The basics of Adobe Illustrator Appearance Panel

Appearance panel contained in Adobe Illustrator allows us to customize the object fills and strokes, every effect has been applied to the object.

Appearance panel is an indispensable tool in determining the structure of an object. Fill / fill and stroke will be displayed in the order that is applied to an object, in the same way to the other chronologically.

Adobe Illustrator that is now greatly improved in terms of complexity, here apperance panel becomes more important, because it makes the process of editing and and can customize our documents much easier.

The steps we have to do is:

- With Adobe Illustrator CS4 opens, select the Go to Bridge button in the Control panel.

- After the Bridge opens, navigate to the folder and open file.ai by double clicking on it.

- Once the file is opened in Illustrator. Activate the Selection tool in the Tools panel and select the red oval behind the text by clicking to the left.

- Open the Appearance panel by choosing Window> Appearance in the dock on the right side of our work space.

Appearance panel displays the attributes of the currently selected object.

The selected object is fill with red, has a stroke that is in blue.

- In the Appearance panel, select Stroke list. After clicking a list, a stroke color swatches panel and Stroke Weight drop-down menu and slider appears, right there on the panel.

- Select 3 pt from the Stroke Weigh the drop-down menu. This is true 3-point stroke to red objects in the background.

Press the arrow next to the drop-down menu and select the Stroke color White from Swatch panel that appears.

Stroke Color option in the Control panel makes it easy to apply color to the stroke of the selected object.

Now that we have applied a white stroke for our object.

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