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today I have seven different keyboard shortcuts and the last one in today's
list is sort of a special exception but firstly here's a shortcut for applying
different effects to demonstrate let's quickly apply a Gaussian blur to this
square
I'm actually working in CMYK so my blue is pretty bad so just to quickly tidy
that up I'm going to increase the values of the raster effects right here in this
menu to apply the same effect the next square you can press shift command e on
a Mac or shift control e on a PC you can of course apply this to multiple
different objects at one time this is a nifty shortcut that not many designers
use another neat shortcut is to press Shift + command or control open square
bracket which will send an object at a very back of all layers and then Shift +
command or ctrl + a close bracket will actually bring it to the very front the
same shortcuts without the shift moving objects in front or behind layers one
step at a time we can actually open the layers window here and see the selected
square move around in the order of the layers and by the way all of the
keyboard shortcuts are listed down in description box below
the third set of shortcuts that I'd like to use from time to time is to press
command or control to to look an object down in place and now that object is not
going to move around by mistake throughout my workflow you can then
press the alt or the option key in front of the shortcut and this would unlock
the object leading on from that shortcut you can press command or control 3 to
hide an object it doesn't disappear or become a raised is just hidden for a
time being and then to bring it back again place the alter the option key in
front of the shortcut so here you can see that I've got a pink dinosaur well
actually this - dinosaur is one on top of the other and if you want to select
the bottom dinosaur underneath the pink one you can hold down the command or the
control key and then click twice like so of course this can be achieved in the
layers window but it's nice to know this nifty shortcut and to use it from time
to time the fifth shortcut that you need to be aware of will help you in working
on multiple different artboards on a document and that is when you copy your
design elements you can press the option key + shift and then command or control
and then finally V and this will paste the object on every single artboard on
your document now I have one more shortcut that I personally used very
often before I reveal the final solution in today's video now I'm a designer that
uses the Pathfinder window a lot and that's especially because I work on Lego
designs and there's actually a shortcut to bring up the path under window and
then a shift command or ctrl f9 and it's something I use very very often so
lastly I'm going to show you something that is an asset that all illustrator
uses you need to take into consideration you may know that if you hold down the
command or the control key you in towable between the direct selection
tool and the selection tool but if you previously selected the group selection
tool here it would talk between that and the selection tool now this isn't my
final for today's video my final thought is that every tool every function
doesn't have a same shortcut but we can come into the keyboard shortcut menu
here and we can edit the shortcuts to fit our workflow so I can now add a
shortcut for the group selection tool and I can edit the existing shortcuts
too so please to explore this menu and see if you can tailor your shortcuts to
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