668 Downsizing the massive Properties panel

- [Instructor] In this movie,…I'll show you at least one way to downsize…what I consider to be the vastly oversized Properties panel.…Which is due to Illustrator CC 2018.…Now Adobe's reasoning is that the Properties panel…is designed to phase out the Control panel…up here at the top of the screen.…And while I don't want to be a total stick in the mud,…I do sometimes find the Properties panel to be useful,…but I generally prefer the Control panel.…And let me explain why.…Now the Properties panel is new and it's context-sensitive,…but on this screen, by default, and that is to say,…when we're working with the new Essentials Workspace,…the panel measures 252 pixels wide by 738 pixels tall.…

Which means that it consumes…the total of 185,976 pixels in all.…And this may seem like I'm nitpicking,…but you'll see why in a moment.…Now we record these movies…at a resolution of 1360 by 768 pixels,…which adds up to a total of 1,044,480 screen pixels in all.…And so the Properties panel takes up a whopping 17.8%…of the on-screen real estate.…