5 MUST KNOW Illustrator Tips 2022

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In this video, I have compiled 5 super useful Illustrator tips that will aid you in your Logo Design and Graphic Design processes. These Illustrator tips are an essential part of any professional Logo Designer or Illustrator's workflow.

If you found today's tricks and tips tutorial in Adobe Illustrator enjoyable or useful, let me know in the comments section.

📋 Timestamps

00:00 Intro
00:18 Tip 1
02:02 Tip 2
02:42 Tip 3
04:12 Tip 4
05:12 Tip 5
06:42 Outro

This video has captions available in English, हिन्दी, Deutsch and Español!

[willpatersondesign]

Hope you guys enjoy the video!

How many of today's 5 Adobe Illustrator tips did you already know? Are there any essential ones that I missed and should be outlined in the next Adobe Illustrator tips/tricks video?

[deepjaideep]

Color guide feature is gonna be my life saver. I need color ideas all the time and I completely rely on websites. Thanks for the tips.

[reroxwithrox]

Anchor point display is the best thing i discovered today, Thnx🌹🌹

[matthew]

Thank you for the tips that you showed in this video. I am new to using Adobe Illustrator, and I appreciate the time that you took to do this video.

[kife]

I really love the video God bless you bro🇳🇬

[poxyclypse]

Regarding the increments tip.
Hold down the shift key while nudging and it will move 10 increments.
I work in print, and I use a 1/10 point increment (0.0014").

Regarding 100k vs Rich Black.
On a printer (non-inkjet), using Registration Black (100/100/100/100) in a print that also includes 100k will make a build-up of ink that is perceptible to sight and touch. I've used this to fake varnish effects (but it only works as a black on black).
I would not recommend for a professional job, but its's a nice novelty effect.

[taha_boy]

As a colourblind creator, I genuinely found the last two tips super helpful. Thank you!!!

[howard]

There is a trick to adding gradients, multiple fills or strokes, style effects, etc to a text object in appearances window, normally Illustrator has very limited options you can do with text without having to convert it to outlines. But if you create an object, (you can style it the way you want your text or just leave it the default style) drag that object into your global styles window so it saves the style. Select your text and click that style, it will not only assign that style to the text, but it now treats the text object just like any other object in appearance panel, gradients tool, etc. It allows you to do so much more with your copy and it still be editable, hope this helps!

[tulp_graphics]

These tips are really helpful, thank you so much for sharing!

[lidiananicomauri]

Thank u will, your videos are a treasure!!

[foxyvanloxy]

Thank you for the tips!!! Greatly appreciated!!!!

[ntrosl]

Wow thanks for this colour guide feature. it is very useful ..

[rohanranjan]

Thankyou for this guidance, really appreciate it ❤️. Loved your work ☺️.

[howard]

Two tips: Don't mix your rich black too heavy or the ink can print too thick and be susceptible to scratching/cracking, especially on fold lines. A good rule is no more than 300% ink coverage.

Another HUGE tip that will save you TONS of time is ALWAYS save your color swatches you use as a Global Swatch by double clicking and selecting global in the options window. This essentialy makes your colors "live." So say you have a complex illustration and you decide you want to adjust a color, you can simply double click the swatch, adjust the color and when you click ok, it will change every object you've assigned that color to your adjusted color. You can also select two global colors and merge them, for example you want to change flat blacks to rich blacks, select the rich black swatch, then the flat black, click fly open options in top right and select merge swatches, every object that was flat black will be converted to rich. This is a huge time saver and only works if your swatches are set to global. Once you get used to this good working habit, you'll do it naturally and will make you wish you had a portion of your life back that you used to spend changing colors object by object.

[JeremyNadeau]

Really interesting, for me the colours guide is best tips and life saver!

[daglin]

That video really helped, thanks will

[Lequickreal]

That’s some amazing tips, Thanks Will 😊

[chandi]

Can you do a video on manipulating type

[jstephendavis]

I worked in printing for 20 years. After extensive testing, we came up with the following for rich black:
C - 40, M - 30, Y - 20, K - 100

[adamrombalski]

You got me on that "analogous" spell XD