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This should be in the cc cloud app. I work for many agencies and none use bridge. Global cc settings: Same for document presets and scripts. Why not Adobe why!?
Hi Dan, your videos never cease to be of use to me as a non-designer business owner using Ai. The Icons, Swatches and Tiling hacks were extremely useful. Thanks very much.
Thank you! (I also like the frershness of you doing it in real time. You have jiust saved me hours or frustration with aligning points. Most important though is generating palettes I'm in the middle of a big project requiring that colors across multiple images be consistent but varied. No more recreating color swatches be hand, (though that is also fun).
Humbling myself enough to learn more about Illustrator from others was a whole journey for me. Sure, I may know 7/9 "hacks" already, but there were two that I didn't know, and now that I took the time to learn them, I'm going to save SO much more time in the future! Good work Dansky, thanks!
@@ForeverDansky just a little gesture! I've been using illustrator for over 14 years. It's not my favourite Adobe app but watching the video's makes me love it a lot more and still learning new things!
i never thought the second one would be considered a hack, I use it pretty much every time xD Also I had never noticed that Join Tool, I always use the Pencil! Loved the rest 7 though :)
hack #1: solves the issue i had yesterday. i kept think i needed to join and delete "extra anchor pts". PITA! never would have though to use what i (erroneously) saw as an area/fill modifying tool for fixing/unifying paths! just this change to my thinking may help me to make better use of the program-outside this particular issue.
This video is so helpful thanks. And also I have a question, is there a way for me to resize things without holding down shift and maintain proportions like in the photoshop? I did a lot of research for this but couldn't find any settings for it, is it possible? Thanks in advance.
AWESOME Tutorial!!!! 1) I have to export a lot of Solidworks drawings into Illustrator (I export them as .DFX files). when the drawings come over the lines are broken up into a ton of tiny little segments... is there any way to join the lines so that they are not so broken up? 2) How did you create that grid and center all those icons? Did you make a table like in InDesign? That was super cool how you were able to scale all those icons from the center of each square. Would love to see a tutorial on how that was created.
Ah I got the sound panels from Amazon! Search for "acoustic foam panelling" and they really help reduce the echo in the room when recording. The swivel mic stand is linked in the video description 🙂
Is there a way to have two tiled windows of the same document (with changes updating) but have one document's active selections not appear? Sorry if that wasn't very clear- thank you so much for these videos! It's making it much less painful to learn Ai!
that second one helped alot. i was manually deleting all the anchor points with direct selection tool, the paths sometimes gets deleted with the anchor point as well.. that made a huge chaos but THE LEGEENDARY LIFESAVER DAN saved us
Do you know if there is a way to create a colour average from an image that gets applied to a shapes above? In a similar way object mosaic tool works but to pre-set shapes not just a grid? Would help load for low poly portraits.
I’ve been hacking Illustrator to try to get it to do what I want it to do for 30 years. I really miss Macromedia Freehand and hate Adobe for killing that app. I STILL don’t understand the point of having two different selection arrow tools. Freehand could let you do everything with one selection tool. I could work so much faster in that app.
Yes, really salient and very relevant points raised here. I also miss Macromedia Freehand so very much, but adapted to Adobe Illustrator because I had to. This video is brilliant though:)😊
Here’s the quickest explanation I can give for the 3 arrows. - The Selection tool (black arrow) selects an entire object or group of objects as a whole. - The Direct Selection tool (white arrow) selects individual anchor points or the line between anchor points - The Group Selection tool (white arrow with the plus sign) selects individual objects out of a group or compound path. A tip for using them is no matter which of the arrows you are on, you can quickly toggle between all 3 on the fly by pressing the cmd/ctrl key and/or the option/alt key and/or shift key. I don’t remember what or how, I’m often blindly hitting those keys (or a combination of them) until the right tool comes up. But it’s quicker than going up and selecting the other tools every time.
@@JerryN7970 Yes, I know what they do, but I don’t understand the point of them. FreeHand did everything with one selection tool by holding down modifier keys. You should be able to toggle the selection tool you need and automatically have it switch back to the main selection tool when you let go of the modifier key. FreeHand did that back in the 90s. Illustrator still doesn’t.
Hello. I'm wondering how I can end my current pen line on a previously drawn pen stroke while tracing an image by hand? I am trying to trace an image with pen tool and then laser cutting said trace but I need all closed paths.
