Hi there, my name is Daniel Scott.

And I'm an Adobe Certified Instructor for Illustrator.

Now this is the update videos for the latest release of 2019 Adobe Illustrator.

They're up to their 23rd version of the software.

I learnt it way back in 1997, in Design School.

It was version 7, so we've come a long way.

So what I've done is I've curated this.

So all I've really done is put it in the...

in an order of what I think are the best most exciting updates....

all the way through to...

not the worst, it's best to more obscure...

or gets just smaller changes, big stuff to be in.

There are also exercise files that you can download...

so that you can play along with me in the tutorial.

They're free to download, there'll be a link on the screen here somewhere.

Every time I point to it , it ends up moving.

It will be on the screens here somewhere.

The other thing is, if you like my teaching style...

you might want to check out my full Illustrator courses.

There's an Essentials and an Advanced.

But enough of that, let's get started and check out all the new features.

All right, my most favorite feature...

in the new version of Illustrator 2019 is Global Edit.

Sounds lame but it is pretty amazing.

If you're following along, go to 'Exercise Files' and open up 'Global Edit'.

I'm going to zoom out.

It's really handy for this type of thing where I've got multiple Artboards...

and I've got there's a lot of things that repeat on a lot of them.

Now I need to make a change, and if you've done any of my classes you'll know that--

Say I have real big problems with arrows and text.

I spend ages trying to decide on that perfect one...

and change my mind a load of the way through.

So I want to change this arrow...

but imagine if there was a way I could do them all at the same time.

With it selected, with my Selection Tool...

look at this guy, he's the new thing, 'Start Global Edit', click it.

And what really happens is, if I zoom out...

you can see, it's selected not only this guy...

but all the other instances of them.

Now I say instances, there's no like special thing here.

I didn't connect them as symbols, that just happen to match.

And Illustrator is super clever.

And why this is good is...

if I grab my white arrow here, my Direct Selection Tool, and I zoom in...

now I'm going to kind of play around with my arrow.

Give it kind of rounded corners.

Imagine if...

zoom out, come over here, there is nothing connecting them...

just magic in Illustrator.

Let's do the same for this tick up the top here.

Let's say I do this one in the middle.

I'm going to zoom in, I'm going to say, 'Start Global Edit'.

I'm going to grab this kind of rounded corner thing here.

If you haven't used a rounded corner as much...

just click on it once and just drag them up.

And hopefully over here, zoom out, zoom back in.

Terrible zooming, Dan, but you can see that all updating at once.

Super useful for kind of global updates.

Now this is quite similar to a feature they've got called Select Same.

I want to show you this because it's super helpful...

and I'll show you one of the extra benefits for Global Edit...

because let's say we're working with this, we're changing the UI color...

we're not going to use this, it's kind of Mandarin red here.

So I'm going to select it with my white arrow...

any of these kind of red graphics...

and go to 'Select', 'Same', 'Fill Color'.

You might not know that's there, that's super helpful, this is not new...

but it goes through the whole document, you can see, highlights all the red bits.

I can go through and just pick a new color, so that's helpful.

But what happens is - I'm going to undo.

- let's say I want to do just this button here.

This is where it gets super clever.

The software engineers at Illustrator somehow...

have magically worked out a way of saying, I want this rectangle...

I want to start Global Edit, and it goes off...

and you can see it's not a picking just rectangles over the place.

So it's not picking this top one, it's picking just these guys that are used.

Nice, huh? We can go through and then just change these colors.

So use 'Select', 'Same' for changing all the colors...

but then use this 'Global Edit', just to do kind of unique things...

that are similar across all different Artboards.

Doesn't even have to be across Artboards, can be within the document.

So Global Edit is amazing.

And it seems to kind of just know what I want when I'm selecting things.

But there are times where it just, it's too clever for its own good.

So I'm going to grab my black arrow...

I'm going to click on the circle here, and I'm going to say...

I'd like to start my Global Edit.

And it's cool to grab this one and this one, which I wanted...

but it's also grabbed these objects down the bottom here.

See these smaller circles? It's clever but it's not what I wanted.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go into here...

and I'm going to turn the option that says...

actually just mention these circles as long as they're the same size.

You can see, by turning that on it's just got these two selected now.

So now I can go through and pick a color, any color.

Now what you might find is...

you can see it's changing here but not changing this one.

I just need to hit 'Return' on my keyboard...

or 'Enter', kind of updates.

