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Adobe Illustrator6 Essential Tips And Tools
Le Do Nguyet Minh | Graphic Designer | [email protected]
| Appearance
• Add in multiple strokes and fill• Rearrange the placements of the effects• Apply effects into a particular stroke or fill• Change opacity of a particular stroke or fill• Illustrator effects are light, while Photoshop effects
are heavy and might takes time to load
Control panel of the appearances and effects of an object
| Graphic Styles
• Similar to Copy Layer Style in Photoshop• Save your appearance setting for future uses or for
consistent design• Graphic Style can be saved and shared
A collection of your pre-made appearance settings
| Transform
• Transform your object using an effect instead of an action
• Non destructive design – easy to refer back and makes changes
• Make floating copies that are all linked to the original object
One of the effect from the Appearance Setting
| Align
• Similar to the Arrange / Align in Powerpoint• Default alignment is to Artboard• Align to a Key Object by:Select all objects > click on the key object > align• Distribution Spacing
Control board for a perfect alignment
| Pathfinder
• Create complex shapes from overlapping shapes• It’s defined using shape, not outline• Can also use Shape Builder Tool as an alternative• Press Alt to create Compound Shape• Release and expand compound shape
A cutting and gluing tool
| Blend
• Blend between lines, shape and even the blends• The path that blend runs along can be modified• Replace Spine Option: change the path to a shape
you created• Can create some highlights for shapes with blends,
when Gradient Tool doesn’t work so well
Create a blend between 2 objects