Adobe Illustrator CS6 Part C

This is the 3rd installment in my blog post series on Adobe Illustrator CS6 which is based on what I learn doing the video training course by Infinite Skills in this program. In this post I am going to look at the various ways to select objects with in this program. Control+click selects what is underneath as well as the object. If you go into preferences and go into selection and anchor display that is where the settings for selection are. There are 3 normal selection tools which are selection, group selection and direct selection. Selection lets you resize and rotate an object by dragging the boundary box. If resizing you will probably want to constrain the proportions which means using the corner markers on the boundary. Direct selection lets you morph an object by adjusting its boundary box. Control+ direct select is the same as select. The select tools are on your main toolbar near the top. Group selection lets you select 1 object with 1 click and an entire group with 2 clicks on any object in that group. Object/group & object/ungroup let you group or ungroup objects. The magic wand lets you select according to its fill, stroke or opacity according to a tolerance you set in the fly out. Bear in mind you can't select locked layers. The lasso tool can draw a boundary around something and select it. Bear in mind you can always use shift + click to select multiple objects which is often easier. There are select/same & select/object commands. Same lets you select items with the same property. Object selects every object with thesame particular property like on the same layer. The 2 commands are very similar and there main difference is different options. There is an isolation mode where if you double click an object at least twice, sometimes more, it highlights the object and rest fades and you can work on the object with altering anything else. If you alter the angle of an object and choose shift it constrains it to 45 degree increments. There is also a transform option where you can specify an angle. Transform each lets you apply an adjustment to each object in a group individually and identically. Finally if you go into help you can type in the name of a tool and it gives you a description of what it does.