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Graphic styles

Graphic styles - Illustrator Tutorial

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Graphic styles

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- [Instructor] A graphic style is a set of reusable appearance attributes. Graphic styles allow you to quickly change the look of an object. For example, you can change its fill and stoke color, alter its transparency, and apply effects, all in one step. Every change that you apply with the graphic styles are completely reversible. Creating and using graphic styles can be a really great way to save time when you're working on a web layout, and also during the development process. In order to take full advantage of graphic styles, it's important that you fully understand the Appearance panel, because that allows you to create your own graphic styles. The purpose of the Graphic Styles panel is to store an appearance of than object so you can reuse it quickly on other objects. However, it's important that you don't confuse graphic styles with symbols. When you save a symbol in the Symbol panel, you save the entire object, so you also will save the paths, and the words, and the shape of…

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