8 Must-Know Tricks to Master Adobe Illustrator in 2024

Learn 8 pro tricks to master Adobe Illustrator in 2024, and kickstart your career as a creative professional.

0:00 Intro
0:27 Merging anchor points
1:45 Slicing up shapes
2:28 Making custom guides
3:06 Precise path extensions
4:46 Square-off sharp corners
7:19 Text and gradients
8:20 Create artboard from selection
9:11 Rotate artboard view

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[mirceaconstantinescu]

read this as a constructive comment :)
- for overlapping anchor points, if you don't want a script, select both anchors > pathfinder panel > unite
- square of the corners, at the end there, i would go with a projecting cap, that way you don't have to adjust everytime you change the stroke weight
- most important one, i think, the easiest way to match the artboart to the art: select artwork > Object > Artboards > Fit to selected art - how you showed it, in my experience can sometimes be a hit or miss because you have to hit an edge, sometimes it has issues with clipping masks etc.

Good luck!

[randy]

I had asked for rotate canvas view in illustrator since the 90s, they finally added it a year ago, so necessary in doing upside down panels in package design.

[jorge]

3:06 You can also use the "Start editing similar shapes together" button that shows on the upper right when you select the first line. Any changes to one line will change all the others. No need to transform again.

[loomonda]

Happy to know that I was familiar with some of these & I also learned new things! Cheers!

[denhamk]

Wooooaah! An artboard that fits my icons!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!! wow.. I’m so glad I watched till the end! 👍🏽👍🏽

[snipinsnit_ttv]

Hey Dansky! On the last tip of fitting the artboard to your icons. You can do this even faster by pressing the shortcut key shift+O or Command+O and then just double click on the icon, there's no need to drag it off the current artboard. If need be, group all separate items first.

[RoxieKara]

The extend trick is soo useful! I use Autocad, and other architectural softwares and all can do this in a click…I felt Illustrator must have a capability to do this too! Thanks a million!

[williamzafaran]

At 7:05 instead of adjusting the anchor points, only select them and go to the stroke panel, change the end caps to projecting, then all the anchor point are still aligned.

this makes it more consistent if you want to transform, edit, or change the thickness without adjusting the anchor points again.

[jhkdiph]

Wow, there are some really useful tips in the video that will save me a lot of time. Thank you. I did some research and found something very interesting. The reason you can't directly apply a gradient to text without converting it to shapes, for example, is because of the complexity involved in rendering text, editing, and handling fonts. To overcome this limitation and apply a fill in the Appearance panel, you're essentially using a technique called "layered appearance."

By adding a new fill to the text through the Appearance panel, you're essentially adding a new layer of styling on top of the text. This new fill becomes an independent layer of styling separate from the inherent text properties. This separation helps to avoid conflicts and limitations associated with directly applying gradients to text.

[igloo-imaging]

Always good to see tips from other designers. Had to play around with the N tip to see if there was another way, think yours is the best... however... (don't worry, it's kind) instead of lengthening the two uprights to come in-line with the square ends, you can select Stroke then in the Stroke window change the Cap from Butt to Projecting and it does it for you on any weight.

[ZoranImsiragic]

That extension of one three lines has logic in it. You moved an anchor point. Move is a transformation in Illustrator. Transform Again is just repeating the last transformation (Move in this case). Great video. I like it. 😊

[pedroarruda]

You have one of those channels that I click like before I even see it!
Thank you for this, it's just fantastic!

[soheilvaziry]

great Tricks you learn here for last trick you can press esc bottom once to reset the artboard view and that's faster.

[babable]

Awesome! I like your way of teaching; it's awesome. Keep it posted, buddy. :)

[danmccalldesign]

Ha! I've been using the program since the 1990s professionally and I didn't know the shift artboard trick. I'll use it probably 50 times a day now. Hilarious. Thanks, Dansky!

[________________D]

Thanks a lot ✨
I am about to ask the 3rd trick 🌚

[jordanroney]

For rotating the view of the art board, you can also type in a custom angle number down near the bottom of the window! 👍

[paulmarko]

The reason the gradient doesn't work.on the text by default is because it actually has a text fill. Text fills allow you to change the fill on a per-character basis (by highlighting which characters you want to change), vs one single overlay, so you can imagine how problematic allowing gradients for textfills might be.

[benzakonium]

I used to get that weird screen artifact thing (from example one) all the time in illustrator when I was on an Intel Mac. It drove me up the wall, and I spent countless hours searching for solutions or even causes. Never got to the bottom of it, but since switching to an M2 Mac Studio I don't get it at all anymore. I can only surmise that it's a graphics card compatibility issue when running two screens (didn't get it when I used my built in screen on my laptop). One Adobe employee did however give me a keyboard shortcut to get rid of it: Command E

[atravleratravler]

you can also jusr double click the rotate tool to go back to normal view (9:54)