Have a great weekend and remember to check out more Illustrator content across the multiple playlists that I have on my channel homepage, summing up to around 6 years of content! Also check out a new and upcoming channel, Todoroho Studio, who gave me inspiration for a part of todays video. Peace out
Thanks for the shoutout, I appreciate it! Great remix on a few of those tips, a great example of artist's inspiring and supporting each other. Have a great weekend, cheers!
The fact that i knew all these tips in the video and even more in some cases shows that I've come really far in illustrator. Thank you Satori for helping me through the years!
I was thinking that same thing. I knew I had put in a lot of learning, experimenting and had expanded my skills.. the exciting thing is - when you know more, you understand more and you can learn even more. And that learning happens faster and can inspire more experimentation. I love Illustrator… I wonder if I’ll ever love InDesign.. lol
the first tip, scale tool, I just make a shape with whatever width, duplicate it 4 time, put them edge to edge, then select all and use normal mouse scale the whole thing to the width of the artboard. Bam. 4 shapes, each have 25% width of the original artboard :D
That's exactly what I do for multiple shapes I want at the same width/height. So much less clicking. It's cool to know the other options are there. But sometimes, those options actually make the process longer.
Hi, You don't need to copy the color code and paste. In the gradient bar... bottom left corner you will see the color picker tool....this will save your few sec. in the gradient slider you have to choose which color you want to change, select the color, select color picker from down side of gradient bar, choose color you want, and done...
You actually don't need a Scale Tool for making a quarter of width. You just can write after your width value in the Transform panel /4, for example "1000 px /4" and press Enter, so Illusthator will calculate this new value and write 250 px instead of 1000/4
Or make one rectangle, drag out 3 more copies (snapped to each other), and then select and drag all 4 of them until it snaps to the width of the canvas.
I started watching you when I just started my career as a graphic designer. I remember watching your portfolio videos and it blew my mind at that time. now that I have come this far I look at your videos in a different way. Now I see your content making skill is amazing. how you incorporate the simplest tools and techniques that all illustrator might use everyday, in a innovative way you make it look all dreamy and which is what I love about your video. Shoutout to your content creating. Love you.
For the hand shadow: actually, I would apply the sampled background color to the dark end of the shadow gradient as well. Then use Hue to darken it to get to that asphalt black. That doesn't seem very useful here because your BG seems to be white. However, if the background had any color to it at all, the above method would work much better. The midrange on a gradient tends to produce color which doesn't seem to belong. Of course, you could always just use black and white and then use the Multiply feature in the Opacity panel to force all colors of the gradient to properly interact with the BG.
The actual workaround for the unfavorable edges when working with raster effects... Effects > Document Raster Settings You should see "Add: 36px Around Object" under the Options pane 36px is the default, try higher (maybe 100px) and the edges should disappear
I've mentioned this many many times on the channel (this video from 4 years ago th-cam.com/video/u4TT1yBJZIs/w-d-xo.html ) but it doesn't always work that well. For instance, when you have a very large design it won't actually help that much. Feathering works best.
You should do some videos on design within youtube the editing in your latest videos is a great example of art direction, those color wipes chef's kiss. love your work mate , you have truly perfected your craft hats off.
The first tips after the drop shadow tip, which was mind blowing in itself, I use all the time BUT the snap to artboard tips was a revelation. I’ve had enough problems setting the edges of objects to the artboard to make this a really helpful tip. Thanks!
Thanks Satori! I deem It would be a great work if they added the function of taking the color from an object while choosing a color for the gradient in Adobe Illustrator.
I like your channel a lot because you always come across super knowledgeable and confident but never arrogant like some designers can be. I guess it goes with success in any field though.
Making a rasterized shape from the original shape and doing the same thing to it makes the shadow even more "realistic" :P still, for OOH designs, this is a great tip! so thx again, Satori!
for the shadow tip, I see a lot of tutorials change the shadow shape to Multiply and reducing the opacity (feathering included). How would you say that compares with the method you show here?
