From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
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Basic appearance vs. complex appearance - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
Basic appearance vs. complex appearance
Before we dive deeper into using appearances to create more complex artwork, it's important to realize that this concept of adding appearances to artwork first started appearing after Illustrator 9 was introduced. So anything previous to Illustrator 9-- meaning Illustrator 8, Illustrator 7, so on and so forth--could not support the ability to add multiple fills and multiple strokes to a single object. Of course, the key reason for that is that Illustrator's language, or Illustrator's ability to build artwork, was based in PostScript. However, when Illustrator 9 switched artwork to be based now in the PDF language, we had the ability to add appearances to our artwork, and add multiple attributes like multiple fills and strokes to a single object. Now, it's important to know this for two reasons: First of all, within Illustrator itself, we will see that there are certain features that allow to kind of beyond either side of that line--meaning stuff that worked just as well before…
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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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