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Reassigning keyboard shortcuts

Reassigning keyboard shortcuts - Illustrator Tutorial

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Reassigning keyboard shortcuts

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- Now obviously, you're going to be using the Blob Brush and the Eraser Tool in concert with each other, possibly along with the Shape Builder Tool as well, so you may wonder why I haven't mentioned the keyboard shortcuts for any of these tools, and that's because I don't like them. For example, If I click and hold on the Blob Brush, you can see that it gets Shift B, while the Paintbrush Tool, which you are going to use far less often, gets the keyboard shortcut of B. Meanwhile, the Eraser Tool, by default is set to Shift D, while E is assigned to another less popular tool, which is the Free Transform Tool, and then finally, the Shape Builder has a keyboard shortcut of Shift M, which doesn't really make any sense, so in this movie, I'm going to show you how to swap these keyboard shortcuts, so that for example B is assigned to the Blob Brush, and E is assigned to the Eraser Tool and so forth. And the great thing about this is it doesn't harm anything, you can always change your mind…

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