0 1 00:00:00,056 --> 00:00:02,904 All right, it's advanced tips and tricks work flow... 1 2 00:00:02,929 --> 00:00:04,352 speed up your daily stuff. 2 3 00:00:04,489 --> 00:00:06,981 There's lots in this whole section on work flow... 3 4 00:00:07,006 --> 00:00:10,138 but this particular one is lots of little bitsy things... 4 5 00:00:10,163 --> 00:00:11,840 that don't deserve their own video. 5 6 00:00:11,982 --> 00:00:14,247 They're lumped together in this one, there's some good stuff though. 6 7 00:00:14,794 --> 00:00:16,912 First thing we'll do is, 'File', 'New'... 7 8 00:00:17,154 --> 00:00:19,630 and you can do Math in any of these fields. 8 9 00:00:19,655 --> 00:00:23,591 Let's say I want to go to Print, I use the A sizes because I'm in Europe... 9 10 00:00:23,841 --> 00:00:26,927 and I want A2, but they don't have it as a preset for some reason. 10 11 00:00:26,952 --> 00:00:28,365 So, I know A3... 11 12 00:00:28,662 --> 00:00:31,435 and if I go to centimeters, I can times it by 2. 12 13 00:00:31,677 --> 00:00:33,623 And all I do is put in '*2'. 13 14 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,818 And you click in here, and it times it by 2, it gives me A2. 14 15 00:00:37,162 --> 00:00:40,451 Times it again, and I can get A1 and then A0. 15 16 00:00:40,841 --> 00:00:43,787 Cool. You can do Math in any of the fields. 16 17 00:00:43,812 --> 00:00:45,693 You can divide by... 17 18 00:00:45,747 --> 00:00:49,481 by typing a forward slash, then 2, '/2', and it will do that. 18 19 00:00:50,005 --> 00:00:53,036 You can add to inches by typing it in. 19 20 00:00:53,208 --> 00:00:54,257 If you want it the other way around... 20 21 00:00:54,290 --> 00:00:57,091 you can add centimeters to your Imperial Measurements. 21 22 00:00:57,302 --> 00:01:01,450 It will do all the Math in any field in Illustrator, not just a new document. 22 23 00:01:01,677 --> 00:01:04,302 The reason we did it here though, is I want to save it as a Template. 23 24 00:01:04,849 --> 00:01:09,802 So that's what I want. I'm going to have my Template be RGB as well. 24 25 00:01:09,827 --> 00:01:11,209 I'm going to click 'Create'. 25 26 00:01:11,654 --> 00:01:12,617 Once you've got this document... 26 27 00:01:12,642 --> 00:01:14,091 you're like, "I won't have to do that again"... 27 28 00:01:14,116 --> 00:01:17,599 I go to 'File', there's 'Save as Template', it's another little trick. 28 29 00:01:17,982 --> 00:01:19,887 I'm going to put it into my blank templates... 29 30 00:01:19,912 --> 00:01:21,451 and this is going to be called my A-- 30 31 00:01:22,076 --> 00:01:23,709 What did I get up to? I think it was A2. 31 32 00:01:24,802 --> 00:01:25,748 Hit 'Save'. 32 33 00:01:25,773 --> 00:01:29,450 Now when I'm making a new document, it's not in that window we just saw... 33 34 00:01:32,935 --> 00:01:35,607 but you go to 'File', 'New from Template'. 34 35 00:01:35,857 --> 00:01:38,685 There's that list again, and I can say, you guys, let's get going. 35 36 00:01:39,998 --> 00:01:42,709 Awesome. So it's picked the right sizes, it's picked RGB. 36 37 00:01:42,919 --> 00:01:44,089 And we learned how to do Math... 37 38 00:01:44,114 --> 00:01:45,795 and we learned how to do Math in the fields. 38 39 00:01:46,162 --> 00:01:48,662 Next thing I want to do is finding stuff in Help. 39 40 00:01:49,685 --> 00:01:51,584 This is for Mac only, sorry, PC people. 40 41 00:01:52,123 --> 00:01:53,154 There's lots of time you're like... 41 42 00:01:53,179 --> 00:01:56,810 "Hey, where's that filter thing Dan talked about?" 