what is up people it's Tom's from satori graphics back again with another graphic
design tips video today I'm going to show you three Illustrator
tools but I think you either do not use or you don't use them often I feel these
tools are very underrated in Adobe Illustrator I'm gonna show you how to
use them in your graphic design workflow if you haven't done already subscribe
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the first illustrator tool you must be using for graphic design is super handy
and helpful for things like logo designing let's take a look at these
circles I've arranged here and let's say for my logo I want to make a shape of
this section here commonly people will use a Pathfinder tool to cut or create
shapes using other shapes however in this instance this function is not going
to work as you're going to see now
so instead with your shape selected come over to the shape build a tall you then
literally just have to fill within the areas of the shape you want to create
once you've done that hold down the alt/option key until you see the minus
icon and then draw over the areas that you don't want you can make so many
intricate and interesting shapes with this tool shapes you cannot make with
the Pathfinder tool and shapes that would take time and hassle to make with
a pen tool so for that reason alone this is
illustrator tool that you must be using for graphic design
the next illustrator tool that you must be using for graphic design helps you
locate and select shapes of the same color stroke gradient style and opacity
this helps vastly when you have a complicated and busy design so let's say
I want to select every single circle of a single color in my line design here we
will be using the magic one tool to do so many people associate the magic wand
tool with photoshop only but trust me it's very useful in Illustrator too
you need to open up the magic one window here first and foremost
let's have a closer look at the magic one window you can choose to select
objects by fill color stroke weight the opacity and the blend mode for this
example I'm going to show you the fill color bring down the tolerance all the
way down to one so it's super accurate with the color it selects now grab the
magic wand tool and select the object you want
as you can see selected the pink circle and every single part of the design that
is our color
now we can go back and edit every single shape this illustrator tool is a must
because when you have complicated designs you can save time by selecting
certain aspects of that design the last illustrator tool that you must be using
for graphic design will allow you to overlay a pattern or a texture onto
another aspect of the design I want to overlay this pattern on the right here
over the top of the circle on the left so hit command or ctrl C to copy the
pattern or whatever you want to overlay and then with the other part of the
design highlighted open up the transparency window we want to click
make mask uncheck clip and then select the right window in the transparency
window you then hit command or control V to paste in place resize and position it
and then as you can see here that looks pretty cool
we can even add our a new design over the top of the circle of the same size
and then add a color or a gradient fill
by the way you can find vector patterns for free by easily on google just search
something like free vector patterns and lots of searches will pop up so here I'm
changing the pattern layer with a gradient overlay and adjusting the
gradient style you can experiment with this and have some fun doing Sarah this
Illustrator tool is great for many aspects of graphic design but I'm
currently designing a speaker vector for a client and I've used this tool as part
of the speaker so do you agree with my list of illustrator tools you must be
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