in today's video I'm sharing three tips or tricks that relate to strokes in the
illustrator I'm pretty sure you're going to at least learn something new about
strokes when working in straighter with today tutorial as a graphic designer
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so with the first stroke tip you have a simple square with a simple stroke you
know pretty basic stuff we can edit the stroke weights and also the color within
the color palettes however there is one aspect of Illustrator that is so
powerful when it comes to strokes that you need to learn and then you need to
use this in your workflow and that function is the appearance panel now
spoken about it before but to really show you the rule power of the
appearance panel in terms of strokes I've made a second square right here so
firstly we can drag and move strokes behind or in front of the main fill this
is something you cannot normally do without the appearance power you can
then also increase the stroke weight here which is handy and convenient and
you can even change the opacity of the stroke in this menu as well as well as
having access to other options too now remember I have two more tips coming but
the next powerful aspect for the first tip is at the appearance panel you can
actually add as many strokes as you want to in one design object you can
rearrange their order and change their weight in a color and everything else I
just spoke about
the other awesome feature here is that you can add a fax to your strokes alone
from the appearance panel so let's go ahead and add a Gaussian blur to our new
blue stroke since the first tip and let's move on to the second illustrator
stroke tip effect
so here's a legal design I recently made for a clients and they 100% one to the
chest relate to the theme and also I made some custom Lego type for the Lego
as well the stroke tip here involves the two chess pieces I wanted to make a cut
outline so one piece appeared in front of the other and so you think you'd
simply just add a white stroke right well no because the logo itself will
then have a white stroke on any color background and to demonstrate this let's
take these two circles if I ever lay them and then add a stroke to one of the
circles it looks good on the illustrator our board but it wouldn't work as a logo
on a background so one work around here is to first elect all of the objects and
then expand them
and once they've been expanded you can then go ahead and use the divide
function in the Pathfinder panel this is going to essentially split every single
vector component into an individual shape so you can then remove the stroke
sections that you don't want this is one way to work around this workflow and of
course there are many different ways to do things in a demonstrator the last tip
today is to do with strokes in Illustrator and Alice to do with being
aware of the scale stroke effect options press command or control K to bring up
the illustrator preferences right here you're going to find the scale strick
effect settings if they're activated whatever the scale of your shape or your
design asset the stroke is going to remain the same weight so in my case
here this last 80 points but if I go back into the settings and I turn off
the scale stroke setting option the shapes going to be scaled up or down in
proportion
the stroke weight is changing according to the size of the shape itself the
message something designers sometimes forgets so it's a friendly reminder in
today's video I hope you learned something today in the shoe of a sweet
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