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- [Instructor] In this movie we'll discuss



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the various dekeKeys shortcuts



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that I've created for tools,

transparency, and panels.



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We're going to start

off here on page nine,



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and I happen to be looking at the dekeKeys



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for a Mac document.



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And if you were with me back in chapter 11



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of the fundamentals course,



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you may recall that we swapped a couple



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of keyboard shortcuts

associated with tools.



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For example, we swapped the Blob Brush



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with the Paintbrush tool,



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so the Blob is B, which

makes it easier to get to,



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and the Paintbrush is shift + B.



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We also swapped the Free Transform tool



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so that it's shift + D and the Eraser tool



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is just plain, old E.



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We gave L to the Shape Builder tool,



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and then we gave shift

+ M to the Ellipse tool.



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You can also see that I've added shift + A



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for the Arc tool, shift

+ G for the Polygon tool,



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and so forth.



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And I've also gone ahead and stolen



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a couple of additional keyboard shortcuts.



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Shift + P, which I reassigned

to the Curvature tool,



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after all, P gets you the Pen tool,



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and the Curvature tool

is a very close cousin.



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And then shift + V, which I've assigned



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to the Vertical Type tool,

just in case you use that.



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My main reason in doing this, however,



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was to get them away from

a couple of other tools.



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And those tools, for what it's worth,



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I'll just go ahead and

switch to this document,



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the Defaults document right here,



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are these guys, the Perspective Grid tool



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and the Perspective Selection tool.



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Now, they can really be irritants



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if you don't know how they work



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and you accidentally select them.



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Let me show you what I mean.



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I'll go ahead and switch

over to the last art board



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in this Installation document here.



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And I'll press ctrl + shift + alt + K,



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or command + shift + option + K on a Mac



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to bring up the Keyboard

Shortcuts dialogue box.



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And I'll switch back to

the Illustrator defaults,



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and I'll click OK.



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And now I'll press shift + P.



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So, imagine you don't

mean to press shift + P,



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you just do it because you're trying



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to get to something else.



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And you end up selecting

this guy right here,



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which is the Perspective Grid tool.



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And in a worst-case scenario,



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you're going to see this

big perspective grid



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all over the place.



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And you're also going to

see this little widget



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in the top left corner.



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Now, notice if I carefully move my cursor



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over that tiny little X

in the top left corner



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of that widget, I can

click to hide this grid.



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However, I can only do so

with one of these two tools.



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Notice we've got the Perspective Grid tool



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and the Perspective Selection tool,



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which by default is set to shift + V.



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If I were to switch back to,

let's say, the Black Arrow tool



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and try to click on that

little X, it doesn't work.



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And so, you just end up

with this grid onscreen,



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and you end up, if you're like most people



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who I've seen encounter this problem,



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just closing the artwork and reopening it,



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because it looks pretty

darn hopeless at this point.



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Well, the real solution is

to go up to the View menu,



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choose Perspective Grid,



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and then choose this command

right there, Hide Grid,



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which does have a keyboard

shortcut of ctrl + shift + I,



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command + shift + I on a Mac.



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That is the default shortcut, by the way.



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I don't think it's a

discoverable shortcut,



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but it is there.



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And in any event, if

I press that shortcut,



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or choose the command,

then the grid goes away.



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The other shortcut that's a

lot like that one, by the way,



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so remember, that was ctrl + shift + I,



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or command + shift + I,



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if you press ctrl + alt + I,



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or command + option + I on a Mac,



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you end up getting a

different visual effect,



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which can be somewhat alarming.



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This, by the way, is tied to a command



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under the Type menu,



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this guy right there,

Show Hidden Characters.



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Easier to get to, and in my opinion,



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makes a little more sense.



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In any event, I'll choose

the command to turn it off.



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And I'm going to press

ctrl + shift + alt + K,



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or command + shift + option + K on a Mac



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to bring up the Keyboard

Shortcuts dialogue box



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and switch that back to

dekeKeys customize and click OK,



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so I don't accidentally

encounter the problem



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with the Perspective Grid tool.



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Alright, let's go back to

our PDF documents here.



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And I'll switch to the next page.



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This is pure custom shortcuts, by the way.



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And what I've done is

I've assigned shortcuts



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to each one of the Opacity increments



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in increments of 10%,



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and I'm just lifting this from Photoshop.



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So, this is exactly the

way it works in Photoshop,



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and with dekeKeys it works this

way in Illustrator as well.



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So, you tap the 1 key

to set a selected object



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to an opacity value of 10%,



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all the way up to the 0 key for 100%.



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And I've also assigned

shift-number combinations



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to a few of the best blend modes.



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In Photoshop, it's shift

+ alt and a letter,



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or shift + option and a letter on the Mac.



