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Scroll wheel tricks

Scroll wheel tricks - Illustrator Tutorial

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Scroll wheel tricks

In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to scroll and zoom inside of an illustration using the scroll wheel on your mouse. Now things get even better if you have a Track-Pad on a Mac book Pro where you can do swipes and that kind of thing. You'll get very smooth results inside of Illustrator. However, I really do just have a rinky-dink mouse with a scroll wheel and I think that's great because what it demonstrates is your results will be at least as good as mine, perhaps even better. Here I am still inside that Welcome again.ai document and if I move my scroll wheel up on my mouse and I'm going to scroll upward, if I move my scroll wheel down I'm going to scroll downward. And that of course is to be expected, but you can also scroll side to side. So even if you don't have the ability to swipe back and forth on your Track-Pad or on your magic mouse or something along those lines. You can press the Ctr+scroll up here in the PC, on the Mac that would be Command+scroll up in order to…

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