Hi Dan, I have a problem exporting as an SVG file in Illustrator and Photoshop too. I have 2 text layers, the back text is colored and the front text is black and they are overlapping each other. Unfortunately, the Cricut Design Space will not be able to handle the svg file properly, due to the overlapping problem. I tried to unite them before the export but then the colored text will be changed to black. Do you have any idea, how can I unite them without losing the colored text and save it as an SVG file properly? Thank you so much for your help.
when I use shape builder tool it changes the size of an object a little bit, which cause problems for big cnc cutting files. bcs, those small changes in every shape create a big difference in total. any suggestion for that??
Hey Dansky! I need your assistance please. When I go to Transform each tool. The constrain option doesn’t appear. I got Illustrator 2022. This Tip was really a life saving for me but unfortunately the constrain option ditched me 😭 Help me out Please 🙏
ℹ FYI all of the unit input fields are "self-calculating". If your working unit doesn't match the default one (digital to analog or vice versa) you can still use it! Example: your stroke is measured in POINTS on PRINT document -> input [ 80pt ] even if the default is in mm/inch - it will get translated into correct unit with no effort
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I just love this kind of content: informative, no useless bla-bla, and straight to the point. Keep it up...and thanks for sharing, mate!
I've used Adobe Illustrator for over 20 years and still learned something new! Thank you for the colour across all platforms tip - super useful.
Hey that’s so great to hear, thank you! Glad the video has been helpful 😊
This should be in the cc cloud app. I work for many agencies and none use bridge. Global cc settings: Same for document presets and scripts. Why not Adobe why!?
YOU ARE SO GOOD WITH YOUR ILLUSTRATOR CONTENT . LEARNING LOT FROM YOU
I always, always love learning something new from you after 30 years of using Ai. Thank you Dansky!!!
You’re welcome! 👊 Happy to help 😊
Your illustrator's work is wonderful sir, which is very useful for me, thank you. I see and follow your works regularly.
Hi Dan, your videos never cease to be of use to me as a non-designer business owner using Ai. The Icons, Swatches and Tiling hacks were extremely useful. Thanks very much.
Brilliant as always!!! I learn SO MUCH every time I watch one of your tutorials. Thanks!!
Thank you, that’s so great to hear 😊🙌
Thank you!!!
So much graphic design goodness in one video!
You’re welcome! 👍😁
Daaaang 'transform each' gonna save my life!!! didn't know about that. 🤯
Aha yea it’s a beauty mate, and a HUGE timesaver that one! 😅
Thank you! (I also like the frershness of you doing it in real time.
You have jiust saved me hours or frustration with aligning points. Most important though is generating palettes I'm in the middle of a big project requiring that colors across multiple images be consistent but varied. No more recreating color swatches be hand, (though that is also fun).
Dansky you’re really a blessing for me 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thank you, that’s so kind of you ❤️
Humbling myself enough to learn more about Illustrator from others was a whole journey for me. Sure, I may know 7/9 "hacks" already, but there were two that I didn't know, and now that I took the time to learn them, I'm going to save SO much more time in the future! Good work Dansky, thanks!
thanks for these hacks. If anyone is interested, the color mosaic one only works if the image is embedded rather than linked.
I love how easy your hacks are to follow and they're all pertinent.. thanks!
Didn’t know I could add all selected colours to the swatches panel! I’ve been adding my colours one by one. I will use that all the time now 😁
Absolutely golden. So glad I decided to watch that. The multiple scale selections is so rad. I used to transform each art board separately!
Nice. I knew pretty much all of these except merging anchor points with pathfinder. I had no idea that you could do that.
Bedankt
Hey thank you so much! 😍
@@ForeverDansky just a little gesture! I've been using illustrator for over 14 years. It's not my favourite Adobe app but watching the video's makes me love it a lot more and still learning new things!
Just created a new RUclips-Playlist called "ultra useful tutorials" just because of this video! :D awesome!!
Aha wow, that's amazing Paul! Thank you 🙏
Link please ?
Tip number 8 blew my MIND, this is great!!
Awesome! 🙌
very-very useful and great tips, I am new to Illustrator, and your contents a great help for my learning process - ❤ thank you so much, Dansky
Hey Lily you're welcome! 😊 Also thank you so much for supporting me as a member 👊
Great video my friend, I'm just started using Illustrator and I found it so fun to learn specially by magnificent contents like yours. Peace mate
Just came across your channel and wow! Thank you for all of these time saving tips!
You’re welcome 😊 Glad you like them thanks!
Absolutely a great tutorial I'm amazed ❤
Thanks!
