WEBVTT 00:00.150 --> 00:04.860 Write it's advanced tips and tricks work flow speed up Gidday stuff. 00:04.920 --> 00:09.830 There's lots in this whole section all workflow but this particular one is lots of the little bitty 00:09.840 --> 00:12.090 things that don't deserve their own video. 00:12.120 --> 00:13.470 They all get lumped together in this one. 00:13.460 --> 00:14.460 There's some good stuff there. 00:14.550 --> 00:14.900 All right. 00:14.910 --> 00:19.740 First thing we'll do is file you and you can do math in any of these fields. 00:19.740 --> 00:25.410 Let's say I want to go to print and I use the sizes because I'm in Europe and I want a tube but they 00:25.410 --> 00:26.460 don't have it as a preset. 00:26.460 --> 00:32.640 For some reason so I know A-3 and if I go to centimeters I can times it by two and all I do is put an 00:32.700 --> 00:35.820 extra X to and click and him and it thumbs up. 00:35.850 --> 00:41.070 That gives me a 2 k times and again I can get a 1 and then a ohm. 00:41.280 --> 00:43.900 You can do math in any of the fields you can. 00:44.310 --> 00:48.390 You can divide by by typing a foot flesh and then two. 00:48.550 --> 00:49.630 OK that'll do that. 00:49.740 --> 00:55.830 And you can add two inches to by typing it in feel the other way around you can add centimeters to your 00:56.280 --> 01:00.280 imperial measurements and we'll do all the math in any field in Illustrator. 01:00.390 --> 01:01.700 Not just the new document. 01:01.710 --> 01:06.170 The reason we did here though is I want to save it as a template so that's what I want. 01:06.210 --> 01:12.970 I'm going to have my template be IGB as well and I am unclick create code once you've got this document. 01:13.020 --> 01:14.190 I don't have to do that again. 01:14.220 --> 01:16.390 I go to File Save As template. 01:16.430 --> 01:18.190 That's another little trick. 01:18.220 --> 01:21.960 I put it in my blank templates and this is going to be called my a. 01:22.070 --> 01:25.780 What did I get up to to save. 01:25.800 --> 01:26.150 OK. 01:26.160 --> 01:30.620 Now when I'm making a new document it's not in that window we just saw. 01:30.770 --> 01:31.560 OK. 01:31.590 --> 01:32.760 Not perfect. 01:32.760 --> 01:37.140 Ok but you go to file new from template and there's that list again. 01:37.200 --> 01:39.920 I can say you guys let's get going. 01:40.260 --> 01:45.150 Well some so pick the right sizes picked IGP and we learned how to do math and we learn how to do math 01:45.150 --> 01:45.910 in the fields. 01:46.110 --> 01:48.990 So next thing I want to do is finding stuff and help. 01:49.020 --> 01:51.780 K so this is a Mac only sorry PC people. 01:51.780 --> 01:56.850 So there's lots of times you like hey is that filter thing that Dan talked about. 01:56.860 --> 01:59.240 I remember it was called halftones something or other. 01:59.340 --> 02:05.040 OK so I've got this and I go to help and I just type in half K and the cool thing about it is that Max 02:05.040 --> 02:07.440 go and go do you mean these to like yeah I do. 02:07.450 --> 02:10.380 And if you hover above it it even points to it with a big blue error. 02:10.440 --> 02:11.550 Can you come down. 02:11.550 --> 02:15.840 Actually you can actually just click on it here or you can sneakily come down just OK. 02:15.840 --> 02:22.990 And I've got my Some halftone it's probably making your screen go crazy on the video. 02:22.990 --> 02:24.080 That's right. 02:24.130 --> 02:26.560 Next thing we're going to do is cleaning up pots. 02:26.580 --> 02:29.490 I'm going to go out to this document I've got really. 02:29.560 --> 02:34.930 Now there are times where if I go to a command Y or control wine on a PC There's a star there and a 02:34.930 --> 02:35.490 star there. 02:35.500 --> 02:38.140 But look when I switched back they've got no Phil no strike. 02:38.140 --> 02:39.000 I want to get rid of them. 02:39.010 --> 02:43.890 There's a couple of other things that there is a text box that has no text on it that there is. 02:43.920 --> 02:47.090 I've used the pinto of click once forgot what I was doing and left it there. 