Thanks a lot, Nick. (:

Neat list! I’m not a heavy Illustrator user but those shortcuts are certainly going to be handy when I port over in the next few months.

Thank you very much! :) :)

This is such a comprehensive list, though I scarcely use Illustrator.

Awesome!
This post is definitely a time & life saver 8)

useful tut.THX

This is perfect, I was hoping to find some shortcuts for illustrator, this should help me greatly!

Thanks!

greetings from Latvia.
this was very useful.

I’m just learning Illustrator for a few days now. It’s hard to get used to it after working with Photoshop only! The shortcuts are different even for similar things in both programs and additionally I’ve changed platform to Mac (from PC)…
PC’s keyboard is a lot easier to work with, Mac has so awkward keyboard. How can you press cmd+alt+Z at the same time with one hand for heaven’s sake? :)

After all, thanks for the shotcuts! Some of them I’ve already knew from the books but some are brand-new to me ;)

Really amazing shortcuts, it will increase speed and save my time…Thanks!

Good information and very pedagogically written, but I have one question… Why would you possibly use such a lossy format as gif for your screenshots? A real web-designer knows that it truly sucks ass :)

really nice shortcuts, the ~ key will be very helpful!

The following tips amaze me a lot!
* Saturate or Desaturate Color
* Continuous Duplicates Based on Mouse Movement
* Eyedropper – Sample Photo or Gradient Color
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Wha, that’s impressive! Thanks a lot!
But I have a question, I have a macbook, and i can’t do the 18 tip (the one with the tilde ~). I tried option+n+drag but it doesn’t work. I’m disappointed because i have had many ideas just by looking at your exemples!
What can I do ?

(Sorry for my English, i’m French! )

Christelle

Great set of tips!

@Kenneth – When you can actually post a personal web site that rivals this one’s design (instead of a link to Disneyland, where you probably work optimizing images of Donald Duck all day), maybe then you can give lectures. There are still plenty of instances where gif is a fine format to use, as it frequently provides lower file size and identical quality to png.

Cool!! Very useful list! thank you for sharing!

Wow~ I have been using Illustrtor for years, and you have shared some tips I didn’t even know existed!! Thanks so much for your articles and tutorials. They are very helpful.

thanks dear……

thanks so much for posting these! i thought i knew a bunch of shortcuts until i read this post. ha!

Awesome list! I’ve learned a lot… Thanks!

Thanks so much. a great list.

Thank you

I live for shortcuts, great post thanks.

Thank you for your tutorials. They always impress me.

tht’s awesome!!!
help a lot
thanks!!!!!

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Another great tutorial, thank you for sharing this.

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Thanks for the tips. Some were beginner stuff and some were new to me. Beautiful site.

Maybe I can learn to apply these short cuts, becuase I can’t even use this program without looking like a 2 year old child drawing a Crayola picture..
:)

Good adobe ilisturasion information… Thanks.

this will definatly be useful as i become more familiar with illustrator, thanks

Thanks for the heads up! There are quite a few here I’d never seen before. Always nice to make it faster & easier!

Oh man, that duplicating one is what I’ve missed since Freehand’s demise, I had no idea how to do it in Illustrator! So close, yet, so far… Thanks for sharing!

Thanks a lot, the guides and duplicating one are very usefull for me, thanks again.

Hola soy de Caracas-Venezuela, tus shortcuts para ilustrator son muy buenos, soy gran fan del trabajo por teclado y me han sido de gran utilidad.

Thanks friend!!!

Wata great shortcut illustrating way , i like n find all very easy n quick .
i wana learn more for creation and finalizing jobs for paper print in illustrator

if any easy tutorial mail me link please

thanks a lot dear

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Hey!! Needed this… but just one thing: what about tabbing in between designs, you know ctrl-tab (windows)??
Can do it in Photo Shop but not in Illustrator CS2 keep having to go to menu>windows to select the file I am working on, what is the short-cut or did they forget to include it?
Thanks!
Great site by the way!

Thank you! I’ve been using Illustrator for blinkin’ ages but these are fantastic! Especially love the tilde ~ for duplicating on the mouse movement. Love this site – keep up the good work!

I didn’t know about 18, 19, and 24. Thanks a lot :)

Great tutorial here. Learn a lot of new stuff since I’m still using the ‘old-school’ shortcuts which is not as ‘short’ as I think it was…haha =P

great ones. thanks!!!

Big thanks for the ‘zoom with mouse wheel’ tip – I’m forever clicking to zoom in and out, step by step, and this is so much quicker and easier!

T.H.A.N.K.S.!!!!

