for today's logo design tutorial stay
tuned to the very end because I'm gonna
give you a test or quick quiz on the
material in the video itself so learn
some key and essential techniques of
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now the first technique today is to do
with color when we have a logo design or
pretty much any designer for that matter
illustrator for working on prints we
normally have the color picker set to
CMYK now what if I actually want to
lower the brightness or heighten the
brightness or maybe drop the saturation
a little bit that's quite difficult to
do using the CMYK sliders say for
example I want to make the same color
purple a little bit brighter it's kind
of difficult so instead heading to the
fly down menu and select the H s B color
values these stand for hue saturation
and brightness now at the top we can
toggle the hue left and right but more
importantly we can adjust the saturation
and the brightness which can really help
to adjust your designs in terms of their
saturation or brightness you can easily
make monochrome designs using this and
it's also something I use for my logo
designs we are experimenting with color
and different tones
so you don't always stick to CMYK or RGB
the HSB method is actually really useful
now the second tip today in illustrator
for Lego designing involves the grid now
I know many of you and myself included
we do like to use grids for graphic
design especially logo design now the
problem you might face when using the
grid is that when you go to design a
logo on there you might think that
you're lining up your vector pass along
the grid lines precisely but in fact if
you take a closer look you're pretty far
off and this is probably because you
don't have the snap to grid setting
activated in the view drop down menu
after activating the setting and when
you go back to draw your pen tool path
lines you will see and feel how other
vector paths snaps to the grids when you
take a closer look you will notice that
it perfectly aligns along the grid and
yes this also works for shapes too
resizing shapes and generating them will
all conform to the grids also you can
enter into outline mode by pressing
command or control Y on your keyboard
and there will still be the main larger
sections of the grid present for you to
see not a third technique or tip for
Lego designing is a quick pointer to a
specific way you might want to design
your Legos and that is the drew inside
function that many people don't even
know exists so let's make a circle here
and you're going to find at a bottom the
color palettes the drawing the side
option so now whenever you take the
brush tool for example or the pen tool
anything you drill will actually be
enclosed in that shape and this is a
quick way to make some new designs for
you know potential logo design
and it might even be the way the dribble
logo was created if you take a look at
that logo for yourself now moving on to
the fourth of five tips in today's video
on liga design techniques i have to
remind you all of compound paths yeah I
know I've talked about them before on my
channel is something that many designers
underestimate and especially for Lego
designing so if I make a compound path
of these two shapes here cutting the
wolf head into the circle I've actually
made the incision into the shape itself
but the cool thing about compound paths
is that I can take the group selection
tool and then click on my design and
then press V and I can actually move
around scale and adjust the shape inside
of the other shape using the Pathfinder
option doesn't allow this and this is
why it's an awesome non-destructive way
of working with your Lego designs also
you can release the compound path when
you're finished as well now the last
technique or tip when logo designing
illustrator is to use the outline mode
now this is especially useful when you
have different design elements of the
same color just press command or control
Y to enter into outline mode and then
you can see your design with precision a
say for example if I want to bring my
design up to the circle edge I can do
that properly and completely precise
with the outline mode
so now after you've heard the five
techniques for Lego designing it's time
to test your knowledge and your
attention spans in this last part of the
video so in the illustrator color picker
what does HSB stand for the answer of
course was hue saturation and brightness
where is the snap to grid setting in
Adobe Illustrator it's located under the
view top drop-down menu where is the
draw inside option located within a
debut illustrator you can find this just
below the color palettes which was
bottom left of my screen now what kind
of scheme and did I say it was easy to
make using the HSV sliders monochrome is
the correct answer
and it's a lot of fun making monochrome
designs using those sliders which
selection tool did I use to move objects
around after making a compound shape the
answer here was the group selection tool
what is the keyboard shortcut for the
outline mode in Adobe Illustrator this
one's pretty easy so you should all get
it and then its command or control Y and
lastly what is the main reason for using
a compound path on a logo design the
answer is it's a non-destructive
workflow method and it allows you to
make edits to the design later in the
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