9 Hacks for Adobe Illustrator That Changed My Life

[@raedjibrail5565]

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.

[@ForeverDansky]

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

[@code.design]

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!?

[@shanmaxx5]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

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

[@aurelianfreeman1800]

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!

[@TheKateDash]

The most thing I liked here is how you enjoy the process and have fun with it 😂

[@marilynisaacs7739]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you, that’s so great to hear 😊🙌

[@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.

[@kennethmurphy8585]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

You’re welcome! 👊 Happy to help 😊

[@chasebros4948]

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

[@meaganthemarionette4899]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome! 🙌

[@lamouralice4533]

9:00 tip 7 is out of this world 👍🏻

[@muhammadusamawp2174]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you, that’s so kind of you ❤️

[@christinaline4842]

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 😁

[@mannansheikh715]

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

[@munequa81]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

You’re welcome 😊 Glad you like them thanks!

[@joebuckaroo82]

thanks for these hacks. If anyone is interested, the color mosaic one only works if the image is embedded rather than linked.

[@raedjibrail5565]

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

[@DimitrisVakri]

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 :)

[@MushafMehdi1]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

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 😃

[@MushafMehdi1]

@@ForeverDansky hah from a comment that's cool

[@bro_got_it_5Lb]

You are the GOAT … thank you bro 💯

[@ForeverDansky]

Happy to help!

[@wilsonudeagha2112]

Thank you so much, Dansky.

[@ForeverDansky]

My pleasure! ☺️

[@lilysita6767]

very-very useful and great tips, I am new to Illustrator, and your contents a great help for my learning process - ❤ thank you so much, Dansky

[@ForeverDansky]

Hey Lily you're welcome! 😊 Also thank you so much for supporting me as a member 👊

[@kevinpatrickgoebel7073]

nice, nice,nice thanks Dansky

[@rampanttricky17]

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.

[@carpenterhillstudios8327]

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).

[@m.saffar0073]

Bruh, You save my century. Thanks for sharing. Peace. ❤

[@mdnaimulislam]

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

[@Nicc565]

6:40 damn that was so satisfying and usefull

[@davidmoore7115]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome, glad I could help! ✌️🥳

[@TheTulipanka123]

Tip #3 - OMG!! Thanks!

[@ForeverDansky]

Happy to help 😁

[@timz9862]

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.

[@terencegibbins3894]

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:)😊

[@JerryN7970]

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.

[@timz9862]

@@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.

[@S04B3L]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

I appreciate that! Thank you ☺️

[@lamouralice4533]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome 😊

[@عمارعمار-ج1ذ3س]

thank u for your efforts wish u good health, richness and happiness to u and to your family

[@b.joshuahenina]

Absolutely a great tutorial I'm amazed ❤

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks!

[@arlenedabbas1247]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

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

[@ahmriyad]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you so much 😀

[@chell2133]

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

[@bryanvanmaalsen2697]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome! 😃

[@ParTzzaN]

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

[@jhatter67]

Some great tips & tricks thanks!

[@ForeverDansky]

Happy to help!

[@REIGNOFCHIC1]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

You are so welcome! 🙏

[@alializadeh8195]

Thanks

[@Cyanide157]

Learned so much here

[@sethp5640]

Awesome vid!! Thank you!

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks! Glad you liked it! 😊

[@ihsanmardinlioglu]

very useful, thank you.

[@ForeverDansky]

Glad it was helpful! 🙌

[@fabriciomachado1394]

Thanks, man!

[@vdphotosnfun]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

My pleasure, thank you ☺️

[@indigoinarritu6096]

Great video! Thanks.

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome! 😊

[@Saad_rehmani]

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

[@Dzine007]

These were very useful tips 👍👍

[@ForeverDansky]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MrBobbyd45]

Good video. Is Illustrator good for simply drawing and sketching?

[@kellyluvsryan]

thank you

[@sibopin]

thanks man

[@fadisoueidi4127]

These are great tips. thank you

[@ForeverDansky]

You are so welcome! 🙏

[@DavidPeyrouty]

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

[@curveeditor]

Really very helping thank you.

[@madzoroyal]

God of Illustrator ✨

[@klalazarian1]

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

[@edwardanderson3506]

New to the channel. Love the info and enthusiasm!

[@dantheman2907]

Handy tips as always.

[@ForeverDansky]

Fantastic! 👍

[@annabellamigliaccio13]

super nice hacks! Thanks ;)

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome!

[@agapelovesls]

Thanks, for sharing

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks for watching!

[@AsadKhan-ib8xi]

Thanks

[@subhanudin7601]

Thank you

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome!

[@artem_novo]

very helpful video👌😊

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome! 🙌

[@SabtuSoreAdventure]

Thanks for the tutor

[@MiRofek]

Awesome hacks! As always. Thank you sir.

[@HowieD1975]

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.

[@lettertosohan]

awsome!

[@graphicworld9964]

very helpful video

[@speedykiller619]

What are those sponges there on your wall? Do you know where I can buy it?

[@ForeverDansky]

Ah I got the sound panels from Amazon! Search for "acoustic foam panelling" and they really help reduce the echo in the room when recording. The swivel mic stand is linked in the video description 🙂

[@nicamonimoniyu]

Love this tips thanks

[@kylesfisher]

Do you know if there is a way to create a colour average from an image that gets applied to a shapes above? In a similar way object mosaic tool works but to pre-set shapes not just a grid? Would help load for low poly portraits.

[@AlyssaHoney-i1c]

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!

[@VOXLaibae]

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

[@jarmelo2006]

Nice 👍🏿

[@pdronys]

nice tips

[@Mustekaa]

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.

[@ForeverDansky]

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.

[@david_arthur_brown]

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

[@JoeBodego]

Create object mosaic is grayed out when I import an jpeg

[@JoeBodego]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

👍

[@Saad_rehmani]

And what chair do you use?

[@1Minute-Photoshop]

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

[@artzonead2238]

Good 👍🏻

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks ✌️

[@mimissathullah1]

Good one 🔥

[@TRoush118]

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.

[@soulvibration-groningen]

Bedankt

[@ForeverDansky]

Hey thank you so much! 😍

[@soulvibration-groningen]

@@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!

[@MoreCreativeGFX]

Superb

[@vuksha84]

"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.

[@wafamoh1341]

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

[@junaidHosainGraphicDesigner]

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??

[@offsign]

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

[@thomasjoel1409]

Definitely!

[@mrplaytoearn]

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.

[@dangergame1357]

🔥🔥

[@Gradly]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

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

[@Gradly]

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

[@bboygavin]

Awesome

[@Katkegraphics]

Download ka link dona

[@AOKUWARE]

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

[@ForeverDansky]

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

[@Vektorgarten]

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

[@NuworldBusinessSystems]

When I go to object>path the smooth option does not come out. Any ideas to why?

[@ForeverDansky]

Are you on the latest version of Illustrator 2024?

[@NuworldBusinessSystems]

@@ForeverDansky you’re right. Updated and it was there, thank you.😀