WEBVTT 00:00.160 --> 00:03.990 OK so why is illustrator running so slow on your machine. 00:04.050 --> 00:08.610 Maybe just some documents So let's talk about the major things will start at the top. 00:08.610 --> 00:15.240 The most probably common thing to slow you down is etting kind of pixel a fix or Ruster affixed to Victor 00:15.480 --> 00:16.880 like this graphic here made. 00:16.970 --> 00:17.410 OK. 00:17.430 --> 00:20.630 Some compound shapes and I ended in a glow. 00:20.720 --> 00:21.050 OK. 00:21.060 --> 00:25.530 Which makes this kind of like we have loads of top chef who kind of look at the same time and move it 00:25.800 --> 00:33.120 canai with a back balancing ball of dún appears like it's struggle's right and this is a pretty good 00:33.120 --> 00:33.940 machine. 00:33.990 --> 00:40.170 And so if you've had lots of drop shadows to things and basically you're going to there's two things 00:40.170 --> 00:41.060 you can do. 00:41.130 --> 00:45.750 You can make it run faster by going but nothing selected We're going to have fixed go to this document 00:45.750 --> 00:51.850 roster savings and in here Mine is set to 300 PBI which is awesome for print but it stresses my machine 00:51.850 --> 00:52.060 out. 00:52.080 --> 00:54.460 If I switch to 70 to click OK. 00:54.540 --> 00:57.490 Nothing really changes and my document is not worse quality. 00:57.600 --> 00:58.820 It will print Twiss. 00:58.910 --> 01:04.590 OK but now if I click off and drag it it kind of just works faster because it's only redrawing it at 01:04.590 --> 01:06.120 a lower resolution. 01:06.120 --> 01:10.770 When I go out to print I need to make sure sending out a PDA before making it to a pig is going to make 01:10.770 --> 01:16.590 sure I tune it back up OK because it is essentially Victor and I just need to do that again right at 01:16.590 --> 01:17.280 the end. 01:17.390 --> 01:18.340 Oh wait for it. 01:18.490 --> 01:25.760 OK and it goes through all of its beaches and could take a long time but now if I make a PBF it will 01:25.760 --> 01:26.860 be that great quality. 01:26.880 --> 01:29.900 Haven't lost quality in that go so yet. 01:29.900 --> 01:35.200 That's kind of one of the easy ones and the other one is they say you've got this graphic and it's just 01:35.200 --> 01:36.180 use a lot. 01:36.180 --> 01:41.690 OK and it's just causing you drama Movietone you move or resize it you came to Slik that all k and go 01:41.690 --> 01:44.820 to this one that sees an object and go to Rast arise. 01:44.930 --> 01:46.640 Now this is a one way street. 01:46.640 --> 01:51.590 OK if I click on roster size and say actually I want this to be 300 PBI is of great quality and make 01:51.590 --> 01:53.180 sure its the size you need it to be. 01:53.180 --> 01:54.370 I made it quite big. 01:54.510 --> 01:55.680 You might make it even bigger. 01:55.750 --> 02:00.950 You've got a big version of it but when it's being roster size is now going to be pixel's eventually 02:01.090 --> 02:01.630 OK. 02:01.640 --> 02:06.170 And you notice that sometimes I've made it clear Hamas is going to wipe Boxer on the outside which is 02:06.170 --> 02:12.380 not fun enough to clip it out again but I've lost a few things AK transparency's gone but at least now 02:12.440 --> 02:14.370 if I zoom in I can start to see the pixels. 02:14.510 --> 02:17.270 OK so no effect anymore any more bots. 02:17.290 --> 02:21.220 Now it is super quick and easy to move around to rotate. 02:21.210 --> 02:24.260 It's not trying to like do those effects every single time. 02:24.290 --> 02:26.180 Case of rotating it around. 02:26.180 --> 02:26.990 I'll do this often. 02:26.990 --> 02:28.970 Keep a back up version of it all. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.840 Victory in good game but maybe in your kind of data they use. 02:32.840 --> 02:35.040 Just use the cross to rise version. 02:35.040 --> 02:40.370 The big thing can be false and you might be you might like me kind of freelanced your way around the 02:40.370 --> 02:44.790 world and eventually ended up with this huge part of fonts and you like you keep installing them every 02:44.800 --> 02:46.160 time you get a new Mac. 02:46.340 --> 02:49.320 The trouble with phones is that it slows down your whole system. 02:49.400 --> 02:53.530 OK so what you might want to do is use Mac has font book. 02:53.540 --> 02:58.130 I have no idea what PC has and bought just uninstall the phones you know using. 