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The Direct Selection tool

The Direct Selection tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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The Direct Selection tool

- Perfecta graphics are made of points in space joined together by line segments. Let us try and keep this away from what I would call a BBC2 lecture and just have a look at it nice and simply. Don't worry about things like this, that's got nothing to do with math or any of that stuff, so if you didn't get on with that at school, it's not going to be a barrier to you working in Illustrator. What I'd like you to do, just for the moment, is to go to the view menu at the top of the screen and activate that, then come down and choose Outliner mode here. You can see it has the shortcut command Y or control Y. Choose that and you will see the shapes that draw the guitar. Now you can't see the background, because that's an effect and actually that's an effect on a rectangle, but more on that later. For now, I just want you to see the shapes that have built this guitar-like object. Okay. Let's go back to our main…

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