Comments on: Two handy Adobe Illustrator selection shortcuts https://www.thegraphicmac.com/two-handy-adobe-illustrator-selection-shortcuts Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:01:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Mange https://www.thegraphicmac.com/two-handy-adobe-illustrator-selection-shortcuts/comment-page-1#comment-4370 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:02:28 +0000 https://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=9223#comment-4370 Sure but it’s never a ‘keyboard shortcut’ if there’s a mouse involved.

]]> By: mikeshoaf https://www.thegraphicmac.com/two-handy-adobe-illustrator-selection-shortcuts/comment-page-1#comment-4369 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:12:31 +0000 https://www.thegraphicmac.com/?p=9223#comment-4369 A bit of clarification on this: You can click (no modifier keys needed) the spot with the little colored square to select all the objects on that layer. Even if the square is not showing (meaning nothing on that layer is currently selected) you can click that spot (where the square would be) to select all objects on the layer. This square is larger when all objects on that layer are selected.

You can also move the square (click & drag) to another layer to move the selected objects to that other layer.

Clicking on the circle will target the entire layer as a whole, instead of all of it’s contents. In this way, you can manipulate the transparency and many other appearance properties of the layer, not the individual objects or groups within that layer. (So if you’ve clicked the circle and targeted the entire layer, then changed the transparency settings, any new objects that are added to that layer will obtain the same transparency properties of that layer.)

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