boost your adobe illustrator productivity with my second video on game changer
tips and techniques for Illustrator
welcome back to Satori graphics everyone home of graphic design content if you
new here and you enjoy my content subscribe for my 5 weekly graphic design
uploads and if you have been already turn on those notification so you never
miss and upload also leave a like and a comment on your way out now 6 tips on
how to boost Adobe Illustrator productivity the first game-changing
Illustrator tip is using the symbol tool this will help you save a lot of time
when making designs and patterns of the same shape you can open up a symbol
window here let's say I want to make a design with this clover icon select it
and then go up to the top right of the symbol window and add a new symbol add a
relevant ID to it now we can drag and drop a clover easily over and over again
there's an even faster way to do it you will find the symbol sprayer tool right
here you can then either click and hold down to spray the symbol over your art
board or you can click in specific places that have the symbol
lastly you can grab the simple spinner tool with this you'll be able to quickly
rotate each symbol within the pattern or design more interesting when you know
how to use this simple but effective operation you will boost your adobe
illustrator productivity command D basically repeats the last operation you
made in Illustrator so as an example I will copy this top circle in irritation
around the bottom one it still ran through that over and over again I can
simply hit command D to repeat it like so the next illustrator game changer tip
is great for those who use illustrator or making illustrations and cartoon
style designs first open up the swatch library and choose a color swatch
collection that you want to use for your artworks
when you 100% happy with your illustration highlight all of it and
then grab the Live Paint Bucket tool here you can then simply select the
color you want to fill a specific part of your design with and then click it
like so this speeds up the process of coloring your artwork in illustrator
and also at the very end you can choose to turn off the stroke of the design if
you want to I have shown how to use the image trace tool on my channel before
but I have to add it in this list because it really will help you with
your graphic design workflow you may have a client has given you some icons
used on your design but you want to edit them or you may be you want to ensure
the quality is going to be good enough or the JPEG is not going to serve this
simply open of the image in Illustrator and then access the image rate window
you can create a black version or a color version of the image and play
around the settings to see how it will turn out remember to click preview
when ready go up to objects image trace and expand my aim it will be a vector and if
you improve it the entire thing will be able to be edited in Illustrator and
also scaled up or down to any size
normally if you copy something in Illustrator and paste it with command V
it will paste it into the center of your screen you may want to base it back
exactly where you copied it from instead of pressing command V try pressing
command shift V or control shift V on a PC and it should pay to write back into
place wherever your screen is focus done
a last game-changer tip to boost productivity in illustrator is one of my
most widely used techniques with your text go to type and create our lens now
with the direct selection tool you can move the anchors around editing the text
and if you simplify the text like so you'll be able to editor even easier
illustrator is a great tool for editing typography
so did you find my tips on how to boost your adobe illustrator productivity
helpful if you did let me know in the comment section below and leave a like
on your way out subscribe my five weekly graphical design uploads and until next
time design your future today peace
you