You might have heard about Adobe PDF Reader or Photoshop. But what is Adobe Illustrator? Adobe Illustrator is a product of Adobe. This software is an alternative to Coral Draw. It is a graphic designing software. You can design visiting cards, banners, cartoon characters, etc. Adobe Illustrator has all the tools that are required for a Graphic Designer. This software supports all types of file formats. It is one of the most popular Vector Base Graphic Designing Software.

Reasons for Using Adobe Illustrator-

Adobe Illustrate is easy in comparison to other vector-based software.
It is easy to learn
It is one of the most popular software. Due to continuous updates by Adobe users are increasing exponentially.
After learning this software one can make a better career in the field of graphic design.

Tools of Adobe Illustrator

Pen Tool

This tool is used for drawing. With the help of a mouse, you can design artistic figures. You can change the color and border.

Selection Tool

This tool is used to select an image or box. And we can take it to another place. You can also resize the image.

Direct Selection Tool

You can select the image and boxes separately.

Rectangle Box

This tool is used to create a rectangle box, and add color and text to it.

Type Tool

Type tool is used to write any kind of text, heading, or title. You can select the type tool from the sidebar, click anywhere on the page, and use the keyboard to write anything you want. From the menu bar, you can select any type of font, size, and color of the text.

Eyedropper Tool

This tool is used to color multiple boxes at one time. Select the move tool from the sidebar, and click on the boxes that you want in the desired color of the other box. Again click on the Eyedropper Tool. You will find that the boxes are in your desired color.

Magic Wand Tool

This tool works like a magic stick. Past an image, select the Magic Wand Tool from the sidebar, and click on the image. You will find that all the colors in the image are selected as you will click on delete all colors will get deleted.

Eraser Tool

This tool is used to erase the drawing

Gradient Tool

This tool is used to mix two or more colors.

Perspective Tool

In Adobe Illustrator you can make and color the 3D designs also. Perspective tools fulfill this task of the users.

Below is a list of adobe illustrator keyboard shortcut, you can always have the shortcuts you want for practically any application right in front of you, below are the link to download these shortcut in PDF front.

Illustrator CC Useful Keyboard Shortcuts:

Windows

1.SELECTING AND MOVING:

Ctrl-Alt-Tab	At any time control to switch between selection and direct selection tools
Alt-click tool	To cycle through tools behind column tool
Alt	To make copy while dragging
Shift	To add to a selection
Any arrow key	Move Selection
Shift-any arrow key	Move Selection 10 pts.
Ctrl-2	Lock selected artwork
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-2	Lock all deselected artwork
Ctrl-Alt-2	Unlock all artwork
Ctrl-3	Hide selected artwork
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-3	Hide all deselected artwork
Ctrl-Alt-3	Show all artwork

2.PAINTING AND TRANSFORMING:

Alt	Eyedropper tool from Live Paint Bucket tool
Shift Sets center point and shows dialog Alt-click with Tool	Samples intermediate color from gradient, picture, etc. with eyedropper
Alt-drag	Duplicates and transforms selection
~ (tilde)-drag	Transform pattern without transforming object
Shift-drag bounding box	Scale proportionally with Selection tool
Alt-drag bounding box	Scale from center with Selection tool
Shift-drag	Move mesh point along path with Mesh tool
Shift-click	Add mesh point with Mesh tool without changing color
Alt-click	Remove mesh point with Mesh tool

3.SHAPES (WHILE DRAWING):

Alt	Draw from center
Alt-click Constrain proportion Shift	Draw from center with dialog
Shift	Constrain orientation of polygons, stars, spirals
Spacebar Add/subtract sides, points, spiral segments Up or Down Arrow	Move object while drawing
CTRL	Decrease inner radius
hold ~ while dragging	Create continuous duplicates along mouse movement

4.VIEWING & GUIDES:

Spacebar	Get Hand Tool (while NOT editing Type).
Hold Control, then Space. (This will show the Zoom tool). Let go of Control so you see the Hand tool and IMMEDIATELY start dragging the mouse so you don’t end up typing spaces. Be sure to let go of the Spacebar while dragging so you again don’t type more spaces	Get Hand tool (while editing Type)
Ctrl-Spacebar	Zoom In Tool
Ctrl-Alt-Spacebar	Zoom Out Tool
Ctrl-Spacebar-drag	Zoom In to exact size
Tab	Hide/Show all tools and panels
Shift-Tab	Hide/Show all panels except toolbox
hold Alt while dragging out a new guide	Switch between horizontal/vertical guides
Shift-Ctrl-double-click	Release Guide (turns it into a regular path)

5.TYPE:

Ctrl-Shift-< or >	Decrease/Increase type size
Alt arrow up or down	Decrease/Increase leading
Alt arrow left or right Kerning/tracking	Decrease/Increase kerning/tracking
Shift-Alt arrow down or up	Decrease/Increase baseline shift
Ctrl-Alt-Shift arrow down or up	Baseline shift x 5
Ctrl-Shift-L, R, and C	Align type left, right, center
Ctrl-Shift-F	Justify last line
Ctrl-Shift-X	Reset horizontal/vertical scale to 100%
Ctrl-Alt-Q	Reset kerning or tracking to 0

6.PANEL SHORTCUTS/FUNCTION KEYS:

F5	Show/Hide Brushes
F6	Show/Hide Color
F7	Show/Hide Layers
Ctrl-F8	Show/Hide Info
Ctrl-F9	Show/Hide Gradient
Ctrl-F10	Show/Hide Stroke
Ctrl-F11	Show/Hide Attributes
F12	Revert file
Shift-F5	Show/Hide Graphic Styles
Shift-F6	Show/Hide Appearance
Shift-F7	Show/Hide Align
Shift-F8	Show/Hide Transform
Shift-Ctrl-F10	Show/Hide Transparency
Shift-Ctrl-F9	Show/Hide Pathfinder
Shift-Ctrl-F11	Show/Hide Symbols

7.LAYERS PANEL SHORTCUTS:

Ctrl-click on eye	Toggle layer between Preview/Outline modes
Alt-click on eye	Show layer while turning-off all others
Alt-click layer name Copy	Select all items on layer
Alt-drag selection square in Layers panel to	selected item to different layer
Ctrl-click	create the new layer at the top of list
Ctrl-Alt-click	To create the new layer below selected layer

8.COLOR PANEL SHORTCUTS:

Shift-drag color slider	Saturate/DE saturate current color
Shift-click color bar	Change Color Mode
Ctrl-click color bar	Select compliment of current color

9.SWATCHES PANEL SHORTCUTS:

Hold Curtly–Shift while creating	Create a swatch as a global color
Alt-drag new swatch over old	Replace a swatch with another

10.TOOLS:

Selection	V
Direct Selection	A
Magic Wand	Y
Lasso	Q
Pen	P
Add Anchor point	+
Delete Anchor point	minus(-)
Convert Anchor point	Shift-C
Type	T
Line Segment	\
Rectangle	M
Ellipse	L
Paintbrush	B
Pencil	N
Blob Brush	Shift-B
Eraser	Shift-E
Scissors	C
Rotate	R
Reflect	O
Scale	S
Warp	Shift-R
Free Transform	E
Symbol Sprayer	Shift-S
Column Graph	J
Mesh	U
Gradient	G
Eyedropper	I
Blend	W
Live Paint Bucket	K
Live Paint Selection	Shift-L
Art board	Shift-O
Slice	Shift-K
Hand	H
Zoom	Z
Toggle between Fill & Stroke	X
Swap Fill & Stroke	Shift-X
Default Fill & Stroke	D
White fill/black stroke)	D
Fill or Stroke w/Color	<
Fill or Stroke w/Gradient	>
Fill or Stroke w/None	/
Cycle through Screen Modes	F

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