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Unit 2: Designing and Desktop Publishing Tools

Saving AI Files Notes

Let’s select the type and click on the artboard and type some text. After that go to File>Save.
Select Adobe Illustrator (*.AI) for file type and name it “First Drawing”. Click Ok after that.
Leave the rest of the settings at default. You have successfully saved your first file. To make any
more changes you can simply open the Adobe Illustrator file.

Selection Tools

There are two types of selection tool in Illustrator used for selection objects.

z Selection Tool: Used for selecting and moving a shape. It can also be used to resize a shape.
z Direct Selection Tool: Selects a single anchor point instead of the whole shape. Used for
editing anchor point of a shape. Click once on a point to select and hold Shift to select
multiple anchor points.

Figure 2.6: Selection Tool vs. Direct Selection Tool

Selection Tool Direct Selection Tool
Source: http://www.vectordiary.com/isd_post/2008/day03/selection-tool.gif

Shape Tools

Now let’s work on the Shape Tools. When you go to the Tool Palette and hold the Rectangle
Tool, a list of shape tools will expand out for you to pick. We will start with the default Rectangle
Tool.

Figure 2.7: Selecting Rectangle Tool

Source: http://www.vectordiary.com/isd_post/2008/day03/rectangle-tool.gif

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