Illustrator's POWERFUL Panel 99% Don’t Use!

How to create eye-catching and editable text in Adobe Illustrator.
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[@ForeverDansky]

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[@chasebros4948]

Nice tutorial. In my opinion, the appearance panel is the most underrated/underutilized aspect of Illustrator. It’s so powerful. In the past I have made entire designs from a single anchor point using multiple fills and strokes with effects applied to each one. Obviously that’s a bit over kill. But it is a fun challenge and teaches you a lot about the appearance panel.

[@ForeverDansky]

Aha really? That’s so cool 👏 Yea sounds like a great way to become more familiar with the panel and what it can do 😊

[@genius__mind]

it is mind blowing! your videos used to be boring but now they are mesmerizing!

[@ForeverDansky]

Aha that’s interesting! I’m curious, what was it that made them boring?

[@designsubway]

love your work brother 🤗

[@Melonemond]

thank you so much! So well explained ❤

[@faizandhami]

Totally enjoyed it

[@nighatnoreen8247]

Commendable!!! you're doing such a great job. No one has explained this way. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@ForeverDansky]

You're very welcome! Thank you 😊

[@garywintle]

I like that final background effect, good stuff. If I had two illustrator requests it would be a keyboard shortcut for stroke width and the ability to parent objects. I should browse around and see if you have any videos that would help with that. First time seeing your vids, good stuff.

[@satisfyvideos4392]

The last transform effect is unpredictable. You are such a genius😲😳

[@ForeverDansky]

Aha thank you. Sometimes I stumble on these techniques just by playing around in Illustrator 🥳

[@HiD875]

Nice Effect & Tutorial

[@ebtesamalalwi3595]

This tutorial is rich of new tips, Thanks.

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome!

[@OMGAurora]

This is great, still trying to comprehend it all but im very interested in trying this out

[@ForeverDansky]

I didn't use this panel for years early on in my career, and it's so underrated! Very powerful features that can combined in so many different ways 👍

[@nikimc9]

Awesome design trick 😍

[@ForeverDansky]

Cheers! Glad you liked it 😃

[@Saeedeh1364]

best Teacher ever.

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks so much! 😍

[@madzoroyal]

the best illustrator teacher 😍❤

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you! 😃

[@madzoroyal]

@@ForeverDansky we are the ones that should thank you 👏

[@cdgray888]

I'm going crqzy. When you drag the lighter yellow above the other yellow at 3:24, the lighter yellow is the fill layer with an offset path. The darker shade does not. But when you move them suddenly an offset path pops up on the darker layer. What is happening?

[@kimGP]

Great tutorial. Is there anyway to add gradient to your text without outlining it?

[@ForeverDansky]

Yes! It’s a bit of a faf, but if you remove any fills/strokes first, then separately create a gradient on your artboard, add the gradient as a swatch by dragging it into the Swatches panel, then select the gradient as a Fill from the Appearance panel 👍

[@kimGP]

@@ForeverDansky Awesome, I will try that. Thanks a lot

[@DavidMFranks]

Great vid, thanks. That's the under-rated stuff sorted, Now, how much longer do we have to wait to get *layer groups*, as you do in Photoshop? I know there are sublayers but having layers in groups would be so useful!

[@ricovickyanto4225]

Kewl one of my fav design to sell...thx for this tutorial dan...

[@ForeverDansky]

You’re welcome Rico 👊

[@kishanmaiyadahir]

Great

[@VIDEOMAKER-vx7oc]

Hi Daniel Dansky, how are you? I like this kind of effects, I will do today, THANKS for teach us... Me Rogerio Brazil.

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome! You're welcome Rogerio 😀

[@saadschool8357]

good job ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Bluetiger-zx6sc]

Why not just use different stroke? just a question. Im trying learn cool things. Great video

[@ForeverDansky]

Good question! You can use strokes too, but it will depend on the effect you’re going for. Sometimes fills will work better, and other times strokes will work better 👍

[@4_stroke993]

masterpiece

[@themonkeythatsmokes]

I would love it if all this was possible in CMYK color, which is never mentioned.

[@entertainmentjr2421]

what's the story of the orange pantone color 😁

[@keke9670]

I tried to sign up for your masterclass but Google flagged your email as suspicious and suggested I not click on the link when I attempted to confirm my subscription. This is the first time Google has ever flagged an email so many times, do you think there is a problem with the platform you're using?

[@ForeverDansky]

I don’t think so Keke, it’s probably something I need to address. Kajabi apparently has a great reputation for delivering emails successfully, so it’s likely user error on my part 😅 Thanks for letting me know!

[@Teen69Gamers]

Hello, sir. How are you?😊

[@ForeverDansky]

Marvellous thanks! You? 🙂

[@Teen69Gamers]

@@ForeverDansky Good ☺️

[@iamprakash07]

Gaming channel Thambnail tutorial video upload bro

[@hullstar242]

Why do we have to counterintuitively “delete” the fill just to change the full color. I hate Adobe so much Lmfao

[@ForeverDansky]

I think that currently it's because of how appearance effects work and stack on top of each other. Simply changing the text colour doesn't actually modify a 'Fill' in the Appearance panel, but instead changes the colour of the text properties directly. It's similar with applying gradients, much more complicated than it needs to be, and the process could definitely be made simpler.

[@chasebros4948]

Text in Illustrator has both a “characters” appearance and a “type” appearance. You can see both of these in the appearance panel. The characters are the individual characters or letters of the text, while the type is the actual type object as a whole. When creating type in Illustrator, it applies a black fill to the individual characters by default. If you were to select just a few characters of a word with the type tool you could change their fill color to something different than the rest of the word. This is because it’s applying the fills on a character by character basis. Now if you select the type object with the selection tool and then create a new fill color it will apply that color to the whole type object, which then covers up any fills that you had on the individual characters. Here’s another example that might help you understand. Let’s say you had several shape objects that each had their own fill color, but then you grouped them together and applied a new fill color to the group. That new fill color would then cover the fills of the individual shapes. If you were to select the group and look in the appearance panel you would see both a group appearance and a contents (individual shapes) appearance. It’s pretty much the same thing with type. The type object is like a group that contains the individual characters, and you’re able to apply appearances to both.

[@hullstar242]

@@ForeverDansky Yeah that sums up Adobe products, "much more complicated than it needs to be" lmfao Love your videos btw, keep up the great work!

[@hullstar242]

@@chasebros4948 Yeah I understand how the program works I just don't understand why it's so needlessly complicated. You provided a more detailed understanding than what I had though so I appreciate the insight!

[@francka.4174]

@@chasebros4948 Thx a lot 🙌👍. I'm the type who needs explanations like this or it doesn't make any sense, bugs me and makes it a lot harder for me to learn cause I'll spend hours trying to find answers to questions nobody cares about except me 😁.

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[@mikoss3667]

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[@ForeverDansky]

Which one? 😂

[@zahidibk]

I've been searching for this video for hours. Why the hell would you make the thumbnail and title like this? You should have put the 'Pumpkin' text as the thumbnail and included 'Tutorial' in the title instead. This is just a failed attempt at clickbaiting. It would have worked better if you made the title simpler and more searchable.

[@ForeverDansky]

Aha yea that's how it was originally, A/B tested and it performed poorly 😂