02:58.170 --> 02:58.620 OK. 02:58.730 --> 03:03.470 Especially if there are some bad phones if you've got like a dodgy cactus shaped later font. 03:03.550 --> 03:04.040 I don't know. 03:04.220 --> 03:06.720 It has some weird font and it's got some problems in it. 03:06.720 --> 03:09.670 Your machine spends ages when it loads programs. 03:09.690 --> 03:12.250 Try to figure that out and sort it out. 03:12.290 --> 03:13.070 So go through. 03:13.070 --> 03:19.090 Just be super clean with your font installs and any dodgy ones just get rid of or uninstall them. 03:19.170 --> 03:22.310 Yeah fonts can be a big clue on your whole entire system. 03:22.310 --> 03:23.890 Actually quickly I'm going to show you. 03:23.960 --> 03:26.560 So phonebook is what Mac uses. 03:26.570 --> 03:31.380 Casey can go through and go through into slate all the fonts you don't want and get rid of them. 03:31.550 --> 03:34.820 K or fonts and just have a little look like do. 03:34.820 --> 03:38.390 I've got three hundred and eighty one and my runs OK. 03:38.480 --> 03:39.340 Check. 03:39.410 --> 03:40.160 Leave a comment. 03:40.160 --> 03:45.540 See how many I want to see who's got the most k and always see screenshots as well. 03:45.550 --> 03:47.220 You don't install too many fonts. 03:47.220 --> 03:52.850 Another thing can happen all things that can slow you down is a make and you document is the way you 03:52.850 --> 03:54.200 bring in images. 03:54.200 --> 04:00.100 So if you bring in file and go to place and or bring in an image format exercise files can bring in 04:00.110 --> 04:00.680 a bike. 04:00.710 --> 04:02.930 This option here linking or not linking. 04:02.930 --> 04:05.780 So by default I'm pretty sure it doesn't link. 04:05.780 --> 04:07.860 Can you have to check the known options in the bottom here. 04:08.150 --> 04:16.810 And a little unbid case if I ended a file K vs. bringing in the same image and linking to it. 04:16.820 --> 04:19.520 There's pros and cons gate linking to it. 04:19.520 --> 04:21.770 The pro is that it will run faster. 04:21.800 --> 04:23.370 Everything runs faster when it's linked. 04:23.450 --> 04:29.060 OK the con is that if I send this Illustrator file to somebody I need to make sure I send the image 04:29.060 --> 04:29.660 with it. 04:29.670 --> 04:35.210 OK this one is actually bitted in and will if I see an Illustrator file it will be there. 04:35.210 --> 04:36.540 OK this one here. 04:36.620 --> 04:39.620 It'll open up Alastor and say hey I'm missing that file with the dagger. 04:39.790 --> 04:44.400 OK so that's one of the drawbacks and the what you can do to fix that. 04:44.470 --> 04:46.730 Say you've got lots of linked images like this guy. 04:47.060 --> 04:51.860 You can just go to a file now and go to package whereas package I can never find it. 04:51.980 --> 04:53.110 It's right there in front me. 04:53.170 --> 04:59.570 OK on package and that will will save the document and you'll give it a name and we'll just gather up 04:59.570 --> 05:04.040 you illustrate a file all the funds that you've used and all the images that can be a handy way of doing 05:04.040 --> 05:04.450 it. 05:04.490 --> 05:06.620 So link rather than in bed. 05:06.620 --> 05:08.410 The other thing to check is up the top here. 05:08.430 --> 05:14.990 Got the rocket ship a GPS enabled and that just means you've got a good enough graphics card in your 05:14.990 --> 05:17.870 computer that is helping out. 05:18.070 --> 05:20.300 OK you wouldn't turn this off. 05:20.300 --> 05:22.440 There's a reason to turn it off. 05:22.520 --> 05:27.380 Now what you want to do though is if you've got a machine that's maybe a bit old you might want to update 05:27.380 --> 05:28.570 your drivers. 05:28.640 --> 05:30.560 That can sometimes fix that. 05:30.560 --> 05:37.460 So if you if this is disabled you can try and fix it and by if I go to Illustrator preferences. 05:37.620 --> 05:42.700 OK and we're going to go to performance and if you are on a PC go to it. 05:42.710 --> 05:45.680 Preferences performance and have a look. 05:45.770 --> 05:50.810 So this is untacked K and what it says is not available. 05:50.900 --> 05:52.550 OK it's you can see it on here. 05:52.550 --> 05:56.560 I have up to date and graphics card and it's pretty good. 05:56.630 --> 05:59.610 OK it's good enough. 05:59.680 --> 06:06.440 It's like Greg's kind of working anyway and what you can do is it's not super easy but you can then 06:06.440 --> 06:10.610 come out of illustrator so it's nothing to do the illustrator really is you can go into your system 06:10.610 --> 06:13.790 preferences on a Mac on a PC I think it's a control panel. 