Chapter 2. Selecting and Aligning

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Differentiate between the various selection tools.

  • Group and ungroup items.

  • Work in isolation mode.

  • Work with smart guides.

  • Clone items with the Selection tool.

  • Lock and hide items for organizational purposes.

  • Save selections for future use.

  • Use tools and commands to align basic shapes to each other.

This lesson takes approximately an hour to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson02 folder onto it.

Selecting and Aligning

In this lesson, you learn how to locate and select objects using the selection tools, as well as how ...

Get Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 Classroom in a Book® now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.