Save more time, be more creative

- Everyone knows I love an old fashioned trip…down the artistic rabbit hole, and we've had a few.…But let's face it, at the end of the day,…you have work to do.…And as much fun as chasing that beautiful bunny may…be, every once in a while, you have…to take a step back and say, enough rabbit, enough.…Which is why I dedicate this chapter…less to the joy of creating awesome stuff…in Illustrator, and more to the joy…of how you can spend less time doing it.…Because the more streamlined you…are with the tools, the more time you have left…to contemplate the artwork itself.…

To this end, we'll be examining two…of Illustrator's foremost efficiency…features, Libraries and Actions.…At its most basic level, the Libraries panel…lets you upload any object or group,…or layer, or group of layers to the Creative Cloud.…After that, you can recall the graphic…any old time you'd like, directly inside Illustrator,…you can bring it into another program…such as Photoshop or InDesign, or you…can share it as an asset with a coworker or client.…