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Part I ✦ Illustrator Basics
Figure 1-4: The toolbox in its initial (default) state, with all tools labeled.
The letter that appears in parentheses after each tool is the key you can
press to quickly access that tool.
Many tools have additional pop-up tools called flyouts, which are tools that appear
only when you click and hold down the mouse on the default tool. The default tools
that have pop-up tools are indicated by a little triangle in the lower-right corner of
the tool. To select a pop-up tool, click and hold on a tool with a triangle until the
pop-up tools appear; then drag to the pop-up tool you want. The new pop-up tool
replaces the default tool in that tool slot. You can also browse through the tools by
Option [Alt]+clicking a toolslot; each click displays the next tool. Figure 1-5 shows
all the pop-up tools for each toolslot.
Any tool with a pop-up option also has a tearoff tab at the rightmost end of the fly-
out. If you click on this tearout tab, the flyout tools become a free-floating palette of
tools. Figure 1-6 shows the Graph tools as a floating palette.
Selection tool (V)
Magic Wand tool (Y)
Pen tool (P)
Line Segment tool (\)
Paintbrush tool (B)
Rotate tool (R)
Warp tool (Shift+R)
Symbol Sprayer tool (Shift+S)
Gradient Mesh tool (U)
Eyedropper tool (I)
Hand tool (H)
Direct Selection tool (A)
Direct Select Lasso tool (Q)
Type tool (T)
Rectangle tool (M)
Pencil tool (N)
Scale tool (S)
Free Transform tool (E)
Column Graph tool (J)
Gradient tool (G)
Scissors tool (C)
Zoom tool (Z)
Slice tool (Shift+K)
Adobe Online
Blend tool (W)
Swap Fill and Stroke (Shift+X)
Stroke (X)
None (/)
Full Screen mode (F)
Full Screen mode with menu bar (F)
Fill (X)
Default Fill and Stroke (D)
Color (<)
Standard Screen mode (F)
Gradient (>)
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