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Copying appearances

Copying appearances - Illustrator Tutorial

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Copying appearances

There are plenty of times when you already have an object that has some kind of an Appearance applied to it, and you have another object, and you want that other object to pick up the same appearances from another object. For example, in this document, I have a whole line of flowers on the left side here that has some kind of nice Appearance applied to them. On the right side, I have plain flowers. I really want to move the same Appearance that appears to this flower onto this one, meaning I want this flower to look identical to this one right here. Well, there is a tool inside of Illustrator called the Eyedropper tool, which can help you do this. Let's see how that works. The first thing you need to do is to select the artwork that you want to have changed. So right now, this artwork looks plain. I want it to change in Appearance to make it look more like this one right here. So I'm going to select this piece of artwork right here. Next, I'm going to switch to my Eyedropper tool…

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