10 AMAZING Adobe Illustrator Tips You Probably Don’t Know! | Illustrator Tutorial

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In this Illustrator tutorial, I’ll cover a bunch of my favorite new and old tips and tricks that will help you work faster in Adobe Illustrator. From hidden tricks of text alignment and sizing to changing color quickly and with precision to a free distortion effect that you can see before you apply it, I try to touch a bunch of different bases in this video and I am certain there are at least a few tricks here that you haven’t seen before. I hope you enjoy the video!
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00:00 Intro
00:39 Tip 1: Transparent Background
01:26 Tip 2: Better Tangent Handles
03:36 Tip 3: Exact Text Size w/ Text Height
06:17 Envato!
07:24 Tip 4: Align more specifically
09:14 Tip 5: Better Type on a Path
10:46 Tip 6: Touch Type
12:43 Tip 7: Multiple Artworks Grid
13:36 Tip 8: Faster Aligning to Key Object
14:33 Tip 9: 4x Ways to Smooth Paths
18:24 Tip 10: Groups of Global Color
20:39 Tip 11: Puppet Warping (Mostly Useless)
22:10 Tip 12: Better Free Distortion
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[@vmaxdani]

Really great tips Nathaniel! Thanks for pulling em together in one video that's just good fun to watch!

[@rotem..]

wow this was amazing!
and those little changes made such a huge difference. like having the letter the same height as icon. those tweaks are the difference between a designer and a good designer.
I could really see this guy's talent, even with the simplest of examples

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OMG...thanks for the tips, man! Usefull AF...I really appreciate it! 👊

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Thank you for this. As an amateur graphic designer, this was awesome to learn

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WOW! That was really amazingly helpful! Thanks a hundred!

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A lot of thanks! Realy AMAZING tips!

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These are superb hints and tips matey, thank you!!!

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Amazing tips as usual, thank you for the video :)

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COOL man.. As usual you videos are so inspiring and helful! Amazing stuff!

[@patrickferreira1459]

This works. Recommended to try this out. Thanks a lot for your help

[@francou9428]

Tip #8 is going to help me so much in my workflow, thanks a lot!

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Thanks for this! The color one is awesome.

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Very cool useful tips. thanks Nathanial!

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I can't thank you enough for this video, although thinking back over the last 15 years how much time those text alignment and color group tricks would have saved me almost makes me cry... But I'm happy I know them now =D

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[@Ident1tyKhrysis]

When this video ended, I stood up and did a slow clap it was that good. So many helpful tips not just for a beginner user but also for the experienced Illustrator user that may not be aware of new features that have been recently added. My personal favorite was the touch type tip. I do a lot of logos with lettering involved and spacing between letters would sometimes become an issue when looking at the entire aesthetic of the design. This was previously being remedied by the kerning option under the character window but not anymore. I was today years old when I discovered Hamburger icons are very sneaky and will be relying on that option so much more moving forward. Thanks for making such an educational and quality video! You have earned my subscription.

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[@angelbear_og]

Cool tips. Love #1 & #11!
For Pen tool, I prefer to ignore tangents (for the most part) while building; instead get them close (sometimes not even dragging tangent handles), and then use the Anchor Point tool (CTRL+C) and/or Direct Selection tool to then massage the Beziers more easily. Also, use shapes as much as possible and fuse them together with Unite or Shape Builder. Much faster than worrying about every single tangent as you go. Sometimes uniting can cause some CRAZY anchor points, so next time I run into that I'm going to see if the Smooth tool will help!
Global colors also allow you to work with tints. :)
I really wish the CTRL+D also worked in Photoshop!!!

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I have the same approach. And yes, shape-building is such a time-saver.

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[@allenz0rzer]

I love the text align tips. Any way to have these settings by default?

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That smooth tool tip is going to save me so much time from clicking and holding the pencil tool to expand the menu and find it.

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