I always check the color guide whenever I can, it's a neat feature especially since I am a self-taught. and you can also make those color to be shown at the color palette for quick access when you need multiple choice of compositions
To create more quickly spot and process color, only drag color in swatched window, press command to make spot color or press command + shift to make process global color and release.
I'm not a graphics designer but I do love playing with these small tips in these videos cause it's really fun to see the possibilities that can come out of hidden features (that stroke gradiant one is maybe my favourite, so Imma mess with that next 😁)
Nice little tips. I see so many of those controls in my day-to-day with Illustrator, but I just have never bothered to mess around with most of them. Thanks for demystifying them.
Besides pucker & bloat, zig-zag is also similarly useful especially for making memphis-style crooky lines and certificate emblems. Appearance panel is gold if you're familiar with it. For align to artboard, I set an action shortcut to align centre vertically + horizontally for our pre-press designers. Together with Trim View shortcut, they're so convenient for print designers. Besides V, you can also press enter/return to do basic move/duplicate. Once you're used to key in numbers & using shortcuts, other people will be so impressed looking at you working like an accountant but in Illustrator.🤣 Good video! If you don't mind, could you please make a video tips on Select menu? I always learn at least one new thing from your videos.👍🏻
Amazing tips bro... I wish i should write it down everything, to better remember doing it while working and with time to blend it in my workflow... Amazing vid dude
Satori, I have a hard time with coming up with a consistent layout and graphic that compliment each other. Can you give any insight with how to create a cohesive piece of work?
Do you mean layout in your portfolio, or in general? Your projects don't need to all look the same, the style and design should fit the brief of each individual project
@@SatoriGraphics I would relate if Purple means like: you make an awesome logo, maybe a good pattern with it, and now,.. how to apply to some layouts to showcase it?
As the commenter above suggested, try other file formats. I recently posted a design on Instagram where I used a freeform gradient for the background of a design, and it looks so crisp and clean. That was saved as PNG
Just select the color panel from the window and choose a cymk/RGB color while gradient is ON on the stroke... Then it will remove the grey scale only option... Don't know if you got the idea... Let me know if there is any doubt regarding that
here's a question, considering everything you can do on photoshop these days, why do we need illustrator anymore? there's really just 6 softwares you need from adobe, premiere, after effects, photoshop, lightroom, audition, dreamweaver, and acrobat, everything else just needs to be merged with the other softwares
The original reason would have been because many deigns need to be vector as to retain quality at any size, but now Photoshop has that function to vectorise work. However, people like myself who have used Ai for ages are so accustom to it's interface and layout, that I feel right at home here. I would never ever dream of designing a logo in Ps, even with it's now built in vector function. There are certain tools in Ai that you will not find in Ps too, and those tools are essential for being precise and mathematical with things such as logo designing.
These features are awesome I only knew about the align feature.. Rest are all new to me.. I never knew the live corners have options when we double click it! Thats amazing.. and the last one making different patterns using ellipse tool is so cool.. Thank you so much for teaching this.. I am far behind n missed so many of your video tutorials.. my Internet connection is not working properly these days..
Muhammad Qasim seems like a BIG ask, since it's hard to find good work unless you're advanced/ have good connections. I'm not in the business but it's what I heard from a friend who has been doing flyer designs and stuff. I'd say fivr is a good place to start because it's cheap work and can help build your reputation and portfolio, as satori showed many videos ago.
Each person will have a slightly different route. For example, someone who finishes at university may get contacts from work experience, and go straight into an in-house position. Others will start freelancing and so forth. If I were you, I'd firstly address your portfolio, skills (niche?) and try and make a website for yourself. You can try and get work by contacting people and leveraging social media, as well as using Freelance sites. I personally started on PeoplePerHour, but I have heard Upwork is ok, but I've never used it
Hi Satori....MY OPINION - Photoshop allows easier importing when it comes to growing and maintaining gradients for future work....any tips on how to keep and maintain your favourite GRADIENTS backup for Illustrator. Using libraries? i have a small collection of mini artboards....just want to compare workflows.....THANKS IN ADVANCE
You're not comparing apples to apples. Photoshop is a raster-based program, whereas illustrator is vector-based. So the way they handle gradients is completely different. However, both programs will allow you to create, save, and export gradient files which you can keep in a folder on your computer for future use.
