The other tool found with the Direct Selection tool is the Group Selection tool. It’s used on group paths to select individual paths, and multiple clicking will select more paths […]
Selection Tool (V) – A Basic Review of Illustrator’s Shape Tools
Moving and Selecting Your Shapes on the Artboard After creating your basic shapes, at this point, it is helpful to be able to move them around on the artboard board […]
Drawing Tools That Can Be Used to Create Basic Graphs – A Basic Review of Illustrator’s Shape Tools
With the Line Segment tools are two other tools that can be used to create graph-like shapes. These are the Rectangular Grid tool and the Polar Grid tool which you […]
Line Segment, Arc, and Spiral Tools – A Basic Review of Illustrator’s Shape Tools
There are three other tools that you may want to use as well for your infographic creation which though not actual shapes, can be very useful in adding creative detail […]
Star Tool – A Basic Review of Illustrator’s Shape Tools
The Star tool, like the Polygon tool, will create a multisided shape, but this time as a star. While the tool is selected, you can drag out an equal-sided star. […]
Polygon Tool – A Basic Review of Illustrator’s Shape Tools
The Polygon tool is useful for creating sided shapes from 3 (triangle) to 1000 sides, which at that point would resemble a circle. While this tool is selected, you can […]
Rounded Rectangle Tool – A Basic Review of Illustrator’s Shape Tools
The Rounded Rectangle tool is very similar to the Rectangle tool. Just drag out the shape while the tool is selected, and you can use all of the same key […]
Rectangle Tool (M) – A Basic Review of Illustrator’s Shape Tools
The Rectangle tool is used for creating rectangles and squares. Once this tool is selected from the Toolbars panel, you can draw a rectangle by dragging out the shape to […]
Drawing Tools Overview – A Basic Review of Illustrator’s Shape Tools
This chapter is an overview of Illustrator’s basic shape tools and related panels that you would use to start creating infographic rudimentary shapes. Once you have created and scanned your […]