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Illustrator Workshop Shortcuts

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Inc. Vector graphics are extremely important in graphic design because no matter how big they are scaled they don’t loose their quality

‘Kerning’ The individual spacing between each character alt + left and right keys = make spacing between each character (kerning)

‘Leading’ spacing between each word alt + up and down keys = make spacing between words (leading)

alt + drag = copy

alt + shift = scale from center

cmd C + cmd F = paste on top

cmd + G = group

cmd + 2 = lock

cmd + shift + 2 = unlock

alt + drag + cmd + D = duplicate

cmd + [ ] = move layers, forwards/backwards cmd + [ ] + shift = straight to front/straight to back

cmd + shift + < > = makes things bigger/smaller cmd + shift + < > + alt = makes bigger/smaller quicker

cmd + 7 = make a mask

HOW TO MAKE AN ARK IN WORDING

  1. type the wording 2. Select 3. Effects 4. Warp 5. Arc

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