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That's just not possible in Illustrator.



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So, I gave shift + 1 and 2



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to the best blend modes there

are, Multiply and Screen.



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We're going to see how they work



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in the very next chapter of this course.



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Shift + 3 is Overlay.



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We go through the contrast modes,



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that is to say Overlay,

Soft Light, and Hard Light.



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Then we get to the Color

and Luminosity modes,



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which begin with Hue, then

Color, then Luminosity.



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The Difference mode could be

helpful every once in a while,



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so I set it to shift + 9.



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And then shift + 0 will

reinstate the Normal blend mode,



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which ultimately restores

the opacity of the object.



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Alright, now I'll go ahead and switch



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to the next page right here.



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And you can see that

the tilde key by itself



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sets the opacity value to 0%,



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so you may recall 0 gave us 100%,



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so we still needed zero.



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Then I also assigned a couple of other



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Photoshop keyboard

shortcuts, shift + minus



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for the previous blend mode,



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and shift + plus for the next blend mode.



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Alright, now let's scroll

down to page 13 right here.



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So, we can start seeing the function keys.



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Now, the function keys are already set



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to hide and show panels

inside Illustrator,



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but the method is pretty odd.



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I'll go ahead and switch

over to the defaults here,



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and I'll scroll down the list to page 13.



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Notice that F2 and 3 invoke

the Cut and Copy commands,



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which is super old school.



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That's like a DOS thing, I don't like it.



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It's not the kind of thing



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that we need to waste function keys on.



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And then shift + F3

kind of out of the blue



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gets us the Color Guide panel.



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Then we're at F4 for Paste.



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We've got nothing going

on beyond Paste for F4.



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Then we have F5, shift

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going all the way down to F8, shift + F8.



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Then we suddenly introduce command + F8,



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command + shift + F8,



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and then we're at these command

and command + shift combos



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for Fs nine, 10, and 11.



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And so whatever you think of bringing up



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and hiding panels using the function keys,



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it is something you have to get used to.



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I don't think these default

settings work at all,



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which is why I've modified

things pretty heavily.



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I've set F4 to the Navigator panel



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and shift + F4 to the Libraries panel.



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On all the other function keys



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I also do an option or an alt on PC.



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I don't do that for F4,



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and that's because it's

flat out dangerous on a PC.



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You can see that alt +

F4 is going to force quit



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the active application

without even asking you



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any permission to do so.



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Ctrl + F4 closes the active window,



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and will do so without saving changes.



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So, those are two

shortcuts you want to avoid



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unless you really know what you're doing.



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Which is why I just don't assign



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alt + F4 on a PC, you can't,

or option + F4 on a Mac.



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But otherwise we've got consistency.



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F5, shift + F5, option + F5,



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all the way up to the F11 keys.



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Now, I tried to keep as many

default shortcuts as I could,



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but otherwise I shifted things around



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and I added a bunch of shortcuts as well.



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And it's the kind of thing,



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either you're going to take to or not.



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Feel free, of course,

to assign function keys



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to anything that you like.



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And then finally, we've

got this last page.



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This is pure miscellany, I

didn't change a single shortcut.



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These are all default shortcuts.



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We've got some asterisks to tell you about



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how you can adjust the keyboard increment



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in the General Preferences dialogue box.



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That's up to you.



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The only thing I want to

call your attention to



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is that on a Mac, pressing

command + option + tab



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will switch you between the

Black and White Arrow tools.



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And that will work on the fly



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when you have the command key down



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to get an Arrow tool on the fly.



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On the PC, that's a

very different shortcut,



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so these are defaults, by the way.



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And so notice if I switch over



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to the PC document right here,



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it's ctrl + tilde that

switches you between



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the Black and White Arrow tools.



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And again, that's going to work

for you on the fly as well.



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And so, just to demonstrate

it in case you forgot,



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we've talked about this before,



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but I'll go ahead and switch,



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let's say to the Rectangle tool.



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And I'll draw a rectangle,



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and now let's say I want to move it.



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Well, I could press and hold the ctrl key



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or the command key on a Mac



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to get my last used Arrow tool on the fly.



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It happens to be the Black Arrow.



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What if I want to move

one of the corner points?



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Then I could press here

on the PC, ctrl + tilde



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to switch to the White

Arrow tool there on the fly.



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That would be command +

option + tab on a Mac,



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and then I could just

select an anchor point



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and move it like so into a

totally different position.



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And then if I wanted to

return to the Rectangle tool



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I would just release the

ctrl key here on the PC



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or the command key on the Mac.



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And that's what's going

on with the shortcuts



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for the tools, transparency, and panels,



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many of which I enhanced quite

dramatically using dekeKeys.