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Illustrator provides many tools for creating and manipulating your artwork. These galleries provide a quick visu al overview for each tool.

To the top Selection tool gallery

Illustrator provides the follow ing selection tools:

The Selection The Direct The Group The M agic tool (V ) Selection tool Selection tool Wand tool (Y ) selects entire (A) selects selects objects selects objects objects. See points or path and groups with similar Select objects segm ents within groups. attributes. See with the within objects. See Select Select objects Selection tool. See Select objects and with the M agic paths, groups with Wand tool. segm ents, and the Group anchor points. Selection tool.

The Lasso tool

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(Q) selects The Artboard points or path tool creates segm ents separate within artboards for objects. See printing or Select objects export. See with the Lasso Create an tool. artboard.

To the top Draw ing tool gallery

Illustrator provides the follow ing draw ing tools:

The Pen tool The Add (P) draw s Anchor Point tool The Convert straight and The Delete (+) adds Anchor Point cu rved lines Anchor Point tool anchor tool (Shift+C) to create (-) deletes anchor points to changes sm ooth objects. See points from paths. paths. See points to corner Draw ing See Adding and Adding and points and vice with the Pen deleting anchor deleting versa. See tool. points. anchor Convert points. between smooth points and corner points.

The Line The Arc Segm ent tool draw s individual The Rectangular tool (\) The Spiral tool con cave or Grid tool draw s draw s draw s clockw ise con vex rectangular individual and cu rve grids. See Draw straight line counterclockw ise segm ents. rectangular segm ents. spirals. See Draw See Draw grids. See Draw spirals. straight lines arcs. with the Line

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Segm ent tool.

The Polar The Grid tool Rectangle tool (M) The Ellipse tool draw s The Rounded draw s (L) draw s circles circu lar Rectangle tool squares and and ovals. See chart grids. draw s squares rectangles. Draw ellipses. See Draw and rectangles See Draw circu lar with rounded rectangles (polar) grids. corners. See Draw and rectangles and squares. squares.

The Polygon The Star tool draw s tool draw s The Pencil tool regular, stars. See The Flare tool (N) draw s and multi-sided Draw stars. creates lens-flare edits freehand shapes. See or solar-flare-like lines. See Draw effects. See Draw ing with polygons. Draw ing flares. the Pencil tool.

The Sm ooth The Path tool sm ooths Eraser tool erases Bezier paths. The Perspective The Perspective paths and See Sm ooth Grid allow s Selection tool anchor allow s you to paths. creating and points from rendering artwork bring objects, the object. in perspective. See text, and See Erase About Perspective sym bols in artwork. Grid. perspective, move objects in perspective,

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move objects in perpendicu lar to its cu rrent direction. See About Perspective Grid. .

To the top Type tool gallery

Illustrator provides the follow ing type tools:

The Type On The Type tool The Area Type A Path tool The Vertical (T ) creates tool changes changes Type tool individual type closed paths to paths to type creates vertical and type type con tainers paths, and type and con tainers and and lets you lets you vertical type lets you enter enter and edit enter and con tainers and and edit type. type within edit type on lets you enter See Enter text them . See Enter them . See and edit in an area. text in an area. Creating vertical type. type on a See Enter text path. in an area.

The Vertical The Vertical Area Type tool Type On A Path changes closed tool changes paths to paths to vertical type vertical type con tainers and paths and lets lets you enter you enter and and edit type edit type on within them . them . See See Enter text Creating type in an area. on a path.

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To the top Painting tool gallery

Illustrator provides the follow ing painting tools:

The Mesh The tool (U) Gradient The Paintbrush creates and tool (G) The Eyedropper tool (B) draw s edits adjusts the tool (I) sam ples freehand and meshes and beginning and applies color, calligraphic lines, mesh and ending type, and as well as art, envelopes. points and appearance patterns, and See Create angle of attributes, bristle brush mesh gradients including effects, strokes on paths. objects. within from objects. See See Draw paths objects, or Copy appearance and apply brush applies a attributes using strokes gradient to the Eyedropper simultaneously . objects. See tool. Apply a gradient to an object.

The Live The Paint Measure The Live Paint Selection tool The Blob Brush Bucket tool (K) (Shift-L)tool measures tool (Shift- paints faces and selects faces the distance B)draw s paths edges of Live and edges between that Paint groups with within Live two points. autom atically the cu rrent paint Paint See Measure expand and attributes. See groups. See the distance merge Paint with the Select item s between calligraphic Live Paint Bucket in Live objects. brush paths that tool. Paint share the sam e groups. color and are adjacent in stacking order. See Draw and merge paths with the Blob

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Brush tool.