So you can kind of give it a little bit of extra help.

Now I'm only working on a three page Artboard here...

you might be working on-- like I've got some banner ad jobs that I do...

and then I've got like 30 different sizes.

It's super handy when you can select the specific thing.

Give it a little bit more refinement over here.

Other things in here that you might help you...

there's Appearance as well, Size, we turn it on and off.

Down here you could say, I want to select circles...

but only that are on this Artboard 1.

You can see, it's deselected here.

Or you might say, between Artboard 1 and 2...

or 1 and 50, or if you put in commas...

say I've got 1 and 3.

I've only got three Artboards, but you get the idea, right?

Also, in here you can select all Artboards...

or you might pick just the portrait Artboards...

or landscape, or the square Artboards.

I have no real idea why that's useful.

Somebody spent some time putting it in here, you might know.

I'm thinking, maybe landscape tablet and portrait tablet.

Maybe you've got designs that alternate that way.

Responsive design, let me know in the comments if you can think of--

maybe it's your job, and you're like...

"Man, that's going to really help me," let me know.

So I know why that's there.

What is useful though is, Include Objects on Canvas.

So at the moment it's ignoring anything that's in this pasteboard area.

But lets say so you do wanted to...

say you're one of those people who end up doing this.

You end up modifying things all the time...

and you end up with this kind of like trails to Narnina.

Anybody know of designers like this?

You don't realize that there's so much stuff out here.

What you can do is you can say, I want to select this...

but I also want to include everybody that's out in the canvas as well.

There you go, Stack Global Edit...

and they're all selected all the way out there.

Now one thing before we move on is...

it doesn't work at the moment for text and images, which is a bummer.

I'd love to be able to go, click on this, and go through and...

at least select all the text so I can update the text easily.

I know you could probably use Character Styles or something else.

If anybody knows of a way other than...

these Select, Same, and maybe any of these...

you can think of a way of selecting all that specific font...

because that's what I want, you, you, and you to do an update.

Let me know in the comments if you know a way.

Alright, let's get on to the next feature.

The next most amazing feature is something called the Freeform Gradient.

Now you could argue gradients are right in right now...

and if you're one of the people using it...

trying to do anything other than a Linear or Radial Gradient...

maybe you're one of these people...

Gradients are in, especially in this kind of UI sense.

What you've probably tried to use is something called the Gradient Mesh.

And you'll know if you've used it, man, it's painful.

Get ready to be blown away.

To make it work let's click on the fin here with the black arrow.

Let's grab the 'Gradient Tool', and where the magic happens is over here.

In your Properties Panel... there's a normal Linear, Radial...

and then this one, Freeform Gradient, give it a click.

It's going to do some magic over here, sometimes it gives you just one spot.

If I grab this one here, and do the exact same thing...

I want to show you both ways...

because sometimes yours might operate a little differently.

So I'll show you, same thing, Gradient Tool, Freeform Gradient.

This one here picks up a bunch of colors...

tries to kind of guess colors from your Swatches.

I actually don't know where it gets its colors from.

I think a mixture of Swatches and nearby colors.

Some sort of Illustrator voodoo, I'm going to undo that.

So I'm going to grab the fin here, grab my 'Gradient Tool'.

And I've just got one spot.

Basically I can double click it and I can change the color.

You can either use your Color Mixer or your Swatches.

I'm going to use the Swatches, I'm going to start with blue.

Hit 'Esc' to kind of close that window, I'm going to zoom in.

What we can do is just click anywhere else. I'm going to say I want one there.

I'm going to double click it, and I say, you are the green color.

Cool, huh? Well actually not that cool at the moment, just a Linear Gradient.

But if you put in a third one, double click here...

and put in the blue again...

you can see, now we're getting somewhere, I'm going to click down here.

Put in the green again, you can put in dots any way you like.

You don't have to battle with a Gradient Mesh.

You can do a few things, you can move them.

Very exciting, I'm going to add another one.

Just because it looks a little nicer, I practiced.

I'm trying to make it look nice anyway.

If you add one that you don't like...

just click it, hit 'Delete' on your keyboard.

You can play around with the extent.

If you click on one, can you see this dotted line...

with the little dot at the bottom?

Grab it, drag it out, drag it in.

It's just this spread, and how wide that Gradient goes.

Now it gets better, I'm going to grab my black arrow, click on the body here.

