today i have 17 free adobe illustrator scripts to show you guys all from one single download
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i'm going to show you how to download and install the scripts later but first let's review a few of
the scripts in the downloads that you can grab totally for free so i have an illustration here
of a megaphone and i can click two parts of my design as seen here and then come up to file
scripts which is where all of the scripts are going to be today and then convert to gradient
now in a new panel that opens the first value here dictates how strong your gradient is going to be
and then the next value is going to be the angle of the gradient and so 0 degrees on the gradient
is going to be horizontal and 90 degrees will be stretching from the bottom upwards
and as you can see i have a very smooth and a very neat gradient stretching across my design giving a
kind of shadow effect and this is going to come in handy for many different types of design in
adobe illustrator okay so let's move on swiftly to the second script today so here i have an outline
letter laid over some lines now if i want to cut that letter into the lines or maybe have the lines
making up that letter it is pretty much impossible to do this in the pathfinder in simple terms
but we do have a script for that today so for this process we're going to use the split path script
you have two choices with this one you can either firstly cut the letter into the lines like so
or you can lay the lines over the letter form making up that shape of the letter now
it's really nice to be able to quickly perform such processes in illustrator
and of course we can then increase the stroke weight or even do things like
round off the cap of the line it's really quick and easy as you can see
so this next script is a real life saver and it's something i'm pretty sure you're gonna love
this is the zoom and center script so initially we can say for example zoom into our document and
center it with just one click which is nice but the real power of this script is that we can use
it to zoom into objects instantly so let's say i want to work on this speech bubble here i can
highlight it and then use the zoom script and it brings me right into that element of my design
now i feel like it would be nice if this script had a panel that you could just you
know click anytime you wanted to instead of coming into the file drop down menu
but it is really useful nonetheless and of course it's free so what you're gonna do the next script
in today's video is one that allows us to select specific points or paths on our graphic designs
and this one does have a panel so this is the select points by type script and with this
we can be very specific on what we want to select in terms of the anchor points
as seen here in my letter a so we can select the corners or the bezier aspects of my design
it is also good for stroked paths or even squares or anything pretty much where you want to
highlight different areas of your design in terms of maybe the straight lines or the curved segments
and i like this one a lot because it does have the panel which
some of them do and some of them don't have a panel in this kind of selection of downloads
so this next script is great for all of those annoying times when you have many groups or
clipping masks on your designs and you might want to be more precise with your workflow
so say for example here i have this illustration of a woman that is grouped together
i can just ungroup her like so and also take notes on the panel it allows us to ungroup
specific parts of our design but also we can control whether or not we release clipping masks
because my circle here is actually made up of shapes within a circle using a clipping mask
so we can apply the functions to an object to a layer to an artboard
or just a whole document it's just nice being able to be specific in this way
and you can grab all of these scripts from just one download which is linked down in
description box below now you can't really miss the download button it's pretty easy
to see and also here is how you actually go ahead and install the scripts on your computer
it has really easy to use instructions for both windows and also mac and then of
course remember to quit illustrate and restart it before you use any scripts
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