in today's tutorial I'm gonna show you six different gems in a DB illustrator
and most people don't talk about or even know it's happened to all of us as
graphic designers and that is seeing a really awesome or a really neat font but
not knowing the font ID or the fun family that's where what font is comes
in to help as they can track down the exact font in under ten seconds with
their awesome service learn more about what font is later in today's video
the first gem native illustrator I'm gonna show you today might actually only
be available on Mac I'm not sure it might have been updated on Windows
recently but last time I checked it is only on Mac but to quickly demonstrate
what it is and how to use it I'm gonna grab a text box and then just generate
it like so if we head up in to edit and then come down to the bottom of this
menu you can see starts dictation hello I am Tom Satori and today I am working
in Adobe Illustrator apart from my surname being Tory it
works pretty well now I want to see illustrator using this function for
automating commands so for example if I said increased type size to 15 points
this might already be available but I'm not quite sure I've done some research I
can't find it but yeah let's move on to the rest of the gems in today's video
when working in Adobe Illustrator with artboards we can actually convert shapes
to an actual artboard and this can be handy for a few reasons
but let me generate this rectangle to demonstrate once you have your shape
ready to be converted to an artboard just come up to objects our boards and
then convert to our boards
and just like that the shape has now become an artboard on your document and
also if you have bleeds on your document the bleeds will be transferred on to
that new artboard as well so the third gem an illustrator that
people don't really talk about too much is making some swatches really quickly
from a blend and to demonstrate I've got two squares here on the screen and if I
select both of them and then press and W on my keyboard I will access the blend
tool you can also find it over here in the tool bar if I click both of the
shapes a blend is made of the two squares now if I come in here and hold
down the alt or the option key and then click once I can change the blend mode
to specify steps if I type in something like 5 I actually have 7 different
colors on my selection 5 in the middle and then 1 on each side if we then
expand this blend and then ungroup everything will have seven different
swatch colors made from the blending color
we all need to do then is to drag one of the squares out to the side then select
everything and then align them with the equal spacing between them this is a
really easy and a really cool way to make some swatches for your graphic
design projects and of course it's just a matter of taking the eyedropper tool
which is eye on your keyboard and then sampling the colors as you go so for
this next gem that designers don't really talk about too much we're going
to be looking at the arrays at all now did you know if you double-click the
arrays at all you can bring up some really really handy options when using
the eraser on your work you can adjust the angle as you would with a brush in
the Davila straighter you can adjust how thin or how round it is and also of
course the size now there are no actual pressure options as you would at a brush
when using say a drawing tablet but you can use the randomization option which
is pretty useless if you ask me yeah but this could come in handy now and again
but I really use the eraser tool personally let me know if you knew about
this one down below in the comment section so next I'm going to show you
how to export any kind of object on your artboard as a separate PNG or jpg file
they don't need to be on separate different artboards but you can just
select any number of objects then come up to object and collect for exports you
can then easily export these different assets as separate files for web-based
graphics
you even have SVG and PDF as an option as well and again this is really awesome
because you don't actually need separate artboards or separate documents you just
have design assets on your screen so lastly today
we're going to be looking at the brush tool and the settings that you can
actually use for this but by default as you draw you might notice the line is
kind of smoothing out somewhat after you created the line itself if you double
click the brush tool in the toolbar you have a few settings here and if you play
with the fidelity of here you can change how much illustrator was smoothing out
your line so even if you have the most shaky and an even hand in the world you
can still draw really smooth lines with the fidelity settings set up to be
smooth so let's take a closer look at that quickly with a low fidelity is not
so great but it's more accurate of course but yeah this is great for people
who you know they use the brush very often illustrator it is something to
keep in mind
so like I said the easy-to-use service what font is allows you to identify a
font really quickly and efficiently it boasts a 90% automated font
identification and the remaining 10% of the requests can actually be resolved
using the community in what font is all you do is you simply upload your image
or you can paste in a direct URL and then what font is will do its thing and
track down your fonts now I've created this image here using Gill sans so let's
give it a try and let's see if it manages to match the font with my
example and as you can see it's done a great job so do check out what font here
is a link down the description box below and sign up for free but also you can
upgrade to the premium version and the perks you can see you're here finally
here are numbers on what font is in comparison to the two places
alternatives that you can find out there
there is also an extension for chrome link down below too and that's going to
allow you to right-click any picture and then send it for the identifying process
so ID your font choices a to day with what font is
so there are six things that not many people talk about in the villa
straighter let me know if you learned something today and if you think any of
these options are really cool or really useful also use somebody who knows more
about the dictation function than I do I'm really curious to hear about that so
let me know - make sure to subscribe if you haven't done already and until next
time design your free today peace
you