Hello welcome it's Martin from Yes I am a designer let me show you a cool new
feature in adobe illustrator CC 2019.
So this feature is called Global Edit
If you are familiar with symbols
it's sort of like symbols
but it's much more intuitive and easier to work with.
So whenever you have multiple instances of
the same thing in your artwork
even if it's on multiple artboards
now you can very quickly and easily update all of those instances at once.
So here's a quick and simple example we have these little star shapes or details in the
illustration I zoom a little closer so you can see it better.
I selected it with the Direct Selection Tool because I know it's within groups so it would be
difficult to select it otherwise
but once I have it selected
in the Properties Panel, we have this start global edit option
now before I click on it
I just wanted to show you that there is additional features here or
preferences that you can access through the drop down and that first of all you
can see that you can match the results by appearance or size
you can also select both of them
but you can also decide
whether you want to select all instances throughout all your artboards
or just the current artboard or even
filter based on the orientations of the artboards which is quite cool.
You can also set a range of artboards if you want and you can also decide whether you
want to include objects outside of artboards meaning on the canvas
but for now I'm just going to keep everything the way it is by default
and having that shape selected I'm going to click on start Global Edit.
Now what happens is that illustrator immediately finds all the instances of this shape
in this artboard
and if I now make any changes to my shape.
So for example, if I select
one of these points and drag it out notice how all the other ones update
and the coolest thing is that those other instances might have different colors on them
or different appearance or different in size as you can clearly see here
but they still can update because their outline
their silhouette is matching and illustrator found them simply by just looking
at their outline, so it's not a special group it's not something that I saved
as a symbol as I mentioned earlier,
it's just simply illustrator working out
the similarities between these objects
and then again, of course, I can do all kinds of different things
like rotating this shape you can see it's going to update
all the other ones
but let's see what happens if I change its color
baceuse that's an attribute that's different on all the other instances
because I am in Global Edit mode,
once I select the color,
it will actually be applied to all of the other instances so I can override
all the other star colors as you can see
which obviously is not necessarily something that you want to do
but it's good to know that you can also access this feature very quickly and easily.
Now I can, of course, undo this last step and get back to the original colors
and if I want to get out of this editing mode
all I have to do is to click on stop Global Edit.
It's good that there is an indication that I have multiple items
selected with those little rectangles,
so it will keep me aware of what I'm doing
once I click on stop Global Edit now,
they are completely independent elements
so they are not going to update all at once.
So if you ever work with complex illustrations and you use
the same elements multiple times
this feature will really save you a lot of time
and just another example very quickly
here's this tree and we can see there's a couple of trees here but once I click on
start Global Edit,
we can immediately find all the shapes that came from
this original tree here on the left.
So again even though they're different in size
and color Illustrator could still trace back
the origin and find the same outline on these elements
and once again this allows me to make changes to them very quickly
for example if I want to go to Path
and Simplify
and turn these outlines into straight lines
I can just choose straight lines
and we will see that it will update on this first
but then it will also update on all the other ones.
Once again when I'm ready I would just click on stop Global Edit
and that's all I wanted to show you in this video
but if you want to learn more about the new Creative Cloud 2019 features
in Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign
make sure you check back on our channel
thanks a lot for watching and I will see you guys in the next one