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.

• Save selections for future use.

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

• Group and ungroup items.

• Work in Isolation mode.

• Arrange content.

• Select behind content.

• Copy items with the Selection tool.

• Hide and lock items for organizational purposes.

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

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