Thankfully this has been fixed in Illustrator CC 2019. 100% Zoom = Real Life Sizeĭepending on your monitor size and resolution, 100% zoom has not always matched real life sizes. Change the original and all the copies will be automatically updated!įor more options on what will be edited, click the arrow to the right of the Properties panel’s Start Global Edit button or the Control panel’s button.

In the Control panel (the bar at the top of the screen) click the button.Īll the copies will become highlighted.

In the Properties panel click Start Global Edit.

Go into the Select menu and choose Global Edit.

If you have many copies of an element throughout a file, you can now edit them all at the same time! After selecting one of the copies, start a global edit by doing one of the following:

You can switch between the two modes in the Gradient panel, Properties panel, or Control panel. These color stops can be points or lines. You can add color stops (places where you choose a color) anywhere in an object and move them around. Freeform gradients are similar to a gradient mesh, but are easier to work with and the color blending acts differently. In addition to Linear and Radial gradients, Adobe added a new kind of gradient called Freeform gradients. Each year Adobe comes out with new features, so what changed in Illustrator CC 2019? We’ll cover the most important changes we think you should know about.

Illustrator 2019