42 43 00:01:56,835 --> 00:01:59,162 "I remember it was called Half Tone, something, or other." 43 44 00:01:59,303 --> 00:02:02,607 So I've got this, and I go to 'Help', and I just type in 'half'. 44 45 00:02:02,894 --> 00:02:06,284 The cool thing about it is that Max goes, "You mean these two?"... 45 46 00:02:06,317 --> 00:02:07,362 and you're like, "Yes, I do." 46 47 00:02:07,387 --> 00:02:10,143 And if you hover above it, it even points to it with a big black arrow. 47 48 00:02:10,362 --> 00:02:11,401 And you come down. 48 49 00:02:11,426 --> 00:02:12,972 You may actually just click on it here... 49 50 00:02:12,997 --> 00:02:14,972 or sneakily come down, and just click on it. 50 51 00:02:15,425 --> 00:02:17,605 And I've got my awesome Half Tone. 51 52 00:02:19,456 --> 00:02:23,510 It's probably making your screen go crazy on the video, that's all right. 52 53 00:02:23,831 --> 00:02:26,346 Next thing we're going to do is cleaning a Path. 53 54 00:02:26,371 --> 00:02:29,206 I'm going to go out to this document I've got ready. 54 55 00:02:29,456 --> 00:02:30,792 Now there are times where-- 55 56 00:02:30,832 --> 00:02:33,440 If I go to 'Command Y', or 'Control Y' on a PC... 56 57 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,458 there's a star there, a star there, but look when I switch it back. 57 58 00:02:36,712 --> 00:02:38,892 They've got no Fill, no Stroke, I want to get rid of them. 58 59 00:02:38,917 --> 00:02:40,228 There's a couple of other things. 59 60 00:02:40,253 --> 00:02:42,572 That there is a text box that has no text in it. 60 61 00:02:42,597 --> 00:02:43,767 That there is-- 61 62 00:02:43,792 --> 00:02:45,206 I've used the Pen Tool, clicked once... 62 63 00:02:45,231 --> 00:02:46,971 forgotten what I was doing, and left it there. 63 64 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,580 So if you want to clean up these things... 64 65 00:02:48,605 --> 00:02:52,025 you can go up to 'Object', 'Path', and there's one that says 'Clean Up'. 65 66 00:02:52,462 --> 00:02:55,220 It goes through and asks you what you want to do, I'm going to do-- 66 67 00:02:55,486 --> 00:02:58,564 All of those sound good, click 'OK'. Now if I go to 'Command Y'... 67 68 00:02:58,589 --> 00:03:01,040 the stars are gone, the random dots are gone. 68 69 00:03:01,065 --> 00:03:03,142 Just good for pre-presses, just cleaning everything up. 69 70 00:03:03,182 --> 00:03:08,673 Especially good when you're kind of, like Compound Shapes and Clipping Masks... 70 71 00:03:08,698 --> 00:03:11,752 and you've kind of unpicked all of that, you can clean it all up using that trick. 71 72 00:03:12,212 --> 00:03:13,861 The other things that happens is Gradients. 72 73 00:03:13,886 --> 00:03:15,893 Gradients are awesome, they're back in fashion... 73 74 00:03:15,918 --> 00:03:17,017 they are on my head anyway. 74 75 00:03:17,042 --> 00:03:19,783 But often they end up bending when they go to print. 75 76 00:03:20,103 --> 00:03:21,408 Often digitally it's fine... 76 77 00:03:21,433 --> 00:03:24,080 but they can bend badly when they go to print. 77 78 00:03:24,105 --> 00:03:25,642 There's a couple of ways of doing it. 78 79 00:03:25,829 --> 00:03:28,103 So, I've got this Gradient selected here. 79 80 00:03:28,128 --> 00:03:30,877 I can go to 'Object', I can go to this one that says 'Rasterize'. 80 81 00:03:31,007 --> 00:03:32,155 Basically what it's going to do is... 81 82 00:03:32,180 --> 00:03:35,554 turn it from this lovely Scalable Vector thing to a Raster Image. 