Thank you so much, Dansky.
My pleasure! ☺️
Wonderful video presentation as always. Many thanks for making and uploading. Really appreciate it so very much:)😊
My pleasure 😊
This tutorial is beneficial for me. Thank you.
i never thought the second one would be considered a hack, I use it pretty much every time xD
Also I had never noticed that Join Tool, I always use the Pencil!
Loved the rest 7 though :)
hack #1: solves the issue i had yesterday. i kept think i needed to join and delete "extra anchor pts". PITA!
never would have though to use what i (erroneously) saw as an area/fill modifying tool for fixing/unifying paths!
just this change to my thinking may help me to make better use of the program-outside this particular issue.
Very useful tips. Thanks a lot for sharing! 👍🏾
You're welcome! 😃
You are the GOAT … thank you bro 💯
Happy to help!
Thank you
Great job! I am constantly learning, I love it!
Thank you, that's so great to hear Arlene! 😊
Your videos are really amazing and this is one of them ,, very nice tips for easy work. 🤩
Helpful, like always... Thank you, very much, and long life, to your channel!!!
This video is so helpful thanks. And also I have a question, is there a way for me to resize things without holding down shift and maintain proportions like in the photoshop? I did a lot of research for this but couldn't find any settings for it, is it possible? Thanks in advance.
You’re welcome ☺️ Ah no afraid not, pretty sure Illustrator requires a Shift key press, and doesn’t have a toggle option in the settings.
SO great, the first 2 are always a problem for me so big thanks
Awesome, glad I could help! ✌️🥳
AWESOME Tutorial!!!!
1) I have to export a lot of Solidworks drawings into Illustrator (I export them as .DFX files). when the drawings come over the lines are broken up into a ton of tiny little segments... is there any way to join the lines so that they are not so broken up?
2) How did you create that grid and center all those icons? Did you make a table like in InDesign? That was super cool how you were able to scale all those icons from the center of each square. Would love to see a tutorial on how that was created.
thank u for your efforts
wish u good health, richness and happiness to u and to your family
Hii thanks for the video ! I would like to ask if it's a new update with " smooth" function ? cause i don't have one
Adobe Illustrator 2024 👍
Dio you have a tutorial on how you made that anchor? I'm a newbie and this would help me so much! Thank you!
Thank you so much 😊 sir
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9:00 tip 7 is out of this world 👍🏻
Good video. Is Illustrator good for simply drawing and sketching?
Hi Dan can you please upload a Photoshop tutorial. I really love your Photoshop tutorials
Absolutely Fantastic Video, very useful 👍🏻
Thank you for sharing
My pleasure, thank you ☺️
Great video! Thanks.
You're welcome! 😊
These were very useful tips 👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
What are those sponges there on your wall? Do you know where I can buy it?
Ah I got the sound panels from Amazon! Search for "acoustic foam panelling" and they really help reduce the echo in the room when recording. The swivel mic stand is linked in the video description 🙂
These are amazing tips, I mainly use Ai for lettering and logo design so the "Average" function is a big game changer!
New to the channel. Love the info and enthusiasm!
Omg, you really help me out with starting to use this software 😂
Thank you ❤
You're welcome 😊
very useful, thank you.
Some great tips. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome vid!! Thank you!
Thanks! Glad you liked it! 😊
I love your channel so much! Thank you for your awesome content! God bless you 😊
You are so welcome! 🙏
So many tips, so little time. Wonder how many I'll remember tomorrow?!
Is there a way to have two tiled windows of the same document (with changes updating) but have one document's active selections not appear? Sorry if that wasn't very clear- thank you so much for these videos! It's making it much less painful to learn Ai!
Tip #3 - OMG!! Thanks!
Happy to help 😁
Awesome hacks! As always. Thank you sir.
that second one helped alot. i was manually deleting all the anchor points with direct selection tool, the paths sometimes gets deleted with the anchor point as well.. that made a huge chaos but THE LEGEENDARY LIFESAVER DAN saved us
Aha yea it’s a nifty workaround, and much quicker than scripts! I learned about this technique the other day from a comment on another video 😃
@@ForeverDansky hah from a comment that's cool
Do you know if there is a way to create a colour average from an image that gets applied to a shapes above? In a similar way object mosaic tool works but to pre-set shapes not just a grid?
Would help load for low poly portraits.
Gotta tell you. I've been an Illustrator user since VERSION 1 - that's almost forty years! And a couple of these shortcuts are new to ME.
