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The Lasso tool

The Lasso tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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The Lasso tool

- [Instructor] Illustrators Direct Selection tool allows us to quickly see the actual anchor points that create our vector objects. I'm going to use command Y here, which is the toggle between outline and preview mode. Just to go back and look at the points that make up the shapes that we have here. Now, in addition to the Direct Selection tool which can actually select more than one point by dragging like so, or as with the selection tool by holding Shift to pick up additional points. There is another tool that we can use to work with anchor points, and that's the Lasso Tool. Now, q is the keyboard shortcut to get to the Lasso Tool. And if you think about it, the letter q looks a little bit like a Lasso, but with this tool, you can drag around a region and select all of the anchor points in that area. So if you wanted to work with a whole bunch of anchor points at once, then you can go ahead and rope them in almost literally…

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