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9 Hacks for Adobe Illustrator That Changed My Life

Dansky
2024 ж. 22 Мам.
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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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  • thanks for these hacks. If anyone is interested, the color mosaic one only works if the image is embedded rather than linked.

    @joebuckaroo82@joebuckaroo822 күн бұрын

  • 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!

    @aurelianfreeman1800@aurelianfreeman18002 ай бұрын

  • 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.

    @raedjibrail5565@raedjibrail55654 ай бұрын

    • Hey that’s so great to hear, thank you! Glad the video has been helpful 😊

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

    • This should be in the cc cloud app. I work for many agencies and none use bridge. Global cc settings: Same for document presets and scripts. Why not Adobe why!?

      @code.design@code.design4 ай бұрын

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

    @shanmaxx5@shanmaxx54 ай бұрын

    • Aha yea it’s a beauty mate, and a HUGE timesaver that one! 😅

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

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

    @chasebros4948@chasebros49484 ай бұрын

  • 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.

    @markjjnstradling@markjjnstradling3 ай бұрын

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

    @simoharjane7823@simoharjane78234 ай бұрын

  • 9:00 tip 7 is out of this world 👍🏻

    @lamouralice4533@lamouralice45333 ай бұрын

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

    @munequa81@munequa8129 күн бұрын

    • You’re welcome 😊 Glad you like them thanks!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky29 күн бұрын

  • 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 😁

    @christinaline4842@christinaline48424 ай бұрын

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

    @mannansheikh715@mannansheikh7152 ай бұрын

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

    @QuanticDreamer@QuanticDreamer4 ай бұрын

    • You’re welcome! 👍😁

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

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

    @meaganthemarionette4899@meaganthemarionette48993 ай бұрын

    • Awesome! 🙌

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

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

    @marilynisaacs7739@marilynisaacs77394 ай бұрын

    • Thank you, that’s so great to hear 😊🙌

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • 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).

    @carpenterhillstudios8327@carpenterhillstudios83273 ай бұрын

  • Awesome hacks! As always. Thank you sir.

    @MiRofek@MiRofek4 ай бұрын

  • very useful, thank you.

    @SWORLD1991@SWORLD19914 ай бұрын

  • Dansky you’re really a blessing for me 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

    @muhammadusamawp2174@muhammadusamawp21743 ай бұрын

    • Thank you, that’s so kind of you ❤️

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

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

    @DavidPeyrouty@DavidPeyrouty3 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much, Dansky.

    @wilsonudeagha2112@wilsonudeagha21123 ай бұрын

    • My pleasure! ☺️

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • Tip #3 - OMG!! Thanks!

    @TheTulipanka123@TheTulipanka1234 ай бұрын

    • Happy to help 😁

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • Just created a new KZhead-Playlist called "ultra useful tutorials" just because of this video! :D awesome!!

    @user-js2bv2ir4b@user-js2bv2ir4b3 ай бұрын

    • Aha wow, that's amazing Paul! Thank you 🙏

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much 😊 sir Love from Bangladesh ❤❤❤

    @mdnaimulislam@mdnaimulislam4 ай бұрын

  • New to the channel. Love the info and enthusiasm!

    @edwardanderson3506@edwardanderson350623 күн бұрын

  • Learned so much here

    @Cyanide157@Cyanide1574 ай бұрын

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

    @kennethmurphy8585@kennethmurphy85854 ай бұрын

    • You’re welcome! 👊 Happy to help 😊

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • These are amazing tips, I mainly use Ai for lettering and logo design so the "Average" function is a big game changer!

    @chell2133@chell21334 ай бұрын

  • Thanks, man!

    @fabriciomachado1394@fabriciomachado13943 ай бұрын

  • Great job! I am constantly learning, I love it!

    @arlenedabbas1247@arlenedabbas12474 ай бұрын

    • Thank you, that's so great to hear Arlene! 😊

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • i never thought the second one would be considered a hack, I use it pretty much every time xD Also I had never noticed that Join Tool, I always use the Pencil! Loved the rest 7 though :)

    @DimitrisVakri@DimitrisVakriАй бұрын

  • Great video my friend, I'm just started using Illustrator and I found it so fun to learn specially by magnificent contents like yours. Peace mate

    @ParTzzaN@ParTzzaN3 ай бұрын

  • Awesome vid!! Thank you!

    @sethp5640@sethp564028 күн бұрын

    • Thanks! Glad you liked it! 😊

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky28 күн бұрын

  • Some great tips. Thanks!