I've been working with Illustrator for almost a decade now, and the best method for me has literally been through watching videos just like this. I think most people learning on their own tend to learn better as they simply do it more. Anytime I have an idea or problem in mind while creating, I simply search for that particular solution, and over time you eventually pick up on enough to create efficiently. You also start to find out that the problems you run into are the same ones over and over. So once you learn it, the instincts to find better or more efficient ways to fix them become easier. A lot of these types of videos will also give you little nuggets in between that are just as or even more helpful than what the video is mainly about. I would also suggest learning, and practicing shortcut keys. Once I got a hang of working better with both hands, my workflow increased tremendously. A lot of holding "ALT" and "SHIFT" lol. Then of course "COMMAND/CONTROL +" shortcuts. Honestly, no better way to learn than repetition. I also, personally, worked at a garment print shop, where I knew very little... or at a slightly intermediate level. Never even really touched Illustrator. Mostly photoshop, and even fireworks (took one class in high school) Other designers at the shop were always helpful. But I picked up a lot there as well. Simplifying my work space, file organization, learning different format files for different applications... there is a lot that you can pick up just by being in spaces that utilize these tools consistently.
you will become confident with time. Think of it like learning any skill, driving a car, a martial art, whatever it is, it just takes time and persistence
I hear ya - ya learn these cool skills (I save them on my computer...), try them, and tuck them away until you have an occasion to put them into practice!
Great stuff. I'm kinda new here. I have made my f12 key mapped to "offset path" and use it to create all kinds of title safe zones or inner text boxes. My f11 key is set to outline stroke. I agree about HSB, it should be the color mixer default in my opinion. Making those subtle changes in saturation or the H or B sliders is like working with paint. (can''t say that about rgb sliders). I look forward to watching more!
The best way to avoid the cut edge in any effect is: go to "adjust effects..." (it's the third option in the menu) then the option that says and that's it, there's no reason add another effect, you can also increase the resolution of the effects right there!
Loved this and very helpful. Your enthusiasm in this video was also great. Thanks again for these illustrator tips. PS: Do you ever use Illustrator for iPad? If so have you found some ways you might like to start a design (or even finish) on the iPad and finish on a desktop version of Illustrator if needed?
@@SatoriGraphics I think that would be great if you could. A lot of people are switching over to Pixelmator Pro as it does Vector graphics and a whole lot more. They just added video support so you can color grading a video right in the app. Also being a one time low price, we don’t have to pay a monthly fee to Adobe. And no I don’t work for them, just love learning more on how to better use it. Which is why I watched your video. Felt I could learn from you and use that knowledge in Pixelmator Pro.
Inspired by, transformed but not copied. Adobe have created the program, and so we make videos on the features tool and the tricks that are possible. I've actually covered most of the content in this upload on other videos going back 6 years if you check though the channel library 👍 But yeah it's all been done several times across the TH-cams
@@SatoriGraphics There is nothing wrong with this man ! Chill 😎 I also mentioned the correct word 'inspired* but I did not say copied . Thanks for the valuable content you have been producing over the years! So much love 😍
Oh much the amount of time stress energy pain hardship despair and hatred I could have saved by knowing this stuff six or seven years ago is unmeasurable. Why do they make some of the most useful and important things so unintuitive. I don't understand why I know he does things and such a convoluted way and hiding these kind of things for us. This stuff should be intuitive. Anyway thank you I wish I knew you in real life I would hug you take you to dinner be your designated driver when you needed one if you needed a place to stay I'd let you live with me rent free. This is going to change my life lol. I've never paid a TH-camrs Patreon but I will make an account if you have one just so I can pay you for this video alone. Off can you help us use in vocal elements like can you make a tutorial on how to search for stock videos and photos that are consistent with each other. I remember that being a selling point with them when I signed up but since then I've had so much trouble finding the series of photos and videos.
I honestly think Illustrator designers are crazy. Why would you people make your whole life so hard and miserable while Photoshop exists 😭😭😭😭. Literally everything he did in this video can be made in Photoshop a lot easier
Whatever else I'll be doing today, I can rest easy knowing that the most useless thing is past me, i.e. wasting 4 minutes on this video here. But that's only because I actually use Illustrator, and showing me these things is like inventing warm water all over again.
Have a great weekend and remember to check out more Illustrator content across the multiple playlists that I have on my channel homepage, summing up to around 6 years of content!
Also check out a new and upcoming channel, Todoroho Studio, who gave me inspiration for a part of todays video.
Peace out
Thanks for the shoutout, I appreciate it! Great remix on a few of those tips, a great example of artist's inspiring and supporting each other. Have a great weekend, cheers!
Thanks man. You've got a great start on your channel and looking forward to seeing your community grow. Enjoy the weekend 👍
Nice
Nice update although I use Corel n Photoshop
@@todoroho amazing start levi
The fact that i knew all these tips in the video and even more in some cases shows that I've come really far in illustrator. Thank you Satori for helping me through the years!
Great to hear!
