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freehand-2-illustrator.jpg Masks

This is probably one of my biggest pet peaves with Illustrator: the ability to select hidden/masked items.

Thanks for watching my sub-par videos and for the great comments!

Update - I had to temporarily delete this video. YouTube conversion messed it up. I’ll rerecord and repost soon. 

freehand-2-illustrator.jpgIllustrator Drawing Tools Feature Requests

This one covers several drawing tools and requests, all listed below the videos. It’s all about giving us options to work the way we like to work, not the way Illustrator tells us to.

Part 1

Part 2

Feature requests: 

  • The ability to place several scans/bitmap images at a time
  • The ability to move an item to another layer just by clicking on the desired layer
  • Line preview with the pen tool (make it an option)
  • The ability to toggle between the pen tool, the selection tool, and the subselection tool on the fly
  • Somehow indicate that a path is closed or open
  • The option to have the fill color show, or not until the path is closed
  • Bezigon-like tool
  • Deleting a point with the delete key only deletes the point, doesn’t break the path (make it an option!)
  • The option to highlight selected path, or not

freehand-2-illustrator.jpgIllustrator Subselect Feature Request

This has slowed me down since the beginning.

See it here!

freehand-2-illustrator.jpgIllustrator Feature Request: Gradient Transparencies

Here’s another feature I’d like to see improved in Illustrator.

See it here!

freehand-2-illustrator.jpgIllustrator/Freehand Star Tool

As promised, here is the first of hopefully many such videos showcasing features that I hope Adobe will add to future versions of Illustrator.

See it here!