What are all those eyeballs, colored squares and double rings on Illustrator’s Layers panel? They are all visual cues that let you work better and smarter with layers. Watch this Quick Tip and feel the power!
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Welcome to Basix, our area for beginners. If you're just learning the ropes, or find many of our intermediate and advanced tutorials too challenging, the tutorials and articles here have been selected just for you.
Quick Tip: Rulers and Guides
Using Rulers and Guides in Illustrator allows you to be mathematically precise in your work. Here’s the low-down on these measuring tools, including a few handy tricks and shortcuts.
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Quick Tip: The Tilde Key Trick
This screencast covers fun with the Tilde key and Adobe Illustrator. Works with any Shape Tool, the Line Segment Tool, the Arc Tool, the Spiral Tool, and more. Use this technique to quickly make complex shape patterns.
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Quick Tip: Working with Illustrator’s Navigator Panel and Views
Sometimes when you’re working at a very large magnification, it can be hard to see the overall picture. In this screencast, we’ll show you a neat trick using the Navigator panel, that saves you the hassle of zooming in an out constantly. We’ll also show how you can save custom views that will speed up your workflow.
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Quick Tip: Working with the Group Selection Tool
A quick look at the little-known, but very useful Group Selection tool in Adobe Illustrator. This tool allows you to select individual object within groups, as well as sub groups within groups. Watch the demonstration video to learn the usefulness of this tool and how to work with it.
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Quick Tip: Working With Illustrator’s Workspaces
Learn how to work with Workspaces in Adobe Illustrator. Workspaces allow you to arrange the Panels and other interface elements in Illustrator. Learn to work with the built-in default Workspaces Illustrator CS4 comes with, as well as how to customize your own workspaces to suit the type of job you’re working on.
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All About Transformation in Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about one of the most powerful Adobe Illustrator Tools – Transformation. Discover how it works, learn multiple ways of transforming objects, study the tools of transformation, and many other useful techniques.
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This entry is part 12 of 12 in the Guides to Illustrator Tools Session
A Comprehensive Guide to the Pathfinder Panel
You’ve probably used the Pathfinder panel to combine shapes and make new ones. But do you often find yourself clicking (and undoing) each icon in the panel until you get the look you want? Wouldn’t it be easier to take some time and learn exactly what each function does? Here’s a look at the über-useful Pathfinder panel. The Pathfinder Effects, which are found under the Effects menu, are covered in video format in this tutorial.
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This entry is part 8 of 12 in the Guides to Illustrator Tools Session
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