What is the difference between live and expanded content in Adobe Illustrator? When should you expand your art? In this video, I share many side-by-side examples of live and expanded art and examples showing reasons to expand your art or keep it live. There's no one answer for every case. I often keep 2 copies: live and expanded, to have the best of both worlds.
0:00 Intro, a clay analogy
1:01 Outline type, a brush path, the eraser tool
2:41 Live polygon, how they can automatically be expanded
3:34 Expanding a drop shadow appearance
4:07 Expanding a 3D effect
5:02 Expanding a pattern fill
5:47 Why expand? Why keep something live?
7:37 Expanding a stroke
8:03 Expanding gradients linear and freeform gradients
9:18 Expanding appearances - multiple fills
9:45 Expanding a roughen effect, then expanding the resulting stroke
10:37 A repeat object, an Image Tracing
11:07 Expanding a live paint group
11:31 Compound shapes in the Pathfinder panel
12:30 Live corners
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