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Saving and reusing selections

Saving and reusing selections - Illustrator Tutorial

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Saving and reusing selections

Sometimes making a selection is as easy as just clicking on an object. However, many times if you want to make some difficult selections you may have to go through a lot of steps to make that happen. If you're working on a project that you might return to again and again it may make sense to save your selections so that you can easily return to them. Let's see how to do that in this movie. For example, I may want to make adjustments to all of the leaves in this document. A quick way to select those leaves might be by using a Magic Wand tool. So I'll take my Magic Wand tool, click on one of the leaves, and now all of them become selected. I may find that I'm doing lots of experimentation with these leaves so I want to always return to making changes to them. So what I'll now with all these leaves selected is go to the Select menu and I'll choose Save Selection. I'll give it a name, I'll call it leaves, and then I'll click OK. Now I may select these flowers, for example, all the flowers…

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