Automation with Clones and Linked Files
You’ve finished the logo! Well, you thought you had anyway...but after meticulously pouring over every detail of the logo or illustration and accompanying swag mock-ups (that is, t-shirts, mugs, business cards, and so on), you get that dreaded last-minute Can you just change one thing in the logo for us? email from the client. You could go back and re-do all those carefully designed mock-ups or copy/paste in the new logo revisions, or you can hop in my patented Should Have Done it Differently time machine and make all your mock-ups with clones instead!
That would allow us to change just the original logo and have the changes appear automagically everywhere we used clones, but what are clones really, and how do we use them?
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- What is a clone?
- Cloning groups
- Clones as clips and masks
- Changing Clone Fill and Stroke Colors
- Clone management using clones of clones...
