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Using the basic selection tools

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Using the basic selection tools

There are a lot of great tools inside of Illustrator to be creative with. Pen tools, Paintbrush tools, a variety of shape tools. However, the most important tools inside of Illustrator are the Selection tools. In fact on a day to day basis you'll find that use of Selection tools far more than any other toolsinside of Illustrator. The Selection tools are all grouped over here at the top of your Tools panel and for good reason. They are up here because of how often they are used. Before we learn how to draw inside of Illustrator it's really important to get an understanding of how the Selection tools work inside of Illustrator and the reason for that is because the Selection tool is your way to tell Illustrator what it is that you're trying to do. For example if you wanted to change the color of some of the leaves in this document how would Illustrator know which of those leaves you want work with? By selecting some of them, in other words making a choice and letting Illustrator know…

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