8 Must-Know Tricks to Master Adobe Illustrator in 2024

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Learn 8 pro tricks to master Adobe Illustrator in 2024, and kickstart your career as a creative professional.
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0:00 Intro
0:27 Merging anchor points
1:45 Slicing up shapes
2:28 Making custom guides
3:06 Precise path extensions
4:46 Square-off sharp corners
7:19 Text and gradients
8:20 Create artboard from selection
9:11 Rotate artboard view
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@mirceaconstantinescu6001 5 ай бұрын

read this as a constructive comment :) - for overlapping anchor points, if you don't want a script, select both anchors > pathfinder panel > unite - square of the corners, at the end there, i would go with a projecting cap, that way you don't have to adjust everytime you change the stroke weight - most important one, i think, the easiest way to match the artboart to the art: select artwork > Object > Artboards > Fit to selected art - how you showed it, in my experience can sometimes be a hit or miss because you have to hit an edge, sometimes it has issues with clipping masks etc. Good luck!

@ForeverDansky 5 ай бұрын

Great tips, thank you! 😃

@pettycooper3996 16 күн бұрын

I'm very new to ai so this is probably a stupid question but why can't one of th eoverlapping anchor points be deleted?

@mirceaconstantinescu6001 15 күн бұрын

@@pettycooper3996 deleting one will work if you have straight lines coming to a point. if you have curves, deleting an anchor point will mess them up. if you unite them, illustrator keeps the curves as they are if you unite the overlapping anchor points.

@pettycooper3996 15 күн бұрын

@@mirceaconstantinescu6001 Makes sense! Thanks so much!

@randy918 5 ай бұрын

I had asked for rotate canvas view in illustrator since the 90s, they finally added it a year ago, so necessary in doing upside down panels in package design.

@xaviergonzales6556 4 ай бұрын

I only wish there was a way that the tools set to the angle automatically when you change views.. it’s like driving a clown car(yes I’ve drove one)

@jorge242 5 ай бұрын

3:06 You can also use the "Start editing similar shapes together" button that shows on the upper right when you select the first line. Any changes to one line will change all the others. No need to transform again.

@loomonda18 5 ай бұрын

Happy to know that I was familiar with some of these & I also learned new things! Cheers!

@reynersibaja 5 ай бұрын

Love your tips! Thanks👌👍

@denhamk 5 ай бұрын

Wooooaah! An artboard that fits my icons!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!! wow.. I’m so glad I watched till the end! 👍🏽👍🏽

@alideep9656 19 күн бұрын

Thabk you

@RoxieKara 5 ай бұрын

The extend trick is soo useful! I use Autocad, and other architectural softwares and all can do this in a click…I felt Illustrator must have a capability to do this too! Thanks a million!

@ForeverDansky 5 ай бұрын

Yea the “Transform Again” command is something I use all the time to quickly duplicate objects, and didn’t ever think to use it for individual anchor points… 😅

@snipinsnit_ttv 5 ай бұрын

Hey Dansky! On the last tip of fitting the artboard to your icons. You can do this even faster by pressing the shortcut key shift+O or Command+O and then just double click on the icon, there's no need to drag it off the current artboard. If need be, group all separate items first.

@Ernzt8 5 ай бұрын

Great tips, thanks!

@williamzafaran 5 ай бұрын

At 7:05 instead of adjusting the anchor points, only select them and go to the stroke panel, change the end caps to projecting, then all the anchor point are still aligned. this makes it more consistent if you want to transform, edit, or change the thickness without adjusting the anchor points again.

@lhextaz2384 Ай бұрын

I agree with you bro, it's just a simple thing

@pedroarruda7878 2 ай бұрын

You have one of those channels that I click like before I even see it! Thank you for this, it's just fantastic!

@ForeverDansky 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Pedro! 😍

@humairalaique9550 4 ай бұрын

I learned new things, Thankyou.

@user-jh3kd1ip6h 5 ай бұрын

Wow, there are some really useful tips in the video that will save me a lot of time. Thank you. I did some research and found something very interesting. The reason you can't directly apply a gradient to text without converting it to shapes, for example, is because of the complexity involved in rendering text, editing, and handling fonts. To overcome this limitation and apply a fill in the Appearance panel, you're essentially using a technique called "layered appearance." By adding a new fill to the text through the Appearance panel, you're essentially adding a new layer of styling on top of the text. This new fill becomes an independent layer of styling separate from the inherent text properties. This separation helps to avoid conflicts and limitations associated with directly applying gradients to text.

@ZoranImsiragic 5 ай бұрын

That extension of one three lines has logic in it. You moved an anchor point. Move is a transformation in Illustrator. Transform Again is just repeating the last transformation (Move in this case). Great video. I like it. 😊

@DavidNazario-uo3pv 5 ай бұрын

Nice Tips!

@bab007able 4 ай бұрын

Awesome! I like your way of teaching; it's awesome. Keep it posted, buddy. :)

@ForeverDansky 4 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@ahmedbangee8467 5 ай бұрын

special thanks for the last one

@minarabiei6384 5 ай бұрын

it blew my mind!!!!!!!!!!!

@jarmelo2006 5 ай бұрын

Ayyyyyyyyye ✌🏾😊

@gogivan88 Ай бұрын

very cool tricks. thanks a lot!

@MoreCreativeGFX 5 ай бұрын

Amazing

@danmccalldesign 5 ай бұрын

Ha! I've been using the program since the 1990s professionally and I didn't know the shift artboard trick. I'll use it probably 50 times a day now. Hilarious. Thanks, Dansky!