Actually my channel grew on Illustrator tutorials, I think that is where the majority of the followers are from. So I will keep making them for sure :) Have a good day
Hello sir, how are you. I like your video. But sir, there is a problem.You talk about the video quickly and if you go to any option, it is not well understood.If you go to the option, if you show a little gently and the option. Then we would benefit. Thank you
this video is basic enough so you should understand, but anyway 1- make a basic rectangle/square and then press A 2- pick a corner and you can make selective rounded corners 3- if u want rounded corners for the whole shape, press V and select the shape, on the top panel you can control size, position, and border radius
Hi Satori Graphics I am sorry to ask you that I have already submitted the typography design for the competition but I came up with new design recently I want to submit it instead of it please can you consider this.
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How many of the 6 did you already know?
yes i do, i am using to make it on my own design materials.
Color guide only
Everything but the free form gradient lines - very cool
nice
Just the free form gradient! Awesome tutorial! Thank you very much for sharing! ❤
I always check the color guide whenever I can, it's a neat feature especially since I am a self-taught. and you can also make those color to be shown at the color palette for quick access when you need multiple choice of compositions
yeah colour is really important in design, and that tool / function really aides in getting things right 👍
To create more quickly spot and process color, only drag color in swatched window, press command to make spot color or press command + shift to make process global color and release.
I've never used the color guide but I'm definitely adding it to my WF
Thanks for the feedback Mike, much appreciated!
The corner thing pisses me off that I haven't stumbled across that on accident...
lol well know you know. Try double clicking other things too 👍
How have I ignored the "effect" menu this long. There is so many cool, fun, creative ways to make nice designs in seconds.....
Gradient and color guide tips blew my mind, very powerful and speed up work flow!
lol thanks for the feedback thanks Kenan
very cool and well done 👍
I'm not a graphics designer but I do love playing with these small tips in these videos cause it's really fun to see the possibilities that can come out of hidden features (that stroke gradiant one is maybe my favourite, so Imma mess with that next 😁)
Thanks for the insight1 Out of curiosity, what do you use Illustrator for?
The gradient one is useful for sure, have yourself a good day
woooow.. I knew most of this, but the last one was totally new for me. thanks!
good to see you did learn something, thanks for the comment
Thanks! Love the gradient tips.
Cheers for the feedback
Really liked Pucker & Bloat effect.
yes need it .............Thank you sir.....!
Thanks for the speedy comment, much appreciated man :)
This was so helpful. Subscribed!!
cheers for the subscribe, and hope you keep finding my content useful Jazmon
Wow thank you so much for this
No problem :D
Great information Sir Tom! Some of the things you shared I already knew and some I didn't. Thanks for sharing. As always have a great day.
Hi Bernard, thanks a lot for your comment. Good to see you learned a few things in the video :)
Nice little tips. I see so many of those controls in my day-to-day with Illustrator, but I just have never bothered to mess around with most of them. Thanks for demystifying them.
Besides pucker & bloat, zig-zag is also similarly useful especially for making memphis-style crooky lines and certificate emblems. Appearance panel is gold if you're familiar with it.
For align to artboard, I set an action shortcut to align centre vertically + horizontally for our pre-press designers. Together with Trim View shortcut, they're so convenient for print designers.
Besides V, you can also press enter/return to do basic move/duplicate. Once you're used to key in numbers & using shortcuts, other people will be so impressed looking at you working like an accountant but in Illustrator.🤣
Good video! If you don't mind, could you please make a video tips on Select menu? I always learn at least one new thing from your videos.👍🏻
pucker and bloat this is something new for me thank you sir...
haha yeah that one is quite interesting, nice vector shapes in a matter of seconds
Especially loved the anchor point tip. As always thanks for your excellent and useful videos!