And I'm going to do the same thing, I'm going to grab my 'Gradient'...

go to Freeform Gradient Tool, the Freeform Gradient button.

It's going to be just one, I'm going to change him back to the green.

And then what I'm going to do is I want to have a kind of a line of them.

Imagine if there was a line option.

So I'm going to click on lines, what it's going to do is-- I'm going to click once.

That's giving me a funny color, I'm going to double click it.

I'm going to say, actually I want to get the blue.

To close this down you need to click on the dot or hit 'Esc' on your keyboard.

But you can see now, because I enabled that line...

I've got this thing that wants to join out.

So I'm going to click on once.

If you've ever used the Curvature Tool you'll know how this works.

If you haven't, Curvature Tool is an amazing new tool...

that came out in the last version; I love it.

But it kind of just easily joins curves.

I don't have to click and drag with Anchor Points, all that jazz.

Let's click once, click again.

And I click there, I'm going to go around here.

You can see it just does lovely, lovely curves.

So my Gradient will follow that curve, to get it--

it's still connected, right? Won't let go.

Hit 'Esc' on you keyboard, just disconnects it.

I can grab this start and just move them around, and you'll see...

he's got this lovely, kind of force field of blue around this line here.

Now I switch it back to 'Points' because I want to add another color.

Actually just wanted the green again.

To kind of really accentuate that kind of line that I've drawn.

Last little trick with the Freeform Gradient tool is...

It's not a trick, just want to try save some grace with that average Gradient.

I was doing this logo for my company, InstructorHQ...

I made this logo a couple of months ago.

It looks like this, kind of when it's finished...

and I spent ages trying to mess with Gradient Meshes...

and trying to get a, I guess a Non Linear Gradient.

I wish there's a tool around for it.

And especially in this case, because I want it look like...

not just getting darker but just disappearing...

so with it selected, 'Gradient Tool', click on 'Freeform Gradient'...

it picks a couple of dots, this first dot, it's going to be that color.

And this one here, I'm going to add a darker color, but back here -

I'm going to double click it.

- I want the Opacity to be at 0.

So it's not really-- actually I'm going to get the Spread up a bit as well.

So it's not only just disappearing, kind of like getting dark.

It's actually see-through.

I'm going to drag this across here so you can see.

It's actually poking through just a little background through.

That's the element that I wanted to do.

So all you need to do is, 'Gradient Tool', double click any of the 'Swatches'...

and just switch the Opacity at down to 0.

I'm going to select this one, grab the 'Eyedropper Tool'.

Switch around, look at that; easy.

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A little cross-sell over, let's get into the next best feature in Illustrator.

The next feature is to do with fonts.

And Adobe calling it Enhanced Visual Font Browsing.

Play along, open up the 'Font Browsing' file.

With the black arrow, click on the text, select any text box to get this going.

And you'll notice over here, the Character Panel...

if you click this drop down over here, you'll notice things have changed...

and I think, they're for the better.

Now the best thing is you can--

see the preview text over here, you can decide to look at small stuff, big stuff...

really big stuff, just gives you a bit of sense of the font.

And also, at the moment it's giving you...

can you see, it says the word, 'Can you send', which is pulling from over here.

You might say, actually it's not the text that I want to see...

I want to go to 'Selected Text'...

And you can pick 'Typography'.

So at least they are all looking a bit consistent...

and it's one word, and it's Title Case.

You've got quick brown frog, you've got upper case...

you can look at all the kind of glyphs.

All sorts of other options of kind of viewing them over here.

I'm going to go back to select the text, actually not.

I'm going to go back to 'Typography'.

I'm not sure why I like that one the best, just nice and clear, and consistent.

Another new option in here is this one here.

It's the Show Recently Added.

It's going to show you the fonts that you've just added to your computer.

The most recent ones, so if you just installed something from Typekit...

or just installed something on to your computer, just appear the top.

Because often that's what you want.

You've installed one, you want to find it.

But make sure when you're finished, click it off again...

you see that icon, on, off.

A couple of things have moved around, is you can see all my fonts down here...

instead of having-- see these two little icons...

the Favorite and the Show me visually similar ones...

have gone from the top here down to next to every font.

So what I can say is, I can say...

"Actually, I love this one, Myriad," I don't..

And I love this Remachine, I'm going to add these to my favorites.

So it's not new but it is in a new position.

