All right, it is keyboard shortcut time, the advanced stuff, at least. 1
Now, there is a PDF you can download... 2
print it off, stick it next to your computer. 3
It's at bringyourownlaptop.com 4
And there's a Resources tab there, go download that, it's free. 5
Let's carry on. 6
So the first two, and most useful are 'Command Y'. 7
That just turns it into Outline mode. 8
I'm on a Mac, so it's 'Command' on a Mac, or 'Control Y' on a PC. 9
Just gets into Outline mode. 10
Another handy one I use is... 11
say I want to color this guy in the inside here... 12
now there's all these dots, and Anchor points... 13
and targets everywhere, and you're like... 14
"Just go away for a second." 15
It's 'Command H', or 'Control H' on a PC. 16
It's still selected... 17
I can go over here, pick my color, it's just hid it. 18
Hid all the Anchor points. 19
Even all the handles, 'Command H' turns it back on. 20
'Command H' just kind of cleans everything up temporarily. 21
Now 'X' is an interesting one, if I click on this guy, and... 22
can you see, over here, I've got my Fill to the front. 23
If you tap 'X' key, it brings the Stroke to the front. 24
That can be kind of handy. 25
It's going to be handy when we combine it with a couple of other tricks. 26
It just means that I can switch him around to who's active. 27
The other nice thing is, let's say that I draw something... 28
and what I meant to do is actually give it a Stroke of blue, and no Fill. 29
I want to switch him around, so 'Shift X' just toggles. 30
It basically is a shortcut for this little arrow that we all click. 31
So 'Shift X' is a real handy one. 32
Another handy one is, you're like, "Man, why is everything blue?"... 33
just hit 'D'. 34
Just 'D' on the keyboard, nothing, no other shortcuts. 35
And it just switches it to the default colors, which is a full of white... 36
and you can see a Stroke of black, or you can just see it. 37
So often I just click on 'D'. 38
Just to go back to the defaults if it's doing crazy stuff. 39
Next shortcut, let's use this guy. 40
You're looking at your keyboard, right? Have a look down. 41
Next to your M key, there is a comma ',', a period '.', and a forward slash '/'. 42
Those three keys are quite useful. 43
Let's say I want the Fill... 44
remember our shortcut, I want the Fill at the front. 45
This is the X key we did earlier. 46
Our Fill is at the front, so that's the thing that I'm dealing with. 47
Now if I tap all three of those keys, the first one... 48
the comma gives it a Fill, which is not doing anything at the moment... 49
but the period is giving it a Gradient, just kind of like adds Gradients. 50
The next one, forward slash, gives it no Fill. 51
So what I use-- Gradients, it's a real easy one because-- 52
Surprisingly hard, you're like... "I want to add a Gradient"... 53
and you're like, "Was there a Swatch somewhere... 54
do I grab the Gradient tool, open the panel?" 55
Just hit period '.', and you get an ugly Gradient... 56
but you know you can go through and fix it up. 57
Now let's say I want to go back to a Fill color... 58
I'm going to put in my comma ','. 59
Comma goes back to the Fill color. 60
Best one probably is the forward slash '/', right? Gives it no Fill. 61
Goodbye, whale. 62
Come back. 63
So those little three keys next to each other. 64
Let's go on to the next one. 65
So next shortcut is the Shape Builder Tool. 66
If I select all these with my Black Arrow... 67
Shape Builder Tool, we looked at this earlier. 68
Hold 'Shift', I can just drag a box around them all. 69
And it just kind of merges them all in like the Path Finder. 70
Super handy. I'm going to undo. 71
The next one is Step & Repeat, or duplicate what I did. 72
I'm going to draw out a box, grab my 'Black Arrow'. 73
Hold down the 'Alt' key on a PC, 'Option' key on a Mac to make a duplicate. 74
And I want a few more. 75
Then it's just 'Command' on a Mac, or 'Control' on a PC... 76
and just keep hitting 'D'. 77
Kind of duplicates them out. 78
I often do this when I want lines. 79
I went through a phase of like having 80's lines of everything. 80
So I'm going to give it a Stroke. 81
Let's say I want to drag it down a little bit, so I'm going to select you... 82
I'll drag it this way. 83
Then 'Command D', or 'Control D' on a PC... 84
and you get just kind of Steps and Repeats. 85
