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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
Technology
Aaron Kitney

The 22 most useful Illustrator shortcuts to speed up your workflow

An illustration showing some of the most useful Adobe Illustrator shortcuts.

The most useful Illustrator shortcuts can speed up your workflow on what remains the industry-standard vector design tool and one of the best graphic design software programs overall. From changing sizes to deselecting or merging layers, Illustrator shortcuts can help make frequently repeated tasks more efficient and allow quicker navigation of an increasingly complex program that now includes AI-powered text-to-vector and text to-pattern generation.

There are handy Illustrator shortcuts for brushes, saving and closing, viewing options and lots more. While it's impossible to memorise all of them at once, they will probably start to become second nature if you gradually incorporate them into your workflow, starting with the processes that you use most often.

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