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Legal notices
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Contents
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Chapter 1: What's new
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Adobe Stock
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10x faster zoom, pan, scroll
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Recover data in your files
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Last updated 6/5/2015
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GPU Performance
11
Touch workspace enhancements
11
Tool enhancements
12
Other important enhancements
12
Chapter 2: Workspace
13
Hide or show all panels
14
Display panel options
14
Search For Help box
15
About screen modes
15
Using the status bar
15
❖ Do any of the following:
16
Customizing the workspace
17
Dock and undock panels
18
Move panels
19
Add and remove panels
19
Manipulate panel groups
19
Stack floating panels
20
Resize panels
20
Use panel menus
21
Save and switch workspaces
22
Tools panel overview
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View hidden tools
24
View tool options
24
Move the Tools panel
24
Select a tool
25
Change tool pointers
25
Tool galleries
26
Type tool gallery
28
Painting tool gallery
29
Reshaping tool gallery
30
Symbolism tool gallery
33
Graph tool gallery
33
Improved User Interface
35
Safe Mode
38
Using Safe Mode
39
Configurable preferences
43
Important considerations
43
Touch Workspace
44
Switching between workspaces
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Tool bar
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Control panel
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Document bar
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Artboard overview
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Printing and saving artboards
49
Use rulers
50
Use the grid
51
Use guides
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Smart Guides
52
Smart Guide preferences
53
Custom Tools Panels
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Viewing artwork
56
About print tiling
57
Zoom in or out
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Change the view area
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Navigator panel overview
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View artwork as outlines
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Create a new window
59
Create a new view
59
Rename or delete a view
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Switch between views
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Setting preferences
60
About plug-in modules
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Using multiple artboards
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Artboards panel
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Create an artboard
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Delete an artboard
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Select and view artboards
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Edit artboards
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Move an artboard
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Reorder artboards
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Rearrange artboards
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Customize artboard names
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9-point referencing
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Undo and redo changes
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Working with ConnectNow
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Files and templates
68
About new document profiles
69
Create new documents
70
About templates
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Create a new template
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Open a file
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Import and Export Settings
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File Info dialog
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Chapter 3: Drawing
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About paths
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Drawing modes
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Drawing with the Pen tool
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Draw curves with the Pen tool
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Finish drawing a path
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Drawing with the Pencil tool
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Drawing flares
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Create a flare
88
Create a default flare
88
Draw a flare
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Draw rectangles and squares
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Draw ellipses
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Draw polygons
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Draw stars
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Draw arcs
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Draw spirals
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Draw grids
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Editing paths
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Smooth and simplify paths
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Simplify paths
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Erase artwork
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Eraser tool options
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Split a path
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Viewing the pixel grid
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Adjust path segments
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Move straight segments
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Delete a segment
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Extend an open path
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Connect two open paths
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Join two endpoints
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Join two or more paths
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Pen tool rubberband preview
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Curvature Tool
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Using Image Trace
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Tracing options
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Enhanced Pencil Tool
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Anchor Point enhancements
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About symbols
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Symbols panel overview
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Symbol registration point
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Place or create a symbol
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Add sublayers for symbols
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Use 9-slice scaling
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Work with symbol instances
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Expand a symbol instance
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Reset transformations
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Edit or redefine a symbol
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Symbol libraries
120
About symbol sets
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Create symbol sets
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Resize symbol instances
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Rotate symbol instances
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Stain symbol instances
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2 Do one of the following:
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Perspective drawing
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Define grid presets
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Move the perspective grid
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Attach objects to perspective
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Transforming objects
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Automatic plane positioning
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Move plane to match object
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Scale objects in perspective
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About Perspective Grid
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Trace artwork
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More Help topics
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Use a tracing preset
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Release a tracing object
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Overview
145
Chapter 4: Color
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Grayscale
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Color spaces and gamuts
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About spot and process colors
