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Artboard
Shift-O
Creates and reconfigures artboards in a document |
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Blend
W
Creates shapes and color blends between objects |
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Blob Brush
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Creates closed shapes or reshapes them in a freehand style |
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Column Graph
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Creates Column Graphs |
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Eraser
Shift-E
Erases sections of objects |
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Direct Selection
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Selects and reshapes objects by their anchor points and segments |
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Eyedropper
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Samples and applies paint or type attributes |
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Free Transform
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Rotates, scales, reflects, shears, distorts or applies perspective to objects |
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Hand
Shift-O
Moves the document in its window |
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Gradient
G
Changes the position, length, radius or angle of existing gradients |
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Lasso
Q
Selects individual points and segments on a path via a free-form marquee |
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Line Segment
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Draws seperate straight lines at any angle |
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Magic Wand
Y
Selects objects based on color and opacity attributes |
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Mesh
U
Creates and edits multicolored mesh objects |
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Paintbrush
B
Creates calligraphic, scatter, art, bristle, or pattern strokes |
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Pen Tool
P
Draws paths that are composed of curved and/or straight segments |
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Pencil
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Draws paths in a freehand style |
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Perspective Grid
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Puts objects into one-, two-, or three-point perspective |
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Rectangle
M
Draws rectangles and squares |
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Scale
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Enlarges and shrinks objects |
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Selection
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Selects, moves, and transforms entire objects |
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Shape Builder
Shift-M
Combines Objects |
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Slice
Shift-K
Defines slice areas of a document |
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Symbol Sprayer
Shift-S
Sprays symbol instances into a set |
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Type
T
Creates and edits horizontal type |
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Width
Shift-W
Reshapes an object's strokes |
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Zoom
Z
CHanges the zoom level of a document |
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