From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
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Changing artwork by modifying a graphic style - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
Changing artwork by modifying a graphic style
So we already know that we can use graphic styles to be more efficient in our artwork. We can create one set of attributes and easily copy those attributes to other artwork. For example, in this document right here called styles_2.ai I have the same flower, which all has the same attributes applied to them, and I am using the loops graphic style on each of these objects. In fact, if I go ahead and I click to select one of these objects, I can see in my Appearance panel that I currently have a path that's targeted. But more importantly, the appearance panel is also telling me that I have the loops graphic style applied to that path. We're starting to see here that the Appearance panel gives me a tremendous amount of information about my file. For example, if another designer worked on this file and they handed the file off to me, just by clicking on this artwork and looking the Appearance panel, I can easily see that there is now a graphic style applied to that piece of art. Why might…
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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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