02:47.200 --> 02:49.910 So if you want to clean up these things you can do object. 02:49.930 --> 02:54.510 You can go to path and this one is clean up and it goes for NASU what you want to do. 02:54.510 --> 02:55.290 I'm going to do. 02:55.330 --> 02:57.330 Yep all of those sound good click OK. 02:57.400 --> 03:01.100 And now forget C'mon why stop going all the random dots are gone. 03:01.100 --> 03:06.310 It's just good for pre-press it is cleaning everything up especially good when you've kind of like like 03:06.490 --> 03:11.560 compound shapes and tripping masking a kind of unpicked all of that you can clean it all up using that 03:11.560 --> 03:12.340 trick. 03:12.340 --> 03:16.480 Another thing that happens is gradients gradients are also the back in fashion while they are in my 03:16.480 --> 03:17.070 head anyway. 03:17.140 --> 03:19.330 But often they end up bending when they go to print. 03:19.330 --> 03:19.810 OK. 03:20.020 --> 03:24.270 And often digitally fine OK but they can bend badly when they go to print. 03:24.280 --> 03:25.950 There's a couple of ways of doing it right. 03:25.960 --> 03:31.540 So I've got a gradient like that here I can an object I can get this one this is rostering is basically 03:31.540 --> 03:35.690 what's going to do its Tennent from this lovely scalable Vick thing to a rasta image. 03:35.710 --> 03:41.800 K basically like Photoshop document set the resolution to the API the pixel per inch you want if you 03:41.800 --> 03:44.930 want it to be really good quality just leave it at 300 click OK. 03:45.070 --> 03:47.230 And this thing now is it looks the same. 03:47.350 --> 03:50.950 Ok except that it is made up of little pixels. 03:50.980 --> 03:56.080 I can zoom in as much as I like and it doesn't really show up because it's so dense but trust me it's 03:56.080 --> 03:58.820 now pixels and not victim. 03:58.990 --> 04:03.460 And it has the tendency to print a bit if you're running into problems you know having problems don't 04:03.460 --> 04:03.980 do that. 04:04.030 --> 04:06.550 The thing you can do though if you're running into set. 04:06.680 --> 04:11.380 So you got lots of kind of bending gradient problems especially with say a gradient mission state of 04:11.380 --> 04:16.520 rust or rising that you can go to file and during the printing process you there's an option in hand 04:16.580 --> 04:21.760 a graphics and you're going to say compatible gradients Amish printing it gives you a bit of a warning 04:22.150 --> 04:26.040 and when you hit print now it'll do the same thing. 04:26.080 --> 04:30.210 OK but it will just kind of go through and do it on the way through. 04:30.520 --> 04:31.360 All right gradients. 04:31.570 --> 04:35.950 And next thing I'll show you a quick little shortcut is if I delete this thing here. 04:35.970 --> 04:40.360 So those you're working you like what is white and what is C-3 is that white SORAS that see through 04:40.520 --> 04:41.720 his text in the way. 04:41.950 --> 04:47.210 And Commanche if D is the shortcut k just shows you your transparency grid. 04:47.270 --> 04:48.520 K looks like Photoshop. 04:48.520 --> 04:51.600 At least now you can see that that's a whole and that's actually white text. 04:51.680 --> 04:53.420 Ok that's white and not a whole. 04:53.530 --> 04:59.920 OK so it's just really handy sometimes when you are maybe using the shape build a tool and and or the 04:59.920 --> 05:07.380 path Wind-Up you just working out who's white who's blank you know that is a nice one. 05:07.390 --> 05:09.140 Another one is Soulik similar. 05:09.160 --> 05:13.150 Let's say that we've got all the stars right and we want to change the color of them and I'm going to 05:13.150 --> 05:17.760 click this one and a whole shift and I grab them all and go insane from clicking stars. 05:17.870 --> 05:23.620 Ok there's not that many but if I come one and go to select same and you can pick any of these. 