now if you have an adobe creative account you might be missing out on some awesome free
extensions and plugins for adobe illustrator and also i'll show you a couple of cheeky paid
extensions as well with the way the design industry is going learning how to create
interactive designs is a no-brainer instead of putting flat files in front of your team manager
or client imagine being able to hand them a design that looks so good it feels like a real website
learn about framer later in today's video we are going to talk about how to install the plugins
later spoiler alert it's incredibly easy but first let's take a look at what they can actually do the
first plugin is called free stock search and you can find all extensions in illustrator right here
once installed of course so with this extension you can search for photos vectors and even videos
it's great because you can search for stock content right within adobe illustrator
as example here i might want to use this car on my design and then i just click and save it
and then it's transported right into my document
having access to a huge range of stock imagery vectors and videos
like this just speeds up your workflow and it is very intuitive to use when you're designing stuff
you obviously don't want to keep moving to a web browser window and then hopping back to
illustrator it's just really annoying again this is a free plug-in so considering it's free i think
this is a must-have for anybody who works in adobe illustrator on a regular basis the next plugin is
a really quick and awesome find and it's called the art board resizer and it does exactly that
it resizes your artboard we can see in the display a collection of standard sized documents
so for example a4 a3 a2 and so on there are various different size categories and all you need
to do is click on the tab and your document will instantly change size this of course is handy in
certain situations and it can save you a whole lot of time when you're working on a project there are
no delays or lag when changing the document size things altered instantly and very easily we also
have standard us paper sizes at the very bottom too so yeah this is also a pretty useful find
the third free illustrator extension is the arranger
which funnily enough arranges your objects and your design assets in different ways
the first mode we have is to arrange things in a circle which does take time in illustrator if
you're doing it manually but we can type in our settings and do things instantly
there are adjustments we can make such as the direction the start angle orientation and so
on so yeah there's no more duplicating objects and using that pesky rotate tool
the next thing we can do in seconds with this plugin is to set things to a grid
all you need to do is to adjust the amount of columns that you want to use and then adjust
the gutter width and the gutter height values this is also a nice and handy feature to have access to
which is no doubt going to save you some time in illustrator when you're working on projects
it's just the case of typing in your irrelevant values and then dispatch bosch you have your grids
moving on from there we can find the wave arranger which of course is going to arrange
objects into a wave right onto your document play around with the values and you can order
the design assets on your project into a waveform at the snap of a finger how awesome
and lastly we have the option to arrange things in a honeycomb orientation
and like with every option with this plugin there are values to adjust and play around
with but yeah this is just a decent extension considering it's completely free of course
so the next plugin is something you might have seen before on this channel but it's such a great
plugin i needed to include in today's video for those who haven't seen it before it's an extension
that allows you to turn shapes or designs into an isometric orientation at 30 degrees so you
just click your shape or object and then hit the relevant tab in the menu bar of this extension
it's super easy to use and it takes no time at all although it does require some thought and planning
to generate the design that you actually want in isometric terms especially for the larger more
complex designs you can have lots of fun with this one and creates isometric designs really easily
moving on to a freemium extension and that is icons eight this one is fully
loaded with thousands and thousands of icons at your disposal built right into illustrator
there are a lot of categories to search under as you can see here and if you take
a look at the gradient section we can see that the icons themselves are pretty decent
but like i did say it's a freemium so it's free up to a certain point you can download every icon
as a png file for free but if you want to download svgs then you have to pay a one-time payment of 13
which isn't that much really is it when you think about it once paid you can download any of the
thousands of icons as svgs for your projects and the fact is built right into illustrator is really
really neat so yeah i would look into this one if you use icons on a regular basis in your workflow
the next extension is not free at all but as one lego designer to another
i want to share this one with you guys it's called the logo package express it does take a long time
to export and collect logo files for a client when you need to package the designs together
this extension aims to make that process a whole lot easier here we can use the logo as it is
but we can also decide to separate the logo mark the logo type and also the tag line so that means
that here you can basically just save different parts of your logo as separate elements and files
the key thing is to check out your settings such as what the file formats you want to save
are the naming of each of your font files the dimensions and the scale of your export designs
the padding around your design up until the artboard edges and just make sure
everything is how you want it to be for when you're exporting or saving your logo files
so if i go ahead and generate my logo here we can see how fast my logo is converted into gray scale
single color reverse pantone and so on it's really quick and if you've made sure the settings are
correct for you and your project you can export your designs and save them individually really
easily but going back to the adobe extensions literally all you need to do is just click the
links in the description box below then hit install and then restart illustrator
actually i think you need to install them while illustrator isn't even running
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design do click the video on screen and until next time guys design your future today peace
you