Now what I can do is I can filter by all my favorite ones...

and you can see just got these two.

So if you're working in a company...

and you've only got a couple of fonts to pick from...

there's no point having this giant list, you've got to go and scroll through.

One of the other ones that moved is Find Similar, I love this one...

so let's say Lust Script here...

I want to find visually similar, it's this two little waves.

give it a click, it's going to go through and look at your machine...

and find ones that are visually similar. I don't know how it does it, but it does.

Playfair is pretty close, just somehow knows, really good.

Maybe not that one.

Undo.

Another thing to note in here is that...

I'm not sure if you remember, but I'm going to hit 'Back'.

They used to have up here, see, it shows me all my Typekit fonts.

Because Adobe is actually moving away from the word Typekit.

They're going to call it Adobe Fonts from here on in.

And they've changed the icon into that little TK.

I still like it because I downloaded lots of fonts from Typekit.

So I just want to show me the ones that I've downloaded...

and ignore the ones on my machine.

But now they're calling it, how are they calling it, Show Activated Fonts.

Activated from the old Typekit or activated from the new Adobe Fonts.

The same thing, but the icon's changed, and it's kind-- I don't know.

I'm not sure, I'm used to this cloud with the tick next to it here.

One of the really cool enhancements though...

is the connection between that Adobe Fonts, the old Typekit.

Is that you don't have to jump out to the website as much anymore.

See this one that says Find More?

What it does is it allows you to activate fonts from Adobe Fonts...

without having to go out to websites or any other sort of thing.

Just do it within here, it's like having this ginormous font library...

that we haven't had to steal for different jobs we worked on.

They're all just here ready to go, we never steal stuff.

So you can see in here, all sorts of cool fonts.

And you can say actually, I want to find...

I like this one here, and I want to find visually similar ones.

And so, looking at Adobe Fonts.

It's going through, it's slowly loading because it's connecting to the net.

You don't have to jump out, just say, you, go.

"Activate the font?" "Yes, please."

And it just comes in my library and downloads.

It's doing its little thing here, there it is there, installed, ready to go. Good.

Didn't apply it, not sure why.

It was Komu B, there it is.

So they've messed around with your Character Panel.

They've renamed Typekit to Adobe Fonts.

And my favorite one out of that whole bit...

is actually just going to find him...

and you just get a giant type library, ready to go.

No more 1001 Free Fonts or Dafont.

Alright, next feature, actually before we move on...

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Now the next feature.

The next feature is kind of a feature, it's good and bad...

but I know it's going to drive you mad if you're an experienced Illustrator user.

So for me, what it's doing now is...

can you see, the UI around the outside, it's got a lot bigger.

Let's have a look at the original version.

So this is 2018, it's kind of snug in the corners.

So what they've decided is...

they've worked out a clever way of saying...

this particular monitor that I'm using...

so I've plugged my Macbook Pro into this monitor, it's a big 4K LG monitor...

I love it, so it says, "Hey, it can--

this size is big, so I can bump up all the sizes, it's done that by default.

Now yours might not look the same as mine.

If you're working just on a small MacBook or MacBook Pro...

it's going to be different.

Tries to kind of identify the monitor size, and resize appropriately.

For me, it's driving me mad, especially when we were doing that last tutorial...

where we were kind of looking in here...

and it's all just a very bit big and squished into the corner.

So to change it, on a Mac you go to 'Illustrator CC', 'Preferences'...

and then go to this one that says UI.

I can't even find it, 'User Interface'.

If you're on a PC, it's in a slightly different place.

It's still called 'User Interface', but it's under 'Edit'.

And then the bottom here, it will say 'Preferences' somewhere...

then go to UI, but we'll end up at the same place

There we are. And it will decide.

Now mine's only got three stops here because of the monitor that I'm using.

Yours might have four stops or five stops.

Basically I just want to scroll mine down, you can go bigger.

Man, gives a giant mode.

Anybody see the Simpsons when home...

they had their dialing wand, and his hands were too big.

That's what that reminds me of.

But for us, or for me at least, I like it small.

Slightly small, just like, the back the way it used to be.

Now this will be different for everybody.

But the one thing, you can kind of see that note down here, it says...

it will only affect it once you've restarted it.

So click 'OK', it's going to say, you need to restart.

So I'm going to click 'OK'.

It's going to say, that file you've got opened, Dan, short thing.

So mine's restarted now, I had to actually go and open my version.

