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Expand the appearance of objects

Expand the appearance of objects - Illustrator Tutorial

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Expand the appearance of objects

at the topic of expanding artwork. When you expand something in Illustrator, editable in ways that aren't accessible when you use things like graphic styles or blends. In our file, we have a number of stars that to look at them in outline mode, you can see that they're all just simple stars. and can be removed or altered with just a click. But, it might be pretty hard, or even impossible to edit specific aspects of these appearances. to make the changes that I want. And, you should understand that doing this and then I'll choose object, expand appearance. And now, I'll go back to outline mode and see that in some cases, I have new and very different vector objects there are now raster images which are embedded in my file. and checking the control panel. The stars that used Illustrator effects, like the 3-D, the scribble, and the pucker and bloat, I also want to show you how to expand a blend, so you can access each step of the blend as an independent object. the blend as an…

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