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The Group Selection tool

The Group Selection tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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The Group Selection tool

- [Instructor] There are two tools that we can use to work within groups, and one of them is designed specifically for that purpose. Let's start out with the first one, which is the direct selection tool. If you tap A on your keyboard, it will get you that tool. And you'll see that as you move around over your artwork, you can actually see individual items highlighting on their layer. And of course if I click here and move something away, if I just come back to the main selection tool and select the group, you can see that it's changed the group. Now, the direct selection tool, if I just undo this quickly, by the way, Command + Z or Control + Z. The direct selection tool will let you do that, but I think it's best to use the direct selection tool for working with points. Nested with it is another tool called the group selection tool, and there are a number of reasons why you might want to use this tool. Let me…

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