today here at Satori graphics I have six awesome illustrator CC tips for 2017 you
can skip the intro if you moved to the timestamp in the corner what is up
people welcome back to Satori graphics the home of graphic design content right
here on YouTube I hope you had a great weekend and you're ready for some
awesome illustrator CC tips today let me know which tip you think is the most
useful in today's tutorial and at the very end of the video I have a quick
workflow tip that I'm now going to add at the end of all of my videos all of
these illustrator CC tips are time stamped in the description below this
video global colours is a great addition to
illustrator software and it allows you to edit the same color throughout an
entire design with ease here's how it works
you will first want to open up your swatch window let's say intend to make a
vector design in illustrator CC with these colors I simply need to select all
of them like so and then add a new color group here make sure to select a global
color option and press ok you'll notice his white symbol in the bottom right
corner of the box this tells you that now is in fact a global color if I
quickly duplicate the pink circle here you will see when I double click the
pink swatch an editor all of the circles will change accordingly make sure to
click the preview option so let's review that quickly one more time
if you ever design that crudely created and you can double click the swatch
after making the global color and then edit it as you see fit with the preview
option selected
this next awesome illustrator cc tip is about the live round cornice technique
this will save you time and allow you more pinpointed scope for manipulation
on the corners by design so if I select the shape with a selection tool and then
I take the direct selection tool the shock of being a on your keyboard in
illustrator CC you will see these white dots appear
you can then click and drag to edit the shape in the corners
if you click a point once and then click again you can then edit that point
independently of all of the others
clicking just one so edit all of them in unison this can also be used on
typography but we need to convert the text into an actual vector shape first
to create the outline to be a text and then you can use the rect selection tool
to edit the life corners
until you in group the lettering you only gonna be up to edit corners in
unison of all the letters but once you do and group everything you can focus in
on one letter
so as you can see here I can edit the a on its own by the like corners
this next tip for Illustrator cc in 2017 is really really neat. if you have a
shape with three tax options upon it all of which are in groups and independent
of one another in case you're wondering what font I'm using here is the ID
as you can see the text is totally independent on the shape but we can warp
everything together at once select everything and then grouped
object envelope to store and then make with warp
in the new window that pops open we have a large amount of choice as it means to
edit manipulate objects and type at the very same time so have a play around and
experiment with it and see what you can make to demonstrate its awesome
illustrators here I made a very quick and crude design for you guys
I'm sure if you will have a play around with the step technique you would be
able to come up with some very interesting funky designs
I've told you guys before by pressing the tab key on your keyboard to remove
panels in this traitor on your screen so you can view your artwork
but if you press command air for control F on a PC you will gain a better view
but then if you press it again you're gonna have the most clearest view
possible by going a full-screen mode in Illustrator
it allows you to see your work from a fire in a very clean manner much like an
artist will step back from the easel to admire their work so you press it one
more time to return back to normal
v illustrator CC tip in today's video is command or control D this lets you
repeat a process over over again to save time so let me demonstrate I'm going to
make a star shape that I will place on the black stroke of this circle
I continue to irritate to and duplicate it to the right by 36 degrees
if I want to do this around the entire circle it's gonna take a long time but
once I've duplicated at once I can press command-d over and over to repeat the
previous process you should be able to see how this will save you a bunch of
time in your graphic design workflow in illustrator CC
the last awesome illustrator CT tip today is the width tool this tool allows
you to change the way of a stroke anywhere on the line with a great detail
and accuracy
so select your line and grab the whisk tool you will see this + icon over the
width tool and you can then click and drag to change the thickness of the line
this is great for vector illustration defect artwork
for today's bonus craftiness I'm a pro tip I'm simply going to remind you guys
to start saving your work on a regular basis I would suggest saving your work
at least once every 30 to 60 minutes in Illustrator but to save multiple copies
instead of overwriting the same file in case you make a mistake
also I'd like to say my work in two locations so one on my Mac and then also
on an external hard drive and keep your work orderly in folders
so there was my list of six awesome illustrator CC tips for 2017 I hope you
find this video useful and that you've learned at least one thing today I would
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