so in today's video I have six a quick illustrator workflow tips that you might
not know now I've selected six workflow functions within Adobe Illustrator the
lesser known by most designers and so you can add them to your library of
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design process we can pull guides from the rulers like so as something fairly
basic that we all probably know about however in Illustrator we can literally
turn any vector path into a guide and it's very easy to do so let me
demonstrate by taking the polygon tool and then creating a triangle all you
need to do is to come up to view guides and then make guides I can then rotate
them cut them and edit the guides as I see fit
so another good use for this tip is that you can make a set of lines like so with
the pen tool and then use the option key to Jupiter Kate one line and then press
command or ctrl D to repeat the process
so any guy that you make would allow you to snap a point to it you know snap a
shape or a path and this just works the same as any other guide in Illustrator
so like before we just need to come up to view guides and then make guides it's
that easy
so the second workflow tip is a quick one relating to the shift key
now with text highlighted we can head into the character window here or press
command or control T we can increase the type size right here but if you want to
speed up things a little bit just hold down shift when you're increasing or
decrease in the text itself and this is a good little time saver but it works
for so many of the functions in Illustrator one example being the
adjustment of tracking here so try this tip off by holding down shift on various
different processes in Illustrator because it can be used in many different
instances so the third tip for a better workflow is again based around the shift
key but being used in an entirely different way so when you open up the
color window you can pick a color from the spectrum bar right here notice that
it says RGB spectrum but if you hold down shift you can click and change the
color of the mode of this spectrum picker so you might want to use CMYK HSB
grayscale or you know whatever you want you can simply toggle through these
color modes by holding down the shift key and just clicking on the spectrum
bar tip number four is something again really quick but it's really useful to
know so when you have the eyedropper tool in use the shortcut being I on your
keyboard you can click a shape so for example this circle here
and then if you hold down the alt/option key you will notice the eyedropper icon
changes now this means if you go ahead and click a different shape you are
going to transfer the same fill and Stroke attributes of the original shape
into the new one so the fifth of six different workflow
tips today is a very simple function and many of you probably know this one
already but if you want to see your design in all its glory without the
panels and things obstructing your view simply press the tab key and all of the
panels would temporarily be hidden so pressing the tab key again will bring
them back into view however if you do know your keyboard shortcuts very very
well you can still work like this to some extent so for example a being for
the direct selection tool and this will allow me to edit the circle in this way
that you can see here but yeah I often hit the tab key just have a quick look
at my design with nothing obstructing the view so the last tip today is again
I read eating 2 views and I've got a basic design here to demonstrate but I
can actually save myself time by setting up specific view points now if you come
into the view drop down menu here you will notice at the bottom it says add a
new view so first make sure you're viewing your design in the way you want
to so maybe zoomed in to specific parts and
then save the view and give it a name if you're working on a large or a busy
design it might be a good idea to set up views in many different ways to zoom
into different parts of the design very easily now you can also save a view to
see your entire design or maybe even zoomed in to one specific anchor point
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