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Graphic styles and symbols

Graphic styles and symbols - Illustrator Tutorial

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Graphic styles and symbols

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Besides the swatches panel you will also find a couple of additional panels in Illustrator where you will be able to choose from preset libraries or templates so these panels are the brushes, symbols and graphic styles so notice how each of these have the libraries menu on the bottom left just like the way we had it with the swatches and if I click on any of these we will be able to choose additional categories. So there's a lot of brush categories for instance but we also have symbol categories or templates and then again we have the same thing available for graphic styles. Now we will talk a bit more about brushes in the next video. This time I want to concentrate on symbols and graphic styles and first starting with graphic styles. So first of all what are they? Well instead of saving something as a swatch if it's a complex appearance that includes multiple strokes maybe and multiple fills or maybe even effects these could all be saved as a graphic style. So this object here on the…

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