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Hey there, it's Cheat Sheet time,
and only the best shortcuts.
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Let's go through them now.
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First one is actually two shortcuts.
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If I hit 'Command Y' on a Mac,
or 'Control Y' on a PC...
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gets me into kind of
an invisible X-ray mode.
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And I can see, there's a star there,
and a dot there, and a dot there.
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If I turn it back off
by hitting the same key...
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you can see, they're just shapes that have,
that's a Text box that has no Type.
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That is our Anchor point from the Pen Tool.
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Over here, there's a star
with no Stroke and no Fill.
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To tidy it up, go up to
'Object', 'Path'...
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and go, let's just clean up all that stuff,
Illustrator, click 'OK'.
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Now if I go back to 'Command Y',
or 'Control Y' on a PC...
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it's all tidied up. Nice!
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The next cheat is that,
let's say, these stars here...
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I want to change the color...
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but that color's been used a few times
through my document.
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So what I can do is go up to here,
and say 'Select', Illustrator...
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grab everything that's using
that same Fill color.
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Super handy, I can go to
'Properties', 'Fill color'...
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and say, you're all 'white' now.
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Awesome!
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The next one is Math in any of
the fields in Illustrator.
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I want to draw a rectangle...
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actually I want five rectangles
evenly spaced down the bottom here.
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So I'm going to draw one
that covers the whole thing...
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I'm going to give it a Fill,
so you can see it.
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Say I need to divide by 5,
up here, the Width--
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I'm even in the wrong unit size,
I've been using 'points'.
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Doesn't really matter,
I'm going to put in '/5'.
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You could put in '*5',
you could put in '-5'.
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If I click on that, now,
it's 1/5th the size. Awesome!
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So I'm going to grab the 'Black Arrow',
drag it across...
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and I want to duplicate these along.
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I could use copy, paste,
ends up in the middle.
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What I'm going to use is a trick...
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where, if I select it
with the Black Arrow...
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I start dragging, and then after that...
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I hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac,
or the 'Alt' key on a PC.
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Makes a duplicate while I'm dragging.
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That's a handy little tip.
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Another little handy tip...
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is, if you now hit 'Command D' on a Mac,
or 'Control D' on a PC...
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it's going to duplicate whatever
you just did over and over again.
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Another handy trick.
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Next trick is, let's say
I want to grab this.
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Say I want to give it--
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use my Library colors, I want
to give it the foxy orange color...
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but it didn't apply, well it did, kind of,
it applied it to the Strokes.
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The Stroke was in the front,
I needed this to be at the front.
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Click on that, and I bring the Stroke
to the front, then click 'None'.
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That's the long way,
the shortcut way is this -
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I'm going to undo till it goes
back to when it was broken.
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- is that, watch this, the 'X' key,
can you see it over here?
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It just toggles these back to front.
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So up here, I can say I want you
to have the foxy center.
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Then I'll have, maybe a 'black' Stroke
along the outside.
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So you can toggle these back and forth.
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Even better is, I want the Stroke gone...
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so I'm going to toggle it to the front,
then hit the '/' key.
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So it's the '?' on my keyboard...
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they're mixed up together down
by the 'Shift' on the bottom right.
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So I can click on this guy,
and I can say...
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actually toggle the Fill to the front,
and I want no Fill with the '/'.
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If you want to add a fill,
you hit the ',' button.
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That just adds a Fill,
pops this box open as well.
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So if something doesn't ever fill,
you hit the ','.
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The last one, and one that
nobody's going to use...
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is the period, '.', or full stop.
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It adds a Gradient.
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But you're not going to use it.
Gradients are back, right?
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Fill.
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So they're all kind of gathered down there
at the bottom, ',' for our Fill...
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period, '.', or a full stop for a Gradient,
and '/' for nothing.
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Back to Gradients.
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I said Gradients aren't going to be used.
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Gradients are totally back.
Check out this site.
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grabient.com; I love it.
Just cool gradients that you can use.
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You can find a color, click on this...
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and that's the Hexadecimal number
to start with.
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And there it is, the finish.
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They've got pages and pages
of very cool gradients.
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Let's put them in Illustrator.
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So I've copied the color from Grabient.
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I've added the first one already
to speed things up.
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I'm going to click this last slider.
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It defaults to 'K' often.
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We're going to go to 'RGB'...
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and that's where those colors
need to be pasted.
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I'll hit 'return',
there's my lovely gradient.
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One more thing about gradients...
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sometimes they can print badly
with banding.
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If you go to 'File', 'Print'...
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there's an option to convert it
into pixels, which is handy.
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Under 'Graphics' you can turn this on.
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And it says, "Hey, don't do that unless
you're having problems with gradients."
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If you are, hit 'Print', you'll find
they're pixels, and they look nice.
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File size is a lot bigger, but that's okay.
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We want our gradient. Hit 'Cancel'.
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Another cheat for Illustrator is...
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let's say I want to export this fox,
just him, by himself.
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Sending the whole document is easy enough.
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Actually I'm going to drag
a box around him...
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hold 'Shift', click the background,
I just want you, the fox to go around.
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Just with it selected, doesn't even
have to be grouped.
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I can right click it, there's an option
that says 'Export Selection'.
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There you are.
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Just him is going to get exported,
he can be a PNG...
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he can be a PDF, or SVG,
whichever you like.
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Awesome!
Let's hit 'Cancel'.
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Let's say you do want
the whole thing as a PDF...
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but your PDF's coming out huge...
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let's go to 'file', 'Save'.
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Then here, down the bottom, pick 'PDF'.
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I'm going to click 'Save'.