I was thinking that same thing. I knew I had put in a lot of learning, experimenting and had expanded my skills.. the exciting thing is - when you know more, you understand more and you can learn even more. And that learning happens faster and can inspire more experimentation. I love Illustrator… I wonder if I’ll ever love InDesign.. lol
the first tip, scale tool, I just make a shape with whatever width, duplicate it 4 time, put them edge to edge, then select all and use normal mouse scale the whole thing to the width of the artboard. Bam. 4 shapes, each have 25% width of the original artboard :D
That's exactly what I do for multiple shapes I want at the same width/height. So much less clicking. It's cool to know the other options are there. But sometimes, those options actually make the process longer.
Or just draw a rectangle, split it into grid of 4 columns, and scale it to the shape you desire.
Even better for shadows. Live trace the hand and pull the traced hand, then run through the gradient & blur options.
That's a nice technique too, thanks
yes ... and draw the object just roughly freehand because we will give it some blur no need to go into details
Hi,
You don't need to copy the color code and paste. In the gradient bar... bottom left corner you will see the color picker tool....this will save your few sec. in the gradient slider you have to choose which color you want to change, select the color, select color picker from down side of gradient bar, choose color you want, and done...
kudos thanks
or select the color you want to change in the gradient bar, hit 'I', then Shift-click any color and it will become a color in your gradient
With color point selected on a gradient you can sample it with shift-click using eyedropper on the go, without all this hex copy-paste hassle.
You actually don't need a Scale Tool for making a quarter of width. You just can write after your width value in the Transform panel /4, for example "1000 px /4" and press Enter, so Illusthator will calculate this new value and write 250 px instead of 1000/4
yeh it's much faster, even though there is a lot of use for the transform panel.
Or make one rectangle, drag out 3 more copies (snapped to each other), and then select and drag all 4 of them until it snaps to the width of the canvas.
or split into grid with 0 spacing
Or "25%"
I started watching you when I just started my career as a graphic designer. I remember watching your portfolio videos and it blew my mind at that time. now that I have come this far I look at your videos in a different way. Now I see your content making skill is amazing. how you incorporate the simplest tools and techniques that all illustrator might use everyday, in a innovative way you make it look all dreamy and which is what I love about your video. Shoutout to your content creating. Love you.
wow thanks for this really neat comment. I can see how your creative mind has evolved, and you do seem to have a passion for design. Thanks :)
For the hand shadow: actually, I would apply the sampled background color to the dark end of the shadow gradient as well. Then use Hue to darken it to get to that asphalt black.
That doesn't seem very useful here because your BG seems to be white. However, if the background had any color to it at all, the above method would work much better. The midrange on a gradient tends to produce color which doesn't seem to belong.
Of course, you could always just use black and white and then use the Multiply feature in the Opacity panel to force all colors of the gradient to properly interact with the BG.
`The nice thing about drop shadows, they ground the object. Otherwise they appear to float...not a good look!
The actual workaround for the unfavorable edges when working with raster effects...
Effects > Document Raster Settings
You should see "Add: 36px Around Object" under the Options pane
36px is the default, try higher (maybe 100px) and the edges should disappear
I've mentioned this many many times on the channel (this video from 4 years ago th-cam.com/video/u4TT1yBJZIs/w-d-xo.html ) but it doesn't always work that well. For instance, when you have a very large design it won't actually help that much. Feathering works best.
Select rectangle. object > path > split into grid with 0 spacing. done
You should do some videos on design within youtube the editing in your latest videos is a great example of art direction, those color wipes chef's kiss. love your work mate , you have truly perfected your craft hats off.
Martini himself! Can you resend your phone for whatsapp please? I've lost the email (if I have the right person lol)
I MISS YOU SO MUCH MY BROTHER! youre welcome in cyprus YOUR VIDEOS TUTORIAL SOOOOOO AMAZING!
Welcome back and thanks Mario, hope you're doing well??
This moment yeah my Dearest Beloved Friend I hope one day you can visit my country and meet you thank You so much for your useful tutorials
Ctrl + F and Ctrl + B are literally my entire work flow
that and CTRL + G and CTRL + 2 , grouping and locking I have to do this a lot.
LOL a lot of holding down "Alt" and "Shift" or both... too. I always keep my alignment tools as it's own window as well.
amazing tutorials and tips cheers!
My pleasure!
The first tips after the drop shadow tip, which was mind blowing in itself, I use all the time BUT the snap to artboard tips was a revelation. I’ve had enough problems setting the edges of objects to the artboard to make this a really helpful tip. Thanks!
just started learning illustrator recently and im loving your tutorials. Cheers man
Thanks Satori! I deem It would be a great work if they added the function of taking the color from an object while choosing a color for the gradient in Adobe Illustrator.
