today I have 11 of the most useful keyboard shortcuts you can find in
Illustrator some of them are obvious but many of the shortcuts today you're not
going to be using or maybe you don't even know about them
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when drawing with a pen tool or even just making some shapes we often have
the smart guides enabled when you have them enabled you can see by gentle smart
guides that they're going to inform you when you in line other design objects
this can be useful but in some instances it can actually be annoying because
illustrator will snap your cursor on your point other locations we can toggle
between having the smart guides on or off by pressing command or control U on
your keyboard so now as you can see there are no more magenta smart guides
and this saves you time because you're not going to need to go into the
Preferences to turn them off or on the next keyboard shortcut is for making a
compound path and we make compound paths in Illustrator for various different
reasons and normally you need to go into the top drop-down menu however you can
simply press command or control 8 to turn the object into a compound path one
reason we make a compound path is to enable a shape to be turned into a
clipping mask we can normally do this by right or control clicking the selection
like so
however you can press command or control seven to make a clipping mask another
nifty keyboard shocker in Adobe Illustrator sometimes when working
illustrator we might have a very busy artboard and thus we want to hide some
objects instead of completely removing them to do this select the objects and
press command or control 3 and of course to unhide the object you can press
option command or option control and three another shortcut it saves you a
lot of time is pasting in front or behind up an object when we copy an
object we command or control C we often paste the object the command or control
V if we want to place the object directly in the same position we can
instead press command or control F which is also going to make sure it's in the
front of all other layers and objects hence the command shocker F put in front
alternatively we can press command or control B to paste it to the very back
of all objects on your design I use this keyboard shortcut a lot when working
with an illustrator the next shortcut is based around typography we can press T
for the type tool but also pressing command or control T will bring up the
type window but yet further still we can quickly increase or decrease the size of
your text with the two keyboard shortcuts that you're seeing on screen
now
these are also shortcuts I often use in Illustrator and all of the shortcuts in
today's video are going to save you heaps of time when used in combination
the next Shaka is super useful and you should be using in your workflow first
we can duplicate a shape by holding down the alt/option key but we can actually
repeat that process with command or control D now this is very useful indeed
and I use this almost every single design in some way shape or form it's a
true time-saver
if you want to access the illustrator preferences we often need to go to the
top left of the menu like so however you can simply press command or control K
now I've actually made a great video on my favorite custom settings within the
Preferences and you can check that out linked in the top right corner
another illustrator shortcut that I use every single day is command or control G
to group objects together you should also note that it is a shortcut to
ungroup objects too both are really handy to know the next two shortcuts are
quite obvious to some but we will start learning so - traitor and I'm sure some
people don't know them yet and that is how to zoom in and out considering we
use these commands all of the time I need to mention them
and lastly to quickly move around the artboard hold down the spacebar and
click and drag this one is so simple but I couldn't live without it on work
English writer I'll use it literally all the time now if you find my content you
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