The next shortcut is finding things underneath other things. 86
Let's say I've got this on top of my whale. 87
And you're like, "I want to get to the whale underneath," for whatever reason. 88
Let's say I've got the Opacity down, unless I'm doing some cool effects... 89
but you need to get to the whale, but I can't, right? 90
It's kind of hidden underneath this box. 91
All you need to do to hold down, is grab your 'Selection Tool'. 92
Then hold down the 'Command' key on a Mac, or 'Control' on a PC. 93
I kind of watch the icon, it changes a little bit. 94
Click on it once, and you get this little weird chevron in there. 95
It just means it's going to select through things. 96
And let's say, now I can go and change the color of it. 97
Even though it was hidden underneath. 98
So just hold down 'Command'' on a Mac, or 'Control' on a PC, just keep clicking. 99
And if you've got loads on top of each other... 100
you can just keep clicking, and it will all eventually get to a layer you need. 101
If you need it at the front, you can go to 'Arrange', 'Bring to Front'... 102
or use your shortcut, which is 'Command Shift'... 103
and the square bracket, the close square bracket ']'. 104
That square bracket is up next to the 'P' key. 105
Next shortcut is to do with text. 106
If I select all this text, I want to make it bigger... 107
I hold down the 'Command Shift' key, and hit the period '.' key. 108
That was on a Mac, if you're on a PC, it's 'Control Shift', then tap period. 109
Now comma ',' goes down. 110
You're actually looking at those chevrons on the same keys... 111
but you get the idea, right? 112
Up and down. Now, Tracking... 113
if I hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac, or the 'Alt' key on a PC.. 114
with this all selected, I can use my left and right arrows... 115
to open it up, or to track it in. 116
You can do a pure letter, say that you're worried about the spacing in here. 117
Just hit the cursor flashing between the letter... 118
hold down the 'Alt' key on a PC, 'Option' key on a Mac, left and right. 119
Let's say you want to deal with the Leading. 120
I'm going to select all of this... 121
and I'm going to use that same key, 'Alt' or 'Option'... 122
depending on your computer. 123
And use up and down, rather than left and right, for tracking. 124
You can play around with the Leading. 125
Let's look at the next shortcut. 126
It's going to be holding down the 'Shift' key... 127
it's more like a modified key. 128
So if I select all of this, and I want to use my X and Y... 129
the first trick I guess is... 130
in here, instead of just typing it in, just hit the 'up' and 'down'. 131
You can see, it just moves it left... 132
or moves it up and down in terms of numbers rather than trying to type it in. 133
What we can also do is hold down the 'Shift' key. 134
They just kind of times whatever it is by 10. 135
So it's going up and down by 1 point, if I hold 'Shift', it goes by 10 points. 136
It's just that quicker way of moving. 137
That works for all of them, if I click in here for the rotation... 138
if I click 'up' once, just going to go up by 1 point... 139
hold 'Shift', and it goes up by loads of 10. 140
Now that's for lots of things. 141
If you're like, "Man, I wish for this to go faster"... 142
generally just hold the 'Shift' key, and do whatever you were doing... 143
and it will go 10 times faster. 144
Another really handy one is... 145
I've got my 'Black Arrow' selected... 146
just got my whale selected, I'm just using my keyboard just to tap things around... 147
but often it moves into bigger chunks for me. 148
It's kind of too far. 149
I know it's only moving slightly... 150
but it's actually quite a big leap, left and right. 151
So what you do is have nothing selected, click in the background... 152
and over here, where it says 'Keyboard Increment'. 153
If you can't see this if you're on an earlier version of Illustrator... 154
jump into your 'Preferences', you'll find it in there. 155
1 point's not-- yes, it's too big, so I've got 0.1... 156
and I find that's a nice kind of happy medium... 157
because now if I'm moving it... 158
you can see, ever so slightly, it's moving. 159
I'm holding it down, and it's moving full steam... 160
but it's only a slight adjustment, but because of that modified key 'Shift'... 161
I can move it in those bigger chunks, right? 162
