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The eight symbolism tools - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
The eight symbolism tools
In this exercise I am going to run you through the eight symbolism tools starting with an alternate use for the Symbol Sprayer tool and ending with this guy the Symbol Styler. You may recall I went ahead and tore off this mini toolbox of the tools here. Now many of these tools suffer from the same performance issues as the Symbol Sprayer, so pretty much everyone from Symbol Sprayer over to Symbols Spinner, they have got issues. And they are not going to work too well inside of Symbol Sets. However, all is not lost, because you may wonder, well, in that case Deke, why are you even showing them to us, if it is just going to lead to disappointment? Well, the answer is, because they can be useful on individually selected instances and we'll see how that works in an upcoming exercise. But for now, I want you to know that I have two versions of this illustration open, Sporadic grass.ai and that's the one that I have created in front of you in a previous exercise with this anemic grass…
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How symbols work1m 2s
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The power of symbols5m 1s
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Creating new symbols6m
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Enabling the new 9-slice scaling4m 24s
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Adjusting your 9-slice scaling guides6m 54s
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Previewing and acquiring symbols4m 12s
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Finding a symbol and creating an instance4m 13s
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Duplicating and replacing instances4m 19s
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Breaking a symbol link and envelope fidelity5m 26s
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Distorting and expanding a symbol4m 54s
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Updating an existing symbol definition3m 40s
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Recoloring a symbol definition4m 13s
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Applying a basic "local" color adjustment5m 20s
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Applying a more elaborate local color adjustment5m 4s
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Laying down a random symbol set5m 35s
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The eight symbolism tools6m 55s
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Editing selected instances4m 11s
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