06:13.790 --> 06:19.790 Find your video card and see if the drivers are up to date and if not go see if you can download them 06:19.790 --> 06:21.720 from the people that make it. 06:21.800 --> 06:30.100 My you saw that was OK it might be invidia But yeah that's that's hard to do and often doesn't fix it. 06:30.100 --> 06:35.330 It's done that for me before I gave up my graphics card and it's kind of like hey we can use you. 06:35.380 --> 06:36.940 And it just runs faster. 06:36.950 --> 06:39.520 The other thing you can do and it's simple enough. 06:39.550 --> 06:41.280 It's updating the RAM in your computer. 06:41.330 --> 06:43.130 So RAM is King OK. 06:43.150 --> 06:48.860 And you want a minimum of 8 gigs of RAM and as much as you can get. 06:48.900 --> 06:53.770 And the thing about RAM is often on PCs it's really easy to upgrade. 06:53.800 --> 06:55.150 They won't cost you very much. 06:55.150 --> 07:02.830 You can go from full gigs to 8 gigs or 16 or 32 pretty cheaply and that kind of gives your computer 07:03.710 --> 07:09.500 the kind of grunt you need for especially like those drop shadows in Illustrator case a RAM upgrade. 07:09.640 --> 07:13.030 And I'm kind of a half Tinker and I can do it myself. 07:13.030 --> 07:18.580 Not very good but it was Ram and the PC is easy enough to unscrew it and pick it out and put the other 07:18.580 --> 07:19.210 one in. 07:19.360 --> 07:20.800 On a Mac it's near impossible. 07:20.800 --> 07:24.540 You can take it to people to get it done but RAM is the thing when you're buying a computer. 07:24.550 --> 07:25.390 Get out of it. 07:25.390 --> 07:28.830 Another thing that can really cause problems is your harddrive. 07:28.840 --> 07:38.470 OK so and if you say so you've got 500 megabytes harddrive and it's got zero or two gigabytes left. 07:38.470 --> 07:39.940 OK I said megabyte. 07:39.940 --> 07:44.440 So you got 500 gigabytes of space and you've only got a couple of gigabytes left. 07:44.470 --> 07:46.030 OK that is just not enough. 07:46.030 --> 07:50.880 It needs like things like Photoshop and Illustrator they need about half your hard drive empty. 07:51.110 --> 07:58.090 It needs a big chunk of space to work and let's say that you don't have that what you can do. 07:58.100 --> 07:59.590 You can use an external drive. 07:59.590 --> 08:02.290 You can go to Illustrator permits is getting pretty nifty here. 08:02.290 --> 08:03.300 This is the last one. 08:03.370 --> 08:07.630 If your noodle is buzzing you can skew things. 08:08.050 --> 08:12.170 I catch myself sometimes getting Nuti k bye if you like me. 08:12.200 --> 08:16.470 Illustrated CC preferences plugins and scritched disks and bytes on it. 08:16.530 --> 08:18.200 Preferences differ on a PC. 08:18.580 --> 08:21.390 And here my scratch disk is just my start up drive. 08:21.530 --> 08:27.520 Ok what you can do is if you go out and buy computers a bit old and your hard drive is the old tape 08:27.520 --> 08:30.670 drive one and it's just full up what you can do. 08:30.670 --> 08:34.110 You can say illustrator I want you to use my external drive. 08:34.210 --> 08:39.370 And what will happen is if I had an external drive plugged in it would show in this list and I can click 08:39.370 --> 08:40.060 on it. 08:40.100 --> 08:44.960 OK the pros for it is is that if I get a really good harddrive. 08:45.010 --> 08:52.630 What you are looking for is an SSD drive a solid state drive OK and get as big as you can afford and 08:53.590 --> 08:58.370 often those connections are really fast and it will speed up illustrator. 08:58.370 --> 09:02.950 The trought the drawback is and it's a big one as you need to carry that harddrive around all the time 09:02.950 --> 09:05.400 otherwise you know when you're using illustrator it's not going to find it. 09:05.410 --> 09:10.440 It will snap back to using primary K so is that a. 09:10.590 --> 09:11.480 Yeah it is. 09:11.500 --> 09:11.890 I do. 09:12.020 --> 09:14.020 I use to do a lot of my old PC laptop. 09:14.020 --> 09:15.240 It was really old. 09:15.250 --> 09:16.310 I couldn't afford upgrade it. 09:16.330 --> 09:23.410 I bought a harddrive and changed you know change the scritched on every Adobe application and it rains 09:23.500 --> 09:24.920 ran like twice as fast. 09:24.920 --> 09:26.700 It was awesome. 09:26.800 --> 09:28.180 Yeah there is. 09:28.180 --> 09:30.930 If you've got any questions drop me a comment. 09:30.970 --> 09:34.120 That is how to speed up illustrator. 09:34.510 --> 09:36.240 None of those things help. 09:36.310 --> 09:38.170 Might be time to buy a new computer. 09:38.260 --> 09:40.140 All right on to the next video.