Tips & Tricks of the Trade

Ever get frustrated with software that’s supposed to be “easy-to-use”? Well, you’re not alone. Fortunately, there are several helpful web resources with ‘tips and tricks of the trade,’ if you will, to help those “less-than-computer-saavy.”

Here are some of my favorites that I have found to be most resourceful in using student and academic software:

Seven Helpful Techniques That Every Adobe Illustrator Artist Should Know

- How to Make All Strokes and Effects Scale Proportionately - How To Make Guidelines on an Angle
- Reset the Box Around an Object That’s Been Rotated Back to Normal - Stretch a Box With Rounded Corners Without Distorting the Box or Selecting Individual Points
- One Document, Multiple Views (Up-Close and Far-Away), and Work In Either View
- Change Your Document's Background From White To Your Ow n Custom Color
- Quickly Hide All Unnecessary Palettes So You Can See What You're Doing

My go-to Adobe software help Web site is definitely Vectips. It offers a plethora of Adobe Illustrator tips, tricks and tutorials and is constantly being updates with the latest trends and helpful hints.

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