05:23.620 --> 05:28.240 Often parents just works but anything that has the same feel right and you can see it's gone through 05:28.240 --> 05:33.190 this document and just slick that everything I can go actually I want to turn those two ugly pink war 05:33.230 --> 05:34.090 back to what. 05:34.300 --> 05:36.660 OK so that's an easy one. 05:36.700 --> 05:39.310 I find that really useful if say this. 05:39.440 --> 05:42.290 This is a stock library concept that I bought. 05:42.370 --> 05:42.690 OK. 05:42.700 --> 05:44.530 And let's say that I want to adjust the colors. 05:44.560 --> 05:49.610 I'm going to click on one of these colors say the white air look on this green one. 05:49.750 --> 05:51.930 OK so I want to find everything. 05:52.120 --> 05:53.660 How useful is it going to be. 05:53.690 --> 05:58.270 Everything has that same feel color and it goes the whole document even inside clipping masks and stuff 05:58.680 --> 06:03.910 and you can go through and say and picking your color can you see the whole document changes. 06:04.360 --> 06:04.680 Awesome. 06:04.690 --> 06:06.400 It could be stroke color. 06:06.460 --> 06:08.180 You could use appearance. 06:08.380 --> 06:13.240 It's really handy when maybe not so handy feature but useful to know under select. 06:13.280 --> 06:15.680 I can go to object and there's a bunch of options and the like. 06:15.740 --> 06:18.340 I can select everything that has a bristle brush stroke. 06:18.440 --> 06:19.640 Not sure why that's handy. 06:19.700 --> 06:23.890 The one that's probably handy is I clicked everything that has a clubbing mouse. 06:23.900 --> 06:25.660 This one here all takes objects. 06:25.820 --> 06:30.950 OK I want to go to but I if you had a really long document or big document lots of text boxes you want 06:30.950 --> 06:34.250 to send them all change the font that could be an easy way to do it. 06:34.250 --> 06:39.620 Another little known feature is say I do slicked all of these guys right and I either shift click them 06:39.620 --> 06:43.810 old and spend ages doing it or we use a trick like same fill color. 06:44.060 --> 06:51.170 Hey unfortunately I'm white as the same as the rest of it anyway so I've got all of this including these 06:51.170 --> 06:53.810 guys down here. 06:55.000 --> 06:55.300 OK. 06:55.330 --> 06:57.770 So I spent ages making that selection. 06:57.770 --> 07:00.870 What I can do is I can select it and save that selection. 07:01.040 --> 07:02.580 Ok so I can get a safe selection. 07:02.600 --> 07:03.200 Give it a name. 07:03.210 --> 07:08.480 It's called stars and the difference between that and say something like If I grouped it now Kate they 07:08.480 --> 07:09.830 would be kind of fused together. 07:09.840 --> 07:14.990 But what I can do is I can start adjusting these things and say you are here now and now. 07:15.050 --> 07:22.940 OK I can go to select on a select on Stoss kind of grub's Mulligan cool j Nicks super cut is underlays 07:23.020 --> 07:28.120 panel It's just handy to know that if you click up here towards this just in this area here you see 07:28.120 --> 07:31.130 like everything on that layer just had to get everything on that layer. 07:31.130 --> 07:31.890 Goodbye. 07:31.950 --> 07:32.610 OK. 07:32.630 --> 07:37.790 And yeah just easy just like everything on the line rather than maybe a select all that grabs everything. 07:37.790 --> 07:43.070 Also thing about the layers is let's say you working down here my fox is pretty good contrast right 07:43.070 --> 07:46.890 if I'm looking on these anchor points here the blue lines and the handles. 07:46.910 --> 07:50.290 They are pretty good in contrast right off the No. 07:50.300 --> 07:54.010 I did it earlier in the story where we're doing a gradient Mitsch was on a kind of a blue color. 07:54.020 --> 07:56.660 And these guys were blue and it's just really hard to see them right. 07:56.660 --> 08:00.930 So what you can do is you can actually just double click on the word OK actually. 08:01.010 --> 08:02.820 Anyway by the way it is what it meant. 