today I'm gonna give you guys five things that designers commonly forget
we're working in Illustrator so see how many of these five things you have
actually forgotten yourself in your graphic design workflow what is that
people is Thomas cetera graphics back again with another graphic design tip
video today I'm going to show you guys five things that people with designers
commonly forget when working at a bit straighter so follow along in today's
video and see how many of these things you forget will have forgotten on your
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on the no design process using the shape that at all the first thing that
designers often or commonly forget to do an illustrator release the funds
so when saving your design illustrator for print or on a PDF for example you
want the phone to be recognized on whatever device is going to be sent to
the first way to do this in this traitor is to select the font and then go up to
type and create outlines this is going to essentially turn the font into a
vector shape it's always ideal to save two versions of your designs in
Illustrator if you apply this method one design with your fondest fonts and the
other version is the font being outlined this is so that you can edit the tags at
later dates the other method would be to embed in packages of fonts with the
design files when you send them for printing either way some designers do
forget this little step in the printing process
the next commonly forgotten process illustrates a release of strikes for
this example we're gonna look at this logo design here if you have strokes on
your design you're gonna want to need to expand them all to do this simply select
the object and then go up to object and expand either need to select the stroke
option we do this because when you send your final artwork for print you want to
minimize the possibility of errors occurring with the strokes expanded the
clients not going to be able to edit the artwork but the design can be reproduced
and scaled to any size without errors occurring like I said in the last point
you should save two versions of the artwork one that you can edit and then
the final artwork which is print ready
third thing that designers often forget to do illustrator relates to color for
print most people will save their work as CMYK
this is completely fine in most cases but again we want to limit the areas
when sending a final artwork to be reproduced to globally
we can convert the same way colormode of an object to universally known Pantone
color to do this select the object to then go up to edit edit colors and
refill artwork click the icon here and locate the color books and then the
Pantone solid and coat it click OK and illustrator will then convert a specific
object to the closest possible Pantone match if you now see in the color window
the color is panto instead of seeing make a
the fourth thing that designers commonly forget to the administrator is not
paying enough attention to the in-depth quality of a design itself this lady
looks finder from afar but if i zoom in by pressing command or control + on the
keyboard you might find some anomalies like this here we can use a direct
selection tool to amend anomalies like so
also you may want to select multiple areas of design with shift and then
unite them in a Finder window this gets rid of allowing areas on your design
lastly you can select your design and go up to object path and clean up this is
going to ask illustrator to check the design or the vector path for areas that
can be tidied up and as you can see here I didn't actually have any areas that
need tidying up and lastly this is a big one is something every single one of us
has fallen victim to at some point that is not saving your work that often you
must do this because illustrator could decide to quit on you randomly but if
you do have a decent machine this is gonna be very rare but the reality is
you never know when it's gonna happen so it's a great idea to save your work
every half an hour or so so there is today's video on five things
silence commonly forget wrong making a David Lee straighter let me know how
many of these things you have forgotten and your design workflow and if you
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