Write it's advanced tips and tricks work flow speed up Gidday stuff.
There's lots in this whole section all workflow but this particular one is lots of the little bitty
things that don't deserve their own video.
They all get lumped together in this one.
There's some good stuff there.
All right.
First thing we'll do is file you and you can do math in any of these fields.
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
don't have it as a preset.
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
extra X to and click and him and it thumbs up.
That gives me a 2 k times and again I can get a 1 and then a ohm.
You can do math in any of the fields you can.
You can divide by by typing a foot flesh and then two.
OK that'll do that.
And you can add two inches to by typing it in feel the other way around you can add centimeters to your
imperial measurements and we'll do all the math in any field in Illustrator.
Not just the new document.
The reason we did here though is I want to save it as a template so that's what I want.
I'm going to have my template be IGB as well and I am unclick create code once you've got this document.
I don't have to do that again.
I go to File Save As template.
That's another little trick.
I put it in my blank templates and this is going to be called my a.
What did I get up to to save.
OK.
Now when I'm making a new document it's not in that window we just saw.
OK.
Not perfect.
Ok but you go to file new from template and there's that list again.
I can say you guys let's get going.
Well some so pick the right sizes picked IGP and we learned how to do math and we learn how to do math
in the fields.
So next thing I want to do is finding stuff and help.
K so this is a Mac only sorry PC people.
So there's lots of times you like hey is that filter thing that Dan talked about.
I remember it was called halftones something or other.
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
go and go do you mean these to like yeah I do.
And if you hover above it it even points to it with a big blue error.
Can you come down.
Actually you can actually just click on it here or you can sneakily come down just OK.
And I've got my Some halftone it's probably making your screen go crazy on the video.
That's right.
Next thing we're going to do is cleaning up pots.
I'm going to go out to this document I've got really.
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
star there.
But look when I switched back they've got no Phil no strike.
I want to get rid of them.
There's a couple of other things that there is a text box that has no text on it that there is.
I've used the pinto of click once forgot what I was doing and left it there.
So if you want to clean up these things you can do object.
You can go to path and this one is clean up and it goes for NASU what you want to do.
I'm going to do.
Yep all of those sound good click OK.
And now forget C'mon why stop going all the random dots are gone.
It's just good for pre-press it is cleaning everything up especially good when you've kind of like like
compound shapes and tripping masking a kind of unpicked all of that you can clean it all up using that
trick.
Another thing that happens is gradients gradients are also the back in fashion while they are in my
head anyway.
But often they end up bending when they go to print.
OK.
And often digitally fine OK but they can bend badly when they go to print.
There's a couple of ways of doing it right.
So I've got a gradient like that here I can an object I can get this one this is rostering is basically
what's going to do its Tennent from this lovely scalable Vick thing to a rasta image.
K basically like Photoshop document set the resolution to the API the pixel per inch you want if you
want it to be really good quality just leave it at 300 click OK.
And this thing now is it looks the same.
Ok except that it is made up of little pixels.
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
now pixels and not victim.
And it has the tendency to print a bit if you're running into problems you know having problems don't
do that.
The thing you can do though if you're running into set.
So you got lots of kind of bending gradient problems especially with say a gradient mission state of
rust or rising that you can go to file and during the printing process you there's an option in hand
a graphics and you're going to say compatible gradients Amish printing it gives you a bit of a warning
and when you hit print now it'll do the same thing.
OK but it will just kind of go through and do it on the way through.
All right gradients.
And next thing I'll show you a quick little shortcut is if I delete this thing here.
So those you're working you like what is white and what is C-3 is that white SORAS that see through
his text in the way.
And Commanche if D is the shortcut k just shows you your transparency grid.
K looks like Photoshop.
At least now you can see that that's a whole and that's actually white text.
Ok that's white and not a whole.
OK so it's just really handy sometimes when you are maybe using the shape build a tool and and or the
path Wind-Up you just working out who's white who's blank you know that is a nice one.
Another one is Soulik similar.
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
click this one and a whole shift and I grab them all and go insane from clicking stars.
Ok there's not that many but if I come one and go to select same and you can pick any of these.
Often parents just works but anything that has the same feel right and you can see it's gone through
this document and just slick that everything I can go actually I want to turn those two ugly pink war
back to what.
OK so that's an easy one.
I find that really useful if say this.
