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so here is the website where you're going to download the two plugins I'm
going to show you today but do follow along to every aspect of today's video
because you do need to learn how to use the plugins for your very own workflow
now you can see that most of the plugins are free with unlimited free trial
periods and I know many people have commented on my videos to review and
showcase the astute graphics plug-in bundle and I will get to that but today
we're on the road to freedom and by that I mean free plugins so the first plug-in
tool we're going to look at is the nudge tool and this has several applications
for your graphic design workflow but you demonstrate the first one I have a
circle here with dash lines now to make these dash dotted lines I came into the
stroke panel when I use these numbers here so I'm gonna copy this circle and
then paste it with command or control F now if I then change the stroke weights
to be a bit thinner it will result in smaller - dots now I can actually nudge
- dots or dash lines around a vector shape or a path in the nudge panel and
you can open up the notes panel in the top drop down menu once you've
downloaded the plug-in of course being able to nudge dash lines along a vector
path is really really neat and it's really good to have the left and right
arrows in the nudge panel
the next application for this plugin is the ability to nudge and move around
patterns within shapes and so I'm gonna go and pull a stock pattern from the
swatches library so you have the left-right up-down and diagonal errors
where you can move around the pattern within a shape and also you can even
grab the nudge tool in the toolbar and you can click and drag to move it around
as well and it should be noted that if you click the untransformed button in
the nudge panel and this will revert the pattern or the dashed lines back to the
original States and the last aspect of this first plug-in is that you can move
artwork around in the up-down left-right and diagonal directions it is nice to
have this option here so you can nudge your work in this way but I would like
to see some variation of the distance of nudges I would like to see some kind of
adjustment here so the next plug-in is the cutting tools plug-in which pretty
much is just a huge expansion on the scissors tool now it has four different
aspects to it and we're gonna now review the first aspect so as you can see on
screen and there are two lines and if I take the standardized scissors tool and
I make a cuts here it will cut only the top line
however if I come and grab the hatchet tool and I make the same intersect cut I
would have cut both lines into different sections and that is just the very start
of this tool set and now we're going to look at the table saw tool so with this
tool you can click and drag a straight line and anywhere that it intersects a
vector path it will make a cut now it doesn't have to be a cross anchor points
you can cut across anywhere on a vector line pretty straightforward and it's a
pretty neat tool when you think about it
so if the previous tool with a straight line cuts into vector path across a
straight line this next one will cut into the vector paths anywhere you draw
in any which way the Sabre saw tool allows you to cut an almost infinite
amount of times into a vector path and it does that with lightning speed so
we've been making a lot of cuts and intersections and there's gonna be a lot
of waste and a lot of stuff we don't need anymore and that's where the vector
of actor comes into play just like a vacuum cleaner it's gonna go around and
suck up that waste that you don't need anymore for your design and then we have
a very simple but a very useful plugin and that is the expansion on the select
same option with this plug-in installed instead of coming to the select same
options below that we have some more options that are very very specific
indeed you now have many different ways to select the same group of things or
design assets in Illustrator we have things like specific text boxes compound
paths clipping masks all kinds of paths options and much much more
a quick example would be selecting groups on the entire board
so yeah this menu is a huge improvement on the existing select same function and
it's one that I think you should be checking out for your workflow and also
a pretty neat thing about all of these plugins today is that you can come up
here and check for updates that means that they are going to keep up to trend
and up to dates with each expansion of illustrator
now you can find all of the three different sections or plugins linked
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