82 83 00:03:35,580 --> 00:03:37,509 Basically like a Photoshop document. 83 84 00:03:37,534 --> 00:03:41,267 Set the Resolution to the ppi, the pixels per inch that you want. 84 85 00:03:41,392 --> 00:03:44,759 If you want it to be really good quality, just leave it at 300, click 'OK'. 85 86 00:03:44,916 --> 00:03:47,173 And this thing now is, it looks the same... 86 87 00:03:47,752 --> 00:03:50,681 except that it is made up of little pixels. 87 88 00:03:50,806 --> 00:03:52,439 I get to zoom in as much as I like... 88 89 00:03:52,464 --> 00:03:54,588 and it doesn't really show up because it's so dense. 89 90 00:03:54,767 --> 00:03:58,736 But trust me, it's now pixels, and not vector. 90 91 00:03:58,845 --> 00:04:02,290 And it has the tendency to print better if you're running into problems. 91 92 00:04:02,463 --> 00:04:03,775 If you're not having problems, don't do that. 92 93 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:05,986 Another thing you can though, if you're running into-- 93 94 00:04:06,588 --> 00:04:09,291 Say you got lots of kind of banding Gradient problems. 94 95 00:04:09,316 --> 00:04:12,220 Especially with, say a Gradient Mesh, instead of rasterizing it... 95 96 00:04:12,245 --> 00:04:14,822 you can go to 'File', and during the printing process... 96 97 00:04:15,538 --> 00:04:17,220 there's an option in here under Graphics. 97 98 00:04:17,245 --> 00:04:20,236 You get to say, Compatible Gradients Mesh Printing. 98 99 00:04:20,416 --> 00:04:21,744 It gives you a bit of a warning. 99 100 00:04:22,416 --> 00:04:25,970 When you hit print now, it will do the same thing... 100 101 00:04:25,995 --> 00:04:29,931 but it will just kind of go through and do it on the way through. 101 102 00:04:30,447 --> 00:04:31,423 All right, Gradients. 102 103 00:04:31,448 --> 00:04:34,139 Next thing I'll show you, quick little shortcut is... 103 104 00:04:34,218 --> 00:04:35,752 if I delete this thing here... 104 105 00:04:35,777 --> 00:04:38,876 sometimes you're working, and you're like, "What is white, and what is see through?" 105 106 00:04:38,901 --> 00:04:40,354 Is that white, or is that see through? 106 107 00:04:40,387 --> 00:04:41,728 There's text in here somewhere. 107 108 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:44,179 'Command-Shift-D' is the shortcut. 108 109 00:04:44,586 --> 00:04:46,898 It shows you your Transparency Grid. 109 110 00:04:47,225 --> 00:04:48,406 It looks like Photoshop. 110 111 00:04:48,431 --> 00:04:49,436 And at least now you can see... 111 112 00:04:49,461 --> 00:04:51,438 that's a hole, and that's actually white text. 112 113 00:04:51,875 --> 00:04:53,179 That's white, and not a hole. 113 114 00:04:53,453 --> 00:04:55,063 So just really handy sometimes... 114 115 00:04:55,088 --> 00:04:57,625 when you're, maybe using the Shape Builder Tool... 115 116 00:04:59,054 --> 00:05:00,648 or the Path Finder. 116 117 00:05:00,996 --> 00:05:04,629 You're just working out who's white, and who's blank. 117 118 00:05:05,794 --> 00:05:09,043 That is a nice one. Another one is Select Similar. 118 119 00:05:09,068 --> 00:05:12,489 Let's say that, we've got all these stars, and we want to change the color of them. 119 120 00:05:12,708 --> 00:05:15,270 I'm going to click this one, hold 'Shift', grab them all. 120 121 00:05:15,708 --> 00:05:17,645 And go insane from clicking stars. 121 122 00:05:17,670 --> 00:05:22,051 There's not that many, but if I click on one, and go to 'Select', 'Same'... 122 123 00:05:22,261 --> 00:05:23,699 and you can pick any of these. 