I was so excited when I went through these and found some new shortcuts. Anything that makes my life easier is greatly appreciated. I forwarded this and your Photoshop shortcuts to all my design friends and everyone was SO grateful – thanks and keep ’em coming!

Come sempre un grande tutorial! magnifico!

Shortcuts are life savers.

very thank for this article.

Very handy post again! 10x

I’ve been using Illustrator since version 6, and you’ve shown me some great and very useful shortcuts that I’d never known. Thank you!!!!!

mmm..really usefull, with the simple step with shortcut key my job become shortly and of course getting better…

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These shortcuts were really helpful, thanks! I love stuff like this.

those shortcuts are just great! thanks. BUT I need more! HOW to place dimensions lines on tech drwgs??
I do it ALL THE TIME in Corel but have not found way to do it in AI. Please HELP! Thanks a million :)

Are these only for CS3 or for MAC? Some of them don’t seem to work in CS2 on a PC. IE #18 Continuous Duplicates Based on Mouse Movement

thanks!

Man, these tips are pure genius, it will definitely improve threefold my productivity in Illustrator. Thanks so much for sharing!

thanks a lot man , very usefull

These shortcuts were really helpful, thanks! I love stuff like this.

excellent job and also i like your web site design its wonderful and this shorts are veryuseful to us thank you

I say honorly this site is very useful to me. I am got more useful things from this site. Thanks a lot.

Shortcuts are always useful and this is a good list. Thanks

Thank you again!

Finally a productive list of shortcuts. I like the holding CTRL and dragging the sliders of a mixed color to change it’s saturation.

What is it when you hold CTRL and click on the color? It’s like it gives you it’s split complementary and if you hold CTRL and click again it switches back and forth…

nice, its fine but add some more tutorial, and some vedios also, if possible because its grace for your website

thank you, very nice article.

Great Tips !thanks again

Thanks for submitting those, very nice tips you have here. Also, may I recommend this website to anyone who loves Illustrator?

http://www.logobee.com/logo-design-tutorial/tutorial.htm

This is a site featuring two helpful tutorials, which will teach you to obtain a couple of neat effects: a particle logo and a shiny orb.
I hope you find them interesting and helpful.

thanks… i wrote up all the shortcuts….

very USEFUL.. Thanks..

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great shortcuts, very useful, thanks

i wrote up all the shortcuts…. thanks…

Nice article friend. Do you know that this same article is also at http://www.webdesign.org/web/vector-graphics/adobe-illustrator/adobe-illustrator-shortcuts.16480.html

It may be you gave them permission but I figured I would pass it on. Have a nice day.

very useful, thanks

i wrote up all the shortcuts…. thanks…tanks

as always, very helpful (only 15 and 18 don’t work for me – mac cs4). thanks!

does anybody know how to change the zoom in shortcut from cmd+= to cmd++?

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The designs showed here show what simple and tasteful design is all about. Another one to consider

Toggling between internal windows has always been a pain but I finally found someone who knows that CTRL+F6 will do the trick. That’s one that should be passed along.

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Hey great stuff ! Thanks for posting :)

Hi, I have a question… about the stroke and fill selection, can you set illustrator to ‘auto-select’ and make it recognize what the shape you select is? i.e if you have a solid fill object when you click it, it will automatically select its fill instead of line e.t.c

I know Freehand used to do this, I find illustrator really annoying that it doesn’t do this! any help much appreciated, great page by the way. Dan

V.G!!!

I would love to see what you might have for CS5.

Excelent post, thank you so much, the info is very good and the way you presented it is outstanding, actually eye candy :) thank you!

Thank you so much ..
You are very cool

Thank,s
Very useful shortcut, most of tricks I never know before.
Thanks again.

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very useful for me it’s very nice

Thanks, very useful!

Thanks for the post. I luv it…

Thank you. Some of the short cuts are really very useful. Also please updated the same article for Illustrator CS5, in case there are any new for it.

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Thanks for the post. I luv it…

Thanks so much!…. This has been really been so helpful… Made all this much more faster and easier… Thanks!…

Excelente! Muchas Gracias :D

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Whoa… Wicked! Thanks heaps for posting this. It is really inspiring. I tried illustrating a mascot design for a project of mine and couldn’t seem to get it right. In the end I decided on getting some professional help. The designers at http://www.mascotdesigncorner.com managed to realize my vision of illustrating a character design that was above expectations. I highly recommend them. For the price I paid it was indeed a steal. I guess I am not good at designing at all. Anyway, thanks for providing a source of inspiration I might add. This site rocks big time!

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