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Panning and zooming

Panning and zooming - Illustrator Tutorial

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Panning and zooming

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- [Illustrator] Working with your document at a single size, would of course be very difficult, and sometimes we need to get up close and personal, as it were, with our document to work on it more efficiently. In this movie, we're going to take a look at the two tools used for navigation, the zoom tool and the hand tool, and now might be a good idea as well to change our toolbox over so we can see all of the tools. Now don't get scared when you see lots and lots of tools. But go to the Window menu, make your way down to toolbars, and choose Advanced. It isn't advanced really, full would be a better way of describing it, but there you go, lots and lots of tools. And at the bottom of the toolbox, you'll see a zoom tool just here and a hand tool, and you can see again, letters in parenthesis there, so it's a quick way to access them. But I will be showing you an even faster way shortly. So let's start off by tapping Z on our…

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