in today's video I'm gonna show you a new tool set plug-in that I installed
into Adobe Illustrator and there is a lot to look through aside from these
four main tools so let's get right into it this plug-in is for free on a free
trial with an unlimited period or you can pay $15 for the fully fledged
license I'm gonna show you at the very end of today's video all of the plugins
and how to download this plug-in but let's first look at the offset open path
tool this tool allows you to quickly offset the path of any object and as you
can see on the screen there is red text that gives you the real-time
instructions for specific functions of each tool this is a running theme with
this plug-in and I find it really really useful also you can come into this menu
here where we have precise control over the number of offsets and also the
distance and so on and we can choose to remove the original path which is very
awesome for things like text offsets and then also we can mirror the selection as
well lastly with this tool there is a preference settings menu which has some
useful options open to you when using this a toolset function since
downloading this plug-in toolset I've really changed my workflow because of it
and this isn't a sponsored video this is just something I came across and
purchase myself but I'm sure you're going to really enjoy the rest of the
functions in today's video so here we have more rare texts letting us know how
things work and just like the standard transform tool in Illustrator we can
hold down the alt/option key to transform an object around the center
points
however one really neat option here is that when we perform transformations
with this tool we are able to see the exact rotation on screen with every text
also we can quickly find the exact rotation of this current bounding box in
the top drop-down menu this next one is for those of you out there which work
with illustrations and use this program for drawing so double clicking this
stabilized a pencil tool brings up this menu settings here the curved precision
will determine how smooth your curves are and the leader is a really
interesting integration which you're gonna soon learn about as you can see my
cursor is ahead of the point that is making the mark
which does provide a very smooth and a very unique field when I'm drawing you
can adjust this length depending on what you're drawing of course and just to
make a distinction let's make a curve with the standard pencil tool in
Illustrator and then compare that one with this stabilized pencil tool it's
not just that the curve is smoother and easier to generate it's the overall
feeling when using this tool and it's really hard to put into words it's
something you need to try yourself to be honest but as you can see there's a
clear distinction between the smoothness of each of the curves next up is the
tangent arc tool which works in curves and also straight lines how many times
have you wanted to make an extended line following the exact contour of a shape
well with this tool you can select the shape itself and then hold down the alt
option key and draw a straight line that comes away from the shape like so it
offers absolute precision and it's really easy to use also however without
holding down the alt/option key you can make curved lines now these are snap to
15 degree angles and so we can make one at 45 180 270 and so on
this tool ensures that it snaps to the original shape which is really useful
and lastly here I can use the straight line function again to connect up my
paths do you remember that everything in today's video is from one plug-in
download and we still have some more functions to look at so here I have a
stroke a circle with eleven points on the weights now I can come into this
menu here and I'm able to scale the stroke weight either way up or down with
exact precision allows pretty neat and here's one of the greatest aspects of
this download in my opinion and it's simple but it's useful I can actually
fade or darken a hue with exact percentages I have the invert option
checked which means it does the opposite to fading and adds a shade but let's
deselect that and as you can see I can fade an object to whatever percentage I
feel like you can probably realize how useful this function is alone for your
graphing design workflow so like I said everything in today's video I paid $15
for because I chose the full license but I have spoken to these sites owner and
he said that most people usually just download the plugins first test them out
for themselves and then they pay later if they want to the free trial period is
unlimited on most of the downloads to my knowledge and you can just select the
version that you need for your operating system if you don't know how to install
plugins I do have a video on-screen now which is one of mine that will tell you
everything you need to know about that and if you want to keep boosting your
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