today I have some mind-blowing plugins for Adobe Illustrator and they're all
totally free also at the very end of today's video I have an outstanding
plugin for Photoshop as well so guys do stay tuned so yeah today's plugins are
all totally free and they're compatible with illustrator apart from the very
last one now you must have a Creative Cloud account to install these plugins
and I'm gonna show you how to install them and how to use each of the plugins
in today's video anyway the first plug-in is an automated isometric action
which is gonna blow your mind so like I said you do need to have a
Creative Cloud account to download these plugins in today's video and so once
you've logged in the download should automatically process and you can see
that here with the notification each download has a slightly different method
of installing depending on the kind of plugin but not to worry because it says
exactly how to install and locate the plugins right here so for the first
plug-in today you need to open up the actions window and then load actions
locating the source file is easy and then I just hit OK this isometric
plug-in is really really awesome you need to design the top the left and also
the right hand side of your ISO metric design in a flat form and then select
each section and play the action by clicking the play button in the actions
panel this is a quick way to make isometry designs and it's totally free
actually I'm gonna go back and make one of the sites darker to make the illusion
of shadow on one side of my design so yeah that was the isometric plugin for
illustrator but let's move on to the next one now this plug-in is compatible
with Photoshop and InDesign but also illustrator now I've mentioned before in
this channel about a stock image website called unsplash and in my opinion it has
the best quality selection of stock imagery that is for free right now what
this plugin allows you to have a window directly into illustrator or Photoshop
where you can search and download images straight into the program now if you
want to learn how to use any downloads today click view my exchange and here
you can see the path to find the plugin for use now for each plug-in to work
after installation we need to close and restart illustrator so I'm going to go
ahead and do that right now now remember if you like these plugins today let me
know and I might buy some of the versions that aren't free because there
are some really good ones out there on this website
so now illustrator has been restarted in a new document I'm gonna head into the
extensions window and locate the stock photo plugin
now skip this section here and then give a search in the toolbar it's plug in
taps directly into unsplash and you can download imagery directly into Photoshop
Illustrator or InDesign now this is a useful plugin I feel and it's 100% free
so do go ahead and download it for your very own workflow
the third plug-in today is a quick one Phyllis traitor and that's a set of
brushes that can offer the effect of a vectorized hair so with a pencil I'm
just making a stroke path here and then all you need to do is simply click one
of the brushes in the brushes menu the hair can't be adjusted as you see fit
and changing the stroke width will change the hair as you can see here this
is a quick a free and a neat little plugin that you can make use of the next
free edition is compatible with illustrator but we're going to use
Photoshop just for demonstration purposes I do have one more after this
plug-in that is really really mind-blowing
but for this fourth one it's another stock image website integration but you
can actually search for imagery vectors and video again it's neat and handy to
have this kind of directory integrated into Adobe software this is good because
you don't have to keep switching up windows between a browser and
illustrator or Photoshop it's also pretty neat because it has vectors too
which is quite handy for illustrator especially
so I did say the last plugin is really really awesome and that's because for
free you can install a pathfinder option into Photoshop now this is something we
all use a lot in Illustrator but of course this plugin it gives you the
option in Photoshop by working with these two shapes we can see that we have
access to the four main Pathfinder functions those being merged - front
intersect and exclude last time I checked for the shop doesn't have this
built-in but didn't let me know if it recently has and I am in fact wrong so
there were five free plugins and I did sky with this website and these are
probably the best ones you can get for free so yet do let me know if you want
me to research and download some of the paid versions to review on my channel
here at satori of ethics and if you do want to keep learning essential skills
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future today peace