as i scale move rotate and duplicate this vector illustration
can you notice what is so different about it
now i'm going to explain everything in today's video and offer some tips
relating to one of illustrators brand new updates
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creative design process so welcome back to satori graphics
everybody and the eagle eye the viewers out there
might have noticed that as i scaled and moved objects you are in full view of
the design throughout the entire transformation
this is the new real-time drawing function built into illustrator cc
2020 as of much now you can find the option in the
performance settings and there is a note here
relating to lag which i will go into later in today's video
but if i go ahead and turn off this function which was the previous standard
illustrator function when i scale the rectangle we lose the
color and the design of it as a whole only seeing the vector path as we scale
and move it this isn't ideal to us designers and i'm
going to go into the advantages and some tips
for this brand new update firstly i'm gonna list on screen every
tool or function that is compatible with the new
real-time drawing function there are quite a lot of them but in my
opinion there does need to be more and a little later we are going to see
some of them that are not included on this list
so firstly let's tackle stroke paths here i have a round cap stroke line by
default in illustrator if i take the direct selection tool
and move an anchor point or handle or change the curve in any way
i only see the end result once i've released the vector
for illustrators especially this is annoying and it's not ideal for a solid
workflow with real time activated we see the
changes in well real time the animation is so
smooth between changes and it just feels so neat and handy to
be able to do this with our designs in illustrator
secondly again with strokes this time i have a single path but with three
strokes built into the appearance panel if you notice the
thin gray inner stroke i'm going to add some dash lines to that stroke
in the stroke panel and i'm going to make two different size dashes
with two different gaps in between now again using the direct selection
tool we can manipulate the stroke path and we can even see the dashed lines
being created or removed when making the path
shorter and longer
it's a very powerful addition to illustrator and it's been long long
overdue if you've asked me i have heard of other vector programs
out there having this kind of function already
so it was about time the illustrator kind of stepped up to the game
it is cool though to finally see my favorite software have this function
built in and of course if we revert back to
default we see how clunky and how annoying it is
to have the strokes disappear and become invisible
until we release the vector now earlier i mentioned that the
preference settings had a note attached to it for the
real-time function now this note essentially means that if
you're working with a design that has a lot of paths
and a lot of anchor points now we're talking a huge amount of them
illustrator is automatically going to switch off the real time drawing to
compensate now to demonstrate this i have a vector
castle here and if i press command or control y and
head into the outline mode we can see the craziness of detail
involved with this design i do have real time activated but as
soon as i go to resize the vector we're not offered the real time function
because illustrator has deactivated it for this specific design
simply because it has way too many anchor points
however interestingly enough when i move it around i still have the ability
to see the design in real time but yes scaling and rotating causes a lag and so
illustrator just shuts off the function now a quick tip that you might want to
take note of when working on designs with a degree of complexity
is to hide the edges which you can find in the drop down menu here
as well as the keyboard shortcut next to it
one disappointing thing i realized is that the real-time drawing function
is not compatible with the width tool pressing shift and w will allow you to
use this tool and illustrators who use this program do
make great use of this tool however the real-time drawing function
doesn't work with it which i feel is something adobe should have made sure
was something that could happen for illustrators especially
moving on to something that does work and that is gradients
now gradients never look so awesome being stretched
to scaled moved and you know just adjusted in real time
this is for sure going to help my workflow and you can bet that i'm going
to have this real-time drawing function switched on pretty much 24 7.
but what do you make of this new update from adobe and will you be using it for
your workflow there are a few more updates
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