Here is a really nifty little tip and trick to make interesting strokes by using the Appearance Palette in Adobe Illustrator. Start off by creating a 4pt stroke with the line tool, and make its color blue or cyan. Once this is done open the Appearance palette by clicking on its tab in the open […]

A very handy feature introduced in version 9 of Adobe Illustrator is the ability to assign custom keyboard shortcuts through the Keyboard Shortcuts Menu (alt+shift+ctrl+k or Edit Menu > Keyboard Shortcuts).

In this menu you can assign new shortcuts to the Tools or Menu Commands. When you click on an item a box appears (as shown […]

Have you ever been working in Adobe Illustrator and had an artboard full of many different objects or a very complex design but wanted to select one type or group of objects, and for example, want to change their color? You could manually try to go in and ungroup objects and ‘Shift + Click’ them […]