Hey thanks a lot Evelyn, much appreciate the feedback on the video :)
1000 Thanks you so much for sharing your skills and knowledge. Very, very helpful and awesome
How did you do those screen rotation transitions?
awesome video Satori graphics
hey thanks again Asim, have a positive Monday
Amazing tips bro... I wish i should write it down everything, to better remember doing it while working and with time to blend it in my workflow... Amazing vid dude
Yeah we all have our own ways of memorising things, it helps to simply do something many times until it becomes second nature.
6th tip was really awesome Thanks!!
thanks a bunch noob dude! Have a great day
Thank you so much.
Thank you...didnt know most of this.
happy to see you found this vid useful, thanks for the feedback Olivia
Satori, I have a hard time with coming up with a consistent layout and graphic that compliment each other. Can you give any insight with how to create a cohesive piece of work?
Do you mean layout in your portfolio, or in general? Your projects don't need to all look the same, the style and design should fit the brief of each individual project
@@SatoriGraphics I would relate if Purple means like: you make an awesome logo, maybe a good pattern with it, and now,.. how to apply to some layouts to showcase it?
wow i didnt know that, thank yoh so much Sir Satori more Subs to come stay safe and Godbless., keep teaching us., 🤩🥰
This is so useful. Thank you. But showing everystep (the shortcuts) on the video might be more effective. Sometimes i miss what you said.
Sick vid, info was great.
Thanks bro.
What are your color settings?
Hey how do you change the color of your artboard?? Background??
that was introduced years ago
ctrl+K > user interface
and pick a color
@@YaroLord thnks man
What are the specs on your mac?
21.5 inch with only 8Gb of Ram. I run my Os on an external SSD
How is it so smooth even when recording. Im using iMac 27 inch with 16gb and its stuttering
You taught us very useful things. Thank You for Tips.
i stray away from freeform gradients because svg cannot support them. when i go to export it it rasterizes the texture.
use png?
As the commenter above suggested, try other file formats. I recently posted a design on Instagram where I used a freeform gradient for the background of a design, and it looks so crisp and clean. That was saved as PNG
Satori Graphics im scared of exporting as raster without a backup vector copy. is the .ai file the only vector file that supports freeform gradients?
@@shybound7571 dude you dont lose your .ai file when you export. just go export for screens and set it to png
The last one I didn't know, it's very useful and fun, thank you for sharing!
An awesome video, Illustrator is so versitle!
"Apply gradient along stroke" is grayed out for me , any reason why? I"m only able to select "Apply within stroke"
hmmm, is the shape connected? Is it a stroke only? Can you take a screen shot and upload it to imgur, then paste it here?
Just select the color panel from the window and choose a cymk/RGB color while gradient is ON on the stroke... Then it will remove the grey scale only option...
Don't know if you got the idea... Let me know if there is any doubt regarding that
@@SatoriGraphics Restarted illustrator and it seemed to fix the issue.
@@SuperLolwhat If stroke is not aligned to center, gradient along stroke won't work
Thank you!
hey thanks for the comment Irena, have a positive weekend
Thanks ♥️
Hey Nana, thank you for the feedback on my video :)
Always wondered why the "Preview" option is not checked by default in AI. It seems like the obvious thing to do 🤷🏽♂️
here's a question, considering everything you can do on photoshop these days, why do we need illustrator anymore? there's really just 6 softwares you need from adobe, premiere, after effects, photoshop, lightroom, audition, dreamweaver, and acrobat, everything else just needs to be merged with the other softwares
The original reason would have been because many deigns need to be vector as to retain quality at any size, but now Photoshop has that function to vectorise work. However, people like myself who have used Ai for ages are so accustom to it's interface and layout, that I feel right at home here. I would never ever dream of designing a logo in Ps, even with it's now built in vector function. There are certain tools in Ai that you will not find in Ps too, and those tools are essential for being precise and mathematical with things such as logo designing.
These features are awesome
I only knew about the align feature..
Rest are all new to me..
I never knew the live corners have options when we double click it! Thats amazing.. and the last one making different patterns using ellipse tool is so cool..
Thank you so much for teaching this..
I am far behind n missed so many of your video tutorials.. my Internet connection is not working properly these days..
that is great to see Neeta, 5/6 things were new! Hope you have a positive day
Hey! Glad to see you. Can you please make a video on where beginner graphic designers work to earn money. I means online
Muhammad Qasim seems like a BIG ask, since it's hard to find good work unless you're advanced/ have good connections. I'm not in the business but it's what I heard from a friend who has been doing flyer designs and stuff.