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About spot colors
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About process colors
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Selecting colors
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Display the Color Picker
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Display only web-safe colors
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Color panel overview
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Using and creating swatches
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Use swatch libraries
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Add all document colors
159
Create color swatches
160
Manage swatches
161
Color groups (harmonies)
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Color Guide panel overview
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Create color groups
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Save changes to a color group
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Assign colors to your artwork
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Reduce colors in your artwork
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About Kuler
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View and use themes
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Color Themes panel
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Adjusting colors
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Blend colors
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Change the tint of a color
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Invert multiple colors
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Convert colors to grayscale
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Mix overlapping colors
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Chapter 5: Painting
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About fills and strokes
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Fill and Stroke controls
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Blob Brush tool guidelines
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Create merged paths
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Blob Brush tool options
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Using the Width tool
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About the Width tool
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Width tool controls
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Saving width profiles
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Live Paint groups
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Live Paint limitations
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Create Live Paint groups
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Select faces and edges
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Modify Live Paint groups
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Live Paint Bucket options
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Set Live Paint gap options
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About brushes
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Brushes panel overview
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Work with brush libraries
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Apply brush strokes
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Paintbrush tool options
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Remove brush strokes
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Create or modify brushes
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Brush options
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Scatter brush options
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Art brush options
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Segmented art brush
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Pattern brush options
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Bristle brush
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Using the Bristle brush
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• 0 = 100
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• 1 = 10%
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• 9 = 90
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About transparency
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Transparency panel overview
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View transparency in artwork
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Change the opacity of artwork
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Create an opacity mask
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About blending modes
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Gradients
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Patterns
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Create pattern swatches
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Modify patterns
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Create mesh objects
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Edit mesh objects
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Stroke an object
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Create dotted or dashed lines
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Add arrowheads
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Customize arrowheads
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Create and edit patterns
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Apply or edit a gradient
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Create an elliptical gradient
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Painting
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Selecting objects
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Isolate artwork for editing
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Isolate a path inside a group
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Isolate a layer or sublayer
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Select behind objects
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Select filled objects
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Repeat or invert a selection
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Group or ungroup objects
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Expand objects
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Move objects
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Move an object by dragging
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Move multiple objects at once
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Align and distribute objects
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Rotate objects
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Reflect or flip objects
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Reflect by specifying an axis
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About layers
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Layers panel overview
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Create a layer
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Consolidate layers and groups
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Duplicating objects
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Stacking objects
268
Chapter 7: Reshaping objects
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Scale objects
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Scale multiple objects
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Shear objects
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Distort objects
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Reshape using envelopes
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About envelopes
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Reset an envelope
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Remove an envelope
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Envelope options
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Combining objects
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Pathfinder options
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Apply Pathfinder effects
281
Summary of Pathfinder effects
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Compound shapes
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Work with compound shapes
283
Create a compound shape
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Modify a compound shape
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Compound paths
284
Cutting and dividing objects
286
Clipping masks
287
About clipping masks
288
Edit a clipping mask
289
About the Shape Builder Tool
290
Reshaping objects
293
Working with Live Corners
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The Corners dialog
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Change the corner style
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Considerations
298
Blending objects
299
Create blends
