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the first illustrator problem hack is based around strokes a stroke is
basically an outline of an object or a line problem you may encounter
illustrator is that you can change the size of a shape for example the stroke
weight will not change as you wish let me show you what I mean by creating a
circle with a stroke
as a holding shift and change the size of the circle strength stays
proportional to the size of the circle
this is fine if you want that but maybe you want the stroke to stay the same
size despite the size of the circle if you then go up to illustrate the
preferences and in general you can uncheck or check a scale stroke option
here
so here is my stroke away at the moment as a resize the shape the stroke rate
will stay the same throughout we are using the pen tool illustrator you may
have a problem that lining a path I have a hack that will help you align your pen
tool paths very easily if you notice on my screen here I am the gentle purple
line that appears when pencil is exactly in line with the starting points if you
go up to illustrator preferences and then smart guides you'll find a myriad
of settings to play around with
you can adjust illustrator so that it lines up your points by certain angles
and so forth
but if you deselect everything you no longer have the powerful smart guides on
your screen
the pen tool is probably one of the most important tools in adobe illustrator but
it sure does take some time getting used to and then even more time to perfect it
so one probably may encounter Illustrator is that you end up with the
pen tool path or line that's not a great looking he was a hack for that I'm gonna
draw out a pretty ugly looking line here on this unfortunate woman we want it to
be more fluid and flow well around the curves to clean things up and we were
here to the smooth tool you can then either click on the anchor points or you
can draw a rough line over your path like I'm doing here tack is great for
solving any ugly pencil paths in Adobe Illustrator
I show you this hacker is illustrative technique a long long time ago my
channel but for this you'd never seen that video he was how to quickly type on
a circle you first need to have a circle so with this trick only selected and
hold down shift click and drag with the ellipse tool then with a circle selected
remove it to the tool window here and find the scissors tool we then simply
need to click once on each of the two middle size of the anchor points on the
circle this effectively cuts the stroke line into two sections one top one and
one bottom one now we can go ahead and type on the line
with the type on a path tool found here
you can insulate the type directly and change the font style and size at the
very top
for more further adjustments you can open up the type window like so
if we then take the direct selection tool aka the white arrow tool you can
carefully drag the text around the circle by the handle you need to look
for the small line coming out of the semicircle on the bottom when you type
in your text you will come out by default upside down again carefully look
for the little handle line and then flip it over like so
we can align the text using guides from the rulers at the top or the side
sometimes illustrator we want to cut out a part of a shape that's very specific
this can be a problem at times but this is a hacks video so there's going to be
a hack let's say I want to cut a specific section out away from this
a-here first of all seeing as this is a letter not a shape you need to convert
it into a shape to work with by creating outlines
you could use the eraser tool this is far from precise and it's interesting
difficult to work with in Illustrator
instead take the pen tool from the illustrator toolbar here it's a cool
little hack if you press the caps lock button on your keyboard the pen tool
icon will now change to an X which is far easier to see where your path is
going to be placed we want to pick a shape that will effectively remove part
of the a to zoom in and carefully make the shape like so make sure the shape is
a fill and then they put the Pathfinder window hold down shift and then select
both the shape and the letter and then use the minus for an option in the past
when the window
you can then use the rec selection tool to really clean up the line
the last illustrator problem hack is based around you selecting objects or
lines in illustrator when you're using the pen tool for making lines as an
example you need to go into the selection tool here and then click up of
the line like so
if you need to make multiple lines this will become very tedious and also
time-consuming
so as a hack you use a shortcut command shift and a on a Mac or ctrl shift a on
Windows computer this will save you heaps of time when using the pen tool in
Illustrator
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