if you want to become faster more efficient and more organized in Adobe
Illustrator follow along today and let's optimize illustrator for graphic design
the first method is going to help you when working with the same design
elements throughout an entire design you might want to make adjustments to all of
these assets at one time and to achieve this effect select the objects and then
start the global edits so now when you resize rotate or just mess around with
the design assets the same process is going to be applied throughout your
entire design a part of having a better workflow in Illustrator simply mean the
saving time and this is a really crucial as a graphic designer
and this method is also really helpful for illustrators who have leaves or you
know similar design assets throughout the entire design one of the most
important golden and nuggets of information in today's video is based
around the properties panel this thing is so useful that I
personally haven't opened most of the time when I'm working illustrator and
here's why when I have a shape or an object selected the panel options
actually change so I can now transform this object with the scale rotation and
so forth but if I then grab the artboard tool I have yet more options open to me
and these allow me to change the name of my artboard among other things and I
also have access to the article options too
then also the properties panel changes again when I have text selected so as
you can see I have access to so many options functions and tools or built
into illustrator within this single properties panel that's pretty neat and
you'll know how helpful keyboard shortcuts can be but if you actually
come into this window here you will realize how many tools don't have a
shortcut allocated to them we can add our own shortcuts and one tool I
personally like to have a shortcut on is the group selection tool I use this one
a whole lot on my workflow and so I have the shortcut allocated to it that
doesn't involve holding down the alt/option key another part of saving
time in Illustrator is when selecting multiple objects at one time I've made
many many videos on several different ways to do this but one method I keep
coming back to again and again is the good old select drop-down menu as an
example I can select all the colors of a certain highlights on my design and then
I can change the hue to be a little lighter accordingly there are many
options in the Select menu and it's a quick way to save time and to remain
organized in Adobe Illustrator but which is your favorite way to select things
when working on a design let me know down below another essential part of
being organized in Illustrator is to utilize the layers panel yes you've
heard me say this before but this is exactly how I use it the layers that
make up this painting on the wall are all separate at the moment while making
the design I would personally make a group of these layers in the layers
panel and say things are just more organized
I can hold down shift and select the layers now and then press command or
control G set a group together in one neat uniform group adding a label to
that group in the layers panel is gonna finish the organization so now I can
access this part of my design really easily and then make the changes that I
need to do again I would suggest doing this as you build up your design and not
to do it at the very end like I'm doing here for you guys now if you want to be
a fully organized in Illustrator on your own terms it's a good idea to make a
workspace preset you can find built-in ones right here which are really useful
but let's get personal I'm gonna set up my own workspace for a logo designing
and so the first thing I want to do is to remove the panel's that I most likely
won't be using for a process on a logo creation I want to have only the
essentials on the screen I also want to have the properties panel over to the
left with the Pathfinder below that's because I'm going to use them the most
throw my tyre and logo design project now to free up even more space I'm gonna
remove the top control panel which is just a personal choice of course I also
will neaten up this side panel selection here on the right and finally make the
toolbar a little bit more thin so I have more real estate on screen
now it's just a case of saving that preset with the correct label
and before we close out today's video I'm going to announce the winner of the
graphic design logo competition that I set up last week there were a whole lot
of entries and it was really interesting to see everybody's approach on the brief
that I delivered to you guys there was some that were really presented really
well with like a PDF breakdown of the fonts used the color scheme and so forth
but what I was looking for was a really bold simple lugar design that utilize a
sans-serif font and related back to the brief and so today's winner is Malka and
the design is on screen right now you can see the rest of their work on their
Instagram portfolio which is linked down in the description box of today's video
I'm gonna set up another competition on Wednesday so do stay tuned for that and
until next time guys there's only future today
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