2. Selecting and Aligning

Lesson overview

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

• Differentiate between the various selection tools and employ different selection techniques.

• Recognize smart guides.

• Clone items with the Selection tool.

• Hide and lock items for organizational purposes.

• Save selections for future use.

• Group and ungroup items.

• Work in isolation mode.

• Use tools and commands to align shapes and points to each other and the artboard.

• Arrange content.

• Select behind content.

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.

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