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Illustrator provides the follow ing tools for reshaping objects:

The Reflect The Shear The Scale tool The Rotate tool tool (O) flips tool skew s (S) resizes (R) rotates objects over a objects objects around objects around fixed axis. See around a a fixed point. a fixed point. Reflect or flip fixed point. See Scale See Rotate objects. See Shear objects. objects. objects with the Shear tool .

The Free The Width The Blend tool The Reshape Transform tool (W ) creates a tool adjusts tool (E) (Shift+W ) series of selected anchor scales, rotates, allow s you to objects points while or skew s a create a blended keeping the selection. stroke with between the overall detail of variable color and the path intact. width. See shape of See Stretch Using the multiple parts of a path Width tool. without objects. See distorting its Create blends. overall shape.

The Tw irl tool The Bloat tool

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The Warp tool creates The Pucker tool inflates an (Shift+R) molds swirling deflates an object by objects with the distortions object by moving movement of within an moving con trol con trol points the cu rsor (like object. See points tow ards aw ay from molding clay, Distort the cu rsor. See the cu rsor. See for exam ple). objects using Distort objects Distort See Distort a liquify tool. using a liquify objects using objects using a tool. a liquify tool. liquify tool.

The The Wrinkle The Shape The Scallop tool Crystallize tool adds Builder tool adds random tool adds wrinkle-like merges cu rved details random details to the simple shapes to the outline of spiked details outline of an to create an object. See to the outline object. See cu stom , Distort objects of an object. Distort objects com plex using a liquify See Distort using a liquify shapes. See tool. objects using tool. Building new a liquify tool. shapes using the Shape Builder tool.

To the top Sym bolism tool gallery

The sym bolism tools let you create and modify sets of sym b o l instances. You create a sym b o l set using the Sym bol Sprayer tool. You can then use the other sym bolism tools to change the density, color, location, size, rotation, transparency, and style of the instances in the set.

The Sym b ol The Sym bol The Sym bol Sprayer tool Sizer tool Shifter tool The Sym bol (Shift+S) resizes moves sym bol Scruncher tool places sym bol instances and moves sym bol multiple instances. See change instances closer sym bol Resize stacking order. together or instances as a sym bol

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set on the See Change farther apart. See instances. artboard. See stacking order Gather or scatter Create of sym bol sym bol instances. sym bol sets. instances in a set.

The Sym b ol The Sym bol The Sym bol Spinner tool Styler tool Stainer tool The Sym bol rotates applies the colorizes Screener tool sym bol selected style sym bol applies opacity to instances. See to sym bol instances. See sym bol instances. Rotate instances. See Stain sym bol See Adjust sym bol Apply a instances. transparency of instances. graphic style sym bol instances. to sym bol instances.

To the top Graph tool gallery

Illustrator provides nine graph tools, each one for creating a different type of graph. The type of graph you choose depends on the information you want to com m unicate. See Create a graph.

The Colum n The Stacked The Stacked The Bar Graph Graph tool (J) Bar Graph Colum n Graph tool creates creates graphs tool creates tool creates graphs that are that com pare graphs that graphs that are similar to values using are similar to similar to colum n graphs, vertical stacked colum n graphs, but positions colum ns. colum n but stacks the the bars graphs, but colum ns on top horizontally stacks the of one another, instead of bars instead of side vertically. horizontally by side. This instead of graph type is vertically. useful for show ing the

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relationship of parts to the total.

The Line The Pie The Area The Scatter Graph tool Graph tool Graph tool Graph tool creates graphs creates creates graphs creates graphs that use circu lar that are similar that plot data points to graphs whose to line graphs, points as paired represent one wedges but sets of or more sets represent the em phasizes coordinates of values, with relative totals as well along the x and a different percen tages as changes in y axes. Scatter line joining of the values values. graphs are the points in com pared. useful for each set. This identifying type of graph patterns or is often used trends in data. to show the They also can trend of one indicate or more whether subjects over variables affect a period of one another. time.

The Radar Graph tool creates graphs that com pare sets of values at given points in time or in particu lar categories, and is displayed in a circu lar format. This

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type of graph is also called a web graph.

To the top Moving and zoom ing tool gallery

Illustrator provides the follow ing tools for moving around in and controlling the view of the artboard:

The Hand tool (H) The Print Tiling moves the tool adjusts the Illustrator artboard page grid to The Zoom tool (Z ) within the con trol where increases and decreases illustration artwork appears the view m agnification window. on the printed in the illustration page. window.

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