123 124 00:05:23,724 --> 00:05:25,079 Often Appearance just works... 124 125 00:05:25,104 --> 00:05:27,014 but anything that has the same Fill color, right? 125 126 00:05:27,255 --> 00:05:29,833 You can see, it's gone through this document, and selected everything. 126 127 00:05:29,873 --> 00:05:31,893 And I can go, actually I want to turn those to... 127 128 00:05:32,066 --> 00:05:33,833 Ugly pick, or black and white. 128 129 00:05:35,458 --> 00:05:37,950 That's an easy one, I found that's really useful if... 129 130 00:05:38,067 --> 00:05:42,075 say this is a stock library, Icon Set, that I brought. 130 131 00:05:42,286 --> 00:05:44,305 Let's say I want to adjust the colors... 131 132 00:05:44,330 --> 00:05:46,701 so I'm going to click on one of these colors. 132 133 00:05:46,833 --> 00:05:49,474 Say the 'White Arrow', click on this green one. 133 134 00:05:49,942 --> 00:05:51,458 So I want to find everything. 134 135 00:05:51,786 --> 00:05:53,349 You can see how useful this is going to be. 135 136 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:54,997 Everything has that same Fill color. 136 137 00:05:55,022 --> 00:05:58,201 It goes through the whole document, even inside Clipping Mask, and stuff. 137 138 00:05:58,534 --> 00:06:01,213 You can go through and say, I'm picking a new color. 138 139 00:06:01,815 --> 00:06:03,424 You see, the whole document changes. 139 140 00:06:04,228 --> 00:06:08,158 Awesome! It could be Stroke Color, you could use Appearance. 140 141 00:06:08,377 --> 00:06:09,291 Real handy one. 141 142 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:12,447 Maybe not so handy feature, but useful to know... 142 143 00:06:12,472 --> 00:06:15,407 under 'Select', I can go to 'Object', and there's a bunch of options in here. 143 144 00:06:15,432 --> 00:06:18,092 Like I can select everything that has a Bristle Brush Stroke. 144 145 00:06:18,117 --> 00:06:19,274 Not sure why that's handy. 145 146 00:06:19,602 --> 00:06:21,954 The one that's probably handy is... 146 147 00:06:22,079 --> 00:06:23,870 I can select everything that has a Clipping Mask... 147 148 00:06:23,895 --> 00:06:25,517 this one here, All Text Object. 148 149 00:06:25,719 --> 00:06:27,368 I've only got two, but I imagine... 149 150 00:06:27,393 --> 00:06:29,117 if you had a really long document, or a big document... 150 151 00:06:29,142 --> 00:06:32,079 with lots of text boxes, you just want to select them all, change the font. 151 152 00:06:32,409 --> 00:06:33,971 That could be an easy way to do it. 152 153 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:38,010 Another little known feature is, say I do select all of these guys... 153 154 00:06:38,284 --> 00:06:40,736 and I either 'Shift' click them all, and spend ages doing it... 154 155 00:06:40,761 --> 00:06:43,307 or we use our trick, select 'Same', 'Fill Color'. 155 156 00:06:44,190 --> 00:06:48,158 Unfortunately my white is the same as the rest of it. 156 157 00:06:48,370 --> 00:06:52,034 Anyway, so I've got all of this, including these guys down here. 157 158 00:06:54,890 --> 00:06:57,492 So we spent ages making that selection. 158 159 00:06:57,632 --> 00:07:00,718 What I can do is select it, and save that selection. 159 160 00:07:00,913 --> 00:07:04,030 So I can go to 'Save Selection', give it a name, let's call it 'Stars'. 160 161 00:07:04,390 --> 00:07:07,546 The difference between that, and say, something like, if I grouped it now... 161 162 00:07:08,171 --> 00:07:09,725 they would be kind of fused together... 