How to Use Expand and expand appearance in Adobe Illustrator

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[@richardvinas8283]

thank you for this video it helps me a lot

[@Nullenmacher]

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!!!

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Wow, thank you so much! This has got to be my top comment of all time. You are so sweet!!

[@lemonchupachups]

Showing different cases and examples to use one command is so helpful. Thank you so much for these tutorials!

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You're welcome! I'm so glad you found it helpful!

[@statebeyond373]

I wonder why they call the function expand instead of apply or consolidate. thank you for the help !!

[@halldavid2554]

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.

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Thank you so much! I'm glad it was helpful!

[@blazmekina6736]

this is underrated. thank you

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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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[@SattarKhan-be5xq]

Excellent tutorial. Very well explained.

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[@963BBB]

Thank you teacher❤

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[@swravdas]

love your way of explaining things

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Thank you so much!

[@akskylark3435]

Thank you so much!!

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[@androo4519]

Nicely explained. I've never really properly understood what expand was!

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[@godfreycarmichael]

I have learned a lot from you. Thank you.

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[@janeferreira4156]

Thank you so much Anne. I'm your student at skill share also.

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Thank you so much! 😊 So happy to have you as a student!

[@user-rs3gv9ix8w]

Thank you ~!!! Very nice work~~~

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[@ninteve5624]

Great tuto🙂🙂🙂

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[@1980subrosa]

Great videos!

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Thanks a ton🖤🖤

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Awesome! Thank you!

[@muhammadwaheed2228]

Thanks Anna!

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You're welcome!

[@abbaroonie1625]

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.

[@GDHT]

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. :)

[@abbaroonie1625]

Thanks for the quick reply.....I love AI
but it gives me a frickin' pain in my head lol

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@@abbaroonie1625 I used to feel the same way!!

[@quacquac_quacquac]

Thank u

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You're welcome 😊

[@dhanushkaprageeth292]

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?

[@GDHT]

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.

[@Unknownbasedpill]

When I try to expand, the stroke option is greyed out. How do I fix this. Nothing online helped

[@GDHT]

It sounds like you might already have it expanded to its simplest form.

[@GDHT]

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 [e-mail]

[@Unknownbasedpill]

@@GDHTI’m trying to expand a text stroke

[@GDHT]

Try both Expand and Expand Appearance.

[@tranellmilburn8251]

But how do you unexpand text?

[@GDHT]

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.

[@jenniferciccone2180]

❤

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😊

[@mzsiaki29]

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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If you don't have any outlines or effects, you won't need to expand. 🙂

[@mzsiaki29]

@@GDHT thank you 😊

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👍🌹🏆

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super good video, want to be youtube friends?

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Thank you ; sure!

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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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You're welcome - and thank you so much!!

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Don't forget to pay your bills tomorrow

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