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Exploring the panels - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 Essential Training
Exploring the panels
When working inside of Illustrator or for the most part any Adobe application, you'll be using a variety of tools, which appear in the Tools panel over here, menu commands or functions that are available through this menu across the top of the screen and panels over here that cover specific functionality. In truth, Illustrator has tons of panels. Some out of them you may find you need all the time, while others get used far less often. In fact, there are probably some panels that you will never ever use. To help you work more efficiently inside of Illustrator, Adobe designed a user interface that's customizable to each user's needs. In this movie, we'll specifically talk about how to work with the panels inside of Illustrator. I'll just create a simple document in my file here, just to have something to work with on the screen. I'll use a Web profile here and you'll notice that flanking my document on either side are the tools panel right here and the default setting for some of the…
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