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Extra Tools in Illustrator. If you need to use some of the additional tools often, you can tear off the additional tools into their own toolbar. To Tearoff additional tools, do the following: 1. Click and hold on the tool you want to see the additional tools for. While holding down your mouse button drag your mouse to the end of the tools to the button with the gray triangle. Let go of the mouse button to make the additional tools and new toolbar Figure 5.

Figure 5. Sub-Toolbar in Illustrator. Direct Selection tool Selects the contents of a frame, such as a placed graphic; allows you to work directly with editable objects, such as paths, rectangles, or type that has been converted to a text outline. Group Selection tool Selects a group of points all at once, such as the four points of rectangle.

Magic Wand tool Selects all objects in a document with the same or similar ill color, stroke weight, stroke color, opacity, or blending mode. Lasso tool Selects objects, anchor points, or path segments by being dragged around all or part of the object. Pen tool Creates a line between two anchor points you make. Creates straight lines if you simply click and release to make anchor points. Add Anchor Point tool Adds a point to a path, which is a simple way to change any path. This helps to turn one shape into another Delete Anchor Point tool Deletes points from a path without causing a break in the path.

Convert Direction Point tool Changes the control handles around an anchor point reshaping the segments controlled by that anchor point. Type tool Creates resizable and moveable text frames in which you can type text.

Line tool Creates straight lines. Ellipse tool Creates ellipse shapes that hold text. Rectangle tool Creates rectangle shapes that hold color or text. Polygon tool Creates polygon shapes that hold color or text. Paintbrush tool Draws a path and applies a brush stroke simultaneously. Pencil tool Draws open and closed paths as if you were drawing with a pencil on paper. It is most useful for fast sketching or creating a hand-drawn look. Smooth tool Removes excess angles from an existing path or a section of a path.

Arc tool Creates a curved line segment or a closed, wedge-like shape. Spiral tool Creates a spiral-shaped object of a given radius and number of winds. Grid tool Creates rectangular grids of a speciied size with a speciied number of dividers. Polar Grid tool Creates concentric circles of a speciied size and a speciied number of dividers. Star tool Creates star-shaped objects with a given size and number of points.

Flare tool Creates lare objects with a bright center, a halo, and rays and rings. Use this tool to create an effect similar to a lens lare in a photograph.

Erase tool Removes part of an existing path or stroke. You can use this tool on paths, but not on text. Rotate tool Changes orientation, or angle, of the object on the page. Relect tool Flips the object across an invisible axis that you specify. You can copy while relecting to create a mirror image of an object. Scale tool Scales a selected object by being dragged anywhere in the document window. Scales objects relative to their center points, or to any reference point you make anywhere in the document window.

Reshape tool Selects one or more anchor points and sections of paths and then adjusts the selected points and paths globally. Warp tool Stretches objects as if they were made of clay. When you drag or pull portions of an object using this tool, the pulled areas attenuate.

Twirl tool Creates swirling distortions of an object. Pucker tool Delates an object by moving control points toward the cursor. Bloat tool Inlates an object by moving control points away from the cursor. Scallop tool Adds random, smooth, arc-shaped details to the outline of an object.

Crystallize tool Adds random spike- and arc-shaped details to the outline of an object. Wrinkle tool Adds random arc- and spike-shaped details to the outline of an object.

Free Transform tool Provides a way to perform any transformation, such as rotating and scaling. Symbol Spray tool Creates a set of symbol instances or increases more instances to an existing set. Symbol Shift tool Moves symbol instances around. Symbol Scrunch tool Pulls symbol instances together or apart.

Use this tool to shape the density distribution of a symbol set. Symbol Size tool Increases or decreases the size of symbol instances in an existing symbol set. Symbol Spin tool Orients the symbol instances in a set. Symbol instances located near the cursor orient in the direction of the cursors movement.

Symbol Stain tool Colorizes symbol instances changing the hue toward the tint color, while preserving the original luminosity. Symbol Screener tool Increases or decreases the transparency of the symbol instances in a set. Symbol Style tool Applies or removes a graphic style from a symbol instance. Column Graph tool Compares one or more sets of values by using rectangles whose lengths are proportional to the values.

