From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 2019

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 2019

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to assign global edits in Illustrator CC 2019, my preferred way, which is from the control panel. And so the first thing I'm going to do is go to the word Essentials, up here in the top right corner of the screen, and switch to Essentials Classic. Which is going to bring back my full toolbox, as well as the horizontal control panel along the top of the screen. And then, what I like to do is grab my Layers panel, which is represented by this icon right here, and drag it and drop it into the Properties group. Alright, I'm going to go ahead and twirl close this layer right here. And, I'm going to make the Layers panel a little wider so that I can see the names of all my layers. And then I'll press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on the Mac, in order to center my zoom. Alright, now let's say I want to modify the color of this gradient, which appears by the way on every single artboard. And you can see that's the case as I press shift + PgDn. Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch back to my black arrow tool, which you can get by pressing the V key. And then, I'll click on this big rectangle to select it and as I can see over on the far left side of the control panel, I have selected a rectangle, which is what's known as a live shape inside Illustrator, making it a dynamic object. However, if I were to change the gradient associated with this rectangle, I would not affect the other ones, unless I were to move over to this icon right here on the far left side of the control panel, which reads start editing similar shapes together. And that is your ticket to global edit up here in the control panel. Alright, so I'll go ahead and click on it. And notice that it stays clicked and you can also see that Illustrator has revealed the contents of this backs layer and that shows us that this particular guy right here is selected and these two purple guys are going to change in kind. Alright, now I'll move up to this button Edit Gradient, once again located in the control panel, and I'll click on it. And that's going to automatically switch me over to the gradient tool and display this vertical gradient editor, which helpfully displays the colors in your gradient as small circles. Alright, now that top color is just fine with me. Not too happy with the bottom one however. So I'm going to go ahead and double click on it in order to bring up a list of swatches. Or you can dial in your own color by clicking on this color icon. Plus, we have this new option right here, this eyedropper, which allows you to lift a color from your artwork. And so notice if I select the eyedropper and then let's say click inside of the Triceratops, I am going to change that color to that pale purple. That's not what I want however. So I'm going to double click on that little circle once again and I'm going to make sure that I'm seeing my swatches, at which point I'll go ahead and select this shade of green, the one that begins R=34, in order to produce this effect here. Alright, so obviously I've changed the color of the gradient associated with the selected rectangle. But thanks to the fact that my global edits icon is still turned on, I've also changed the other rectangles. And we can see that's the case if I were to press shift + PgUp to advance to each of the previous artboards. Alright, so at this point, assuming that I'm done, I'll just go ahead and click that icon that now reads stop editing similar shapes together, in order to turn off my global edit. And you can see that the colors associated with each one of the rectangles here inside the layers panel switches back to the color assigned to the layer itself, which happens to be violet. And just in case you're wondering about those specific global editing controls that we saw on the previous movie, you can get to those by clicking this down pointing arrowhead. And so in other words, nothing about this experience is diminished if we work from the horizontal control panel as opposed to the much, much larger Properties panel. And there you have my preferred method of applying global editing, which is one of my favorite new features inside Illustrator CC 2019.

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