I have some illustrator preferences that I use when logo designing but also I'm
gonna show you a real gem and that is how to save preference settings in a day
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in today's video on illustrator preferences for logo designing is
actually more of a setting there are various different tools that can
actually have more precise modes to them so for example I have the pen tool
selected right now and by pressing the caps lock key on your keyboard and now
have a crosshair icon instead of a pen and it is useful to me because it's more
precise and the pen icon tends to get in their way so when I'm designing a logo I
like to see as much of the layer design as possible and I also like to see
exactly where I'm clicking the caps lock key function doesn't apply to all of the
tools but it does work for quite a lot of them so experiment we're pressing the
caps lock key and see what tools you can make more precise and also remember that
later in today's video I'm gonna show you how to save any illustrator
preferences for a specific preset so stay tuned moving on to the second
edition in today's list of preferences is your tolerance value you can see when
I hover a direct selection tool over an anchor point it automatically is picked
up and watch how long it stays connected as I drag the cursor away in the
preference settings we can increase this up to a maximum of eight points and then
see how far away the anchor point will stay linked to the selection - as I move
it away with this value being this high you will accidentally select all kinds
of things in your workflow and it's already not ideal especially for a lego
design so I'm going to advise you to lower this value down to one which is
the lowest setting possible for this preference and now you're not going to
accidentally select objects that you didn't want to select the next
preference that I'd like to use for local designing is a zoomed object
function by default if i zoom in with the keyboard shortcut
zooms in to the center of the screen this can be useful but when I'm
designing a logo I like to activate the zoom to selection option this saves time
and in my opinion it just makes life easier as a Lego designer if I'm working
on a specific part of the logo and I want to zoom in to it I can
automatically do that without hesitation or hassle
now I've got two more main preference settings for logo designing before I
show you how to save all of your preferences as one preset very group
together this design here with a keyboard shortcut I can still move and
edit individual objects as I wish now how do I do that I'll double click the
design and enter into the isolation mode which is another essential preference
that I use you can use a direct selection tool as well but it is more
efficient in my opinion in the preference settings menu you can find
the setting here and it's often turned on by default but also in this menu is
the increments value and this is how far you can imagine objects by pressing the
left and the right key on your keyboard and this setting needs to be changed
over time depending on the design and the size of the outboard and the last
preference setting today before the awesome tip at the end of the video is
the scaling options this design has a stroke around there and if i duplicate
it by holding down the alt/option key and then make it smaller the stroke
actually scales down proportional to the design now this is handy when resizing
objects and I rarely switch the setting off when I'm designing a logo but
sometimes I do so it is handy to know where it is if I do go into the
preference settings and switch it off you will notice what happens when I
resize the logo the stroke stays the same size in numerical values but not in
relation to the scale of the design
so yeah there were some preferences on designing a logo how can we save them
specifically for logo design so that when we enter into logo projects our
settings are ready for us to use so it's a quick example let's drag out the
appearance panel and also the path under window to things that I use very often
in logo designs and just to prove that we can save preference settings I will
change this value here to 0.25 to test later in the video
so just remember it's 0.25 when you have the preference as you wish and go into
edit settings and then exports simply type in the setting name so my settings
are in place for local designing and then select a file location to save it
now that the settings are saved and to conclude the test I'm going to change
the setting from 0.25 to 1 and then click OK and if I go back and check it
is still set to 1 now if I want to load the settings I just saved we need to go
back to edit settings and then imports find the file and then click OK an
illustrator is going to have to restart to make sure to save all of your
projects
so once illustrators rebooted create a new document and then you're going to
notice that once my document has been created I have the appearance panel and
the Pathfinder panel ready for me which I saved earlier and as I said the
setting that I saved of 0.25 has in fact been saved as are all of the other
preference settings now that is how you can save your settings in Illustrator
I did make a video with preference settings before so today I chose some
different ones to go over and show you something new thanks again to millinery
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