Illustrator black and white arrows complete anatomy

A big difference between illustrator and other vector software is that it has a very large selection of tools: Selection Tool (black arrow), direct selection tool (white arrow), Group selection tool (Baiga arrow), Lasso tool (black lasso), direct-selection lasso tool (white lasso) and a 10.0 new added magic wand tool.

A variety of tools allows you to choose more accurately, and of course it's easy for you to switch, especially the "Black Arrow" "White Arrow" two little ones.

Here we take a closer look at the "Black Arrows" and "white Arrows", the two most important selection tools. If you are a beginner of illustrator, this article will save you a lot of study time. If you are an advanced user who has just shifted from other vector software (such as CorelDRAW and Freehand) to illustrator, the second section of this article about white arrows is likely to solve problems that have plagued you for a long time, helping you to quickly and accurately select the objects you need and improve your productivity.

General:

The Arrow Selection tool (Selection tool, direct selection tool, and Group selection tool) is the most important selection tool in Illustrator, because in addition to choice, they can also directly to the object to complete some deformation, movement, node editing important operations.

General shortcut Keys:

1, all non-selection tool +ctrl, will temporarily switch to the last use of the arrow selection tool.

In the selection tool state (especially the three Arrow tools), press the TAB key to toggle between black and white arrows, and then combine the ALT key to switch to the white plus arrow, so that when using other tools, you can switch to any of the three arrow tools by CTRL and Alt.

2. Garchon and reduction of election. Any selection tool with the SHIFT key at the same time becomes an opt-in state, adding the new object to the currently selected collection, but clicking the object in the Select collection again will subtract it from the collection, similar to the positive negative meaning.

1, Selection tool (black arrow) shortcut key (V)

Note that it is important to observe the state of the cursor in Illustrator, each tool often has several different cursor states, note the cursor shape of the current tool, which directly affects the success of your operation.

A, 4 different states of the black Arrow.

Black Arrow	Black Arrow with solid square	Black arrows with hollow squares	Large triangle arrow, and object appears bounding box
Arrows in a blank area	The arrow is on the object	The arrow is on the node of the path	The arrow has selected the object to perform various actions