I've got seven awesome tips tricks and functions in illustrator all of which
are useful and you're going to find the designers ready to talk about them the
first lesson in illustrator tip I have for you today it's a solution to a
problems given me great headaches in the past when we go to make a shape in the
adobe illustrator so for example using the rectangle tool by default the
transform window is going to appear this is going to become annoying over time so
to stop this from happening simply click the top right corner of the
transform window and then deselect the show on shape creation option now when
you generate any kind of shape an illustrator the transform window is not
going to appear if you've had this issue in the past you're gonna feel a great
sense of relief from this first tip stay tuned for more useful and lesser-known
tips in today's tutorial next I'm gonna show you how to add a neat blend to any
stroke or path so let's work on this square that we've generated already
press C on your keyboard for the scissors tool we'll locate it in the
toolbar you then click once on any anchor point that you want on the shape
the idea here is to break the path open like so press L for the ellipse tool and
make a circle by holding down shift you're going to want to add a gradient
to the circle and the style of the gradient is entirely up to you once you
have the circle ready hold down the alt option key and click interactive
duplicate it below you want the two circles to be perfectly in line with
both the circle selected and grouped object blend and blending options you
want to use a specific distance option and then use something like 0.5 as a
measurement then finally go back objects blend but
this time select make you now have a sweet blending screen and to add it to
the stroke select both the stroke and the blend and then go up to object blend
and replace spine this will add the blend around the entire path like so
this can be used in so many different ways within your design flower just to
quickly show you one more time this works perfectly well on pen tool pad
strokes as well so make the path and then as we did before
head up to blend and replace spine the third illustrates a lesson in function
or tip is a preference that you can adjust to make sure your design saved
better for web regarding the use of typography in the safer web window
you're going to notice an optimized button if you click this button you can
change it to optimize your saved file for type or for artwork if you want your
design to be optimized somehow illustrator renders type on may be a
text heavy design use this option when you save it for web next we're going to
look at the toolbar firstly a way to improve your workflow using the toolbar
and then secondly a handy concept for creating your very own customized
toolbar so firstly certain tools are placed into groups or families so for
example the pen tool has four tools in total in its family we can actually
bring the entire group out onto the canvas itself in the tool bar box like
so and this can be really handy when using specific tools for your graphic
designers when working on a specific design so
maybe a logo you might want to make a customized toolbar to do this head up to
the design tools window and then click add a new toolbar give it a relevant
name and then simply click and drag tools into the toolbar you can obviously
save multiple different toolbars for varying different designs and workflow
methods I do find is especially useful but I know I'm going to need specific
amount of tools for a specific design job you can head back to the tool window
our manager toolbar creations delete rename and so forth
the sick lesson an illustrated trick or tip is when they might already be aware
of but it's so useful I have to add it in today's video when working on a busy
design it could be hard to align objects or even edit your design properly if you
press command Y on a Mac or ctrl where on a PC you can enter into the line mode
this lets you see vector paths even when the able app now this is very useful and
you can leave outline mode with the same keyboard shortcut of command or control
Y the last illustrator tip trick is going to allow you to perfectly Center
your artwork on the canvas this is great for presenting our work and making sure
you're Eric looks aligned and OnPoint in the aligned window you can change the
setting where alignment functions with align to the canvas so when I go ahead
and align my design centrally you will do so accordingly to the canvas I know
it can be annoying trying to align your artwork perfectly centered so this is a
quick and easy way there are seven lesser-known illustrator functions in
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