today I've got a list of tips for you guys on non-destructive workflow when
working in adobe illustrator but also working and adobe Photoshop well what is
that people welcome back to Satori graphics the home of graphic design
content right here on YouTube so in today's video we're going to be
looking at tips and techniques for you guys how to conduct a non-destructive
workflow in Adobe Photoshop and illustrator in
today's video we're going to be alternating between Photoshop and
illustrator on a single point so stay tuned I'll learn how to conduct
non-destructive workflow in the debut software so like I said we're going to
cover one illustrator a non-destructive tip or technique and then we're gonna
look at one in Photoshop going back and forth throughout this entire video today
so first in until you build a straighter we make a mistake we want to step back
and then do a move we press command or control Z like so you may press this
multiple times over and realize that you don't have unlimited amounts of undo
steps you go into this traitor preferences in the performance section
you can edit the amount of steps you have if you do choose 200 there's a
warning flagged that says it might affect your performance due to take-up
of memory if you want to have more opportunities to move back after making
a mistake in Illustrator this is one way you can do it there is
actually a way that you can go into the program files themselves and edit the
steps manually for more than 200 but I haven't done that yet we're now going to
hop over to photoshop and if you look in the Preferences window here you are
finding the same areas illustrator that you can change the amount of undo steps
as well however here you have more scope for choice I personally like to set it
to around 100 or 200 but anyway the first Photoshop technique that you need
to know for non-destructive graphic design workflow is layer masks if you
don't already use layer masks and Photoshop now it's a great time to start
doing so I've got an image here of a model and
below is a textured background that I want the model to be placed over without
the beige color some designers would just grab the eraser tool and take their
time to remove it however this is destructive workflow as those pixels
would never return again and what's gonna happen later if you realize they'd
cut too much of the girls hair or skin away so to conduct non-destructive
workflow it's best to add a layer mask you would then need black and white as
the two color palette choices and then take the brush tool with black be in the
foreground color when you paint it with a layer you're going to erase it
however it's not actually being erased you're just masking it I'm quickly going
to show you but of course if you're doing this for yourself you'd want to
take the time on the care to cut away the areas properly you can also take the
soft brush and go in closer to the skin
so if you do make a mistake you can switch to white sand painting the areas
like so
so this is the first way to work in Photoshop that is not distract your
workflow the next illustrator non-destructive workflow tip is a quick
one when we're using a pathfinder to cut away or create new shapes from other
shapes we place them together and use the Pathfinder functions
but if you do not know already the shape that you want to create precisely we can
lower the opacity of the shapes so we can see the sections cut out
this will speed up your graphic design workflow when working with the
Pathfinder tool in this way
so back to photoshop now one golden rule when working on photo manipulation or
graphics in general is to duplicate the original layer with command or control J
this means that you can make edits and changes to your design and if you decide
later that you don't like the results will you make a mistake the original one
is still there at the bottom
in Illustrated as a similar technique to this for a non-destructive workflow and
it's really simple yet essential make a copy of the vector shape that you're
working on so if we example this V here I may end up making thousands of changes
to this letter and before I know it I've ruined the flow of the lettering and I
cannot step back enough under your moves so make a copy with the alt/option key
and keep on with non-destructive graphic design workflow in Photoshop when we're
conducting photo manipulation you might need to use a Dodge and burn tools to
enhance highlights and shadows we could just directly use these tools onto the
image itself but instead create a foreground color of CMYK values of zero
zero zero and fifty then make a new layer and press the alt option key and
press backspace when you keyboard at the same time then go ahead and change the
blend mode to overlay now you can use the Dodge and burn effects on the new
layer and they will appear on your design overall
to raise the Eddy sleeve just made choose the brush tool and the same gray
color that we just used and then brush straight with the areas that you don't
one so as you can see here when I hide the layer there's a slight change in the
grading highlights of the car this next tip or technique for non-destructive
gratefull design workflow is a simple one
yeah it's vastly important you can save a copy of your design so that you have
the original design and then a design that you have advanced upon or you can
save multiple designs as you can see here instead of saving it with the
original design again and again and again now you can refer back to various
saved documents if you want specific sections of a specific design in
Photoshop it's always a good idea to compare objects to smart objects when
you scale a small object up or down rotate it will do whatever else to it it
should retain its quality unlike with the pixel graphic you'll find that if
you scale it down to a really small size and then enlarge it again it's gonna
become blurred and pixelated so using small objects is a good non-destructive
workflow technique that you need to be using a Photoshop
the last tip for non-destructive workflow today is one that mentioned
already in a past video but it's so crucial and important I need to add in
today's list he relates to not having to outline text
in Illustrator the issue we can have when saving a PDF or print in
Illustrator is that the fonts we use we either did not have a license for more
importantly when we send them to the printer the computer that is used for
printing will not recognize the font so we often outline all the text and save
it as a PDF problem again for this is that you cannot edit the wording of your
text after outlining err
and also if I open up the PDF in Acrobat and access the font section in the
Preferences the font is listed here if the printer does not have this font
there's gonna be a big problem in printing your design there is a way
around this which I'm going to show you now in Illustrator go up to edit and
transparency flattener preferences click new here and then drag the raster vector
balance all of the way up you also need to check the outline option oh and also
I forgot to say you need to add a relevant name something like outline or
something like that so now your text is still going to be editable as we haven't
actually outlined the text itself but if you now go ahead and save the PDF you
must use the Acrobat for PDF option and then in the advanced window choose the
preference that you saved just now when you explore the PDF you're not gonna
have any flagged warnings and the PDF would not have funds that another
computer will not recognize so essentially we outline the text without
actually outlining it
so that was today's video a non-destructive workflow in Adobe
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