That would be cool and I've wondered that myself too
Hi sir what version of Adobe illustrator you used? Is that year 2023?
I like your channel a lot because you always come across super knowledgeable and confident but never arrogant like some designers can be. I guess it goes with success in any field though.
I appreciate that Ainsley. I'm under no delusion that I'm superior or 'the best' lol.
Making a rasterized shape from the original shape and doing the same thing to it makes the shadow even more "realistic" :P still, for OOH designs, this is a great tip! so thx again, Satori!
What a smooth presentation and voice
This contents are having Immortal Greatness ...
Satori Graphics ☮️
thanks man, peace!
Whats the glass you are wearing? Its looks cool
They are just blue light cancelling glasses I grabbed from Amazon 👍
@@SatoriGraphics thank you
Yeeeaaayyy, thank you!
No problem!
That's great, I will try these specially first one
Can’t believe you’re only just using copy and place in place!? Literally essential AI work flow!
This is really helpful, especially I started making design again after a long break
Thank you for another great video. Great tips that will certainly improve my workflow.
Very welcome!
for the shadow tip, I see a lot of tutorials change the shadow shape to Multiply and reducing the opacity (feathering included). How would you say that compares with the method you show here?
I like it!!! Well, you can sample can sample colors directly from the gradient menu.
indeed, thanks
Very cool!
Hi satori, can you please guide in graphic design portfolio building
Hey, search into TH-cam 'Satori Graphics Portfolio' and you will find multiple videos 👍
Some very tasty tips here Satori! Makes me realise how much I don't know about Illustrator, Even after using it for years! Nice work my dude!
Happy to help my man
much love ❤
right back at you
HELP.. I've been searching for the Hayche key and I can't find it
Thank you so much for sharing amazing tips. Love you ❤
I was hoping for a tutorial to create that golden hand in Illustrator.
I thought that golden hand was done in AI, so well done thumbnail :D
can you suggest how I can learn illustrator from beginner to advanced? and where did you learn it?
I've been working with Illustrator for almost a decade now, and the best method for me has literally been through watching videos just like this. I think most people learning on their own tend to learn better as they simply do it more. Anytime I have an idea or problem in mind while creating, I simply search for that particular solution, and over time you eventually pick up on enough to create efficiently. You also start to find out that the problems you run into are the same ones over and over. So once you learn it, the instincts to find better or more efficient ways to fix them become easier. A lot of these types of videos will also give you little nuggets in between that are just as or even more helpful than what the video is mainly about.
I would also suggest learning, and practicing shortcut keys. Once I got a hang of working better with both hands, my workflow increased tremendously. A lot of holding "ALT" and "SHIFT" lol. Then of course "COMMAND/CONTROL +" shortcuts. Honestly, no better way to learn than repetition. I also, personally, worked at a garment print shop, where I knew very little... or at a slightly intermediate level. Never even really touched Illustrator. Mostly photoshop, and even fireworks (took one class in high school) Other designers at the shop were always helpful. But I picked up a lot there as well. Simplifying my work space, file organization, learning different format files for different applications... there is a lot that you can pick up just by being in spaces that utilize these tools consistently.
Thanks for those amazing tips 😁 You are good at explaining so I can understand and I really enjoy to watch this video till finish 🙌
Great to hear that, thanks very much
@@SatoriGraphics You're welcome 😁🙌
I Love Graphics But don't know how to use these properly but who cares It doesn't matter that you Love something and get that thing
Great video Satori
you will become confident with time. Think of it like learning any skill, driving a car, a martial art, whatever it is, it just takes time and persistence
@@SatoriGraphics 💖
I hear ya - ya learn these cool skills (I save them on my computer...), try them, and tuck them away until you have an occasion to put them into practice!
Great stuff. I'm kinda new here. I have made my f12 key mapped to "offset path" and use it to create all kinds of title safe zones or inner text boxes. My f11 key is set to outline stroke. I agree about HSB, it should be the color mixer default in my opinion. Making those subtle changes in saturation or the H or B sliders is like working with paint. (can''t say that about rgb sliders). I look forward to watching more!
Knew them all, but didn't skip a sec. Just love ur videos ❤️
Legend!
Can you tell me where you bought your shirt? like it
The best way to avoid the cut edge in any effect is: go to "adjust effects..." (it's the third option in the menu) then the option that says and that's it, there's no reason add another effect, you can also increase the resolution of the effects right there!
Hi I'm Adobe and I will change an existing feature a little and present it as an innovation so you will have multiple menus to do the same job
Hi ! Satori 👋🙂
hey soup, long time no see 👀
Yeah! Long story actually.
