Lesson Info
5. Properties Panel
Lessons
Class Introduction
05:01 2Zoom and Navigation
10:31 3Create a New Document
02:19 4Drawing Shapes
12:50 5Properties Panel
02:57 6Live Shapes and Transform Panel
07:16 7Drawing Lines
06:42 8Combine Shapes
08:32Lesson Info
Properties Panel
my properties panel is new in this version of illustrator. And what this has done is this has gone in and this has put a lot more information together in a much more usable area. With our control bar no longer here is the default. They've changed this so that we can get access to a lot more content whenever we have a specific item, shape or text selected. If I were to draw a shape here, just a very simple shape and I go over to my properties panel this allows me to go in and see the size and the shape in the location and something that has been desperately needed for so long. And illustrator, our flip vertical and flip horizontal. This is huge. There was no flip button for all these years. You had to go in and then you had to right click on something and then you had to transform and reflect, and it was needlessly frustrating. Now I can actually go in here and I can flip and I can rotate so much easier now you'll also see this little dot, dot, dot here in the lower right hand corner th...
at transform which gives you a whole lot more information. And this is where we can go in and we can change our corner style and we can edit our corner style as well. So a lot of cool things, given what we have, we also can go through when we can change the fill color of our object. Here we can change the stroke of our object as well. We can change the opacity, any type of effects that we would like to dio and then any sort of quick actions that they can possibly think of based on whatever it is that you're doing. So these are menu items that you confined if you know where to find these, these are going to be under the object menu in the color menu here. But illustrator put them all together here so that you can have quick access to them without having to hunt them down. Or you could also learn because it's like cheese. I've never seen any of these. Why don't I give that a shot? So lots of cool things here when you click on those little dot, dot, dot, as well as other content here. Now, if you have nothing selected at all these air going to be your document properties. So here is where we can change our units. Remember when we were drawing the shapes and their millimeters and you may not like that we could have gone to our preferences again. The properties panel brings us to us so we can edit our art boards here, weaken Ternana rulers and grids and our guides and our snap options as well. And we can set up our documents that upset our preferences all here. So get used to using your properties panel. We're going to use it a lot more throughout this entire class, and it's gonna be quite helpful. Toe have. So if you were looking for these things, check it out Over here. One frustration is it doesn't show what it is that you want. And that's probably because you either have your object selected when it shouldn't be or you have your object selected with a different tool, and it's going to give you different information. But the properties panel took me a little while to get used to it. I definitely like it. Good thing
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