Hey that's amazing to hear Mary - thank you! 😊
nice, nice,nice thanks Dansky
I love your vidieos so much and wait for new vidieos
By the way love from Bangladesh❤
Thank you so much 😀
Can you make videos on t shirt designing? Any short course?
Bruh,
You save my century.
Thanks for sharing.
Peace.
❤
These are great tips. thank you
You are so welcome! 🙏
Great tips! Thank you :)
Sir, if it’s possible, please make a video covering Illustrator and Photoshop plugins. Thank You ❤
Hi, again great vid. Let me know, is there any option like Transform each but add values in mm/cm instead of percentage? Thank you
Definitely!
I’ve been hacking Illustrator to try to get it to do what I want it to do for 30 years. I really miss Macromedia Freehand and hate Adobe for killing that app. I STILL don’t understand the point of having two different selection arrow tools. Freehand could let you do everything with one selection tool. I could work so much faster in that app.
Yes, really salient and very relevant points raised here. I also miss Macromedia Freehand so very much, but adapted to Adobe Illustrator because I had to. This video is brilliant though:)😊
Here’s the quickest explanation I can give for the 3 arrows.
- The Selection tool (black arrow) selects an entire object or group of objects as a whole.
- The Direct Selection tool (white arrow) selects individual anchor points or the line between anchor points
- The Group Selection tool (white arrow with the plus sign) selects individual objects out of a group or compound path.
A tip for using them is no matter which of the arrows you are on, you can quickly toggle between all 3 on the fly by pressing the cmd/ctrl key and/or the option/alt key and/or shift key. I don’t remember what or how, I’m often blindly hitting those keys (or a combination of them) until the right tool comes up. But it’s quicker than going up and selecting the other tools every time.
@@JerryN7970 Yes, I know what they do, but I don’t understand the point of them. FreeHand did everything with one selection tool by holding down modifier keys. You should be able to toggle the selection tool you need and automatically have it switch back to the main selection tool when you let go of the modifier key. FreeHand did that back in the 90s. Illustrator still doesn’t.
I like your energy, most big design youtubers make me sleepy
I appreciate that! Thank you ☺️
Really very helping thank you.
Learned so much here
Very useful, thank you (:
You're welcome :)
I literally had to stop and clap aloud at the third tip. Bravo sir, another excellent production.
Excellent thanks 👍
super nice hacks! Thanks ;)
You're welcome!
Thanks, man!
Hello. I'm wondering how I can end my current pen line on a previously drawn pen stroke while tracing an image by hand? I am trying to trace an image with pen tool and then laser cutting said trace but I need all closed paths.
God of Illustrator ✨
This guy is so good at Illustrations, how much to design a company logo?
thank you this helped me in my internship
Excellent.
Many thanks!
very helpful video👌😊
Awesome! 🙌
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure!
Handy tips as always.
Fantastic! 👍
Hi Dan, I have a problem exporting as an SVG file in Illustrator and Photoshop too. I have 2 text layers, the back text is colored and the front text is black and they are overlapping each other. Unfortunately, the Cricut Design Space will not be able to handle the svg file properly, due to the overlapping problem. I tried to unite them before the export but then the colored text will be changed to black. Do you have any idea, how can I unite them without losing the colored text and save it as an SVG file properly? Thank you so much for your help.
when I use shape builder tool it changes the size of an object a little bit, which cause problems for big cnc cutting files. bcs, those small changes in every shape create a big difference in total. any suggestion for that??
Hey Dansky!
I need your assistance please. When I go to Transform each tool. The constrain option doesn’t appear. I got Illustrator 2022. This Tip was really a life saving for me but unfortunately the constrain option ditched me 😭 Help me out Please 🙏
Sorry I’ve the 2020 version of Illustrator
And I’m talking about Tip no 3
Hey there, if the 'link icon' doesn't appear in the 'Transform' window, just adjust both values for the 'Scale' equally 👍
thank you
The most thing I liked here is how you enjoy the process and have fun with it 😂
I LOVE THIS
ℹ FYI all of the unit input fields are "self-calculating". If your working unit doesn't match the default one (digital to analog or vice versa) you can still use it!
Example: your stroke is measured in POINTS on PRINT document -> input [ 80pt ] even if the default is in mm/inch - it will get translated into correct unit with no effort
Love this tips thanks
Muito bem 😊😮 ganhaste um seguidor... where you've been dude!?
Thank you
You're welcome!
Thanks