162 163 00:07:09,750 --> 00:07:12,521 but what I can do is, I can start adjusting these things... 163 164 00:07:12,546 --> 00:07:13,976 and say, you're over here now. 164 165 00:07:14,038 --> 00:07:16,320 And now I can go to 'Select'... 165 166 00:07:16,769 --> 00:07:19,941 I want to select on 'Stars', and it grabs them all again. Cool, huh? 166 167 00:07:20,289 --> 00:07:22,326 Next super shortcut is... 167 168 00:07:22,351 --> 00:07:24,805 on the Layers panel, which is handy, to know that... 168 169 00:07:24,883 --> 00:07:27,774 if you click up here towards this, just in this area here... 169 170 00:07:27,799 --> 00:07:29,430 you select everything on that layer... 170 171 00:07:29,455 --> 00:07:31,547 just have to go anywhere in that layer, goodbye. 171 172 00:07:33,883 --> 00:07:35,524 Just easy to select everything on the layer... 172 173 00:07:35,549 --> 00:07:37,571 rather than maybe a Select All, it grabs everything. 173 174 00:07:37,603 --> 00:07:40,773 Also the thing about the layers is, let's say you're working down here... 174 175 00:07:40,805 --> 00:07:44,523 My fox, it's a pretty good contrast, if I'm looking on these Anchor Points here. 175 176 00:07:44,548 --> 00:07:46,680 The blue lines and the handles... 176 177 00:07:46,705 --> 00:07:49,180 they are pretty good and contrasting, right? 177 178 00:07:50,226 --> 00:07:52,711 I did that earlier in this tutorial when we were doing a Gradient Mesh. 178 179 00:07:52,736 --> 00:07:55,008 It was on kind of a blue color, and these guys were blue. 179 180 00:07:55,125 --> 00:07:56,633 And it's just really hard to see them. 180 181 00:07:56,658 --> 00:07:59,516 So what you can do is you can actually double click on the word... 181 182 00:07:59,931 --> 00:08:02,422 actually anywhere above the word, that's what I meant. 182 183 00:08:02,984 --> 00:08:05,531 And you can say, actually I want this one to have a bright green. 183 184 00:08:06,032 --> 00:08:08,227 That means, nothings has changed, it just means that... 184 185 00:08:08,252 --> 00:08:10,524 it's a little bit easier sometimes to see these handles... 185 186 00:08:10,549 --> 00:08:12,711 against the particular graphic you're using. 186 187 00:08:12,930 --> 00:08:15,813 A somewhat useless next feature, down the bottom here, there's this thing. 187 188 00:08:16,289 --> 00:08:19,391 You can say, actually I don't want to show the name for my Artboard. 188 189 00:08:19,657 --> 00:08:22,187 I want you to show that current tool that I'm using, Direct Selection Tool. 189 190 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:24,618 I want you to show me the date and time. 190 191 00:08:25,157 --> 00:08:28,672 I want you to write it in a really cryptic way that makes it useless. 191 192 00:08:28,890 --> 00:08:30,336 Month too. 192 193 00:08:32,055 --> 00:08:33,407 Number of undos. 193 194 00:08:33,432 --> 00:08:35,571 I feel there should be some good stuff in here. 194 195 00:08:35,696 --> 00:08:38,039 Document Color Profile, maybe that might be useful. 195 196 00:08:38,211 --> 00:08:40,774 Anyway, let's finish on a really good one. 196 197 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,375 This Tool panel over here is full of stuff that you never use. 197 198 00:08:44,539 --> 00:08:46,228 And after this advanced course, you'd be like... 198 199 00:08:46,253 --> 00:08:47,610 "Ooh, that's my new favorite." 199 200 00:08:47,780 --> 00:08:49,898 But say you get to a point, you're like... 200 201 00:08:49,923 --> 00:08:51,242 "Actually just get rid of this stuff I don't want." 201 202 00:08:51,570 --> 00:08:54,288 So it's really handy to go to 'Window', go to 'Tools'... 