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we're starting off today would you do Illustrator magic wand tool for those of
you familiar with Photoshop you might recognize this tool by selecting huge
areas of Photoshop I work the illustrator works slightly differently
however if we have a design with many different segments in Adobe Illustrator
you may want to slow parts of it I have the same color the same strokes and so
on if I want to slow block to the same color I could hold down ships and try to
guess which ones are the same by clicking them individually however if we
take the magic wand tool here the shortcut being Y on your keyboard we can
speed up the process and make it more accurate
you need to open up the magic wand window right here
we want to select objects according to the fill color by default this window
normally opens at 20 tolerance which is not going to work well in our situation
right here the tolerance of 20 if I select a block it will select many
different colors similar to it not exactly the same if I then put the
colors down to one and select a block it's going to select only that specific
color to show you how the magic wand tool also works with things like strokes
I'm going to add stroke away to some objects and at the very bottom here I'm
going to add a higher stroke weight to
in the matter one window obviously we want to choose stroke waves and then
again put the tolerance down so it's going to be most accurate when we use
the magic one tool to select objects now it's going to collect objects without
specific stroke weights only
here we have a vector lion and a heart symbol if I want to place how simple
multiple times over the line vector in adobe illustrator I can duplicate it over
and over however this would be tedious and it's going to take some time instead
you can use a tool known as the symbol sprayer tool to go to window and an open
up symbol window like so with the heart symbol selected you can then add a new
symbol in the top right corner and give it a relevant name
if you hold down a click here you will find the simple square tool now we need
to display the highest symbol in the window and then click the way to add the
highest anywhere you wish on your design
the next Adobe Illustrator tool you should know about is this shape little
hair this is great for joining into the shapes together to make a single shape
so here are some circles I've added select them and then locate the shape
builder tool here
if you transfer cursor over the shape you should see by default there was a
plus symbol above it you then click them two over the areas you wish to mesh
together with illustrator shape builder tool once you've done that you can also
remove areas we don't want by holding down the alt/option key causing a minus
icon to appear like before drove the area to the shaper at all at this time
your lines and shapes will disappear
you
I'm also going to use this to remove the middle sections
and once you're happy you can flick the shape over from a stroke to fulfill this
adobe illustrator tool is great for making logos and icons in Adobe
Illustrator for the next tool I'm going to create a triangle the polygon tool to
use as an example
most of us will know that you can go up to object transform and reflect it's a
pretty basic but also we can use the industry to reflect all to give us a lot
more control over how the shape is reflected you'll find it here and the
keyboard chakra is o on your keyboard
you can then move the crosshair icon around and hold down the option key to
punch in the reflection method you will reflect the shape or object over this
crosshair which gives you a lot more manipulation and simply going up to
object transform and reflect next in this tutorial could be registrated tools
you should know about we have the reshape tool
this one is pretty unheard of on these people you're going to find it here but
there is no keyboard choker for this one
if I draw a line then select the reshape tool we notice this square icon below
you can add specialized anchor points along the line and then you can move
their manipulator around these points
with the alt/option key you can then copy the line over like so and make some
pretty cool designs doing this also you can anchor points to shapes and added
the shapes with a direct selection tool
alas Adobe Illustrator tool you should know about in today's satura graphics
tutorial is the next tool you'll find it here below the razor and the scissors
tool there's no shortcut for it
select an object or a shape with a selection tool and then with the knife
tool you can cut into it freehand style
from there you can either discard sections where did their parents like so
I find this comes in handy for digital art projects mainly so did you enjoy
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