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Getting around your document

Getting around your document - Illustrator Tutorial

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Getting around your document

- All right, now I'll show you how to get around inside of a document, meaning zoom in, zoom out or scroll around. And along the way, I'll mention a few very handy keyboard shortcuts. Now, obviously, it's up to you whether you memorize these shortcuts. But if you do, I think you'll find yourself spending less time, hunting around inside menus, and more of your creative energies working on a document. And so here we have a piece of artwork that I've created in advance. And so if you have access to my exercise files, you can open this document in one of two ways. If you're looking at the homescreen, which I can get to by clicking on a little Home icon in the top-left corner of the screen, then you can click the Open button, at which point go ahead and navigate to the 01 document folder in which you'll find this file called Pool hall clock.ai. The AI stands for Adobe Illustrator. I already have this file open, so…

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