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Selection tools

Selection tools - Illustrator Tutorial

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Selection tools

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There are a lot of tools in Adobe Illustrator and there's so much techniques and settings that we could talk about if we wanted to cover everything. However, luckily for the exam you don't have to know all of them and in this first part I want to focus on the essential Illustrator tools or as they refer to it the core tools. Now we will be coming back to these later in this topic but first and most importantly let's talk about the selection tools. The first tool in the toolbar, the black arrow is the one that we use to make selections and it's always going to select an entire group or even multiple groups joined together into a larger group like in this case, however you can use the double click method to dive deeper into your selection so that's what we call isolation or isolate mode. Now we are inside the main group and I can select individually these groups or if I then double click again I can dig even deeper and select even smaller elements. When I double click outside I can go…

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