That didn't restart automatically, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

But this is the way I'm going to carry on for the rest of this tutorial.

Safety of a slightly slimmed down version. I like it like this.

One of the other things while we're in there...

is you might want to-- let's open up this one 'Gradients'.

Just a really handy thing for people.

I've got my Direct Selection Tool.

I've just got one of the documents open from earlier.

The handle size can be something that can be bumped up a little bit.

So all these anchor points and handles are quite small.

Doesn't really matter what your zoom level is, they've kind of the same size.

In a very similar place.

So instead of going to UI...

so User Interface, go to this one that says Selection and Anchor Point Display.

You can see this one, the default is this size.

If I crank it right up it's not where I want it but I'm just...

showing you for an example, can you see how much bigger they are.

That's really handy if you're new and you struggle with them...

or if you're like me, and you're an instructor for Illustrator...

these things are really fiddly to work with.

So I'm going to turn my back to something a little bit more manageable.

Remember on a PC, it's under 'Edit', Preferences', 'Selection and Display'.

I'm going to go back to something...

And I find that it's kind of a nice medium ground of size.

Again this really depends on the size of your monitor...

or the laptop screen you're using.

It's not really an upgrade but more of--

in case it's bothering you, you can go and do that.

All right, next feature.

The next feature I want to show you is, 'File', 'Open'...

and it's called 'Puppet Pin', open that one up if you're following along.

But I can't show it to you.

Why? Because the Puppet Pin Tool has disappeared.

And this brings up a feature, it's good for new users...

but if you are an experienced user you're going to be like, "Where did it all go?"

So they've tidied up the toolbar here to the ones that are used mostly.

Just makes it easier for newbies, and I can see why...

but I'm not a newbie, I want my toolbar to have everything.

Well at least I want most of it back, especially the Puppet Pin Tool.

This is called the Basic Toolbar.

To add it all back, hit this little dot down the bottom here.

The Edit Toolbar button.

And up the top is this Burger Menu in the top right.

Switch it back to 'Advanced', and you go back to like the mad amount of extra ones.

Those you'll never use, the Symbol Sprayer.

At the top here you can use this little Chevron to make a big long stack...

or double arrows, always have mine in a big long stack, for no reason.

Brings up a good point though.

There's lots of things in here we don't use, the Magic Wand Tool.

So what you might do is experiment this with me.

It's what I did, and I've really liked it.

I'm going to flip back to the basic.

What I'm going to do is just add the ones that are missing...

because they've actually done a pretty good job...

of picking the ones that I use the most.

In this case I need the Puppet Pin Tool, so I'm just going to add them as I go...

and save it as my own Tool Bar.

So in here I'm going to drop it out, and just have a little look through...

to look at the ones that are missing.

You can kind of tell by the ones grayed out.

And my one is down-- oh, where is it?

Puppet Pin Tool, I'll get the editor to speed this up...

because I can't see it, I know it's in there, but you're watching.

All right, you're back, found it, didn't take too long...

but to add it, there's a couple of things you can do.

First of all just click, hold, and drag it. I'm going to put it just above my--

you can see there, if I click here, so I just click hold, drag, drag...

I'm not letting go with the mouse.

You can see, I can put it between here or group it.

So I'm going to put it in between this one here, my Puppet Pin Tool's back.

But let's say you are-- like these ones here, the Liquify Tool...

you're like, "Man, I'm on Liquify Tool all day long."

What you can do is click the first one, hold 'Shift', grab the last one...

or you can hold down the 'Command' key on a Mac, or 'Ctrl' key on a PC...

you just kind of click the ones on and off that you want.

Let's say I love all of these except for the Scallop Tool.

What you can do is click, hold, drag those over and put them in a gap...

but can you see, it's actually created your own little group.

So you can really customize your toolbar, it gets better, well, it gets better.

Let's say that you're always using the Free Transform Tool but it's been removed.

So what you're going to do is you're going to decide...

I'm going to make my own little group by adding it to the Rotation Tool here.

So I'm clicking, holding...

and instead of putting it in between I'm going to group it here.

If you're sick of these tool tips as well, like I am...

I can turn those off under 'General', and you can disable those tool tips.

I got to leave mine on because I'm a trainer...

and I need to be the same as everyone else.

One last thing to show you is, down the bottom here...

so I've clicked the Edit toolbar, these little group down the bottom here.

