Laura Coyle • CreativePro Week 2024
Graphic Styles for Workflow Magic
Discover the time-saving and creative world of graphic styles in Illustrator. In this session, we’re covering the basics along with more advanced techniques for creating your own amazing styles. You’ll come away with a new appreciation for graphic styles and a library of styles you can use in your work!
How to Use the Appearance Panel
Here’s a fun introduction to using the Appearance panel in Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn:
How to manage strokes, fills, transparency, and effects on objects.
Similarities between working in the Layers and Appearance panels in Illustrator.
The difference between basic and complex appearances and how to use the New Art Has Basic Appearance setting.
Keep going? Watch Part 2 here!
Helpful Links
Astute Graphics
There are so many great Astute plugins for Illustrator to explore!
Here are a few from the session:
Learn how to make a line decoration that resizes with your text while learning advanced techniques from Illustrator guru Monika Gause.
See Monika’s incredible single anchor point illustrations on Behance.
Illustrator Features You Don’t Know You Don’t Know
The New Dimension Tool in Illustrator
In this video you’ll learn:
• The basics of plotting dimensions
• How the special Dimensions layer works
• Understanding the Dimension Tool Options dialog
• How to work with the Properties panel
I'll explain how these options create the settings for the next dimension you make, and that there isn't a document-wide settings panel. If you switch to another document, you'll need to adjust the tool options settings, or the default from the last document will persist. Once you understand how it works, you’ll be able to work more efficiently with this tool.
Have questions or need guidance?
I’m here to help! Feel free to get in touch.