adobe illustrator CC 2019 is finally here i'm going to give you guys a
rundown of the awesome new features and how to use them
or what is that people welcome back to Satori graphics home graphic design
content right here on YouTube so obviously if you don't have illustrator
CC this video is not going to apply to you but even if you don't have CC just
maybe watch today's tutorial and see if you feel like it's worth signing up for
after you see the new features the first feature today is actually an upgrade of
a feature back in 2018 and that is the puppet warp tool in adobe Illustrator
CC 2019 things have been made that much easier when using this tool you're going
to notice that when you locate the tool and then click on a design illustrators
automatically gonna place pins in positions that it deems are most
important so previously when using this tool when I was in the case and you
actually had to position and place the pins yourself kind of course still
position the pins and you just simply click once and hold down the mouse to
retake the pin like so and so in the spirit of Halloween I have quickly made
the zombie fella here and he's actually performing a kind of thriller esque
dance that's pretty cool huh but yes a great tool for character animation and
illustration and the 2019 upgrade is very much welcomed the second update
illustrator CC 2019 is one that I've personally been waiting for for the
longest time and actually I'm gonna bring you guys some tutorials based on
this function alone but for now today I'm just gonna give you the rundown of
how it's used so in Illustrator we can apply two
different gradients to a design we have the choice of using radial or linear but
in CC 2019 we now have a free-form gradient which is really really awesome
when you apply a free-form gradient illustrator by defaults you're going to
be given some areas of color now you can double click on the button
and edit just like I'm doing here I'm currently working RGB but of course
you can use the CMYK sliders too
you can add your own buttons and areas of color of course too but this is just
a really quick and a very easy way to add gradients over a shape and it's a
lot easier to use than a mesh tool also in the gradients window there is a
settings known as lines and this will spread your color of choice along a path
and like I said I'm going to get creative with this and bring you all
some typography tutorials using this gradient very soon
I'm sure many of you like myself have wanted this kind of tool in Illustrator
for a long long time the third also feature adobe illustrator
CC 2019 is something known as the global edit so firstly by taking the arable
tool you can see that I have three different i/o boards on my screen and
they all have the same design on it if we then head into the properties panel
in a debut illustrator and then select the shape component or a design you
notice that the global edit button will appear at the very bottom when we start
to edit anything we change on a specific shape will be changed across the entire
design on every single artboard
now this was very helpful for multiple artboards inés and to be honest this
feature has been long overdue in adobe illustrator and now full of you
typography levels out there this one is for you so instead of coming into the
character window like so instead heading to the properties panel and then click
this flight down menu tab here firstly we have three different settings with
the size of the fonts when viewing them in the preview mode but also there are
few settings for what we actually can see so for example we can preview our
fonts with the word typography or maybe the sentence the quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog also you can view the actual alphabet of the font too and
there's some more options as well you still have access to the favorite font
list which is just a list of your favorite and most used fonts and you can
create your own font list by clicking the star icon but they're similar font
button has moved you know the one with the two curved lines you've actually now
confined that next to certain fonts an illustrator will bring up a list of
fonts that are similar and this is very handy and I always use this function
when I'm working with fonts in the day billa straighter
finally in this menu is an ocean feature and then a specific phone to have an
icon next to them and this icon is a variable phone icon what you can do with
these funds is that in the properties panel you can click here to open up this
slider menu you have a quick an amazing access to weights of that font the
kerning and also the italic slants now this is completely new in industry to CC
2019 and it's really really awesome if you ask me finally today I'm gonna show
you how I do we have cleaned up and upgraded the toolbar for illustrator CC
2019 you can access the menu here and every tool that is grayed out is a tool
that we have in the tool bar right now so if I come into the basic layout you
will see that some are grayed out and some are not to add a tool to the
toolbar just simply click and drag it on like so and you can actually replace a
tool by dropping able to top you can also click and hold down shift to click
multiple tools at once and add them this way but also you have the ability to
create your very own toolbar for specific design projects and of course
you just add the tools from here on out so there are the awesome features and
tools in illustrator CC 2019 what do you think of the upgrades and what do you
think of today's video and let me know down the comment section below and also
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