today more Adobe Illustrator tips to save you time in your graphic design
workflow welcome back to satori graphics the home of graphic design content or
right here on YouTube the first adobe illustrator tip will is really
helpful for saving time relates to saving your crappy designs for a web
really fast it's known as the essay panel however to demonstrate let me show
you an example in adobe illustrator I could be working a larger design project
with multiple designs like you see here if I take the artboard tool I can hold
down the alt option key and duplicate our board like so we can actually save
each of these designs as individual JPEGs pngs OS PG files if you look at
the essay panel here you'll find a few options open up
we can drag each individual design into the asset export panel like so
if you see here you can select which file format you wish to use from the
choices listed there are even presets for iOS and also Android you can add
your own custom file format settings as well as removal of these I'm going to
use PNG for this example so now hold down shift and click multiple designs at
once and then key to export by default it should send your designs to creative
clouds but of course you can choose the location that you want to save to you
now have your design saved as individual pages which you can imagine if you had
upwards of 20 designs this would save you a lot of time by using a set panel
this next adobe illustrator tip for saving time relates to the eyedropper
tool which you can locate by pressing I on your keyboard we all know that you
can change the color of an object in a day ability to match another object with
this tool however did you know that you can sample fonts and text as well
let me demonstrate here by changing one line of text with different fonts
I can then quickly change other text layers with the eyedropper tool but it's
not only going to match the font but it would also match the font size the
kerning values and so forth I've shown you the shape builder tool before my
videos but I need to add it here again because it will save you so much time
for designing things like logo designs in Adobe Illustrator the shortcut is
Shift m to locate the shape builder tool I have a selection of shapes that I've
arranged you will notice that if you hold down
the alt/option key and - icon is going to appear replacing the plus symbol
if we drive our shapes like say with the plus symbol its guarantee you know the
shapes together where every draw
if we then hold down the option key enjoy with the shapes again going to
erase the areas that we don't want like I said this tip is very useful for
making shapes and logo designs the last table is free to tip for saving time in
today's video release T remembering the shortcuts for tools it might seem like
quite a lot to remember at first but if you try and familiarize yourself with
two or three shortcuts a week eventually we're going to have them stamped into
your memory and this will save you a lot of time in your graphical design
workflow so there were four day related tips to save time what did you think of
these tips and did you already know love them and use them for your work this
week I've been very busy and show on time so the videos haven't been as long
however next week have some longer tutorials planned on things like post or
flyer design logo design and some other interesting subjects so please like we
share our content if you do find it useful and until next time there's only
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