08:02.900 --> 08:08.060 And you can say actually I want this one to have bright green K It means nothing's changed it just means 08:08.060 --> 08:12.400 that it's a little bit easier sometimes to see these handles against that particular graphic you're 08:12.410 --> 08:17.510 using a somewhat useless next feature down the bottom here is this thing you can say actually I don't 08:17.510 --> 08:19.710 want it to show you my name my iPod. 08:19.720 --> 08:22.510 I want you to say that current tool that I'm using direct action to. 08:22.670 --> 08:28.040 I want you to show me the date and time but I want you to write it in a really cryptic way that makes 08:28.040 --> 08:29.030 it useless. 08:29.100 --> 08:30.540 Month two. 08:30.920 --> 08:31.960 Anyway. 08:32.120 --> 08:33.740 Number of DOS. 08:33.860 --> 08:37.020 Feel they should be in good stuff in the document color. 08:37.070 --> 08:38.440 Maybe that might be useful. 08:38.450 --> 08:42.360 Anyway let's finish on a really good one and this two panel over here. 08:42.370 --> 08:44.670 OK it's full of stuff that you'd never use. 08:44.750 --> 08:47.800 And after this advanced course it be like oh that's my new favorite. 08:47.900 --> 08:48.680 OK but. 08:48.780 --> 08:51.700 So you get to a point you like actually just get rid of the stuff I don't want. 08:51.710 --> 08:57.800 So it's really handy to go a window go to tools and we're going to make new tools panel OK I'm going 08:57.800 --> 09:01.560 to call this the Dan Dan is awesome. 09:01.580 --> 09:09.310 The tuba people will give it any name you like and and basically just gives you that core. 09:09.320 --> 09:10.030 OK that thing. 09:10.080 --> 09:12.140 Everything else you drag on as you want. 09:12.260 --> 09:17.180 Let's say I do want to use the black error and the white error even though one of the shortcuts I don't 09:17.180 --> 09:22.060 use the letter to I use the pintu lot and I use the curvature tool a lot. 09:22.060 --> 09:23.050 The type 2. 09:23.060 --> 09:24.130 Awesome. 09:24.530 --> 09:26.740 I do these guys you can decide. 09:26.780 --> 09:29.340 I just want the line too because I don't use other junk. 09:29.540 --> 09:32.370 And yes I'll use you bots. 09:32.390 --> 09:34.020 I'm going to keep this. 09:34.100 --> 09:35.580 You can skip on this video now. 09:35.600 --> 09:39.470 Well actually I'm going to go and show you do one more. 09:39.710 --> 09:40.270 OK. 09:40.450 --> 09:43.400 Just want to because my own tool and I don't know why. 09:43.610 --> 09:46.290 And once you've finished it right you've got to do a couple of things. 09:46.310 --> 09:47.510 You don't want this guy any more. 09:47.690 --> 09:52.080 And so you've got everything out of this I'm going to drag the top What's that like tiny little gray 09:52.100 --> 09:55.560 but you to drag out close it down grab this tiny gray bit. 09:55.670 --> 10:02.480 OK Doc grab it and kind of push it to the side and it goes blue hammer and then you get a window workspace 10:02.750 --> 10:05.880 and if you haven't already created you X-Face give it a name. 10:05.900 --> 10:07.800 I've given mine a name called Dan. 10:07.910 --> 10:10.490 Actually I want to save over the top of this so I want to read it then. 10:10.520 --> 10:14.820 So when you were explaining it was kind of call it Dan. It's already exists by clicking OK it's going 10:14.820 --> 10:15.420 to overwrite. 10:15.450 --> 10:15.890 Correct. 10:16.100 --> 10:22.670 So now when I'm kind of opening up my working on layout for some reason OK I can go to workspace go 10:22.670 --> 10:25.460 to Dan and it's back to this. 10:25.460 --> 10:31.250 And if I accidentally get everything mixed up and that drags out and this ends up popping out and everything 10:31.250 --> 10:37.510 goes wrong I can get a window workspace reset then everything back except these guys. 10:38.060 --> 10:38.690 All right. 10:38.690 --> 10:45.650 So that is it for these kind of like little short Tastee workflow advanced things is a bunch more in 10:45.650 --> 10:48.530 this kind of section so carry on with the videos. 10:48.530 --> 10:51.050 We'll do some get some more tricks. 10:51.050 --> 10:51.440 All right. 10:51.590 --> 10:52.040 Next video.