From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
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Saving appearances with graphic styles - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
Saving appearances with graphic styles
We've already seen that using appearances allows us to create very nice designs. For example, right here I've created a shape and I've used multiple stroke attributes to get this beautiful border. However, you can quickly see how this can reveal some kind of a problem inside of Illustrator. For example, maybe I want to use this exact same border on multiple objects inside of my design. As I see over here in this file called styles.ai, I have three flower designs at the bottom of my document, and maybe I want each of those flowers to have that same type of nice border. Do I have to start selecting each of those flowers and apply multiple strokes and change the settings of each of those strokes? That can get tedious in a hurry. So what we want to do is become more efficient by actually saving appearances as something called graphic styles. With graphic styles, we can easily apply the same appearance to multiple objects inside of our documents. Now, I'm going to start off by actually…
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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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