From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

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Modifying appearances with Live Effects

Modifying appearances with Live Effects - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials

Modifying appearances with Live Effects

When we covered the concept of different attributes inside of Illustrator--for example, fills and strokes--we also spoke about something called effects. Effects, or Live Effects as they are called inside of Illustrator, allow us to modify the appearance of individual attributes. Now, if we think about it, opacity is like one kind of an effect, meaning that I have the ability to take a fill and change the appearance of that fill by applying some kind of opacity or blend mode. However, in this case, I want to introduce the entire menu of effects. You'll find them over here in the Effect menu. And these are all different things that you can apply to an object, or actually you're applying them to a specific attribute, in order to modify that attribute. But it's important to realize that this effect that you'll be applying will only be changing the actual presentation of your graphic. Even though it may look like your artwork changes completely in the way that it looks, that change itself…

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