Stacked Column Graph tool Is similar to a column graph, but stacks the columns on top of one another, instead of side by side. This graph type is useful for showing the relationship of parts to the total. Bar Graph tool Is similar to a column graph, but positions the rectangles horizontally instead of vertically.

Stacked Bar Graph tool Stacks the bars horizontally instead of vertically. Line Graph tool Uses points to represent one or more sets of values, with a different line joining the points in each set. This type of graph is often used to show the trend of one or more subjects over a period of time. Area Graph tool Is similar to a line graph, but emphasizes totals as well as changes in values. Scatter Graph tool Plots data points as paired sets of coordinates along the X and Y axes. Pie Graph tool Creates a circular graph whose wedges represent the relative percentages of the values compared.

Radar Graph tool Compares sets of values at given points in time or in particular categories, and is displayed in a circular format. Gradient tool Changes the direction of a gradient, its beginning point and endpoint, and applies a gradient across multiple objects.

Every Illustrator CC document contains at least one layer. Creating multiple layers lets you easily control how your artwork is printed, displayed, and edited. You will use the Layers palette Figure 7 often while creating a document, so it is crucial to understand what it does and how to use it.

Exploring the layers palette Figure 7. Layers palette with two layers A. Lock Icon C. Create New Sub layer E. Create New Layer F. To select an object, choose the Selection tool from the toolbox and click on the object you wish to select. When the object is selected, you can move, transform, and change its properties. Some selections may be easier to make by creating a marquee around the object.

To make a marquee selection, do the following: 1. Choose the Selection tool from the toolbar. Click and drag the Selection tool over multiple objects to select them all. Duplicating objects To duplicate objects, do the following: 1. Select the object you wish to duplicate.

Once you release, a duplicate will show up where the object has been moved. Figure 6. Duplication Objects. To create a shape, do the following: 1. Select the Shape tool that corresponds to the shape you wish to create. Click and drag on the art board to create desired size and proportion of the shape. Select the Shape tool you wish to use and click on the art board.

This will open a window with the properties of your new shape. Here you can type in speciic height, width, number of points on a star, etc. Figure 9. Figure 8. Reshaping without shift. Reshaping with shift. Like other objects, type can be painted, scaled, rotated, etc. You can also wrap type around objects, make it follow a path, create type masks, import text iles into containers, and modify the shape of individual letters in a block of type. To add type to a document, do the following: 1.

Select the Type tool from the toolbox. Click and drag anywhere on the art board to create a marquee for your text. Use the Character palette to choose the font, font color, font size, etc. Wrapping text around a graphic To make your work, for example a brochure, look professional, you may want to use Text Wrap Figure Objects, which you will wrap text around, must be in front of the type.

To make a Text Wrap, do the following: 1. Select the object you wish to wrap text around. Set the Text Wrap Options Figure NOTE: You can change how close the text wraps around an image after you have made it by changing the offset Figure The lower the offset the closer the wrap. After your Text Wrap is set you can move the object freely without resetting your wrap options.

Figure Texting Wrapping. Options Figure You can type along any path you make with the Pencil, Pen, and even the Shape tools. To type along a path, do the following: 1. Start by drawing a path on the art board Figure Select the Path Type tool from the toolbox and click anywhere on the path to start your text at that spot on the path. Adjust the position of the type along the path by positioning the Selection tool over the start, middle, or end of the type bracket until a small arrow icon appears.

Click and drag to the desired position. When inished, you can move the type with the Selection tool. NOTE: After typing on a path the path will have no stroke or ill.

Typing along a path. Create Path to type on. To place an image into your document, do the following: 1. Make sure the layer you wish to place your image in is selected. NOTE: Placed images are added to the selected layer. If you want it to be on its own layer, create a new layer by clicking the New Layer button near the bottom of the Layers palette shown in Figure 1 of the Working With Layers section of the tutorial and select it then place your image.

Navigate through the pull down menus to ind the ile that you want to insert. Select the ile and click OK. Once you have placed the object, switch to the Selection tool to move the object to the location you want. Click and drag a gripper inward or outward to expand or shrink your image as desired. If you would like to maintain the original proportions of the image when you resize it, hold down the SHIFT key as you perform the resizing action.

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