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llustrator's Interface

• — Using panels
• — Setting and customising artboards
• — Customising and saving workspaces
• — Application Bar
• — Smart Guides
• — Smart Cursor
• — Tools
• — Rulers and ruler guides
• — Setting Application & Document Preferences
• — Tabbed Windows / Multiple Documents
• — Screen modes
• — Zooming, panning and document navigation
• — Viewing defaults / Fit in window / 100%
• — Display performance
• — Contextual Menus
• — New and Improved Status Bar

Selections

• — Shift selection
• — Marqueeing
• — Select all
• — Group and ungroup
• — Shift to constrain horizontally and vertically
• — Alt/Opt for duplicating objects
• — Arrow keys to nudge
• — Eye dropper tool to sample

Creating objects

• — Rectangle / Ellipse / Polygon
• — Creating and customising starbursts
• — Strokes and fills
• — Shift to constrain
• — Alt/Opt to create from centre out
• — Moving objects
• — Resizing objects
• — Locking and unlocking objects
• — Rotating objects
• — Scaling objects - scaling strokes and fills

Transforming objects

• — Selecting reference point on control panel
• — Positioning items using X & Y
• — Arrangement Order / Send to back or front
• — Step and Repeat
• — Aligning objects / using smart guides
• — Distributing objects / using smart guides
• — Creating Lines
• — Adding arrow heads

Working with Layers

• — Adding layers / Hiding

Creating Logos

• — Create a logo using the object tools and transform commands
• — Create a logo using the object tools pathfinder panel

Colours & Swatches

• — Importing spot colours
• — Creating swatches: CMYK, RGB, Spot,
• — Using preset gradients
• — Creating and customising gradients
• — Saving gradients into swatches panel
• — Applying gradients to objects and type
• — Blending