Hope you are keeping fine
Trying to get some freelancing works. Can you get me some work. 😄
Loved this and very helpful. Your enthusiasm in this video was also great. Thanks again for these illustrator tips. PS: Do you ever use Illustrator for iPad? If so have you found some ways you might like to start a design (or even finish) on the iPad and finish on a desktop version of Illustrator if needed?
I don't actually own an iPad. I own a Macbook Pro and an iMac, but I've never bothered with an iPad, just not my thing.
Thanks for the comment :)
Well done good job.....
ty Kamrul
Wow. TY
thanks for the comment :)
6:50 :D im shocked why wont you use ctrl+shift+v ?
tldr it has some basic raster effects the likes of which PS had 20 years ago. Same goes for PS having the vector tools AI had 20 years ago.
Would be cool to see you do a similar tutorial with Pixelmator Pro.
I'll take a look at that thanks
@@SatoriGraphics I think that would be great if you could. A lot of people are switching over to Pixelmator Pro as it does Vector graphics and a whole lot more. They just added video support so you can color grading a video right in the app. Also being a one time low price, we don’t have to pay a monthly fee to Adobe. And no I don’t work for them, just love learning more on how to better use it. Which is why I watched your video. Felt I could learn from you and use that knowledge in Pixelmator Pro.
That hand is being lit by more than one light?
we all confuses rules for guides xD 1:46
I like this content sir
Thanks :)
Obrigada! 💫
I love this software but am not too good at using it.
practice makes perfect, after some time it becomes second nature, just like driving a car
Thanks sir for this
Illustrator is mind-blowingly cool lol
Please sir where are you located?
Right now the UK, but I won't be here again for long.
@@SatoriGraphics wow i wish to connect with you is that possible?
WHOA WHOA WHOA I do not love Adobe Illustrator lol
I love what it can do, but I do not love using it
lol I myself love it :P
some of these are so simple like i feel dumb not knowing them
I think your camera is focused on your mic and not your face, because you seem a little blurry compared to the mic.
yeah it sucks. I've since worked it out and changed the settings (see recent video). Thanks
Hmmm...more like a beginner tutorial then tips... I already knew all of these 😅 didn't they teach these at the design school nowadays? 🤔
are u from cardiff
close but no. the other side of the bridge
Great video! I have a tutorial of the x-ray effect, I will be glad to see you on my video!
SIR
I want to be a master graphic designer like you...........pray for mee🙏🙏🙏
Shoutout to Todoroho Studio channel ! The last few tricks were from that video ! Artboards Background also inspired from that !
Inspired by, transformed but not copied. Adobe have created the program, and so we make videos on the features tool and the tricks that are possible. I've actually covered most of the content in this upload on other videos going back 6 years if you check though the channel library 👍
But yeah it's all been done several times across the TH-cams
@@SatoriGraphics There is nothing wrong with this man ! Chill 😎 I also mentioned the correct word 'inspired* but I did not say copied . Thanks for the valuable content you have been producing over the years! So much love 😍
Oh much the amount of time stress energy pain hardship despair and hatred I could have saved by knowing this stuff six or seven years ago is unmeasurable. Why do they make some of the most useful and important things so unintuitive. I don't understand why I know he does things and such a convoluted way and hiding these kind of things for us. This stuff should be intuitive. Anyway thank you I wish I knew you in real life I would hug you take you to dinner be your designated driver when you needed one if you needed a place to stay I'd let you live with me rent free. This is going to change my life lol.
I've never paid a TH-camrs Patreon but I will make an account if you have one just so I can pay you for this video alone.
Off can you help us use in vocal elements like can you make a tutorial on how to search for stock videos and photos that are consistent with each other. I remember that being a selling point with them when I signed up but since then I've had so much trouble finding the series of photos and videos.
Can you make a video without sponsor?
On average 1 out of 3 videos have sponsorships
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Ayy 1st
you got it this time 🏅
first?
3rd
clickbaited
I honestly think Illustrator designers are crazy. Why would you people make your whole life so hard and miserable while Photoshop exists 😭😭😭😭. Literally everything he did in this video can be made in Photoshop a lot easier
Whatever else I'll be doing today, I can rest easy knowing that the most useless thing is past me, i.e. wasting 4 minutes on this video here. But that's only because I actually use Illustrator, and showing me these things is like inventing warm water all over again.
If you thought Illustrator was boring and you learned this, sorry but is still boring 😃.
...but still ...such a very necessary tool for so many applications.
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I loathe your mic.
Why's that?
illustrator is just a worst photoshop with only one good feature in it
They are very different. Vector and raster being the main difference.