so the first tip that I have for you today on illustrative features is going
to allow us to rotate this circle evenly spaced out at a specific amount of times
but you need to want to turn on the smart guides were pressing command or
control you on your keyboard and then hold down the alt option key and shift
and then click and drag to make a circle perfectly in position now we can
actually check that these are aligned by using the align function that literature
provides for us now say if I want to rotate this circle 20 times perfectly
and evenly around this one I can press R for the rotate tool and then drag the
icon right down to the middle hold down the alt option key and then click again
now if I don't know 20 times in degrees I can just type in 360 divided by 20 an
illustrator is actually going to do the mathematics for us and that's really
awesome and then hit preview and then hit copy and then press command or
control D to repeat the process unlike magic we now have 20 different
circles evenly spaced out around the original one so next I'm going to show
you how to create color harmony with one easy function in Adobe Illustrator so it
can actually copy this design by holding down the alt option key and then
clicking and dragging now if I want to add a completely different color schemes
its design I can just come up to window and then choose color guide in this menu
we have an option called color harmony which when we select one color
illustrator is going to choose different colors that work in harmony with that
first color now this is awesome and it even supplies monochrome so you can
apply that to your designs really easily indeed now I'm just showing this as an
example of course the original design is actually fine as it is but look how easy
it is to apply different colors to your design that work in harmony
just click a color and apply it to the shape or you can use the eyedropper tool
to next I'm going to show you how to save memory and also how to not slow
down your computer when using transparency effects so here's my logo
and I'm going to add a grunge effect to it in the transparency window and it's
actually going to really slow down a computer so let's go ahead and open up
transparency window demonstrate what I'm talking about - click your design then
head up to make mask head into the right hand window and then uncheck the clip
box you're going to put your effects into the right-hand window the first
deselect your design and then copy the effect with command or control C head
back to your design select the right window an impress command or control V
to paste in the grunge effect now it's already slowed down my computer let's go
ahead and add another effect by duplicating it for a second time with
control B now this was a really slow down my computer as you can see when
dragging the effect along the page
you always want to click the left bugs when you want to actually move around
the design and as you can see when I drag it up to the toe of my computer's
really lagging and struggling but yes transparent and the effect is and the
effect is through the logo but so how can I actually improve the speed of my
computer with this effect what you need to do is you need to come up to object
and then flatten transparency you absolutely need to make sure that you
preserve the Alpha transparency which is going to allow you to have the effect
work on your design and of course choose high resolution once it's finished
flattening your design I can then move around the design and it's not so laggy
as before granted is still a bit laggy but it's been improved a whole lot so if
you want to actually clean up your design using transparency window make
sure to flatten a transparency after you finish the artwork so the fourth one is
that when we want to select the polygon tool and create a shape that has
multiple sides we would normally just click it and then click the artboard
then you can type in the sides that you want to use so as you can see I've
created the hexagon but instead of doing there
just take the polygon tool click and drag on the canvas and then you can
press the up and down arrows on your keyboard to change the amount of sides
that you're gonna use
now this is really useful and it does help to save time when working in a day
Billis traitor but it doesn't just work with the polygon tool it also works with
the star tool too however there is no quick way to adjust the size of the
spikes on your star but it can quickly change the amount of spikes on the style
and for some reason this design on screen now is quite jarring on the eyes
so let's move on to the final point in today's video and before I give you the
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clear the final tip today is gonna help you select alt text and outline it in a
matter of two seconds so we can press command or control a to select
everything and then press command or control shift and O in your keyboard go
to outline all of the text and this is especially useful for very text heavy
documents or designs as you can see my text is now vector shapes but you should
be aware that it's not always a good idea to outline your text and you can
actually turn your text into a compound shape which would allow you to apply
most effects that you wouldn't normally be able to do that was today's video on
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all this week for more graphic design content have a great day everybody and
until next time design your future today peace