9 Hacks for Adobe Illustrator That Changed My Life

This video will demonstrate 9 legendary hacks that pro designers use in Adobe Illustrator. Professional designers use these lesser-known techniques to make their work stand out and look more professional, and now you can use them too!

0:00 Intro
0:27 Design tip 1
1:03 Design tip 2
2:03 Design tip 3
3:00 Design tip 4
5:45 Design tip 5
7:01 Design tip 6
8:54 Design tip 7
10:06 Design tip 8
11:19 Design tip 9

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[raedjibrail]

I've used Adobe Illustrator for over 20 years and still learned something new! Thank you for the colour across all platforms tip - super useful.

[shanmaxx]

Daaaang 'transform each' gonna save my life!!! didn't know about that. 🤯

[markjjnstradling]

Hi Dan, your videos never cease to be of use to me as a non-designer business owner using Ai. The Icons, Swatches and Tiling hacks were extremely useful. Thanks very much.

[aurelianfreeman]

I just love this kind of content: informative, no useless bla-bla, and straight to the point. Keep it up...and thanks for sharing, mate!

[oispxvk]

Humbling myself enough to learn more about Illustrator from others was a whole journey for me. Sure, I may know 7/9 "hacks" already, but there were two that I didn't know, and now that I took the time to learn them, I'm going to save SO much more time in the future! Good work Dansky, thanks!

[chasebros]

Nice. I knew pretty much all of these except merging anchor points with pathfinder. I had no idea that you could do that.

[simoharjane]

YOU ARE SO GOOD WITH YOUR ILLUSTRATOR CONTENT . LEARNING LOT FROM YOU

[marilynisaacs]

Brilliant as always!!! I learn SO MUCH every time I watch one of your tutorials. Thanks!!

[BobbyLaneProductions]

I love how easy your hacks are to follow and they're all pertinent.. thanks!

[christinaline]

Didn’t know I could add all selected colours to the swatches panel! I’ve been adding my colours one by one. I will use that all the time now 😁

[mannansheikh]

Your illustrator's work is wonderful sir, which is very useful for me, thank you. I see and follow your works regularly.

[carpenterhillstudios]

Thank you! (I also like the frershness of you doing it in real time.
You have jiust saved me hours or frustration with aligning points. Most important though is generating palettes I'm in the middle of a big project requiring that colors across multiple images be consistent but varied. No more recreating color swatches be hand, (though that is also fun).

[suprelame]

Absolutely golden. So glad I decided to watch that. The multiple scale selections is so rad. I used to transform each art board separately!

[QuanticDreamer]

Thank you!!!
So much graphic design goodness in one video!

[kennethmurphy]

I always, always love learning something new from you after 30 years of using Ai. Thank you Dansky!!!

[DavidPeyrouty]

Helpful, like always... Thank you, very much, and long life, to your channel!!!

[munequa]

Just came across your channel and wow! Thank you for all of these time saving tips!

[meaganthemarionette]

Tip number 8 blew my MIND, this is great!!

[rampanttricky]

hack #1: solves the issue i had yesterday. i kept think i needed to join and delete "extra anchor pts". PITA!
never would have though to use what i (erroneously) saw as an area/fill modifying tool for fixing/unifying paths!
just this change to my thinking may help me to make better use of the program—outside this particular issue.

[MiRofek]

Awesome hacks! As always. Thank you sir.