    @flytetime7637@flytetime76374 ай бұрын

    • Glad it was helpful!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • Very useful tips. Thanks a lot for sharing! 👍🏾

    @bryanvanmaalsen2697@bryanvanmaalsen26973 ай бұрын

    • You're welcome! 😃

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • Wonderful video presentation as always. Many thanks for making and uploading. Really appreciate it so very much:)😊

    @terencegibbins3894@terencegibbins38944 ай бұрын

    • My pleasure 😊

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • So many tips, so little time. Wonder how many I'll remember tomorrow?!

    @raedjibrail5565@raedjibrail55654 ай бұрын

  • Some great tips & tricks thanks!

    @jhatter67@jhatter673 ай бұрын

    • Happy to help!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • Absolutely a great tutorial I'm amazed ❤

    @user-qc7ny8hv4s@user-qc7ny8hv4s2 ай бұрын

    • Thanks!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky2 ай бұрын

  • Absolutely Fantastic Video, very useful 👍🏻 Thank you for sharing

    @vdphotosnfun@vdphotosnfun4 ай бұрын

    • My pleasure, thank you ☺️

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • SO great, the first 2 are always a problem for me so big thanks

    @davidmoore7115@davidmoore71153 ай бұрын

    • Awesome, glad I could help! ✌️🥳

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • These are great tips. thank you

    @fadisoueidi4127@fadisoueidi41274 ай бұрын

    • You are so welcome! 🙏

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • Thanks

    @alializadeh8195@alializadeh81955 күн бұрын

  • I love your channel so much! Thank you for your awesome content! God bless you 😊

    @REIGNOFCHIC1@REIGNOFCHIC14 ай бұрын

    • You are so welcome! 🙏

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • You are the GOAT … thank you bro 💯

    @brogotitdjkaoticthemusical6732@brogotitdjkaoticthemusical67322 ай бұрын

    • Happy to help!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky2 ай бұрын

  • very helpful video

    @graphicworld9964@graphicworld99644 ай бұрын

  • Great video! Thanks.

    @indigoinarritu6096@indigoinarritu60963 ай бұрын

    • You're welcome! 😊

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • Thanks, for sharing

    @agapelovesls@agapelovesls2 ай бұрын

    • Thanks for watching!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky2 ай бұрын

  • Omg, you really help me out with starting to use this software 😂 Thank you ❤

    @lamouralice4533@lamouralice45333 ай бұрын

    • You're welcome 😊

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • Handy tips as always.

    @dantheman2907@dantheman29074 ай бұрын

    • Fantastic! 👍

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • Thank you

    @subhanudin7601@subhanudin76013 ай бұрын

    • You're welcome!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • Superb

    @MoreCreativeGFX@MoreCreativeGFX4 ай бұрын

  • Good one 🔥

    @mimissathullah1@mimissathullah14 ай бұрын

  • These were very useful tips 👍👍

    @Dzine007@Dzine0073 ай бұрын

    • Glad it was helpful!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • AWESOME Tutorial!!!! 1) I have to export a lot of Solidworks drawings into Illustrator (I export them as .DFX files). when the drawings come over the lines are broken up into a ton of tiny little segments... is there any way to join the lines so that they are not so broken up? 2) How did you create that grid and center all those icons? Did you make a table like in InDesign? That was super cool how you were able to scale all those icons from the center of each square. Would love to see a tutorial on how that was created.

    @HowieD1975@HowieD19754 ай бұрын

  • Excellent.

    @infographie@infographie3 ай бұрын

    • Many thanks!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • super nice hacks! Thanks ;)

    @annabellamigliaccio13@annabellamigliaccio132 ай бұрын

    • You're welcome!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky2 ай бұрын

  • Thanks for sharing

    @oluwafemiadebisi7006@oluwafemiadebisi70064 ай бұрын

    • My pleasure!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • Dio you have a tutorial on how you made that anchor? I'm a newbie and this would help me so much! Thank you!

    @klalazarian1@klalazarian12 ай бұрын

  • God of Illustrator ✨

    @madzoroyal@madzoroyal4 ай бұрын

  • thank you this helped me in my internship

    @morav_@morav_3 ай бұрын

  • Nice 👍🏿

    @jarmelo2006@jarmelo20063 ай бұрын

  • 6:40 damn that was so satisfying and usefull

    @Nicc565@Nicc5654 ай бұрын

  • that second one helped alot. i was manually deleting all the anchor points with direct selection tool, the paths sometimes gets deleted with the anchor point as well.. that made a huge chaos but THE LEGEENDARY LIFESAVER DAN saved us

    @MushafMehdi1@MushafMehdi14 ай бұрын

    • Aha yea it’s a nifty workaround, and much quicker than scripts! I learned about this technique the other day from a comment on another video 😃

