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The power of appearances - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
The power of appearances
- [Instructor] Illustrator appearances are an amazing topic and in fact everything you can see pretty much is an appearance attribute, but Illustrator allows you to combine them in ways that are almost limitless. I have played with them for years and I never cease to be amazed by what is possible. So, what I've got here is an array of cards. And what I'd like you to think about is how many objects are used to make this card or this set of five cards. Interesting question, right? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go into outline mode now, so you can see how many objects I made. So, here I go up to the view menu and outline mode, there you go and if you're on a phone or something small like that, you're probably thinking there's nothing there. Well there is something there and it's just down here and in fact, it is one single anchor point. There's nothing else, there's no rectangle, nothing. It is just a single anchor…
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