Illustrator Tips & Tricks For Faster Work

If you're using the same artwork or icons throughout our projects, then using the symbols panel is a great way of building a collection of artwork that can be quickly draw from in between projects

Setting a swatch to "global" is useful if you plan to change the colouring in the artwork on the future because any object with a global colour applied to it will automatically change if you go back to swatch and edit it.

The Transform Again shortcut Ctrl+D [Win], Cmd+D [Mac] is useful for rapidly repeating the last transformation action performed.

The action panel is used to save and automate tasks, making it ideal for making changes in bulk.

Graphic styles are a great way to save reuse an appearance you've created so that you can use it whenever you need same styling for any object.