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

    • @@ForeverDansky hah from a comment that's cool

      @MushafMehdi1@MushafMehdi14 ай бұрын

  • nice tips

    @pdronys@pdronysАй бұрын

  • very helpful video👌😊

    @artemnovokhatskyi@artemnovokhatskyi4 ай бұрын

    • Awesome! 🙌

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • Awesome

    @bboygavin@bboygavin4 ай бұрын

  • Hi Dan can you please upload a Photoshop tutorial. I really love your Photoshop tutorials

    @Saad_rehmani@Saad_rehmaniАй бұрын

  • I love your vidieos so much and wait for new vidieos By the way love from Bangladesh❤

    @ahmriyad@ahmriyad4 ай бұрын

    • Thank you so much 😀

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • 6: select anchor points in middle and hit cmd+J

    @AOKUWARE@AOKUWARE4 ай бұрын

    • Yes! This is my go-to shortcut if not already using the Pencil Tool or drawing freehand 👍

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • Good 👍🏻

    @artzonead2238@artzonead22383 ай бұрын

    • Thanks ✌️

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • great❤

    @rizwan7037@rizwan70374 ай бұрын

    • Thanks!

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

    • @@ForeverDansky brother I really love you and your amazing teaching style GOD BLESS YOU

      @rizwan7037@rizwan70374 ай бұрын

  • Bedankt

    @spinnerz@spinnerz4 ай бұрын

    • Hey thank you so much! 😍

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

    • @@ForeverDansky just a little gesture! I've been using illustrator for over 14 years. It's not my favourite Adobe app but watching the video's makes me love it a lot more and still learning new things!

      @spinnerz@spinnerz4 ай бұрын

  • This video is so helpful thanks. And also I have a question, is there a way for me to resize things without holding down shift and maintain proportions like in the photoshop? I did a lot of research for this but couldn't find any settings for it, is it possible? Thanks in advance.

    @Mustekaa@Mustekaa4 ай бұрын

    • You’re welcome ☺️ Ah no afraid not, pretty sure Illustrator requires a Shift key press, and doesn’t have a toggle option in the settings.

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • This was really helpful thank you. Actually answered some problems I recently had. I've used all these apps for over 20 years, but you always learn something new. PS: Eww math

    @Gary_DeAfrique@Gary_DeAfrique4 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much, Could you make a video how to edit an AI file in PSD?

    @rakan_turk@rakan_turk4 ай бұрын

  • #1 does not merge the points. You end up with 3 stacked anchor points. It also does not retract the handles.

    @Vektorgarten@Vektorgarten11 күн бұрын

  • Design tip #2 man... the number of times I've found multiple points stacked on top of each other somehow messing with a design, and have had to sort them out... Usually when someone has hacked together a dieline and didn't clean up where all the points meet.

    @Talisrune@Talisrune3 ай бұрын

  • Is there a way to have two tiled windows of the same document (with changes updating) but have one document's active selections not appear? Sorry if that wasn't very clear- thank you so much for these videos! It's making it much less painful to learn Ai!

    @user-bl4oq4xq4s@user-bl4oq4xq4s2 ай бұрын

  • Hi, again great vid. Let me know, is there any option like Transform each but add values in mm/cm instead of percentage? Thank you

    @offsign@offsign4 ай бұрын

    • Definitely!

      @thomasjoel1409@thomasjoel14094 ай бұрын

  • i wish i have your brain in graphic design.

    @patrickortner1988@patrickortner19883 ай бұрын

  • I’ve been hacking Illustrator to try to get it to do what I want it to do for 30 years. I really miss Macromedia Freehand and hate Adobe for killing that app. I STILL don’t understand the point of having two different selection arrow tools. Freehand could let you do everything with one selection tool. I could work so much faster in that app.

    @timz9862@timz98624 ай бұрын

    • Yes, really salient and very relevant points raised here. I also miss Macromedia Freehand so very much, but adapted to Adobe Illustrator because I had to. This video is brilliant though:)😊

      @terencegibbins3894@terencegibbins38944 ай бұрын

    • Here’s the quickest explanation I can give for the 3 arrows. - The Selection tool (black arrow) selects an entire object or group of objects as a whole. - The Direct Selection tool (white arrow) selects individual anchor points or the line between anchor points - The Group Selection tool (white arrow with the plus sign) selects individual objects out of a group or compound path. A tip for using them is no matter which of the arrows you are on, you can quickly toggle between all 3 on the fly by pressing the cmd/ctrl key and/or the option/alt key and/or shift key. I don’t remember what or how, I’m often blindly hitting those keys (or a combination of them) until the right tool comes up. But it’s quicker than going up and selecting the other tools every time.

      @JerryN7970@JerryN7970Ай бұрын

    • @@JerryN7970 Yes, I know what they do, but I don’t understand the point of them. FreeHand did everything with one selection tool by holding down modifier keys. You should be able to toggle the selection tool you need and automatically have it switch back to the main selection tool when you let go of the modifier key. FreeHand did that back in the 90s. Illustrator still doesn’t.