And it's this group of icons here, so you can say--

I often use that one, I don't often use the Coloring option, you see there?

Your shortcuts for kind of adding a color, adding a gradient, or removing colors.

I use that one all the time, the back slash '/'...

really handy if you're going off on a tangent a little bit.

So I'm going to grab this, and if I want to remove the stroke...

I just hit the back slash, no, the forward slash.

Down the bottom right of your keyboard...

and even that can move around.

So look for the ford slash key '/'...

just kind of removes the stroke, a handy little shortcut.

I never use this little icon there...

so I'm going to just turn that off.

I don't use these Drawing options either...

and I don't use that Presentation option, I just want to tidy it all up.

Look at my sweet tool bar, clean and tidy.

So if you are missing anything, that's how to get there and get them back.

So we can finally get on to the Puppet Pin Tool.

Now if you were like, "Hey, didn't that come out last year?"...

and it did, but what they've done is...

they've made it a whole lot easier to work with.

So black arrow, I select this first whale here, and click on that 'Puppet Tool'.

Often you got to give it a second.

My one worked really fast that time, normally takes forever.

But the difference is, can you see, it's actually added pins for me.

Grab any one of them. Cool, huh?

So the Puppet Pin Tool just becomes a whole lot more usable.

If I practice with this one, so black arrow, select it all.

Grab the 'Puppet Pin Tool'.

If you've never used the Puppet Pin Tool...

it's added some, I'm going to add a couple of extras...

so you just click anywhere to add them.

Then we can kind of curl this around. Ah, amazing.

Just going to add them to add a bit of structure to it.

If you need to delete them click on one of them, hit 'Delete'.

If you need to click on one and rotate it...

it's just like, there's a little dotted line around the outside...

kind of similar to that gradient thing but you click and rotate this one here.

Click on them, rotate them.

What I find it really useful is character animation.

We draw something, you can reorganize it...

but do it for lots for this sort of stuff as well.

Don't think it has to be characters or puppets.

Selected this, I'll move it to the front.

So with it all selected, 'Puppet Pin Tool'.

And it's just really good for deforming stuff.

You just keep adding, it's still vector, which is cool.

And you can add it. Sometimes you need a couple of pins for it to work...

to get it to do what you want.

Maybe add loads up into first, Dan, before you start dragging it around.

You get the idea.

You can turn the mesh off as well.

It's not that useful, I find it's just easy to work without it.

Alright, next feature. The next features are to do with the Properties Panel.

So what they've done is they've try to streamline the Properties Panel.

So there's some helpful stuff in here just to kind of make us...

a little bit easier to work in Illustrator while we're working; that makes sense.

First one to show you is...

grab the Direct Selection Tool, I've got properties.ai open.

I'm going to click on this Anchor Point in the ear here.

And what they've done is they've dragged out the corner option.

Wasn't even sure where that was before...

but now it's nice and easy here, I can kind of increase it...

and do some actual physical measurements for corners to make sure they all match up.

I've set to centimeters at the moment, but you can just type in 10px.

Just click 'Return', and it will do the adjustments for us.

Next modification is for the people that use the Width Tool a lot.

I love it.

I am going to-- white arrow, click on this guy.

I am going to grab the 'Width Tool'...

looks like the little harp or bow and arrow over here.

If you haven't used it before, man, it's cool.

But you probably have...

so you can grab any of these lines here, and just drag them out

What they've done for the adjustments though is they've actually...

brought the width profile out now so we can see it and work on it.

Before, in the last version...

so this is the 18 version, the last one...

'Width Tool', grab it here, where do they hide it?

I think they hid it under...

so it's not here, you had to go under 'Stroke', and it was kind of into here.

Not a big drama, but they've dragged all of this useful stuff out.

So the profile that it's using, you can kind of reset it back to normal.

And you can flip it, let's have a little look at the new version.

So with it selected here you can see...

I can rotate it around the line, around my shape.

What else have they done with the Properties Panel?

Open up 'Blending' options.

If you are a blender, like this kind of like linocut thing I've done here...

so I got two separate shapes...

I can use my width just to handsome them up a little bit, look at that.

Love the Width Tool. Blend them both together.

Click on the background, so they're deselected, grab the 'Blend Tool'.

It's along the little squares to circles.

And then up here magically keep clicking till you see that little +.

Can you see, my icon has the +.

So I've done that like a one-step blend.

