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- Smart Guides shows useful information about context on artboard
- Rotation tool
- Set anchor
- Drag to rotate
- Alt-Drag to put a copy at the new location
- Operate upon multiple objects
- Select all objects
- Click Rotate tool
- Object → Transform → Transform Reach
- Enable
Preview
- Remember that
X, Y, and W are the transform panel
- You can do the same thing there
- Is it safe to align everything to pixel grid at the very end?
- Won’t be resizing keycaps or symbols on them
- Probably just font sizes
- Might skips to chapter on text
- Preferences → General → Scale Strokes & Effects
- When you make something bigger the strokes and effects will get bigger
- We tend to be creatures of comfort when it comes to workflow configuration
- Every once in a while go into a pulldown and explore something new
- Go to Help and type it in
- It is possible that you need to know that
- Get to know these program!
- Select an entire groups
- Command-Click it to select it all showing the bounding box
- Keep holding Command
- Resize it however you want
- Hold Command-Shift to keep it in proportion
- Hold Command-Option-Shift to resize it in proportion staying centered
- Remove the Shift key and it will still remain centered
- Holding Shift on rotation gives you 45° and 90° shifts
- If you either have the bounding box of or want more precision you can do the same thing with the Scale Tool
- Select the object (or group)
- Select Scale Tool
S
- Click the point where you want to lock the object and a crosshairs will appear there
- Hold Alt and click to show the Scale modifier panel with detailed options
- Select the object/group with no modifier and now you will resize it relative to that point
X, Y, and W in the top-middle section also bring up the Transform panel
- The transform panel is where you would do precise transformations like
- Change the width and hide by specific percentages
- Rotate it by specific degrees
- Way to get to individual pieces in groups
- Find a group, Double click on it
- Top area shows that you are in that group
- Rest of screen greys out
- The greyed out areas are isolated from everything that you are doing
- Double click again on an object and everything else greys out
- Top area left arrow or escape-key lets you get out
- Selection Tool → Option-Double-Click progressively selects
- By double clicking on object in a group progressively selects all objects in enclosing groups
- Say that you have the same logo color in everything
- You gotta change it
- Select it everywhere
- By some criteria
- And change it
- Multiple selection lets you do bulk changes by some criteria
- Also lets you search for and discover things
- Tons of features
- Select → Objects → Stray Points
- You can accidentally leave stray objects in places
- This shows them
- Then you can delete them
- Select → Objects → Not Aligned To Pixel Grid
- Means it will look bad rasterized
- Selection by attribute lets you make global modifications
- Tolerance controls selection
- Select by
- Fill color
- Stroke color
- Stroke weight
- Opacity
- Blending mode
- The menu for the panel lets you reset everything
- Locked layers aren’t used in the selection process
- Magic Want came from Photoshop
- Lasso Tool
Q
- Draw around multiple objects to select them all
- Shift-Click is often easier
- Easily select an object by drawing a circle in/through it
- Will cover
- Selection Tool
- Group Selection Tool
- Magic Wand Tool
- Lasso Tool
- Select multiple objects with the Selection Tool
- Object → Group
- Make them into a group
- Can un-group them
- Group Selection Tool
- Get into a group and select a piece of the group without un-grouping it
- Key cap configure perhaps is made of groups?
- How to deal with each logical keycap layer having it’s own font?
- Lets you move individual objects keeping them in their group
- A group of groups of objects is a nest
- Select one group, shift-click another group, now you can group those two groups
- This seems to be one way to keep everything positioned correctly
- Each time you click a nest it cycles through selecting all of the groups
- Group logically related features as their own groups so that you can dig deeper and deeper as you would expect
- Double-clicking objects in a nest access isolation groups which cycles through the nested groups
- Either way when you are in a particular group, the edit menu operates on the objects in that group. So Edit → Select All selects everything in that group. Obvious but news to me.
- Just noticed in the top area that it also shows the groups including the one that you are in right now
- How long do groups live?
- A whole chapter on selection, got my attention!
- Andy says that it is one of most important skills
- Vector programs are called object-oriented
- This lesson is all about the Selection Tool (
V)
- You can hide the bounding box of an object
- How do you reshape the object?
- Use the tools from the toolbar
- Preferences → Selection & Anchor Display
- Tolerance
- How close you are to an anchor point before AI informs you that you are there
- Nice to set it to one so that you are operating precisely
- Shift-Click to select multiple objects
- Command-Drag on an object to move all of them
- Selection is configurable!
- How are groups defined?
- Select on attributes
- Select all objects with one pixel stroke!
- Work on an individual piece in a group
- Smart guides
- The conscience never needs validation
- Seems is always unified, soothing, and practical.
- The mind usually makes you nervous
- You’re not really sure if it is the right thing to do
- You actually are a good person
- It isn’t a trick
- It will always be that way no matter what
- The soul and conscience are never tarnished.
- Where you should direct all your energy to make the world a better place
- Learn how to love all and exclude none
- That which creates sustainibility is good
