From the course: Illustrator: Drawing without the Pen Tool
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Mastering the modifier keys - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Drawing without the Pen Tool
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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To sketch or not to sketch?2m 32s
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Setting up a template layer for your sketch3m 37s
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Optimizing default settings for drawing5m 27s
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Using the primitive shapes tools5m 7s
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Mastering the modifier keys2m 8s
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Mastering the transform tools6m 37s
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Creating curves with the Reshape tool6m 44s
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Using the Smooth tool3m 35s
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Using Simplify to create smooth paths3m 2s
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Recording an action for the Simplify command5m 2s
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Mirroring art for speed and accuracy4m
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