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strokes in Adobe Illustrator because I have a comprehensive guide on strokes
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video welcome back to Satori graphics and today I have a comprehensive guide
on strokes in a Davila straighter now if you feel about you do know strokes
pretty well stay tuned anyway because you probably will learn something
in today's video even if you are quite accustomed to using strokes so firstly
what is a stroke it basically is a line of color that
precisely follows a vector path and a vector path is seen in the middle here
of the blue line and this is just the data that tells illustrator where an
object or a line is the stroke is the line that follows this vector path now
you can find the stroke color in the color palette here and you can double
click this to change this actual color
you can also come up here to the top to increase or decrease to the actual size
of your stroke
so that's what a stroke essentially is but now let's look at the different ways
that you can actually apply the stroke to the vector path this is the standard
way to apply a stroke to a better path with a vector being in the middle of the
stretch however we can actually go ahead and open the stroke window and change
things some Watts you can find the stroke window here or in the top
drop-down menu so as I mentioned before the vector path is in the middle of the
stroke here but on this circle you will notice that the stroke falls on the
inside the stroke is around the circle shape here and lastly on this shape the
stroke is aligned on the outside of the shape so that's something to bear in
mind and it will come in handy on different types of designs and you know
where to find it in the stroke window
now another handy and a neat function built right into illustrator is the
ability to change the style of the corners and the ends of your paths
within the stroke window you can see that the line has a butt cap and this is
the default setting for a stroke line the second line utilizes a rounded half
which obviously results in the line being rounded at the very end and the
third setting is a projected cap which essentially is a butt cap that kind of
extends out from the vector line itself
when you editing the corners of your stroke lines you can come here and back
into the stroke window and either use the default setting the round setting
and also finally a bevel setting notice how the corners of my shape
change with each different setting so when using strokes in Adobe Illustrator
a super handy tool to use in combination is the Wiz tool and you can find that
here well you just need to press the keyboard shortcut of Shift + W while
using the width tool you will notice a plus icon it appears here when you hover
the width tool over a stroke line you can then click and drag to either
increase or decrease the stroke weights on a specific part of your line you can
also double click the line which is gonna bring up this menu box here
allowing you to make adjustments with greater precision on your stroke paths
now the width tool is especially handy for things like digital illustrations
and also you know things like logo designing and so forth now illustrator
has some built-in presets for stroke styles and you can find those here
now another function that is found within the stroke menu itself is a
dashed line setting now you simply need to click your vector path and then check
the dashed line box the first value here is going to determine the size of each -
and then the second value is going to determine the gap between each dash
itself you can also choose to arrange the dashes evenly around your entire
shape or you can align them to the corners but do you keep in mind that
adjusting the stroke weights while having your dashed lines activated will
produce a differing results
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