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Keyboard
Shortcuts For The Pen |
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Draw Faster By Making Fewer Trips To The Tool Palette
This tutorial is for applications that use the pen: Adobe®
Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator® and Macromedia® FreeHand®.
When drawing with the pen you will inevitably have to stop
mid-path and make adjustments to anchor points, control
handles or line segments.
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Note: Different
software packages use different terms for the same things,
and since this article is using mixed terminology please
consult the table
of equivalent terminology for clarification of terms. |
Usually, when first learning the software, the novice will
go to the tool palette to switch back and forth between the
pen and other tools. This is very time consuming and there
are provisions in the software to switch tools without having
to select them from the tool palette. The keys on both the
right-hand and left-hand sides of the spacebar are used for
this purpose. Shown below are the keyboard hand positions
for a right-handed mouse:
The diagram above shows the hand positions (for a right handed
mouse) to take advantage of keyboard shortcuts for drawing with
the pen. This is the quickest way to use the pen.
Mac® users will use various combinations of the Shift, Option
and Command keys, while Windows users will use parallel combinations
of the Shift, Ctrl and Alt keys.
For example, while actively drawing a path with the pen tool,
Windows Illustrator users can press the Ctrl key to switch between
the pen and the selection tool while at the same time press
the Shift key to constrain a line to 45° increments. When finished
making the adjustment, the user simply releases the keys and
resumes drawing with the pen tool - all without resorting to
the tool palette.
Following this tutorial are step by step examples to drill the
point.
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