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Configure application preferences

Configure application preferences - Illustrator Tutorial

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Configure application preferences

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll see how to customize some of Illustrator's preferences, which is something you should know how to do, before you take the ACA exam. To open Preferences, go to the Illustrator menu on the Mac, or the Edit menu on Windows, and choose Preferences. From there, you can go directly to the set of preferences you want to edit, just by choosing it here. I'll go to General preferences, and I'm not going to save any changes here, but I do want to point out examples of the kinds of things that you can customize. Here we have things like the Keyboard Increment, which is how far a selected object moves when you nudge it with your keyboard arrow keys. Corner Radius determines the size of the corners you get when you use the rounded rectangle tool. If you don't like how double clicking an object puts you in isolation mode, you can turn that off here, and if you want rounded corners, strokes and effects, to scale along with an object, you can turn on these options…

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