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The Basics of Illustrator Vector Manipulation

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Advertise here with BSA Adobe Illustrator is a powerful vector program made for digital and print designers. Vector shapes are made to scale without any quality loss, which makes them quite different from pixel graphics. This means vector graphics can be manipulated differently and under different contexts which may be confusing for new designers. In this post I’d like to cover a brief how-to process of vector manipulation in Adobe Illustrator. I’ll explain the absolute basics of shape tools and how to manipulate them. Photoshop users who are familiar with vectors will recognize some of these terms. Others who are brand new to Illustrator will just need time to practice the fundamentals of this powerful design suite. Shape Fundamentals Shapes can be created in any Illustrator document using any resolution. The startup screen offers a number of presets so choose any of them, or create your own new document. From here try dragging a rectangle onto the screen with the rectangle tool(shortcut M). You’ll notice a blue box surrounds the rectangle when it’s selected. Choose the move tool(shortcut V) and click elsewhere on the document. Your shape should now have a simple outline. Grab the direct selection tool(shortcut A) and try clicking once on…

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