in today's graphic design tutorial I'm gonna show you three different key ways
you can select and navigate around a design in a debilitate so to demonstrate
the first function in Adobe Illustrator I've got an arrangement of different
squares on the screen right here I think I see some have strokes some are
different colors and even some have different epatha tees this one has 50%
so when you're working on complex designs with lots of different elements
on the actual design itself you might want to select a specific
group of objects and the first method we're going to look at is the magic wand
tool here which if you double click brings up the magic wand menu and as you
can see we have five different options for selecting parts of our design the
key thing about the magic wand tool is that it has a tolerance slider now if I
pull up the tolerance really really high it's gonna select all of my objects even
though it's not the same full color when using the magic wand tool I advised how
to use a low tolerance because this really narrows down the selection that
you want to be grabbing on your graphic designs using the opacity option with a
low tolerance it does find the two shapes which have a 50% opacity but yeah
again if I raise up the tolerance is going to be less precise in its
selection so do keep in mind the tolerance when using the magic wand tool
that was just the first of three different functions for selecting
objects in your graphic designs so let's head on to the second one right now this
is something that not many people actually know about or they actually use
for their graphic design workflow and that is if you go to select object and
you have some different options here open to you I've got nothing selected at
the moment so the grayed out areas are only available when I've got a design
asset selected plus you can see I can select any clipping mask on my design
which can be really really useful in certain situations if you're using lots
of clipping masks and you want to select all of them at once
another really cool aspect here is a straight points option which as you can
see I've gotten extra points but if I quickly take the pencil and just make a
point here this is something that easily happens through our workflow we have
straight points that are our work that we didn't want so this option will find
those track them down and you can remove them and then another really awesome
selection option is to select all text objects which is really handy when
you've got lots of text over lots of design assets and shapes and then go
back into the same option you've got point type objects which is this kind of
text that we've just been using but the last option is area text and it might
not be familiar with area text and what actually is but area type objects are
shapes that have text within them and to actually create one you need to make a
shape first then you need to hold down a click on the type tool you need to
actually click the anchor points because if you just click anywhere else in the
shape it's not going to work so you need to click the anchor point once you've
actually made your area type selection of course you can press command or
control T for the character window and then adjust your type from there
but now I've got an area type I can demonstrate how the function actually
works and finds it on my canvas
and so like I said before if you have a something selected the other grayed out
options are now available even to you among was the second selection function
in the illustrator which is under select an object the third and the final option
for selecting things is probably one of the most popular ones and it's one of
the most useful and that is again and it's her legs but then same sue for
example had this blue circle here if I come up to select same and then I click
appearance the illustrators gonna match up what it thinks is a similar
appearance to their original circle this isn't that precise but it can come in
handy but one option that is really useful and it's really handy is just
fill color but also shape as well you can select any design element of the
same shape across your entire design and also this stroke weight is critical
options and I do use the select same function quite often my graphic design
process because it is really useful especially on complex intricate and very
busy designs
so there were three functions in an illustrator where you can select and
maneuver around your designs with ease do you use all three of these functions
or did you learn something in today's graphic design tutorial do let me know
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until next time guys design your future today peace