today I'm going to show you guys Illustrator shape functions that are
really going to boost your crap design workflow using Adobe Illustrator in
today's video I'm going to show you shape to a function illustrator mainly
illustrator CC that are really powerful and gonna save you time in your graphic
design workflow so the first function is a setting that you can turn on or off
and it's gonna help you lay out shapes perfectly aligned with equal distances
between them locate your day ability to preferences and then head over to the
smart guide section you want to activate the alignment guides and of course you
can change the color of your guides to figure out board or the design work that
you're working on so when I then get to move a shape in relation to other shapes
not only illustrator can tell me when the objects are in line they're gonna be
arrows with a measurement telling me when they equally spaced apart like an M
press command or control D to duplicate the last process and make equidistant
shapes across my entire board the next powerful descriptor shape tool functions
are going to be using the transform window in illustrator CC you might not
know these functions and they're really really useful so follow along and see if
you know these tool functions already and just how handy they really are
press em on your keyboard to locate the rectangle tool and then hold down shift
and click and drag to generate a perfect square
now you can go ahead and open the transform window tool here the settings
and tool functions will change with each different shape that you select so with
the rectangle we can first see we have quick access to the rotation tool as
well as the slant and the store option here we can quickly change the size of
the square with whatever measurements your current document is using if you
then click the chain icon you will not change both dimensions and proportion we
can also edit how curved the corners are and again if you uncheck the chain icon
can actually change a single corner independently of the other corners if
you click scale corners it doesn't matter how large or how small you scale
down your square your shape the corners are gonna stay relative
and finally we can change the shapes position precisely with the top settings
here next we're going to be looking at the polygon tool in relation to the
transform tool function
so click the artboard and type in a number of sides you want on your shape
if you now look in the transform window the settings are totally different we
can quickly edit a number of sides on our shape despite already haven't
generated a so as with the previous shapes we can change the size with
precision as well as edit the roundness of the corners however this time we can
also invert a roundness on the polygon shape which is pretty cool
the rec selection tool can also be used edit live corners in illustrator CC so
for the next powerful illustrator shape tool function let's create a circle
shape by accessing the lips tour with L on your keyboard something that is
really really handy and cool especially for infographics and diagrams is the
ability to color where degrees of a circle a kind of slice of the pie
so I've cut away sixty degrees of the circle I can also invert it here so I'm
left with 60 degrees as with the other shapes we can edit the size of the shape
and the location precisely with an illustrator so that's a quick video on
powerful illustrator shape tool functions tomorrow's video is something
requested by many people and that is me showing you guys how I designed this I
work for my story sans font using Adobe Photoshop so be sure to tune in for that
tomorrow so I hope you enjoyed today's video on shape function in Adobe
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