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Mastering the modifier keys

Mastering the modifier keys - Illustrator Tutorial

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Mastering the modifier keys

In the previous chapter we spoke about knowing certain keyboard shortcuts and how important those keyboard shortcuts are to working inside of Illustrator. Admittedly Illustrator is a complex program that has many different tools inside of it. However, when we're drawing we'll only need a certain number of those tools and more importantly we really need to focus on the artwork that we're creating, so we don't have time to keep glancing down the keyboard and try to find out where a certain key is. Perhaps the most important of all, the Modifier keys are incredibly important. The Modifier keys are the Shift key, the Option key and the Command key on a Mac, if you are on Windows that would be the Shift key, the Alt key and the Ctrl key. These keys are called Modifier Keys because they change the behavior of how tools usually work. So it's incredibly important that your hand becomes familiar with these modifier keys, so that they just kind of happen automatically. This is even more so than…

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