Following are the five top tips for Adobe Illustrator to help you get the most out of the application. We will begin with the first, which has to do with picking up colors.

Some people may get confused about the functionality of the eyedropper tool if they are used to using earlier versions of Illustrator, but since Version 9 you need to select with the eyedropper tool as well as press the shift key. This is how you pick up colors, as opposed to Style info.The whole story can be found at http://creativefan.com/illustrator-tutorials-for-beginners/

The second tip is about getting better glows, and to do this you simply need to begin with a color that is brighter than the object edges (assuming the object has bright highlights). If the edge of the object is bright, pick a darker color.

Graph formats can be imported from Excel and used in Illustrator, but it is important to realize that if comas are used to separate the numbers, it can spell trouble for your formatting. It is advised to avoid this, as Illustrator has limited formatting capabilities.

Lastly getting rid of those stubborn old links isn’t as hard as you think, just select “Go to Link” from the flyout menu and hit the delete key.

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