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Super Marquee tool basics

Super Marquee tool basics - Illustrator Tutorial

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Super Marquee tool basics

- [Instructor] Astute Graphics ColliderScribe includes the super marquee tool, which gives you incredible powers to select objects in complex Illustrator artwork. In this movie, we'll take a look at the basic functions of the super marquee tool. Here in my file, let's say I notice that the two coins in front of the bag were too big and I needed to scale them down a bit to match the others. To do that, I need to select them, which would be a lot of work if I was just using Illustrator because they overlap with other objects, and they're also grouped with them. If I tried clicking with the selection tool, that gets me the whole artwork, and double clicking to drill down into isolation mode doesn't help either because there's no level of grouping that's made up of just the coins. I'll press escape to get out of isolation mode. And also dragging with the direct selection tool will just move objects, and I don't want that…

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