Tools panel overview – Adobe Illustrator CS3 User Manual

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ILLUSTRATOR CS3

User Guide

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You can expand some tools to show hidden tools beneath them. A small triangle at the lower-right corner of the tool
icon signals the presence of hidden tools. To see the name of a tool, position the pointer over it.

View hidden tools

Hold down the mouse button on the visible tool.

View tool options

Double-click a tool.

Move the Tools panel

Drag its title bar or the Illustrator icon.

Tools panel overview

A

B

C

D

F

H

I

E

G

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

Indicates default tool * Keyboard shortcuts appear in parenthesis

Selection tools

Selection (V)

Direct Selection (A)

Group Selection

Magic Wand (Y)

Lasso (Q)

Drawing tools

Pen (P)

Add Anchor Point (+)

Delete Anchor (-)
Point

Convert Anchor
Point

Line Segment (\)

Arc

Spiral

Rectangular Grid

Polar Grid

Rectangle (M)

Rounded Rectangle

Ellipse (L)

Polygon

Star

Flare

Pencil (N)

Smooth

Path Eraser

Type tools

Type (T)

Area Type

Type On a Path

Vertical Type

Vertical Area
Type

Vertical Type
On a Path

Painting tools

Paintbrush (B)

Mesh (U)

Gradient (G)

Eyedropper (I)

Measure

Live Paint Bucket (K)

Live Paint Selection
(Shift+L)

Reshaping tools

Rotate (R)

Reflect (O)

Scale (S)

Shear

Reshape

Warp (Shift-R)

Twirl

Pucker

Bloat

Scallop

Crystallize

Wrinkle

Free Transform (E)

Blend (W)

Symbol tools

Symbol Sprayer
(Shift +S)

Symbol Shifter

Symbol Scruncher

Symbol Sizer

Symbol Spinner

Symbol Stainer

Symbol Screener

Symbol Styler

Graph tools

Column Graph (J)

Stacked Column
Graph

Bar Graph

Stacked Bar
Graph

Line Graph

Area Graph

Scatter Graph

Pie Graph

Radar Graph

Slicing and cutting
tools

Crop Area (Shift +O)

Slice (Shift+K)

Slice Select

Eraser (Shift +E)

Scissors (C)

Knife

Moving and zooming
tools

Hand (H)

Page

Zoom (Z)

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