      @timz9862@timz9862Ай бұрын

  • I like your energy, most big design youtubers make me sleepy

    @S04B3L@S04B3L4 ай бұрын

    • I appreciate that! Thank you ☺️

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

  • 🔥🔥

    @dangergame1357@dangergame13573 ай бұрын

  • Can you make videos on t shirt designing? Any short course?

    @VOXLaibae@VOXLaibae4 ай бұрын

  • Hello. I'm wondering how I can end my current pen line on a previously drawn pen stroke while tracing an image by hand? I am trying to trace an image with pen tool and then laser cutting said trace but I need all closed paths.

    @TRoush118@TRoush1183 ай бұрын

  • Design Tip #8: Mosaic images. The one key piece of info you need in order to complete this, is to make sure your image is EMBEDED into your document otherwise you'll not get the option to Object > Create Object Mosaic.

    @FunDumb@FunDumb3 ай бұрын

    • And the swatches, add selected colours, is my favourite tip.

      @FunDumb@FunDumb3 ай бұрын

  • when I use shape builder tool it changes the size of an object a little bit, which cause problems for big cnc cutting files. bcs, those small changes in every shape create a big difference in total. any suggestion for that??

    @user-he1vd3tx1i@user-he1vd3tx1i4 ай бұрын

  • Hi Dan, I have a problem exporting as an SVG file in Illustrator and Photoshop too. I have 2 text layers, the back text is colored and the front text is black and they are overlapping each other. Unfortunately, the Cricut Design Space will not be able to handle the svg file properly, due to the overlapping problem. I tried to unite them before the export but then the colored text will be changed to black. Do you have any idea, how can I unite them without losing the colored text and save it as an SVG file properly? Thank you so much for your help.

    @mrplaytoearn@mrplaytoearn3 ай бұрын

  • why option" creat object mosaic" is not work with me ?? its show with grey color and i cant sellect it

    @wafamoh1341@wafamoh13414 ай бұрын

  • so cuteeeee

    @minarabiei6384@minarabiei63844 ай бұрын

  • Hey Dansky! I need your assistance please. When I go to Transform each tool. The constrain option doesn’t appear. I got Illustrator 2022. This Tip was really a life saving for me but unfortunately the constrain option ditched me 😭 Help me out Please 🙏

    @muhammadusamawp2174@muhammadusamawp21743 ай бұрын

    • Sorry I’ve the 2020 version of Illustrator

      @muhammadusamawp2174@muhammadusamawp21743 ай бұрын

    • And I’m talking about Tip no 3

      @muhammadusamawp2174@muhammadusamawp21743 ай бұрын

    • Hey there, if the 'link icon' doesn't appear in the 'Transform' window, just adjust both values for the 'Scale' equally 👍

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын

  • And what chair do you use?

    @Saad_rehmani@Saad_rehmaniАй бұрын

  • Learning the keyboard shortcuts ia an essential Ai hack. Setting up actions too.

    @david_arthur_brown@david_arthur_brown4 ай бұрын

  • Create object mosaic is grayed out when I import an jpeg

    @JoeBodego@JoeBodego3 ай бұрын

  • Download ka link dona

    @rkgurustatus2002@rkgurustatus20022 ай бұрын

  • if only we had 1 hack to fix the brush panel and it's refusal to come away from the default settings after you create a custom brush. if only.

    @DavidStevens-tj5zj@DavidStevens-tj5zjАй бұрын

  • How’s the Share button at the top right corner is not blue?

    @Gradly@Gradly4 ай бұрын

    • You can change this in "Preferences" under the "User Interface" tab 👍

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky4 ай бұрын

    • @@ForeverDansky thanx man. lol a whole dedicated option just to change this 😳 really wasted option for unneeded thing

      @Gradly@Gradly4 ай бұрын

  • "Math ugh..." Why not "Math YEAH!!!"? Vector is the epitome of math. All good design is based on math. Golden ratio, composition, proportion, alignment, space, rotation, rhythm, pattern, shape, value, colors, etc. That "feeling" that designers have when they create stuff. That's your brain doing math subconsciously. Math is the language of the universe, you cannot escape it. There's nothing to be afraid of. Embrace and submit to it instead.

    @vuksha84@vuksha844 ай бұрын

  • Hello

    @freaky_faaiz@freaky_faaiz4 ай бұрын

  • The image has to be rasterize in Illustrator before you can use "Object Mosaic" You should have pointed that out

    @JoeBodego@JoeBodego3 ай бұрын

    • 👍

      @ForeverDansky@ForeverDansky3 ай бұрын
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