you just
a few for logo designing right now but I can however go into each individual
setting in the Pathfinder in a future video so if you guys want to see that
let me know you can find the Pathfinder tool here I'm going to show you three
ways in which is important for logo designing in Illustrator
for the first example I'm going to rotate the square real quick
you can draw shapes with the pen tool that will eventually cut into or cut out
of the original shape to make a new shape for a lego design
you can hold down the shift to select both shapes at once and then turn them
over to a fill group the two shapes together and then select everything and
use the money to an option in the Pathfinder window
so as you can see is very simple to use the Pathfinder tool to make a quick logo
design if you have a solid idea beforehand then it makes it a lot easier
again I'm going to add some tags real quick and actually I feel like a serif
one is best for this type of local design
I will now show you how to cut your leg up into a shape with the Pathfinder tool
so make sure you have the Pathfinder window open in Illustrator and then
bring down the logo mark to the front like so
it's a good idea to change it to why so you will see how the finished outcomes
gonna look and then rearrange the layout on the size into happy for the design
syllabi for them and then again use the minus reduction in the Pathfinder window
as you can see here the logo is now cut into the circle making at one entire
shape the final way to use the Pathfinder tool illustrator for logo
designing is going to be the crop setting as you can see here I have three
shapes just for the purposes of this example so two circles and one square
you will need to make sure that the two circles are behind the square by sending
them to the back like so
you then need to select everything and then use a crop option this method can
create some very interesting designs so experiment and play around with it to
see what you can make remember to let me know if you want to see tutorial based
around the Pathfinder window exclusively
the direct selection tool is essential for editing logo designs in illustrator
and here's why you can find the direct selection tool here and it performs
different operations in comparison to the selection tool to the left if you
hope you direct selection tool over your logo you're going to see words like path
and anchor if you select the path you can stretch and edit the logo design in
this manner
if you then select within the shape itself you can move the entire design
and if you select the anchor you can either the logo in its
appearance if you use a direct selection tool in this way you can really change
the way your logo looks edit to get more and more as you approach the final logo
outcome it's always best to make a lot of pre design concepts on paper first
and then when you design the actual logo and move it to illustrator when you have
several solid concepts
a list about imports and illustrator tools for logo design would not be
complete without the pen tool the pen tool allows you to make designs and
shapes and on the better path if you perfect your skills with the pen tool
you literally have no limits to what you can design for your logo
here there's a sketch of an elephant which might be part of your pre design
process for your logo design project so uploaded to illustrator and then
carefully go around it with a pencil making sure that you play code attention
to detail
as you also saw in the first part of the serial the pen tool is also handy when
using the Pathfinder tool for logo designing and you can freehand draw
shapes to cut into other shapes the pen tool really is used to a quad
illustrator for almost any type of design
so let me know if you found this video on four important illustrator tools for
logo design helpful I'm gonna try and finish a video on the logo design
process from start to finish next week I have been working on this for quite a
long time but time is against me quite often so let me know if that's something
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