If you’re new to Illustrator, this video will be perfect for you! We’ll learn about some of the things that changed my design-life in Adobe Illustrator when I learned about them. This video covers live shapes, snap to point, the pathfinder, global colors, calligraphic brushes, and much more!

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Recording notes:

• Smart guides
• Cancel a fill or stroke with the slash
• Rounded corners(or corner) with Direct Selection (Transform panel, too)
• Snap to point
• Basic pathfinder function
• Alignment to the artboard and key object and distribution
• Convert stroke to fill by expanding or outlining the stroke (use in conjunction with variable stroke width tool for shape-making)
• Calligraphic brush to create fun line art (tablet helps a lot!)
• Fill line art with a base color (group lines, duplicate your lines, expand them to shapes, add a rectangle full of the base color, arrange behind the lines, use the Merge Pathfinder)
• Edit the hex code in the RGB Color panel
• Global colors
• Double click tools to find hidden options
• Convert text to outlines for more editing
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