202 203 00:08:54,398 --> 00:08:56,953 and we're going to make a 'New Tools Panel'. 203 204 00:08:57,306 --> 00:09:03,694 I'm going to call this the... 'Dan is Awesome Tool Panel'. 204 205 00:09:04,484 --> 00:09:05,726 Give it any other name you like. 205 206 00:09:07,281 --> 00:09:10,023 Basically just gives you the core, that thing there. 206 207 00:09:10,048 --> 00:09:11,914 Anything else, you drag on as you want. 207 208 00:09:12,140 --> 00:09:15,265 Let's say I do use the Black Arrow and the White Arrow. 208 209 00:09:15,290 --> 00:09:16,431 Even though I know the shortcuts... 209 210 00:09:16,657 --> 00:09:19,798 I don't use the Lasso Tool, I use the Pen tool a lot. 210 211 00:09:20,407 --> 00:09:23,743 I use the Curvature Tool a lot, the Type Tool, awesome. 211 212 00:09:25,197 --> 00:09:27,814 Edit these guys, you can decide. Actually I just want the Line Tool. 212 213 00:09:27,839 --> 00:09:29,048 So I don't use all the other junk. 213 214 00:09:30,212 --> 00:09:33,470 Yes I'll use you, but I'm going to keep this. 214 215 00:09:33,712 --> 00:09:36,235 You can skip on in this video now, well actually... 215 216 00:09:36,579 --> 00:09:39,181 I'm going to go and show-- do you want more? 216 217 00:09:40,297 --> 00:09:43,274 I just want to build my own Tool Panel, don't know why. 217 218 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,212 Once you've finished it, you've got to do a couple of things. 218 219 00:09:46,237 --> 00:09:47,400 You don't want this guy anymore. 219 220 00:09:48,056 --> 00:09:50,298 So you've got everything out of this, I'm just going to drag the top of it. 220 221 00:09:50,331 --> 00:09:53,556 It's that, like little gray that you need to drag out, close it down. 221 222 00:09:53,767 --> 00:09:55,314 Grab this tiny gray bit. 222 223 00:09:56,111 --> 00:09:59,868 Dark gray bit, and kind of push it to the side, and it goes blue. 223 224 00:10:00,314 --> 00:10:02,501 Then you go to 'Window', 'Workspace'. 224 225 00:10:02,526 --> 00:10:05,532 And if you haven't already created a new workspace, give it a name. 225 226 00:10:05,821 --> 00:10:07,423 I've given mine a name, called Dan. 226 227 00:10:07,782 --> 00:10:10,290 Actually I want to save over the top of this, so I want to reset Dan. 227 228 00:10:10,353 --> 00:10:12,165 So a new workspace, I'm just going to call it Dan. 228 229 00:10:12,190 --> 00:10:15,282 It already exists, by clicking 'OK', it's going to overwrite. 229 230 00:10:16,001 --> 00:10:18,759 So now when I'm kind of opening up my-- 230 231 00:10:18,784 --> 00:10:23,212 I'm working on Layout for some reason. I can go to 'Workspace', go to 'Dan'. 231 232 00:10:23,626 --> 00:10:27,243 And it's back to this, and if I accidentally get everything mixed up... 232 233 00:10:27,509 --> 00:10:30,470 that drags out, and this ends up popping out. 233 234 00:10:30,767 --> 00:10:34,759 Everything goes wrong. I can go to 'Window', 'Workspace', 'Reset Dan'. 234 235 00:10:35,548 --> 00:10:37,431 Everything will be back except these guys. 235 236 00:10:38,564 --> 00:10:40,776 So that is it for these kind of... 236 237 00:10:40,801 --> 00:10:44,118 like little short tasty work flow advanced things. 237 238 00:10:44,267 --> 00:10:48,361 There's a bunch more in this kind of section, so carry on with the videos. 238 239 00:10:48,386 --> 00:10:50,797 We'll do some more tricks. 239 240 00:10:50,822 --> 00:10:52,039 All right, next video.