Perfect for when you want some texture but don’t want to have something that’s obviously tiled.
Press CMD+D to duplicate the last action.įriday’s mini illustrator tutorial - Symbol Sprayer. Click or drag it to any way to rotate around.Īlso again - hold ALT and you create copy when rotating. One that’s not as known as you first think - when in the rotate tool you can move the anchor point. Does exactly that, but around each groups own transform.ĭrop those chairs 75% and give them a random angle.Īlways using this to add the human touch to floorpans and maps. HxtLfaKqGlĪnother little tip - this one I use everyday. You can have different styles all working together too, wider roads, dual lines etc. It will save you about a million life years and a boat load of stress. Working on maps in illustrator? Use group styles - not individual. Select all appearance at the top to pick up styling from artwork too. From here you can select what gets applied/picked up. One the palette shift using the colour wheel and another using global adjust to map all colours in artwork.Īnother quick but hidden feature in Illustrator today.ĭouble click the eyedropper icon to open this panel. This one around working with colours and a palette in Illustrator. Shift+M to get into the tool, select shapes to merge or hold alt cut away!Īnother little Illustrator tip after a week off. But the shape builder tool is so much more intuitive - especially for those new to Illustrator! This one might be a little bit divisive (pun 100% intended). You can set it outlines, rounded, circles & rectangles. Responsive Labels, this was a must and the one that made me learn more about the Appearance panel. Today’s mini illustrator tutorial - brought to you by a property client hence working on some bigger maps. Then simply draw inside, you can draw shapes, line work or just paste whatever inside. Drawing inside.Ĭlick these minuscule buttons on the tool panel or hit shift+d until you see the bounding box around your artwork. One of my all time favs this tip for Illustrator. This way you can keep shapes live for tinkering after before finalising. Pathfinder alt modes - hold alt while using the pathfinder options to give you a non destructive version. Check them out below.Īnother Illustrator quick one that’s a little hidden. These hacks will surely save you time and enhance your workflow. UK-based multidisciplinary designer Mathew Lucas has shared a series of useful tips on relatively less-known features in Adobe Illustrator. Did you know that holding the alt key while selecting the Pathfinder options creates a non-destructive version of the shape you’re working on? This gives you the ability to tweak the shape later on, if you wish to do so.
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