And what you used to have to do is double click the tool...

but now you've got blending options here , in your Properties Panel, I can say...

Specify Steps, let's have ten of them, maybe eight of them, preview it.

You get the idea, the kind of like a linocut effect

Now with these linocuts here they can look good with a bit of a Drop Shadow.

Totally just adding a Drop Shadow so I can show you the next effect.

So 'Effect', 'Stylize', 'Drop Shadow'.

Turn preview on.

I've turned mine way down, so I've got it like 1pt x 1pt x 1pt.

And I've lowered the Opacity to 40% to make it less horrible.

Let's click 'OK'. What you can now do is if you've got something...

what you can now do, if you've got an effect over here you can see...

I've got a Drop Shadow applied, is my like mini appearance panel.

You can actually delete it from here.

What you used to have to do is you'd have to go up into here...

and find it and delete it.

That was the long way, now what you can do is just find one, like this fella...

three of these guys, and because there is an effect applied...

you can hit the trash can.

That only works if there's one effect applied.

If you add loads of different effects...

you still have to go into the Appearance Panel.

Alright, last update for the Properties Panel...

is for the variable fonts, remember, we looked at this last time.

So I've just made a text box and I'm going to pick any of these.

Can you see these OpenType fonts here...

that little icon that says Var next to it...

it means it's a variable type font, and they are magic.

So pick any of the ones that have them, the VARs.

I'm going to pick this, Acumin.

And the cool thing about it is...

because it's a variable font now it's really easy with this little icon.

This wasn't there before, if you click on it, it gives you this nice slider.

If you've never seen a variable font before this is pretty magical, watch.

Thin, and there's no like thick, thin, normal, medium, bold...

black letter, weights, just everything in between.

I can't believe how this works.

So every sort of weight in there, same with width.

So you can pick super condensed...

all the way up to these really long extended versions.

Then the slant here, so italicizing it.

They're not all-- I picked this one because...

it has the weight, width, and slant, not all variable fonts.

Some of them just have weight, some of them just have width.

At the moment we only have a few built in...

they come with Illustrator to kind of show it off.

But if you've fallen in love with variable fonts...

you know it will help you with your crazy job, whatever you're doing...

go see if we can find some OpenType variable fonts and pay for them.

There are more out there.

So that's it for the updates to the Properties Panel.

Let's get to the next update.

The next one is good, kind of weird, kind of good though.

Is something to do with actual size.

I've opened up 'actual size.ai' from the exercise files.

Now we go to 'View'...

Adobe claims, if I click on actual Size, and I click on this...

now what size is it really in the real world?

They say that is-- I'm using A4 because I am in Europe at the moment...

and everything I do is A4.

Let's say it's US Letter, doesn't matter whatever size it says it is...

your screen should actually be that size right now.

So I'm going to hit the F key a couple of times.

F key twice, that kind of gets it into-- gets rid of all the toolbars and stuff.

And I'm going to jump to real world Dan...

to grab a bit of paper and check that this is actually A4 in the real world.

All right, so I'm here, this is the live view, I don't believe, Adobe.

My microphones here, so it might get a bit quiet as I head off...

but A4 paper, because I am in Ireland...

it is totally A4, exactly to the pixel.

So somehow that works.

Let's jump back into the computer and move on to the next thing

I don't know why I didn't trust Adobe...

but it was nice to get out of the seat, walk around, grab some paper, real stuff.

So let's move on to one of the other new updates.

This one is Presentation mode.

Just a second ago I hit the F key a couple of times...

and it kind of gets it into a similar kind of Presentation mode but it's not.

So I tapped the F key twice on my keyboard.

It just kind of removes the background.

You can still work but you can see these guys side by side.

I was wondering why the Presentation mode was different.

So I tested it and basically what it does is...

if you go to 'View', and go to 'Presentation Mode'...

what it does is, excludes everything else away...

makes this full screen, so it's more like a PowerPoint slide.

You can use your cursors, I can go forward and back.

So you could design-- instead of using PowerPoint you could use Illustrator...

to kind of design a really nice presentation...

and present it straight from your computer.

On to a big data projector or a big TV screen.

And not have to kind of do that hop through...

either PowerPoint or Mac's Keynote.

It might be just putting your design ideas to a client on your computer.

It gets rid of all the stuff in the background, you can cycle through it.

'Esc' gets you out of it.