@igloo-imaging 5 ай бұрын

Always good to see tips from other designers. Had to play around with the N tip to see if there was another way, think yours is the best... however... (don't worry, it's kind) instead of lengthening the two uprights to come in-line with the square ends, you can select Stroke then in the Stroke window change the Cap from Butt to Projecting and it does it for you on any weight.

@Brandamonium 5 ай бұрын

This is great! Thank you.

@ForeverDansky 5 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 🙌

@________________D 3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot ✨ I am about to ask the 3rd trick 🌚

@New_Talent 5 ай бұрын

WoW! thanks master!!!

@ForeverDansky 5 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@paulmarko 5 ай бұрын

The reason the gradient doesn't work.on the text by default is because it actually has a text fill. Text fills allow you to change the fill on a per-character basis (by highlighting which characters you want to change) , vs one single overlay, so you can imagine how problematic allowing gradients for textfills might be.

@thotho_ 5 ай бұрын

Thanks ❤

@ForeverDansky 5 ай бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@jordanroney8850 4 ай бұрын

For rotating the view of the art board, you can also type in a custom angle number down near the bottom of the window! 👍

@ForeverDansky 4 ай бұрын

Good tip thanks! 🙌

@benzakonium 5 ай бұрын

I used to get that weird screen artifact thing (from example one) all the time in illustrator when I was on an Intel Mac. It drove me up the wall, and I spent countless hours searching for solutions or even causes. Never got to the bottom of it, but since switching to an M2 Mac Studio I don't get it at all anymore. I can only surmise that it's a graphics card compatibility issue when running two screens (didn't get it when I used my built in screen on my laptop). One Adobe employee did however give me a keyboard shortcut to get rid of it: Command E

@alichandwani 5 ай бұрын

I have a m2 as well and am using it on a single monitor and still i get the issue.. 😕

@ForeverDansky 5 ай бұрын

Interesting thanks! I’m using an M2 MacBook Pro, but yea could be related to using an external display whilst recording my screen 🤔

@kaipedersen8486 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant video, as always. Also you're welcome

@ForeverDansky 5 ай бұрын

Haha cheers fella 🤣

@soheilvaziry2904 5 ай бұрын

great Tricks you learn here for last trick you can press esc bottom once to reset the artboard view and that's faster.

@MoreCreativeGFX 5 ай бұрын

WoW

@ahdtheplutypus2040 16 күн бұрын

For making the spike of N flattened…i think the easiest way is…”select N layer…then object and expand to make path of it as its an object..then use rectangular shape in path mode,then select everything and use remover tool to remove the spikes…” Easy

@atravleratravler3173 5 ай бұрын

you can also jusr double click the rotate tool to go back to normal view (9:54)

@noellehargis-milford4878 4 ай бұрын

If you select both points that overlap you can press the unite pathfinder tool and it will merge them.

@DThompsonhouston 5 ай бұрын

Entertaining and extremely attractive. I learned something, I admit. Should you keep making education videos? Oh yes. Without the shirt though, for maximum retention of the presentation.

@kibirigedavid3115 4 ай бұрын

thnk you for that but i would love to also learn new things

@user-if2lf9dq3e 4 ай бұрын

You should teach how to make the work space larger so you can make 50 foot designs without having to scale them. Also teach how to save images on that without them going super pixelated after in a pdf. I had to figure those out on my own.

@dominickcassanelli4028 5 ай бұрын

Question struggling with duplicating and mirroring an object and want to place the exact same distance from the center guide but on the other side of the center guide, is there an easy way to do this?

@ForeverDansky 5 ай бұрын

Good question! Check your "Smart Guides" are turned on, and with your graphic selected and using the Reflect Tool, hold Alt/Option and click where the center of your artboard is, a window will pop up, and here you reflect along the vertical axis and then select "Copy" 👍

@007Yasir 7 күн бұрын

Cmd+5 make guides. 2:49

@alexandrugrecov8964 5 ай бұрын

To maintain the angle I use the scale tool with shift, but this work only with one line.

@bfjrd 5 ай бұрын

really hate that smudges on screen when you move some elements... sometimes the nodes leaving traces

@SilenceKillsDesign 5 ай бұрын

That was a video card issue for me

@bfjrd 5 ай бұрын

@@SilenceKillsDesign really? hmm im using gigabyte rx 6600

@ForeverDansky 5 ай бұрын

Someone else in the comments also said it could be related to using an external display, which I was doing when this video was recorded, so will keep an eye on this one for sure!

@seulkang846 4 ай бұрын

Helpful vid but hard to follow.. 😢 hope u add on-screen keyboard shortcuts that u are using on every step u make.😢

@SilenceKillsDesign 5 ай бұрын

Why not use blend on the tree shape then expand?

@emildimitrov1248 5 ай бұрын

9:55 or click Esc

@zapgamingyt01 Ай бұрын

7:20

@scotturquhart4380 4 күн бұрын

How about adobe stops using pppp to write their software

@VERTEXyt01 2 ай бұрын

old studio man!!

@ForeverDansky 2 ай бұрын

So many good memories 🥲

@howardsend6589 5 ай бұрын

The corny friendly patter is somewhat endearing.

@henryh2007 3 ай бұрын

If you are using an art board the exact same size of the graphic, why not just use asset export instead and not use art boards at all…

@paulotrakto 3 ай бұрын

sometimes you need to export single pdfs

@InteractiveDNA Ай бұрын

I use 50% Illustrator and 50% Adobe Animate. Animate/Flash has better tools, Adobe is migrating every year a function from Flash. Flash is faster to create many things that Illustrator lacks of it.