Hey, guys welcome it's Martin from Yes I'm a designer,
today I will show you a new feature of Adobe Illustrator CC 2019.
So here's an example of a complex
illustrator project with lots of artboards
and a lot of different variations of the same artwork.
So I worked on a project recently
and I designed these labels for products so they're coconut butters
and all kinds of different variations of that
I needed to create lots of different sizes
and lots of different versions based on the flavors
and all of this is in one Illustrator file.
Now if you work in illustrator this is definitely a good practice
to have everything in one place
and then based on your artboards you can
create additional JPEGs PNG is pdfs EPS files what-have-you.
The only problem with having lots of artboards of course is that the funnel gets bigger
and it might take longer to zoom in and out because illustrator slows down
but that's not the case anymore because CC 2019 version now is much faster
in terms of zooming and navigation
because what happens now
is that when I start zooming
it automatically switches to a pixel version of my most
previous or like recent view based on that and when I let go
only then it refreshes it to the vector version,
same thing with the spacebar if I pan around
is going to be temporarily switching to a pixel view
which is not really
getting in the way because I can still, see what I want to get to
but once I let go it refreshes and goes back into the vector version.
So that's a very smart performance improvement which I think is extremely useful
especially working with these big files
it is hard to demonstrate but worth mentioning that
linked files now are also loaded only once if there's multiple instances
of the same file within one illustrator document.
So this again saves you time on
opening illustrator files with a lot of links inside them.
Another really cool feature that we in this new version is the actual size option.
So from the view menu when you select actual size
or use Cmd or Ctrl+1 to get to it,
this will finally show you a real print size.
So it's not
going to always generate the preview based on 72ppi
it knows your screen resolution
and it will calculate the print size based on that.
So this means that if I know the size of this print I can put a paper on top of it
and I can see it's almost exactly the same size,
so it makes it much easier to see how big
something is going to be in print.
Another huge improvement is the GPU outline mode
which means that not only in the preview mode but even in the
outline view which you can access from the View menu or Cmd or Ctrl+Y on the keyboard.
Now you still have the GPU performance improvement,
so you are not going to rely on the CPU instead illustrator can generate these views
very quickly and smoothly.
So this is something that I love because I work in
this view a lot and switch back and forth between preview and outline
and I hated the fact that only in the normal or preview mode
I had a smooth zoom and transitions while in outline mode
it always slowed down and got sluggish now that's not a case anymore you have
consistent performance within these two views.
So you can switch back and forth without issues
but what I love the most and I found extremely useful
is this other new View option called Presentation which you can find from the
View menu and switch to it,
and in this mode you can simply use left and right
arrows on the keyboard to toggle through the artboards
and it's brilliant if you want to show something to a client's and they are sitting there
next to you or you are sharing your screen and just want to quickly
go through all the different variations or even just to double check
the differences between versions you can see I'm switching back and forth
using left and right arrows and then when I am ready all I have to do is just to press escape.
There's a shortcut as well to get to this view very quickly that's shift F
and is definitely worth remembering and start using it.
So if you're familiar with InDesign this is exactly the same thing there is shift W
here is shift F
And there's one last view in this new version that I love as well,
it's called Trim View.
If you go to the View menu again you can find it in here
so Trim View.
This feature finally gives us the option to see only what's within
the artboard and hide everything else that goes beyond the outline of our artboard
and even the Bleed will be hidden,
so if you have Bleed that can be
hidden away so I can turn it on and off and by the way for this there's no
default shortcut but you can customize it and set it up for one of the keys if
you want to through the Edit keyboard shortcut settings
but once again
this is a brilliant feature that will hide everything else that's outside of the
outline of your art board including Bleed and any additional information
which could really get in the way when you want to show it to your client
or when you just want to have a good look at your final result.
So these might not seem that fancy new features but believe me
for more professional users
these are really long-awaited features
that finally now we have in Adobe Illustrator CC 2019.
So thanks a lot for watching
and join me next time where I will be
showing you more about the new features in Photoshop InDesign and Illustrator