One of the other ones that is new, and it's quite cool...

is this document here is being set up as Bleed, you can see in the corners here...

so my A4 full page actually ends at that.

That's getting real nice and close, that black line there.

So this stuff here is bleed, it's going to get trimmed off and thrown in the bin.

So it's handy there while you're working...

but it's kind of a pain...

you want to just get rid of any stuff that's over the edges here.

You can do that by going to 'View', and there's one that says 'Trim'.

There it is,'Trim View'.

And it just cuts down everything that's in your pasteboard...

and only shows you everything on the Artboard...

the canvas over here disappears.

Just like InDesign, if you've ever done it, tap the 'W' key to go into Preview Mode.

Similar here, in Illustrator, you might even set up the same shortcut.

There's no shortcut for it the moment.

If you love it, you can go into Shortcuts and make one.

You're probably looking at the time and going...

"Man, this is long, how much more can there be?

Just a couple more, hang around for a little bit more.

I'll show you the last ones, and you will be totally up to date.

The next update is kind of an UI update...

just to make things easier to work with Gradients.

Different from the Freeform Gradient.

This one got lumped towards the end of the video...

because it's good, but not life changing.

I'm going to go to 'Window', and open up the 'Gradients' panel.

Can't find it, Gradient.

So it looks different from the last one.

I've actually done a screenshot and put in this guy.

This is the old version so we can compare the two.

You'll notice the big change is...

down the bottom here you've got these circles instead of the little houses...

which just better represent the colors.

So remember that thing doesn't work.

I'm going to click on this, that's my Gradient.

To add ones, is the same, click anywhere in here.

What's really new and quite helpful...

it's not just changing the colors here or changing them into circles...

see this Eyedropper, didn't exist before.

Now though I can go-- where is this, there's my color.

I can go, actually I want, I've got it selected, I want that to be that color.

So it's just a really easy way to pick colors or swatches...

from different parts of the document...

rather than double clicking them, going inside, and messing around in here

What else has changed? The icons along the top instead of a drop down.

In the older version of Illustrator...

you can see, I've got the Gradient Tool selected here...

and it gives me this white blob and the square blob down the end.

It's not trying to hover above it till it gives me the kind of color stops...

whereas in the new version it's a lot easier to use.

Props to Illustrator for making these tiny changes.

Just to make life a little bit easier.

So we've got one more to go through before we do...

our kind of conclusion and next steps for you...

but before you do that I'd really appreciate...

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If you're keen to do any of my courses...

I've got courses across the entire Adobe Suite...

but with respect to this video...

it's probably Illustrator Essentials or Illustrator Advanced.

Alright, last feature.

The last one is, they've updated the Outline view.

If you love working in Outline view...

which is Command Y on a PC, or Ctrl Y on a Mac...

or the long way, View, Outline.

I love working in this mode especially when kind of dealing with...

trying to connect anchor points and lines.

You'll notice, in the new version of 2019 it is super smooth.

I'll get the editor to zoom in on it a bit.

So it looks really nice, let's compare to the other version, the older version.

Look how crankly that is.

So we're going to go from one version to the other version.

I couldn't get them to quite line up but you get the idea.

It's a little hard to show you here, but if you're working on...

really complex lines, say you've got strokes everywhere...

it just runs really fast.

It's in outline mode now.

Basically the GPUs helping out where it wasn't before.

Alright, so that's the last tip.

If you've made it this far hang about for a second...

we'll do a bit of next steps, what you can do...

but I'll do it in real life, let's jump out now.

Alright, it is real me. My name is Daniel Scott...

and you've been watching the Illustrator 2019 updates.

What can you do next? There is a free cheat sheet.

Just a printable PDF thing that I've made that you can download, print...

stick next to your computer, and has all the kind of tips and tricks...

and shortcuts for people using Illustrator.

There is one for Photoshop as well, and InDesign, and After Effects.

There's all sorts of stuff.

You can get it from bringyourownlaptop.com

Click on the Resources tab along the top.

There's loads in there, it's free, no sign up, just download and enjoy.

The other thing you might do is that I've done updates for 2019 releases...

for all the software, well the ones I know at least.

There's one for Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator.

After Effect, Premiere, what else is there?

XD, there's Animate, Dreamweaver.

So go check out those videos if you want to get updated on all of those.

But that is us, me and you, we're done.

It's a long video, glad you made it to the end.

I will see you again in a different video maybe.

Alright, bye now.