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Customizing your panels: Do not skip!

Customizing your panels: Do not skip! - Illustrator Tutorial

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Customizing your panels: Do not skip!

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to organize illustrator's network of panels so that you can get to the program's most important options anytime you like. Now, as you're probably aware, illustrator is one of the most complicated and powerful programs out there and it contains thousands of options, some of which are absolutely essential that are found in panels. And these panels are indicated by these icons in this vertical strip over here on the right hand side of the screen. And it's a little deceiving, I think, the way that we currently have things set up because these icons on the right look very similar to the tool icons over here on the left side of the screen and yet they work nothing like them. So for example, if I click on this very first icon up here in the top right corner of the screen, I'll bring up a panel of color options that will allow me to select a color just by clicking inside this…

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