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Adobe illustrator cs4- P3: Good designers have many tools at their disposal. Especially in an environmentwhere most designers have other powerful graphics applications, itcan be diffi cult to choose which one to use for a particular task. For example,a designer can apply soft drop shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator, andInDesign—is one application any better than the others for this?
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Adobe illustrator cs4- P334 CHAPTER 2: SELECTING AND EDITING ARTWORK in the Tools panel, the Magic Wand panel appears; here you can specify which specific attributes you want the Magic Wand tool to pay attention to (Figure 2.7). The true power of the Magic Wand tool is that you can set a tolerance for each attribute. So if your document contains several objects colored a variety of shades of a color, you can still select them all with the Magic Wand tool by clicking a single object (Figure 2.8). Figure 2.7 You can use the Magic Figure 2.8 With the Magic Wand Wand panel to specify tolerance tool, you can easily select a range levels for different attributes. of objects that share similar colors. Selecting Similar Objects Illustrator has a Select menu that contains a variety of selection-based func- tions. You’ll find some of the most useful ones in the Select > Same menu and the Select > Object menu. To use the Same functions, first make a selection on the artboard with any of the selection tools in Illustrator. Then choose from the list of attributes to select objects based on that attribute (Figure 2.9). At any time, you can use the Object functions to select a certain kind of object in your file. You don’t need to have any objects selected first in order to use the Select > Object functions.Figure 2.9 The Controlpanel also contains a but-ton that allows you to selectsimilar objects. The buttonis available whenever youhave an object selected. MAKING TRANSFORMATIONS 35Saving SelectionsMaking complex selections can take time, and it can be tedious having toconstantly make selections on objects as you are working on a design. Tomake life just a tad easier, you can save your selections and retrieve themlater. Once you have made a selection using any of the methods mentionedearlier, choose Selection > Save, and give your selection a name. That selec-tion then appears at the bottom of the Select menu, which you can access,or load, at any time. Because selections in Illustrator are object-based, a savedselection remembers objects even after they’ve been moved or modified.M AKING TR ANSFORMATIONSDrawing objects in Illustrator is only part of the design process. Once art iscreated, you can manipulate it in a myriad of ways. In Illustrator, the processof changing or manipulating a path is called a transformation, and transforma-tions can include anything from simply moving an object to changing itssize or rotation.When you move a file, its x,y coordinates change, and Illustrator considers thata transformation. You can also move selected objects precisely by changing thex,y coordinates in the Control or Transform panel. Alternatively, double-clickthe Selection tool to open the Move dialog box, where you can specify valuesnumerically as well (Figure 2.10). Clicking the Copy button in the Move dia-log box leaves the original shape in place and moves a copy of it. Figure 2.10 The Move dialog box remembers the last move transform made, so you can move an object on your artboard and then open the Move dialog box to see how far you moved it.Of course, you can use the Selection tool to click and drag an object to reposi-tion it manually. If you press and hold the Option (Alt) key while dragging,Illustrator moves a copy of the selection. If an object is filled with a pattern,36 CHAPTER 2: SELECTING AND EDITING ARTWORK pressing and holding the tilde (~) key while dragging adjusts the positioning of the pattern without moving the object. Using the Bounding Box ...