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Even if I change these to...
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say, the highest quality print,
which a lot of people use...
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it's still going to make a really big PDF.
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The trick is this button here,
'Preserve Illustrator Capabilities'.
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You just need to turn it off.
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It's going to save, Illustrator's not
going to like it...
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but it just means that
it's not going to have...
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all the functionalities of Illustrator...
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which we don't need to have,
that's what the ai file is for.
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The PDF just needs to be
small and printable.
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One other thing you might do is...
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down here there's an option
that says 'Smallest File Size'.
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That turns it off by default.
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Lowers the resolution a bit.
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We'll make it even smaller,
but probably not right for print...
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but definitely right for emailable
or downloadable from a website.
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Let's hit 'Cancel'.
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Next up are some more shortcuts.
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'Command-Shift-P' is to bring in a file,
to import.
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Not a particularly sexy shortcut,
but I use it quite a lot.
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I'm going to bring in this file here.
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I'm going to click, hold, and drag it
so it's nice and big in the background.
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I need to send it to the back,
so next shortcut's fine.
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If you're on a Mac, it's 'Command Shift'...
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and you're looking for
the square brackets.
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They're next to the P key,
we want the first one '['.
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If you're on a PC, it's 'Control Shift'
and that same square bracket.
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Sends it to the back.
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Now I'm going to select both of them,
and use another shortcut.
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'Command 7' on a Mac,
or 'Control 7' on a PC.
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It's the Clipping Mask.
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Next, and reasonably related--
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that one's the Clipping Mask.
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That's for cropping things...
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the other one's for
cutting holes in things.
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I've zoomed in here,
I'm going to click him.
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Hold 'Shift', click that.
Next to 'Command 7' is 'Command 8'.
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And it's Compound Path,
there's now a hole in it.
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If you're on a PC, it's 'Control 8'.
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Zoom back out.
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Next shortcut I use loads are for fonts.
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So I'm going to have my text
selected up here.
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'Command Shift' on a Mac,
or 'Control Shift' on a PC...
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and tap the period, '.' key.
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Increase the font size,
the ',' key, goes back smaller.
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So get the font size kind of
where I want it, about there.
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Next thing I want to do is
decrease the Leading...
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or the space between the lines.
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We've all got it selected...
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hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac,
or the 'Alt' key on a PC...
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and just hit the 'up arrow'
on your keyboard.
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That decreases it, and the down arrow
increases it.
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Another thing you might do is,
with that same key held down...
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'Alt', or 'Option', use the left
and right arrows to do the Tracking.
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That's what I want.
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A couple more shortcuts to go.
With my Black Arrow...
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say I want to move this around,
I can use my arrow keys, right?
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But if I hold down 'Shift'
while using the arrow keys...
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it times it by 10.
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So instead of moving just one pixel,
it's going to go 10.
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Nice and handy for that.
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Now you can use that for a lot of things.
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Let's say, this thing, I want
to increase the font size.
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'Properties', but I want to go really big.
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So if I do it once,
it's going to go 18, 19...
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but if I hold 'Shift' and do it,
goes up 20, 30, 40.
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So hold down 'Shift', and it will
times anything by 10.
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It might be the Stroke Weight.
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You can add a Stroke to this font,
it's going to look bad.
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And you can go up in 10 points
by holding Shift.
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Wow!
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Now two more to go.
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This is kind of a new feature,
if you're not using CC2018 or above...
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it might not work for you.
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You're working over here, right?
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But I've got my tail selected,
I did it down there.
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So if I hit 'Command +', which a lot of
people use to zoom in...
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it jumps down here, and you're like,
"No, no, over here"...
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and then 'Command +' again...
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it really wants to bring that
into the middle.
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What you can do is you can go up to
'Illustrator CC', 'Preferences'.
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If you're on a PC, it's under 'Edit'.
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Right down the bottom
should be Preferences.
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And in here, we're going
to go to 'General'.
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Go to 'Selection & Anchor Display'.
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Down here, where it says
'Zoom to Selection'...
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you can turn that off, and it will
just zoom into the middle screen...
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like the good old days.
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Another thing people love in here,
or don't like about the new version...
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is under 'General', this one here,
it says 'Show the Start Workspace'.
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It opens up all your previous files.
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If you're old school Illustrator,
people don't like that.
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You can turn that off, and it just
loads up with an empty software.
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I'm going to turn mine back on, click 'OK'.
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And the last one--
the last one is a time saver.
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It's when you're working
with a file like this.
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It's one of the files we made in
our exercises for Compound Shapes.
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And what we did is we
added a Gradient to it...
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which is no big deal,
especially in something like Photoshop...
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but watch what happens
when I try and scale this up.
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I'm going to go you, 'Scale'...
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and my machine rolls over and dies.
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Now I've got a brand new MacBook Pro,
it should be flying.
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Illustrator doesn't do things
like Effects very well.
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So if you're going mad with waiting
for your computer to do things like this...
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when it's finished, I can go to
'Effects', 'Document Raster Settings'.
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And this thing here
is going to save the day.
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You're going to turn down, and say,
I want the resolution down to 72.
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It's not going to destroy
your resolution,...
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nothing's disappearing,
it's still a Vector...
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but it means, when I work now,
I can make it bigger...
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and it's just a whole lot quicker.
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One thing you need to remember though...
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is when you're exporting your PDF...
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you need to make sure
you turn it back up...
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because it will remember 72.
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So while you're working,
crank it right low.
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When you go out in
your Pre-press process...
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make sure you ramp it right back up to 300.
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All right, that is going to be it.
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See you in the next video.
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