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the first illustrator tool the somewhat hidden ability is related to the pen
tool if we want to make a fairly complex curve with the pen tool we often just
click once and then throughout our pen tool path like so as designers we will
probably know this however this can be quite tricky for some designers as well
as tedious so instead you can simply click points in the general direction in
which you want to go not making a single curve and just using straight lines then
when ready hold down the alt option key and you're
going to notice that you can actually click and edit the path this is very
easy to do and I find this hidden aspect of the pen
tool is very useful you can also of course press a for the direct selection
tool and edit the handles thereafter
the second illustrator tool with the hidden ability is the pencil tool which
has the keyboard shortcut of n this tool can be useful for creating lines like so
an illustrator the lens can have a stroke or a fill or even pace however
there is another more useful function with this tool if you select the direct
selection tool first and then you select the pencil tool after you can switch
between them podding and command on a Mac or ctrl on a PC and then select a
specific part of your design then with the pencil tool you can click and change
your path in this direction as well as the smoothness this is a very
interesting addition to how the pencil tool can be used as the administrator
what do you think about it the next hidden tool function illustrator is
based around the shape tools and it's a place to any shape to native illustrator
we all know that if you take a shape tool and then click and drag your gonna
generate a shape but if you actually hold down the tilt key which is located
on your keyboard here you can make some very interesting designs indeed when
you've made the design you can alter the stroke weight and the color
this technique does work with any shape tool even the line tool just remember
that you need to have the tilt key held down the entire time that you're
clicking and dragging to make your design the fourth and final hidden
feature of a tool industry there is a function of the blend tool so I have a
star here with a stroke and a gradient of fill holding down the alt/option key
I can click and drag to duplicate the star below having this scale stroke
option checked in the preferences is going to make sure that when you change
the size of the shape the stroke will stay proportional we can select both the
shapes and then head up to object blend and then blending options for this part
of the tutorial we're going to use specified steps
then go back to blend and click make we can now head back to the blending
options and click the preview box to see changes in real time
I'm going to use a specified steps option but play around the numbers until
you're happy with the effect along the shapes blend length when you are in fact
happy with the blend take the pen tool and draw a curved line like so we can
then select both design objects and replace the spine in the blend menu
section that looks pretty neat but we can actually expand upon this and use a
spiral tool to make a spiral line and then use that to replace the spine
so as you can see the blend is an ideal with the spiral shape so press command
or control Z to step back from steps and then increase the amount of steps used
in the blend itself in the blend options window
and they're a really neat hidden with the blend tool I'm pretty sure you
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