Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To and today I'm going to show you
some really common keyboard shortcuts and settings in Adobe Illustrator. And if you're a beginner,
this is perfect for you. But if you've used Illustrator a few times, you're probably
going to know all these. If you want to use the same file that I used in this video,
I'll leave a link below to the Google Drive file. And by the way, this is an excerpt
from my Skillshare class 10 Easy Things to Draw in Adobe Illustrator. So if you like the way I teach,
and you want to take that class for free, there's a link in a comment down below. That will give you
two free weeks to Skillshare, so you can take all my classes for free. Alright,
let's get started. In this video, I'm going to go over a few settings, and a few common keyboard
shortcuts. So let's open the first exercise file called Exercise 1 Common, I'll go to File > Open.
And then I'll navigate to the Exercise 1 Common file. And I'm going to open this now. For you,
this might be in your Downloads folder. I also want to mention another thing about the toolbar.
Now I like to have mine as two columns. And to change that, you can just click this two little
arrows button right up here. This will make it one column and clicking it again, will make it
two columns. You also might find that you're not seeing as many tools as are shown on my screen.
So to fix that, click these three little dots, and then choose this little flyout. Up here,
yours might be set to Basic, so you'll want to change that to Advanced, then if it disappears,
go to Window toolbars and Advanced again. Okay, the first common shortcut is the letter V. V will
bring you to your Selection tool, which is this tool right up here. With this tool, you can click
on an object and move it around. So let's click on it and just bring it over here to the little
pointer. Now you'll notice that it goes in front of the little pointer. We can change the stacking
order by using our Arrange menu command. You'll want to make sure you have an object selected, and
then you'll go to Object > Arrange, and then send it back. Now it's underneath the pointer. Now when
you do that, you can see the keyboard shortcuts are right here on the right side of the selection.
So if we wanted to bring this back to the front, that would be SHIFT CMD ], or SHIFT CTRL ],
on Windows. Another very common keyboard shortcut is copy, which is CMD C on a Mac
and CTRL C on a Windows machine. So let's copy and then paste this - CMD V or CTRL V.
Those two are very, very common. And you can use them in almost any program, not just Illustrator.
You can use them in Word, Excel, Photoshop, a lot of different programs support this.
You can even copy files and paste them like that by hitting CMD C and CMD V or CTRL C
and CTRL V. Let's click our gear and delete it. Another very common keyboard shortcut is CMD G
or CTRL G and that is Group. So with our V tool, the Selection tool, let's click on this umbrella,
you'll notice we've only clicked on this piece up here. And if we move this,
the bottom part of the umbrella doesn't move. I'm going to hit CMD Z or CTRL Z
to undo that. So now let's group them. I'm going to select them both, and then hit CMD G or CTRL G,
that puts them in a group. So let's click off. And when I say click off,
I just mean click on a part of the document that doesn't have anything on it. So this area right
over here. It'll deselect everything, and now if we click and drag, we have the whole umbrella,
and it's moving together. Because we've grouped it. I'll undo with CMD Z or CTRL Z. Another very
common keyboard shortcut that you'll use all the time is the spacebar. The spacebar toggles to the
Hand tool. And now it's right over here, but I never click this Hand tool over here, I just hit
my spacebar. When you have the spacebar held down, you can click and drag to move around your canvas.
So it's very handy. The next important keyboard shortcut is the Zoom tool, I'm going to hit Z on
my keyboard, which will bring up the Zoom tool, which is right here. I always hit Z
instead of clicking over here. It's just much faster. And there are two ways to use zoom.
Right now my zoom tool is set to animate. So if I want to see this heart a little better, I can just
click right in the middle of the heart and then drag to the right to zoom in like this. And I'll
drag to the left to zoom out. Now I actually don't like using the animated zoom very much.
Let's go ahead and change it to the non animated zoom. I'm going to go to my Preferences again.
That's CMD K or CTRL k on your keyboard. Or you can find them under Illustrator on a Mac,
or under Edit Preferences on Windows. So to change this to non animated zoom, I'll go to
Performance and then I'll uncheck Animated zoom, and we'll say OK. So I'm still on my Zoom tool,
but the difference is, instead of clicking in the middle and scrolling right and left,
I just draw a box around the thing I want to see closer. So I'll just draw a box right here. And
now we're zoomed in now. It's totally okay if you like the animated zoom better, but in this class,
you might notice zoom works a little differently, because I don't have it turned on. Okay, let's
hit V to get back to our Selection tool right up here. If you want to select more than one object,
there are a couple ways to do that. You can draw a box around the two things you want to select
with your Selection tool, or you can click on one, hold SHIFT, and click on another one,
and then click on another if you want to select that. Now if you accidentally double click,
you might find that you've got a different view. And this is known as Isolation Mode. Now,
I don't really use this, but it does happen to me from time to time. When it does, you can just hit
Escape and get back to your normal view. Alright, let's go ahead and select the heart. You'll notice
when we do that, that you have a little box around the heart with these little handles, that is your
Bounding Box. And sometimes this accidentally gets turned off. To turn it back on, you can go to View
and then Show Bounding Box. Right now mine is on, so it says Hide Bounding Box.
Or you can hit SHIFT CMD B or SHIFT CTRL B on a PC. Here are a few terms I use when I teach.
I like to refer to these tools by the letter that you can push on your keyboard to get to them. If
I say 'Okay, let's get our Z tool,' that is your Zoom Tool, and you can just hit Z on your keyboard
to get to it. Or if I say 'the A tool,' that's your Direct Selection tool, and you can just hit A
on your keyboard to get to it. But I'll always say 'it's your Direct Selection tool, and here's where
to find it on your toolbar.' Now, I mentioned this before, but when I say click off, you'll want to
click in an area of your canvas that doesn't have anything on it. If you have a big background box,
that might be a little hard to do. So there's also a keyboard shortcut for that - it's SHIFT CMD A or
SHIFT CTRL A, and that jsut deselects everything. So those are a few keyboard shortcuts that I hope
you'll find very helpful in Adobe Illustrator. Alright, if you liked this video, please click on
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