I'd say fivr is a good place to start because it's cheap work and can help build your reputation and portfolio, as satori showed many videos ago.
Each person will have a slightly different route. For example, someone who finishes at university may get contacts from work experience, and go straight into an in-house position. Others will start freelancing and so forth. If I were you, I'd firstly address your portfolio, skills (niche?) and try and make a website for yourself. You can try and get work by contacting people and leveraging social media, as well as using Freelance sites. I personally started on PeoplePerHour, but I have heard Upwork is ok, but I've never used it
@@SatoriGraphics thanks Tom satori you are a great guy
Hi Satori....MY OPINION - Photoshop allows easier importing when it comes to growing and maintaining gradients for future work....any tips on how to keep and maintain your favourite GRADIENTS backup for Illustrator. Using libraries? i have a small collection of mini artboards....just want to compare workflows.....THANKS IN ADVANCE
You're not comparing apples to apples. Photoshop is a raster-based program, whereas illustrator is vector-based. So the way they handle gradients is completely different. However, both programs will allow you to create, save, and export gradient files which you can keep in a folder on your computer for future use.
me apply gradient along stroke not working ? :(
I feel like my whole life was a lie
lol this comment made me chuckle, thanks
swish It stil is though
Make these kinds of videos your back to basics on RUclips Satori, you're good at doing them..
☮️
Actually my channel grew on Illustrator tutorials, I think that is where the majority of the followers are from. So I will keep making them for sure :)
Have a good day
bread and button lmao, r/boneappletea
😝 autocorrect always does that.
Its a strange ole tool....
love u sir
Does anyone know why he uses a beige background?
Because I felt like a change
Alt-Clicking the live corner changes the type of corner
Hello sir, how are you. I like your video. But sir, there is a problem.You talk about the video quickly and if you go to any option, it is not well understood.If you go to the option, if you show a little gently and the option. Then we would benefit. Thank you
love it
Thanks very much
i cant put a gradient on a stroke, only on the simple brush, why?
you got CC?
@@danielwatson6529 yep
great sir
“More geeky goodness“lol
:P
I’m a new comer.
I dont understand how to use Round corner function. Can you teach me?
this video is basic enough so you should understand, but anyway
1- make a basic rectangle/square and then press A
2- pick a corner and you can make selective rounded corners
3- if u want rounded corners for the whole shape, press V and select the shape, on the top panel you can control size, position, and border radius
Surprised that i knew all the tips, and I'm using illustrator for less then one year
they're very basic tips so not that surprising tbh
this vid is more of an ad for that password service
Bro every word you say that ends with a “T”all I can hear is a “tsss” sound and I can’t unhear it now😅😅
You *MIGHT* not know... You don't know what we know so... you know :)
Something like that
Hi Satori Graphics I am sorry to ask you that I have already submitted the typography design for the competition but I came up with new design recently I want to submit it instead of it please can you consider this.
I thought this was 6 things I didn't know? I knew all of them...
🏆🍪
@@SatoriGraphics All jokes aside, great video and I'm loving the content at the minute :)
i knew it did that
How to grow on Instagram please help me!!!
The Futur had a good video on that, give it a search in RUclips and it should come up :)
@@SatoriGraphics thank you 👍🤩
So much ad :-( ...
Hii
heeeey
@@SatoriGraphics what a great video, btw :)
frankly the Ai native colour palettes are awful. if you're a designer but have no feel for colour you're in the wrong job.
'a DeBeliis traitor' LOL
and here is my broke ass using Inkscape
if it does the job for your needs then that's all good
@@SatoriGraphics Yup, It was actually quite easy to build a good workflow and with a dark theme on, it works and feels just like illustrator.
first comment
Yes Staff, first comment this time around lol. Congrats
@@SatoriGraphics thanks sir ur great
This video could be half as long
ikr, he speaks so slowly and dreadfully, i have to watch it at 1.5x
very basic stuff !
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Really? Align tool? That’s one of the tips? 😂