I can move by 1 point if I need to... 163
but mainly I want just a little tap, just tap, tap, tap. 164
Next shortcut is, if you grab this Star Tool... 165
it's underneath the Rectangle Tool. 166
If you drag a star out... 167
before you let go of it, so I haven't let go of my star to make it... 168
so I'm still drawing... 169
but if you use the up and down arrows... 170
just kind of adds more or less star patterns. 171
So just up and down, super easy. 172
So now we have a star with no Fill. Good work, Dan. 173
The next one you probably already know, is 'Command Tab'. 174
If you're on a PC, it's 'Control Tab'... 175
and it just toggles you between different programs that are open. 176
I'm just holding down the 'Command' key, or the 'Control' key on a PC. 177
It just kind of allows me to cycle through the programs... 178
so I can jump between Photoshop and Illustrator. 179
Photoshop, and Illustrator. 180
Within any of the programs... 181
so that works obviously for your whole system. 182
Let's say I open up a new document, and I want to toggle between these two. 183
It's a similar key. 184
So you hold down the 'Command' on a Mac, or 'Control ' key on a PC. 185
You're looking for the apostrophe key. 186
On my keyboard it's above my Tab key, next to number 1 along the top. 187
Yours might be somewhere different often. 188
It can be different places. 189
Just kind of toggles between the tabs that are open. 190
That works in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects... 191
anything that's kind of Adobe, that will work. 192
And in fact they work inside Word... 193
so you're not jumping out to new programs, just new windows within that program. 194
Another handy one. 195
Say I want to show somebody my amazing design. 196
Internally in the office, I want to kind of like, "Hey, look at my whale." 197
I tap the 'F' key once, and the 'F' key twice. 198
And it goes into kind of full on display mode. 199
Kind of gets rid of all the outsides. 200
You can still work in here if you know your shortcuts... 201
I can grab the 'V' key for the Move Tool. 202
And I'm going to grab my 'Shape Builder Tool'. 203
You know what the shortcut is, remember? 'Shift M'. 204
And I can start drawing these things. Okay, I didn't select it all. 205
'Shift M'. 206
But if you know some of the shortcuts you can work this way. 207
I'd work this way if I was maybe doing kind of a redraw. 208
Something long and tedious, and I knew the shortcuts... 209
and I was working on say, a laptop where the screen's really small. 210
Or like this, you can just present this way. 211
If you want to have a bit of both... 212
say you want to select on this and change the color... 213
just hover the mouse over the side, and it pops up for a second. 214
Then click back over here, and it will disappear again. 215
So for presenting, and just a good use of space if you've got a small laptop. 216
Now the last one is... 217
it's interesting, let's grab the 'Star Tool'... 218
you can grab any tool. 219
I am going to give it-- I'm going to use my shortcut. 220
Who remembers the shortcut to switch between those two? 221
That's right; 'Shift X'. 222
So I wanted to have a blue Stroke, not a Fill. 223
And I'm going to make sure I'm on the Star Tool. 224
I'm going to hold down the apostrophe key. 225
Some people's might be labelled as the tilde '~', which is the little wave. 226
You're really looking for the apostrophe key... 227
on my keyboard it's next to number 1, we used it before. 228
It's above the tab key, next to number 1, on the top left of my keyboard. 229
Hold it down, and... 230
it does that, it's really weird. 231
Just kind of makes multiple shapes as you draw, so I was clicking and holding. 232
Let's grab a different thing, I'm going to grab an Ellipse. 233
And if I hold down the tilde '~' key, click, drag around, you get this. 234
Cool, huh! Anybody remembers spiral graph? 235
Man, I'm going to remember when I go outside of that. 236
Kind of looks like that sort of stuff. 237
Now anything you hold down... 238
anything sort of drawing tool, and you start drawing. 239
Lots of lines as well. 240
Awesome, huh! 241
But... 242
I'm never going to use it. 243
I'm going to finish on that amazing shortcut. 244
That will be us, remember to download the PDF if you want to. 245
And yes, I'll see you in the next video.