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Blend options
301
1 Select the blended object
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Pen Tool
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Convert Anchor Point Tool
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Direct Selection Tool
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Creating 3D objects
305
Create 3D objects
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Set options
307
Extrude & Bevel options
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Revolve options
309
Surface shading options
309
Lighting options
310
Add a custom bevel path
311
Map artwork to a 3D object
312
OS-supported Gestures
315
Importing artwork files
318
Links panel overview
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Work with the Links panel
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Update modified links
320
Embed a linked file
321
Importing bitmap images
322
Importing Adobe PDF files
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Adobe PDF placement options
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Importing EPS files
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Importing DCS files
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Importing AutoCAD files
326
Photoshop import options
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Saving artwork
328
About saving artwork
329
Save in Illustrator format
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Save in EPS format
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Save in SVG format
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Package files
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Unembed images
336
Share on Behance
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Upload new artwork to Behance
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Creating Adobe PDF files
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Create Adobe PDF files
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Adobe PDF presets
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Customize PDF presets
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Load PDF presets
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Adobe PDF options
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General options for PDF
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Adding security to PDF files
350
Security options
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Exporting artwork
351
AutoCAD export options
353
Flash export options
353
JPEG export options
356
Photoshop export options
356
PNG export options
357
File information and metadata
358
Extract CSS
360
Style to the clipboard E
361
Sample CSS Code
362
Links information
364
Chapter 9: Type
368
Export text to a text file
369
Tag text for export to Flash
369
Creating text
370
Enter text at a point
371
Enter text in an area
371
Manage the text area
372
Wrap text around an object
376
Wrap text
377
Set wrap options
377
Unwrap text from an object
377
Creating type on a path
378
Scaling and rotating type
382
Check spelling
383
Edit the spelling dictionary
383
Assign languages to text
384
About Unicode
384
About fonts
385
OpenType fonts
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Previewing fonts
386
Specify a typeface size
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Find and replace fonts
386
Work with missing fonts
387
The enhanced Find Font dialog
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Substituted fonts preference
390
Text enhancements
391
Working with Typekit Fonts
391
Filtering Typekit fonts
392
Arabic and Hebrew type
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Text direction
394
Digit Types
394
Legacy font support
395
Default fonts
395
Automatic Kashida insertion
395
Ligatures
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Hyphenation
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Find and replace
398
Diacritical marks
398
Line and character spacing
399
Shift the baseline
400
Kern and track
400
Adjust kerning
401
Adjust tracking
401
Tabs panel overview
402
Set tabs
402
Repeat tabs
403
Move tabs
403
Special characters
404
Glyphs panel overview
405
OpenType panel overview
406
Formatting Asian characters
407
Display Asian type options
408
Use tate-chu-yoko
409
Use warichu
411
Use mojikumi
412
Create a mojikumi set
413
Work with mojikumi sets
413
Use kinsoku
414
Specify a burasagari option
415
Use kurikaeshi moji shori
415
Formatting type
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Find and replace text
417
Character panel overview
418
Apply all caps and small caps
419
Change capitalization styles
420
Convert type to outlines
422
Use smart punctuation
423
Formatting paragraphs
424
Align text
425
Justify text
425
Indent text
426
Adjust paragraph spacing
427
Hanging punctuation
427
Hyphenation and line breaks
428
Prevent words from breaking
429
Composition methods
429
Update selected legacy text
431
Remove style overrides
432
Creating composite fonts
433
Delete a composite font
435
Export a composite font
436
Appearance attributes
438
Edit an attribute
439
Manage appearance attributes
440
Creating special effects
442
Working with effects
443
About raster effects
444
Rasterization options
444
Summary of effects
446
Artistic effects
448
Blur effects
448
Brush Strokes effects
449
Pixelate effects
450
Sharpen effect
450
Sketch effects
450
Texture effects
451
Video effects
451
Create a drop shadow
452
Creating sketches and mosaics
453
Create a mosaic
454
Graphic styles
455
Create graphic styles
456
Apply a graphic style
457
Use graphic style libraries
457
Work with graphic styles
458
Chapter 11: Web graphics
460
About pixel preview mode
461
• Color Mode: RGB
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• Raster Resolution: 72 ppi
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Slices and image maps
463
Create slices
464
Select slices
465
Set slice options
465
Lock slices
466
Adjust slice boundaries
466
Remove slices
466
Show or hide slices
467
Create image maps
467
About SVG
467
Apply SVG effects
468
SVG events
469
Creating animations
470
Create Flash animations
471
Web graphics
472
Chapter 12: Printing
474
Print dialog box options
475
Print multiple artboards
476
Scale a document for printing
477
Printing color separations
479
Preview color separations
480
Print color separations
480
Color separation modes
481
Printer’s marks and bleeds
482
Add printer’s marks
483
About bleeds
483
Add a bleed
483
PostScript printing
484
Printing long, complex paths
485
About flattening
488
Printing
489
Highlight (preview) options
490
Overprinting
500
Trapping
501
Create a trap
502
Trap options
503
Create a spread or choke
504
Trap a line
504
Print presets
505
Apply print presets
506
Edit print presets
506
Delete print presets
506
Delete crop marks
507
Use Japanese-style crop marks
508
Chapter 13: Automating tasks
509
Play an action on a file
510
Record an action
510
Insert a path
511
Insert selection of an object
511
Insert a stop
512
Specify playback speed
513
Edit and rerecord actions
513
Manage action sets
514
Organize action sets
515
Automation with scripts
516
Install a script
517
Variables panel overview
517
Create variables
518
Edit variables
518
Delete variables
519
Edit dynamic objects
519
Data sets
520
About variable libraries
520
Chapter 14: Graphs
522
Creating a new chart
523
Replacing chart artwork
524
Editing chart artwork
525
Modifying chart layout
526
Editing chart data
528
Creating graphs
529
Adjust the width of columns
530
Enter graph data
530
Enter labels
531
Formatting graphs
533
General graph options
535
Add drop shadows
535
Format pie graphs
535
Pie graph options
536
Combine different graph types
536
Select parts of a graph
537
Format the text in a graph
537
About graph designs
537
Create a column design
538
Add totals to a column design
539
Create a marker design
540
Reuse a graph design
541
Customize keyboard shortcuts
542
Default keyboard shortcuts
543
Keys for viewing artwork
544
Keys for drawing
545
Keys for selecting
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Keys for moving selections
548
Keys for editing shapes
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Keys for painting objects
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Keys for transforming objects
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Keys for working with type
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Keys for using panels
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Keys for the Actions panel
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Keys for the Brushes panel
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Keys for the Color panel
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Keys for the Gradient panel
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Keys for the Layers panel
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Keys for the Swatches panel
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Keys for the Transform panel
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Function keys
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