you're about to see Adobe Illustrator in a way you've never seen before the first thing I wish
I knew earlier relates to the Pathfinder tool and no it has nothing to do with compound paths
before you ask now this shape here is a PNG and it's not to vectorize in any kind of way
for now I'm going to lock it down with command or control 2 and I made this shape earlier which
is pretty much just something that fits onto the side of the cube and it doesn't need to be ultra
precise but it does help if you are precise so the cool thing that we can do is to grab some
text or just about anything else really select it plus the shape and then come into the Pathfinder
menu hold down the alt or option key and then use the intersect option in a matter of seconds
we have some text superimposed onto a raster PNG but it doesn't stop there the cool thing here is
that the text itself is still editable and it will stay within the side of the cube so yeah
that's one way we can actually apply things or effects to rust objects in Adobe Illustrator but
here's another really cool thing that we can do with the alt option key this circle has several
stroke effects applied to it and it's just a single Vector shape so coming to the layers
window and you'll be able to copy any effects from the circle layer onto another one by holding down
yes you've guessed it the alt option key notice the plus icon above my cursor when I do this
and they're instantly a copy of things over to this layer just like that
this typography looks pretty decent right but what if you want to make something like this
in a matter of just a few seconds well it's pretty simple actually just click your text and head into
the appearance window from the top right menu add a new stroke and apply a color and a stroke weight
now you might think that we just simply need to come and offset the path here
but looking at the actual outcome yeah this isn't going to Jive
so we need to then come into the effects Tab and navigate to the Pathfinder and then click add
this will clean up The Unwanted areas
but there is still one small issue well it's sort of a personal preference really these sections
right here the negative space in the lettering can be annoying so let's just get rid of them
come up to objects and expand appearance and then press a for the direct selection tool
simply click the Anchor Point here and then press a backspace until you've deleted The Unwanted
areas and now you've got some properly outlined stroke typography pretty cool huh if you want to
cut your workflow time down yet still tap into your creativity Kittle might be exactly what you
need as a graphic designer Kittle Works directly from your browser and it comes complete with a
ton of fonts illustrations handy templates and advanced editing tools not to mention
is actually AI integrated software if you're a lover of typography then you really have to take
a look at this see how easy it is to create and manipulate stunning typography with this thing
right here and with Kito you can make some Ultra Clean vectors in just a matter of a few seconds
or a few minutes and because of that it does mean this is a very good alternative to some other more
expensive vector-based softwares out there if that's something you've been looking for along
with the things I've already shown you from kit or we can actually take a look here and see that
Quito has a library of Premium photos that you can work with as a designer it has shapes banners and
badges to utilize Vector ornaments and some text decoration effects so basically what I'm trying to
say is that this tool has pretty much everything you need to work on a design but built into one
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guide you or to even inspire you it doesn't matter if you're working on a logo design a poster maybe
some social media artwork whatever it is you're bound to find something inspiring right here and
actually making a design is really easy with Kittle for a fast edit we can just come into
the template section and let's say I just want to make a quick T-shirt design using a logo the
cool thing is we can actually search for specific template Styles and then just click it and away we
go the upload feature allows us to bring design assets or in this case a logo onto our work and
again it's really fast and it's just simple to do I would suggest to totally customizing templates
and just use them as a template but here I'm just showing you guys how intuitive it is to use today
and after placing my logo I can even head into the mock-up section here and actually see how my
design Works in a real life use there was a nice big library of mock-ups to search over but it is
so cool that we can actually go from design to mock-up this fast with Kittle you can try it for
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a try and see what kind of great use you can make of this great design tool so here's a quick trick
that few designers know about I have a stroked path but if I come up to change the width profile
to something else we can do something pretty interesting with it now I can press P for the
pen tool and then click one side of the path to reverse the direction but the path doesn't have to
be like a cone no no we can actually press shift and W for the width tool and then play around
with the ends of the stroke and the trick will actually work in the exact same way as before okay
now if you've been a bad designer and you haven't been using compound shapes with the
Pathfinder window here's a quick trick just for you now these two purple diamonds are in fact
just holes cut into the shape if we want to make any changes to them like we've done before in the
video just press a for direct selection tool and click one anchor points then you just press V for
the selection tool and we can now make changes and edits to the cutout holes and that sort of
makes the destructive workflow less destructive kind of I guess but we can even do things like
use the alt option key to duplicate and make other holes in our shape which is pretty neat
and yes I know these aren't spaced out equally and it's annoying me as well yeah
but for this trick let's copy this right here command or control C
zooming out I have multiple artboards and if you want to copy something to all of your artboards at
the same time press command or control shift alt and V this will then paste whatever you've copied
onto multiple artboards at once the duplicates won't take into consideration the board Dimension
or size meaning if you have a smaller board like so the duplication will hang over the edges the
next trick is something I've talked about before but I've tweaked it a bit for my actual workflow
I'm going to come up to window and generate a new window but two more times so I have three Windows
of the same document and then I want to arrange them in a specific order this one right here
the left one will be where I actively work on my design and make changes so I do prefer to move the
divider across to the right a little bit the top right window will act as a kind of semi-zoomed out
View and then the bottom right wind there will be a fully zoomed out view so now when I go ahead and
start working on my design I see changes across all three windows and have three views of what's
actually happening but this design is actually a really good reminder of something important I've
mentioned this before but it's such a perfect example I couldn't help but mention it again
if I pull out some guides on my design here you could technically align things according to these
guys technically speaking this is Central but visually speaking it's just totally whack often
a design will need to be aligned visually and not technically it's a crucial thing to remember
when you're actually designing something just a quick friendly reminder about layout in logo
design right there but if you'd actually like to learn the golden rules of layout then just click
the video on screen and until next time guys design your future today peace [Music] peace