Hey, it's Martin from Yesimadesigner,
let me show you the 5 best new features introduced in Illustrator CC 2019.
I have to start with my personal favourite the Freeform gradient feature.
So we know that we had the Linear and Radial gradients available before
and we also had the Gradient Mesh option which I have here
where you can select these control points and move them around
on the mesh and adjust the gradient.
but, now we have in the new version the Freeform gradient feature
which you can get to through the gradient panel
and as you can see there that option that wasn't available before
and I'm going to demonstrate this on a new shape, so
I just have this shape prepared here and simply click on Freeform gradient from the panel.
Once you do that you immediately get this control points
and all you have to do is to select these points
and move them around.
Now you can see immediately than we get the live feedback
and they are adjusting really nicely showing us the result
Of course, you can double click on these control points
and then you can update the colours that you have selected.
So you can even pick completely different colours here
and of course, you can click to add new points
and you can also increase the spread of these points, so you can have more of that colour or less of that colour.
and what I love is finally we have also the eye dropper
with which we can select colours from additional parts of our artwork.
So that wasn't available before for gradients now it's finally there
so once again double click and there's your eyedropper.
You can still rely on your swatches or your colours
and of course, you can also control the opacity of these points,
so that's still available for Freeform gradient
But one last thing I would like to mention here
before we move on to my next pick
is that you can also use lines as an option.
Now you can continue a point that you already have
and draw lines
as soon as you selected lines from the Options bar or Control bar on the top
or from the Gradient Panel, and then you click and create your new path.
And this is automatically going to create a Curved Path,
similarly to how the Curvature Tool would work.
So this is brilliant when you want to define the outline of a shape,
and you want to add shading, it's just extremely useful for character illustration for example.
But let's move on.
The second feature I wanted to show you is the Global Edit.
This is another huge timesaver if you have multiple instances of the same shapes in the illustration
like here in this case if I select this tree on the left.
I can see that there is a few similar shapes here but if I want to edit all of them at once
and I didn't use something like symbols
this would be a very complex and difficult task to do and probably I have to repeat the same steps
over and over again.
Luckily now in CC 2019,
now all we have to do is to simply click on start Global Edit here on the right side
and that automatically finds all the matching shapes in the artwork,
if I make any changes to this shape,
for example, selecting that point there and dragging it out all the other instances immediately update.
Even the ones that have different colours on them
or smaller or even the ones that I flipped,
like this one here.
So once again if I drag this over all the way out
you can see how different it looks on all the different versions
but because their outlines were similar
Illustrator can still find all of the instances and update them all at once.
How cool is that, that's a huge timesaver
especially if you have a complex Illustrator file with lots of instances of the same objects.
But moving on let me show you a more complex file with lots of artboards in it.
And here is an amazing new feature called Presentation View,
with which you can just get to focusing on artboards and very quickly flick through them.
Similarly to the Presentation Mode in InDesign, here in Illustrator, the Shortcut is Shift+F.
Once you are in this mode you can use left and right arrows on the keyboard
to toggle through your artboards and this is great to see,
differences. So if you have multiple versions
or different flavours in this case for these packaging design that I have here.
I can compare the ones I created
and see what's the difference between them
or when I have the client sitting next to me I can use this mode to very quickly
run through all the versions that I created.
Another brilliant new view as well here in Illustrator CC 2019
is the Trim View.
Which helps you to preview your final artwork
without the Bleed edges or any of the details that outside of the artboard boundaries.
So to get to this you just have to go to the View Menu and choose Trim View,
immediately you can see that we have a final version here
and if I want to get back to seeing everything again
I just have to turn off the Trim View.
There is no shortcuts for this by default but you can set a custom shortcut for it
from Edit Keyboard shortcut if you want to.
The fourth favourite improvement for me in this version
is less a feature and more like a general improvement in performance
and that is when you Zooming in and out,
Illustrator will immediately create a raster preview
of the current view or the Zoom ratio and when you let go the Zoom,
it will switch back to the vector view.
So it's a much faster Zoom in and out
performance that we can see here and it also applies to when you are Panning around.
So I like to Zoom in and out by press and holding the Z key
and then I like to Pan around by holding down the Spacebar,
but you can see how much faster everything is happening in this new version
thanks to this smarter way of giving you Previews.
while you are doing the navigation.
And also worth mentioning that in Outline View which you can get to with Cmd/Ctrl+ Y
you also have now a GPU performance,
which means that you get a much smoother transition between parts of your artwork
while Zooming in and out or Panning around.
And last but not least
another cool feature when you working with fonts
is the new font selector area.
Which has a lot of improvements, including that it automatically shows the selected text as a sample.
Now we can also choose different options like Typography
and also even having the full alphabet there if we wanted to.
We can also customise the size of this sample text here,
so we can make it bigger, smaller or medium size.
We can also filter the available fonts on our computer based on their classification
like Sans Serif, Serif, Slab Serif, script and so on and so forth.
And you can also find the fonts that you have coming from Typekit very quickly that's the activated fonts filter
So these are all the fonts that are synchronised from Typekit
and it's worth mentioning that you can have up to a hundred of them at once
but of course you can replace them,
so desynchronised some that you are not using anymore and get some new ones.
If you want to get new Typekit fonts
again now you don't have to leave Illustrator anymore
you can just click on find more here on the top
and then this gives you a list of all the available fonts that you can synchronise
if you like one all you have to do is click on the little cloud icon
to activate it.
So this feature really helps if you are struggling finding fonts
because it gives you so many different ways of filtering your library and also finding new ones if you need them.
But that's all I wanted to show you, so that was my 5 favourite new additions to CC 2019 in Illustrator
If you are interested to find out more about the new features in Photoshop
and InDesign
make sure you check those videos out on our channel.
Thanks a lot for watching and I will see you in the next one.