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Chapter 29. Selection With The Magic Wand Tool 4:10

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

When you set the origin point you are setting that position on the ruler to 0,0
When you snap the origin to an object you can use the ruler to position a guide exactly N units away from that object
- Double click the genesis point to reset it to the default position
- You are left with a guide so you know where to place the new object
When you hold shift to work with a guide it always snaps to the whole location
Command-rag from origin brings two guides
Guides are indispensable

You can automatically resize an artboard by centering it and shrinking it on an object
You can also manually do it by
- Selecting the object on which to center
- Selecting the dropdown of the align tool to choose Align To Artboard
- Manually selecting center vertical and horizontal
- Shift-Option and resize on the corner of the artboard keeps the object centered
- This will take some examples

Author is an illustrator by trade
- Did everything by hand before AI
- Now does it all in AI
For Techne or Tekne or Texni
- Use for Keycap layout
- Use for shield lettering
- Use for keyboard printing
- Use for website
- Use for business cards
- Use for logo
Artboards are artboards, not pages, InDesign is for that

Teacher
- Great sound
- Uses examples and repetition
- Combination of casual conversation light-heartedness and serious philosophy about workflow and cognitive space
Goal: Only work on the butterfly
- Accidentally select something else, move the wrong thing, undo it
- Instead lock the background to avoid the accident
Approaches
- Background is in a group, so select it, and lock it
- You can manipulate every other object
- Unlock when done
Easier way
- Everything is in one layer right now, wrong approach, should use separate layers
- In this example you open the layer and lock the individual groups
- Can also hide them
- Show and hide layers and groups
- Even though you have everything in one layer, you can still do what you want in your workflow