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.

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.

Selecting content in Adobe Illustrator is one of the more important things you’ll do. In this lesson, you learn how to locate and select objects using the selection tools; protect other objects by grouping, hiding, and locking them; align objects to each other and the artboard; and much more.