today I have three useful illustrator tools that you probably don't use when
you don't use that often so let's dive right into today's illustrator tutorial
on three useful tools the first useful illustrator tool is the group selection
tool which is a time-saver and a technical wonder so I have this design
here which is made up of two different vector shapes I can select both shapes
and group them together the command or control G or you can group them in the
very top here now these two shapes are grouped together however we can
duplicate this group with the alt/option key making three separate groups but
further still we can actually group all of the three groups together into one
huge group having groups inside of groups is essential for some designs but
it can get quite confusing and annoying how can we edit one aspect of this
design group within multiple groups you might try to use the isolation method
where you double click a specific shape however you're going to notice that you
can not actually access one shape by itself as a groups inside of groups so
under the direct selection tool you can find the group selection tool this will
allow you to select between multiple groups within groups and access the
shapes individually click once to select a shape or an object then click again to
highlight that group and then click again to highlight the larger group this
is super useful as you can quickly access and click between objects in
multiple groups and then edit them thereafter
the next useful is traitor tool that you probably don't use is not only a time
saver but it can be used in place of the pen tool to create unique shapes here we
have a vector shape that is just a stroke without a fill but this tool does
work on filled shapes to the tool we're going to be using now is the reshape
tool which is here to use the reshape tool we must first select the vector
path with the direct selection tool like so you can then take the reshape tool
and click and drag the vector path anywhere on the shape this is great for
quick edits to shapes we're making a design anytime you use the reshape tool
it's going to add another anchor point onto the vector path you can also press
F the direct selection tool to edit the anchor points themselves the normal way
people would do something like this would be to add an anchor point with the
anchor point tool and then use direct selection tool as well however there are
shape tools a lot faster that allows you easier manipulation or your vector
shapes
the last yeast will illustrate a tool that you might not be using is the
smooth tool now this is an awesome tool if you're not amazing with the pen tool
for example this cruelly drawn shape here while a stiff shape is selected
with the selection tool you can locate the smooth tool here
now it's just a case of either drawing along the path that you want to smoothen
out or you can click an anchor point to smoothen the entire shape by itself
you can of course take the direct selection tool and move anchor points
around and then go back and use the smooth tool again to smoothen out the
path I'm sure you can see that it's obvious how this will be useful when
working on tricky or an even perhaps in a debut the straighter
so there were three useful the straighter tools that you probably don't
use let me know what you guys thought today's video down the comment section
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