From the course: Illustrator for the In-House Designer

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Using symbols and libraries

Using symbols and libraries - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator for the In-House Designer

Start my 1-month free trial

Using symbols and libraries

“

- Whenever you've got multiple instances of a piece of artwork inside of a file, using symbols makes tons of sense. You can also combine symbols with your Creative Cloud Library. So if it's something you use all the time, and you use multiples of them in a file, then just nest them in a Creative Cloud Library. So what I'm going to do here is just for way of demonstration, is to take this small bulb item, here, which is currently on another layer. I'll bring it down onto this middle layer here, and just lock the topmost layer. So I'm working entirely in this middle layer, here, for the moment. And I'll turn this into a symbol. So, the quickest way for me to do that, probably here, is to drag that into the Symbols panel like so. If I call this bulb, because having a name is a good thing, and I'll leave it as dynamic, just in case I want to change any of the colors in any parts of instances of it later on. And actually, while I'm here, I'll just clean out the stuff that I don't need in…

Contents