THANK YOU!!! GOD! YES!!! Best tutorial videos I've seen for years! Almost every other YT tutorial out there is either "How to draw a circle in AI" or a speedrun of a 500 layer grandmaster artwork! I love how you explain the whole thing from A to Z and not only take some pre-fabricated work and show where the expand button is! Awesome work!!!
Great job on this video. Very helpful. Really appreciate how easy to follow it is. I have not used any Design tools in many years. A lot has changed and this was really helpful. Thank again.
If you were working on something before that used the appearance panel, Illustrator automatically uses the previous setting. In that case, you'll use Expand Appearance instead. I just use whichever is available to me. :)
I have a file that contains calligraphic brush strokes(circular dots). If I do the expand appearance it turns to radial-gradient fill paths which is fine. When I do the expand next time it turns to thousands of single fill color paths. My problem is if I want to submit this file to a stock website like Freepik, Shutterstock, do I need to do both expand appearance and expand or can I submit the file after doing expand appearance without doing expand?
Depending on the type of gradient, I think you can expand appearance without doing expand. If it isn't, Shutterstock will reject it and you can figure out another solution...but if it's just regular gradient fill paths I would think it would be ok.
Thank for your videos I’m a beginner learning as I go, but could I ask so I’ve created my artwork then saved it as PDF, now I want to prepare my artwork to print on stickers and I can’t expand it? Do I need to expand it in preparation to print stickers? Thank you in advance 🙂
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thank you for this video it helps me a lot
THANK YOU!!! GOD! YES!!! Best tutorial videos I've seen for years! Almost every other YT tutorial out there is either "How to draw a circle in AI" or a speedrun of a 500 layer grandmaster artwork!
I love how you explain the whole thing from A to Z and not only take some pre-fabricated work and show where the expand button is! Awesome work!!!
Wow, thank you so much! This has got to be my top comment of all time. You are so sweet!!
Showing different cases and examples to use one command is so helpful. Thank you so much for these tutorials!
You're welcome! I'm so glad you found it helpful!
I wonder why they call the function expand instead of apply or consolidate. thank you for the help !!
Great job on this video. Very helpful. Really appreciate how easy to follow it is. I have not used any Design tools in many years. A lot has changed and this was really helpful. Thank again.
Thank you so much! I'm glad it was helpful!
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It's a mind-blowing video tutorial. Thank you very much for showing the tricks and steps.
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Excellent tutorial. Very well explained.
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Nicely explained. I've never really properly understood what expand was!
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Thank you so much Anne. I'm your student at skill share also.
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Strange.......when I draw a star or other shape with fill and stroke
Then go to OBJECT, Expand is greyed out
and only Expand Appearance is enabled.
If you were working on something before that used the appearance panel, Illustrator automatically uses the previous setting. In that case, you'll use Expand Appearance instead. I just use whichever is available to me. :)
Thanks for the quick reply.....I love AI
but it gives me a frickin' pain in my head lol
@@abbaroonie1625 I used to feel the same way!!
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I have a file that contains calligraphic brush strokes(circular dots). If I do the expand appearance it turns to radial-gradient fill paths which is fine. When I do the expand next time it turns to thousands of single fill color paths. My problem is if I want to submit this file to a stock website like Freepik, Shutterstock, do I need to do both expand appearance and expand or can I submit the file after doing expand appearance without doing expand?
Depending on the type of gradient, I think you can expand appearance without doing expand. If it isn't, Shutterstock will reject it and you can figure out another solution...but if it's just regular gradient fill paths I would think it would be ok.
When I try to expand, the stroke option is greyed out. How do I fix this. Nothing online helped
It sounds like you might already have it expanded to its simplest form.
If you want me to take a look at it, you can send a file with just the thing you're trying to expand to howtographicdesigner@gmail.com
@@GDHTI’m trying to expand a text stroke
Try both Expand and Expand Appearance.
But how do you unexpand text?
I always keep an unexpanded version off the side of the artboard. So two copies. Once it’s expanded, you can’t undo it if you’ve closed the file.
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Thank for your videos I’m a beginner learning as I go, but could I ask so I’ve created my artwork then saved it as PDF, now I want to prepare my artwork to print on stickers and I can’t expand it? Do I need to expand it in preparation to print stickers? Thank you in advance 🙂
If you don't have any outlines or effects, you won't need to expand. 🙂
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@@GDHT :))) Ufff... On a serious note, though, many thanks for all the knowledge and countless practical tips you have shared throughout the years 🤗
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