This is a stock library concept that I bought.
OK.
And let's say that I want to adjust the colors.
I'm going to click on one of these colors say the white air look on this green one.
OK so I want to find everything.
How useful is it going to be.
Everything has that same feel color and it goes the whole document even inside clipping masks and stuff
and you can go through and say and picking your color can you see the whole document changes.
Awesome.
It could be stroke color.
You could use appearance.
It's really handy when maybe not so handy feature but useful to know under select.
I can go to object and there's a bunch of options and the like.
I can select everything that has a bristle brush stroke.
Not sure why that's handy.
The one that's probably handy is I clicked everything that has a clubbing mouse.
This one here all takes objects.
OK I want to go to but I if you had a really long document or big document lots of text boxes you want
to send them all change the font that could be an easy way to do it.
Another little known feature is say I do slicked all of these guys right and I either shift click them
old and spend ages doing it or we use a trick like same fill color.
Hey unfortunately I'm white as the same as the rest of it anyway so I've got all of this including these
guys down here.
OK.
So I spent ages making that selection.
What I can do is I can select it and save that selection.
Ok so I can get a safe selection.
Give it a name.
It's called stars and the difference between that and say something like If I grouped it now Kate they
would be kind of fused together.
But what I can do is I can start adjusting these things and say you are here now and now.
OK I can go to select on a select on Stoss kind of grub's Mulligan cool j Nicks super cut is underlays
panel It's just handy to know that if you click up here towards this just in this area here you see
like everything on that layer just had to get everything on that layer.
Goodbye.
OK.
And yeah just easy just like everything on the line rather than maybe a select all that grabs everything.
Also thing about the layers is let's say you working down here my fox is pretty good contrast right
if I'm looking on these anchor points here the blue lines and the handles.
They are pretty good in contrast right off the No.
I did it earlier in the story where we're doing a gradient Mitsch was on a kind of a blue color.
And these guys were blue and it's just really hard to see them right.
So what you can do is you can actually just double click on the word OK actually.
Anyway by the way it is what it meant.
And you can say actually I want this one to have bright green K It means nothing's changed it just means
that it's a little bit easier sometimes to see these handles against that particular graphic you're
using a somewhat useless next feature down the bottom here is this thing you can say actually I don't
want it to show you my name my iPod.
I want you to say that current tool that I'm using direct action to.
I want you to show me the date and time but I want you to write it in a really cryptic way that makes
it useless.
Month two.
Anyway.
Number of DOS.
Feel they should be in good stuff in the document color.
Maybe that might be useful.
Anyway let's finish on a really good one and this two panel over here.
OK it's full of stuff that you'd never use.
And after this advanced course it be like oh that's my new favorite.
OK but.
So you get to a point you like actually just get rid of the stuff I don't want.
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
to call this the Dan Dan is awesome.
The tuba people will give it any name you like and and basically just gives you that core.
OK that thing.
Everything else you drag on as you want.
Let's say I do want to use the black error and the white error even though one of the shortcuts I don't
use the letter to I use the pintu lot and I use the curvature tool a lot.
The type 2.
Awesome.
I do these guys you can decide.
I just want the line too because I don't use other junk.
And yes I'll use you bots.
I'm going to keep this.
You can skip on this video now.
Well actually I'm going to go and show you do one more.
OK.
Just want to because my own tool and I don't know why.
And once you've finished it right you've got to do a couple of things.
You don't want this guy any more.
And so you've got everything out of this I'm going to drag the top What's that like tiny little gray
but you to drag out close it down grab this tiny gray bit.
OK Doc grab it and kind of push it to the side and it goes blue hammer and then you get a window workspace
and if you haven't already created you X-Face give it a name.
I've given mine a name called Dan.
Actually I want to save over the top of this so I want to read it then.
So when you were explaining it was kind of call it Dan. It's already exists by clicking OK it's going
to overwrite.
Correct.
So now when I'm kind of opening up my working on layout for some reason OK I can go to workspace go
to Dan and it's back to this.
And if I accidentally get everything mixed up and that drags out and this ends up popping out and everything
goes wrong I can get a window workspace reset then everything back except these guys.
All right.
So that is it for these kind of like little short Tastee workflow advanced things is a bunch more in
this kind of section so carry on with the videos.
We'll do some get some more tricks.
All right.
Next video.