today have some Illustrator top time saving tips that will really help
your graphical design workflow so let's jump right in today's video on
illustrator tips for saving time
in illustrator tools panel there are some tools that you have to locate and
hold down a click to get to however you can click this tear off tab here to open
up the specific tools in a separate window this really will save you time
when you want to work with specific tools in Illustrator and make them
incredibly accessible
another advance on this time-saving tip would be to memorize the keyboard
shortcuts so as you can see here I can quickly change the pen to variations
with the keyboard shortcuts by the way in case you missed this tape cassette
poster tutorial head over to my channel to Tory graphics and then go back one
video from this one the next illustrator top time saving tip relates of selecting
objects in a group section this tape cassette here is made up of various
different shapes that all grouped together if I select it with the
standard selection tool you will select everything at once instead of going up
to object and ungroup I can simply press a on my keyboard to access a direct
selection tool and then select individual objects even though they're
all grouped together
it should be noted that if you click within the object with a direct
selection tool you can move it around but if you clink an anchor point you can
edit the shape and the anchor instead
with the next tip in this list of Illustrator top tips for saving time
we're going to cut through these shapes perfectly if I take the eraser tool
illustrator I can quickly cut through these shapes but even with the steadiest
hand in the entire world it's not going to be perfect instead hold down the
shift key and then click and drag even if you drag your cursor over the
artboard the line will remain stray there are something so visually
appealing about this but maybe it's just me
you can then improve the selection remove the unwanted areas of your design
the fourth top time-saving tip illustrator is one they've mentioned
before the list about saving time in Illustrator would not be complete
without here instead of using the slide bars to navigate around your design
simply hold down the space bar until you see the hand icon appear and then click
and drag this tip really will save you lots of time in Adobe Illustrator
again this tip seems obvious to some but I want to include super helpful
time-saving tips in illustrator and this is part 1 of this series I'm going to
make more episodes with time-saving tips illustrator on this channel you can copy
and paste an object with command C and command V but if you hold down the
alt/option key you can click and drag to duplicate it easily
this saves you time and gives you a greater control over the object's
position today satori bonus tip relates to smart guides
when I duplicate the shape here you will see these magenta lines they are even
magnetic which will usher in the shape perfectly into place this really helps
to keep your design perfectly aligned
have this function illustrator open up the Preferences and smart guides you
want to make sure that you have the alignment guides checked if I uncheck
here you will see that there is no guide now that's magnetic and places my shape
perfectly in place
so there was my list of Illustrator top time-saving tips did you find these tips
useful for your graphic design workflow Part C will be dropping next week so
watch out for that also I want to remind you guys that if you want to send me
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