illustrator workspaceThe Artboard and the Navigator Palette

the Artboard

the Printable Area

the Paper Size

Enter desired zoom percentage

Zoom out Zoom in

Zoom slider

Hit command and drag with the mouse to define the visible area on the screen

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toolsOverview of the Tools Palette

Adobe Online access

V Select Tool selects entire objects

Direct-select Tool ASelects individual anchor points or line segments

Y Magic Wandselects area of same color

Direct-select Lasso Q

P Pen Tooldraws curves and line segments

\ Line Segment Tooldraws straight lines

Type Tool Tcreates and edits horizontal type

Rectangle Tool Mdraws rectangles and squares

B Paintbrush ToolCreates plain, calligraphic, scatter art, or

pattern brushstrokes

Pencil Tool Ndraws free-style lines

R Rotate Tool Scale Tool S

Shift + R Warp ToolFree Transform Tool Erotates, scales, reflects, shears, distorts or applies perspective

Shift + S Symbol Sprayerdistributes chosen symbol

Column Graph Tool Jcreates graphs

U Gradient Meshcreates and edits multi-colored gradient objects

Gradient Gchanges the direction of existing gradients

Blend Tool Wcreates shape and color blends between objects

I Eyedroppersamples paint or type attributes

Live Paint Selection Shift + Lselects section of live paint group

Shift + O Crop Areadefine crop area for printing

H HandMoves the artboard in the document window

Zoom Tool Zmagnifies or reduces the view size of an illustration

Fillcolor that is applied inside a path

Strokecolor that is applied to the edge of a path

Swap fill/stroke X

D Default fill and stroke colors

None / Gradient

Color

F Screen Mode menu

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K Live Paint Bucketrecolor faces and edges in live group

Eraser Shift + EErase sections of objects

illustrator workspaceThe Stroke and Transform Panels

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Location of selected object on the X and Y axis

Reference pointWidth

Height

Shear (skew)

Lock Proportions

Align strokes to center

Align strokes to inside

Align strokes to outside

Stroke weight (thickness)

Cap (end) styles

Joint (bend) styles

Dashed Line: (segment) and gap (spacing between dashes)