in today's tutorial I've got seven different tips or kind of answers to
questions that you might have in a day by illustrator that are really gonna
help you a workflow and also your knowledge of using illustrator as a
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bounding box of a shape now the bounding box is the box around a vector shape
where you actually can select and move the actual object itself and also
manipulate the anchor points as you can see but one of the problems is is that
if you're rotating a shape and moving it around the actual bounding box is also
rotated and turned as well what if you want that bounding box to be aligned
properly back in a fixed position no matter the rotation of the shape
well you might notice if you come up to object and transform there is a reset
bounding box option but it's grayed out so what we need to do is we need to come
down to shape and then expand the shape here we can then go back to the bounding
box option and it's actually not grayed out anymore so as you can see my shape
is too rotated of 45 degrees but the bounding box has been reset which is
helpful for aligning and you know sometimes all guising your workflow in
Illustrator
the second point is also to do with the bounding boxes and to demonstrate I've
got a logo design here but let's go ahead and add a drop shadow to our
design but what if we actually want the bounding box to be around the drop
shadow as well well you can come into the illustrator preferences in the
general section and we can check this setting here that uses the preview
bounce now illustrator set the bounding box to the edge of any kind of artwork
on this specific shape this is useful in certain situations and it is handy to
keep in mind for your workflow now for a third tip in today's video I'm gonna
answer the question of why do we expand an object's appearance in adobe
illustrator or quickly look at this shape with a stroke here and when I
scale it down the stroke stays the same width but of course it's not a relative
and it causes issues we could of course change the settings here to scale stroke
effects for the reason we do expand finished artwork is that when we send it
to clients or other designers they are obviously going to move the artwork and
change its scale and size so we want to make sure the our work stays relative
and stays true to the final outcome
so once you've expanded the artwork it is a matter what scale we change the
shape itself the artwork is going to stay true to the design and I actually
suggest that you send the final artwork in both expanded and not expanded
versions so the fourth tip today is answering the question how do we save
multiple artboards as different AI documents this one is pretty simple and
you just come into the save as option here and then choose your location and
also name your work but then in the next window make sure to check the save each
outward to separate file and here you can either say if all of them or you can
choose a range so for example one two and three will be saved as differently i
files and this is handy and especially when you're working on big projects with
various different artboards the next point in today's video is an answer to a
question I get quite often actually and that is how do you make your anchor
points so large well the answer to this is firstly you need Adobe Illustrator CC
if you don't have CC is not going to work and what you do is you come into
the illustrator preference settings and then you come into the selection anchor
display menu here you can quickly change the size of your anchor points and you
have four different are size options so as you can see they're now smaller
but for me as a personal preference I personally like the third largest which
is pretty decent for most of my work projects now the penultimate point today
is recoloring artwork so as you can see I've got this design here in a CMYK
color format but what if a client wants Pantone is a color options for coming to
edits edit colors and then recolor artwork come down to this option here
head into color books and you want to mainly focus on a Pantone solid coated
or a Pantone solid uncoated we simply click an illustrator will match the
closest Pantone color and as you can see in the color window is a Pantone color
code but that conversion wasn't to ideal so let's go back and see if we can make
a better conversion using a different Pantone color so this time I'm going to
use Pantone solid coated and yes you can see that's a lot closer to the original
and we're going over Pantone to four to see
now the last point today is something I've found more recently actually and
that is creating a center point on the art board it's important to know where
the center is for many different reasons and to do that coming to the art board
as a menu here and click the flow down menu in the top right corner and come
into our board options here you can check the option to show the center mark
and as you can see I've now got a green crosshair that's going to tell me where
my Center is on the a board and it's not going to print out so don't worry about
that of course to remove it you just come back into the options and uncheck
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portfolio website so yeah there was seven different questions or answers
that you might be thinking about or wondering about for your workflow in the
dev illustrator let me know what you thought of today's video and of course
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skills as a graphic designer have a great day and until next time
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