if you're somebody who uses illustrator CC there is actually a specific panel
that can literally save heaps of time for you and your graphic design workflow
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well today now from illustrator CC 2018 up until
2019 Adobe has revamped and added several new features to the properties
panel you can locate and I open the properties panel here in the drop down
window menu now the first thing that you want to know about the properties panel
is that the actual interface and options change depending on what you have
selected so right now I have nothing on my artboard so there's no fun sore
shapes or designs so love the settings you can see in a properties panel relate
to the document set of itself the main advantage of the properties panel is
that it has so many different list writer settings functions and resources
in one panel so firstly here I can actually turn on the rulers just by
clicking this icon here so of course I can also change the measurements used
for my rulers and I can even change the size of my artboard the name of my eye
board and other our board settings right here
here we can activate the grid and also we can change the document to alpha
channel here one setting I'm always changing is the keyboard increment
settings which is essentially how far you move an object by pressing left and
right up and down on your keyboard this doesn't need to change depending on your
artboard and your graphic designer you working on so again I can just change
that in the properties panel without having to go into the illustrator
preference settings for example if I feel this doesn't move fast enough
across my board I can just come in here and change it really really quickly this
is the charm of the properties panel it just got so much open to you in an
easy-to-access single location but let's keep going and reveal more power in the
properties panel now a really cool feature is here in the document setup if
you've forgotten to add some bleeds you can just quickly add them here after
creating the document yourself and also there are other settings as well that
you might want to take into consideration but being able to add
bleeds after creating the document is really really powerful indeed so those
are the document settings that you're gonna find in the properties window but
let's see what happens when we have a shape or a design selected so I've got
some squares on my artboard here and you're gonna notice that when I click
this shape itself the options in the properties panel instantly change it's
such a powerful resource because you can literally find almost everything within
one single panel I can quickly change the square to 25% of the original size
by adjusting the height and the width numeral values I can also rotate the
square as well and also take notice that you can add fill stroke and change the
opacity as well as add effects all within the properties panel
one of my favorite resources that I think illustrates has to offer is the
appearance panel and yeah you've guessed it you can even find that here in the
properties panel I've made a few tutorials on the appearance panel and I
think you need to be using this in your graphic design workflow one of the
functions I use the most when designing a logo or pretty much anything
illustrator is the Pathfinder options and you can actually find them below the
align options and you might have seen in previous tutorials that if you use the
Pathfinder window and you hold down to the command or control key you actually
change the selection into a compound shape which means I can actually move
around the cutout section of my square
but anyway moving back on with today's tutorial you'll notice at the very
bottom of the properties panel there is a stark global edit setting now this is
only for those who have illustrator CC 2019 and this is a really needs and a
new feature whatever you do to the initial shape you have selected you will
do to every other shape similar to that and you can see how powerful this is
when you're working on a design that uses say a logo across a whole branding
stationery setup this is one of the reasons why elasticities CC is so so
powerful you also have other options here to arrange and you know recolor
artwork so finally what happens when we select text with the properties panel
open so starting on the bottom we have a whole host of paragraph settings here
where it is more than we have understand that interface at a very tough
we also have access to the font choice the font kerning tracking size and so
forth and then of course we have the effects the fuel color the stroke the
opacity and the location and size at the very top which is a transform window it
should also be noted that you can drag and drop other windows into the property
panel and this is why it's so useful guys it really will help your graphic
design workflow if you just leave this panel open if you don't need the
keyboard shortcuts for moving objects back and forth they're located in the
arrange panel at the very bottom but
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