From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
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Clearing or expanding an appearance - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
Clearing or expanding an appearance
What we've established until now is that we can use the Appearance panel to control the presentation of our artwork. We also know that even when we've applied some kind of a presentation--meaning fill or stroke attributes to our objects--there is something inside of Illustrator called a basic appearance. A basic appearance is an object that has a single fill and a single stroke applied to it. As soon as we start adding multiple attributes, or we start adding Live Effects, those objects now have complex appearances. Now if we take a look at the piece of artwork that we have on my document right now, this file called expanding.ai, if I select this artwork right now, I can see clearly through the Appearance panel that this object has four different stroke attributes, three different fill attributes, and the Live Effect, which is a drop shadow. So it's obvious that this object right now has a complex appearance. Now remember, all of these attributes are simply adding to the presentation…
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Basic appearance vs. complex appearance4m 27s
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Clearing or expanding an appearance10m 52s
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Controlling the appearance of newly drawn art5m 11s
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Saving appearances with graphic styles6m 54s
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Changing artwork by modifying a graphic style7m 39s
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Uncovering a treasure trove of graphic styles5m 1s
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Copying appearances with the Eyedropper tool5m 28s
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Learning to live with appearances30s
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