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My favorite features in all of Illustrator - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Advanced
My favorite features in all of Illustrator
- I started using Illustrator when I was 25, which was here, let me do the math. Carry the one, a hundred years ago. Our friends say it's cute to see us together, Illustrator actually finishes my sentences. So if you were to ask me, what's your favorite feature in all of Illustrator, it'd be like me asking you to choose your favorite thing about your spouse or your grandma. I mean, you know what you like, you know what you don't but your favorite, which is why I say without hesitation, the topic of this chapter, dynamic effects. Why, because they allow you to apply temporary non-destructive adjustments using numerical parameters. They pile up in the appearance panel so you can change your mind any time you like. You can apply them to big things like entire layers or little things like a single stroke. And you can heap multiple applications of a single effect onto anything, which means that we can take this tiny circle,…
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My favorite features in all of Illustrator1m 37s
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Applying and expanding a dynamic effect5m 31s
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Drawing an orthogonal cube4m 25s
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Creating a dynamic cube of cubes7m 32s
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Busting up and coloring the cubes5m 37s
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Adding glows and shadows with Outer Glow7m 55s
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Targeting the contents of a group5m 5s
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Clipping effects inside objects3m 52s
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Creating flower petals with Pucker & Bloat6m
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Scale, rotate, and duplicate in one operation4m 52s
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Document Raster Effects settings6m 20s
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Alternating the colors of repeated objects8m 13s
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Creating an origami effect with Zig Zag4m 9s
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Duplicating effects between fills6m 20s
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Swapping out colors in dynamic art5m 16s
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Dynamic repeats: Mirror and Radial4m 9s
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