Adobe Illustrator in 10 Minutes
The shape creation tool and the black cursor are very straightforward. The direct selection tool seems a bit more difficult to use than most of the other tools, just because the anchors and handles may be confusing to mess with. The pen tool is also a bit finnicky to mess with at the beginning, but I'm sure that tool will get great use within the creations. The pathfinder panel is also a bit confusing to grasp. Most of these tools and panels will be used to create fluid and aesthetically pleasing designs. Everything within the layout of AI is movable and customizable. There are some preset layouts as well. To create a shape, you can either click and drag or you can click once and edit the dimensions you want for your shape.
There is an easy way to slice up shapes to create something like an orange. Pressing Control + Y brings you into outline mode and allows you to see where lines are intersecting a shape. After selecting everything, in the pathfinder panel, there is an option to divide the shape. Applying gradient to text can open the door to make a more aesthetic and prettier logo using text. For some reason applying gradients to text isn't as easy as it may seem. In order to do this, you must start by removing the fill and opening "appearance" in the window tab. After this, you must add a new fill and select the gradient. Rotating the artboard is also a tool that is hidden away. This tool is very useful for changing your view. You have to click and hold on the hand tool to find this useful tool.
The selection tool is going to be one of the most used tools in all of AI due to it being used to move things around, scale things, and rotate things. There are separate tools for this as well, but these things are possible with the selection tool. It is also possible to copy and paste shapes. This is done the same way that copy and paste is done in every other software. The direct selection tool allows for a user to create new shapes from these preexisting shapes.
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