Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

3.

Switch to the next group of shortcuts. Click Expose & Spaces,

replace F9 with Control-F9, F10 with Control-F10, and F11

with Control-F11.

4.

Reset the -spacebar functionality. Spotlight, Mac’s ques-

tionably useful search feature, has taken over the -spacebar

and -Option-spacebar shortcuts. In Illustrator, these short-

cuts let you zoom in and out of your images with immensely

convenient efficiency. Reclaim this handy feature by choosing

Spotlight in the left panel. Next, click Space and replace it

with -Control-F1, and click --Space and replace it with

the shortcut -Control-Option-F1 (which shows up in reverse

order as ^

F1).

5. Close System Preferences. Finally, click the in the top-left

corner of the window to close the system preferences.

From now on, the panel and zoom tool shortcuts will work according

to Adobe’s intentions, as well as the directions provided in this book.

Structure and Organization

Each of the lessons in the book conforms to a consistent structure,

designed to impart skills and understanding through a regimen of

practice and dialog. As you build your projects, I explain why you’re

performing the steps and why Illustrator works the way it does.

Each lesson begins with a broad topic overview. Turn to the first

page of each lesson, and you’ll find a section called “About This

Lesson,” which lists the skills you’ll learn and provides you with

a short description of what you’ll find in the video-based compo-

nent of the lesson.

As you read in “One-on-One Installation and Setup,” on page xiv, the videos

can be streamed or downloaded from the book’s companion Web site, found

at www.oreilly.com/go/deke-IllustratorCS5.

These video lessons are an integral part of my plan for helping

you really get your bearings in Illustrator. Ranging from 15 to 45

minutes apiece, these high-quality videos introduce key concepts,

focusing on those features and techniques that make more sense if

you first see them in action.

Theoretically, you can watch the video lessons in any order you like. However,

each video makes the most sense and provides the most benefit when

watched at the outset of the corresponding book-based lesson.

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