All 80+ Adobe Illustrator Tools Explained in 20 Minutes

[@usmanjameel2010]

live paint bucket tool : shortcut key letter k not M i think

[@AndyTellsThings]

You are absolutely right :) I probably mistook this while writing the script. I'm pinning your comment so everyone can see. Thanks! 😊

[@kasulefred7152]

@@AndyTellsThings Thank you Andy

[@crearam]

@@AndyTellsThings You can also access paint bucket took by pressing + key on the numpad section in the keyboard.

[@AndyTellsThings]

@@crearam Thanks for the info! :)

[@shikhar24]

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[@scottlondon8382]

Im 34 and my friend told me i should get into graphic design and get illustrator,you're channel is helping me out immensely thank you!!

[@AdddsOk]

Guess where all living the same lives

[@kasulefred7152]

Andy you amaze me how you take less time but effectively teach us all the tools. I was among those struggling with Illustrator as a beginner. Things seemed so difficult but after this video, Illustrator will be a good game for me. Andy, Thanks beyond measure.

[@AndyTellsThings]

Happy to help, buddy! Keep on! :)

[@AndyTellsThings]

Hi! Added the timestamps for every tool, for an easier navigation throughout the video. Enjoy! :)

[@bilalahmed5971]

It's very useful you did thank u

[@ArtyomBorodin18]

Спасибо за видео!

[@shereerabon8551]

Yes!! I love this part. Very considerate.

[@sammijack6922]

honestly the best soft tutorial ive ever seen. short and straight to the point ! i love it

[@DentistGendy]

It helps so much 8 months ago i learned adobe illustrator and logo fundamentals and started designing logos as a beginner i was good but i stopped for a long time and now i need a refresh, this video is a lifesaver with no single second wasted , straight to the point really thank you ❤️❤️

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad to be able to help! Thanks!

[@danilo352]

The Andy Tells Things tool: click and watch to realize you’ve only used 2% of Illustrator your whole life.

[@limdennis813]

So true, even my teacher said only some of the tools: Selection tools, Pen tool, Anchor point tool, Add & Delete anchor point tool, Eyedropper tool, Ellipse/Rectangle/Rounded rectangle/Polygon/Star tool are used for select & resize/reshape objects, basic drawing, adjust the anchor points, add & delete anchor points, fill colour & creating different shapes The rest of the tools are just extra/additional tools for professional graphic designers

[@carissa4110]

Andy! This was BY FAR the most thorough, yet brief, video I've ever seen that detailed all of the Illustrator's tools. Not only did you give a quick synopsis of each and every tool, but you also demonstrated them! I only wish I had the time to sit and practice each one while I was watching your video and working on a project. I definitely plan to come back and rewatch when I have time to practice each tool. Not to mention this BONUS! You appealed to those of us with terribly unrestrained ADHD who have a difficult time sticking with any influencer who rambles and "wings it" because once they stumble, change topics, and/or backtrack more than a couple times, my brain wanders to something else. Next thing ya know, it's three autoplays later, and I have no idea what their video was really about, nor the three that followed.

[@AndyTellsThings]

What a nice comment, thanks for taking the time to write such kind words. It makes me very happy to hear when a video is helping people. ❤️

[@carissa4110]

@@AndyTellsThings 💜 You're so very welcome! People need to hear the things they do well sometimes, especially in this age with all the griping and complaining that many people prefer to comment instead of the nice things. ☺ I just try to sprinkle a little sunshine every now and then!

[@mohamedkhaled7626]

You're a hero! I've never seen such a fast, easy to understand tools video ever before. GREAT JOB!

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad you liked it!

[@etiennebrownlee4071]

Thank you, you explain so nicely.. Your voice is easy on the ears. I thought I would just listen to 5 minutes before I started, but I got it going till the end. Thank you so much, this helps soo much!

[@en2336]

This helped much more than watching random tutorials. Now I have a much better idea of what the possibilities for my design are. Thank you!!!

[@AndyTellsThings]

You're welcome!!

[@yellowbeck6209]

Excellent idea to put them all in such a concise video - and everything is still super clear. Very effective, thank you!

[@AndyTellsThings]

You're very welcome!

[@michaelsmith-bj1mj]

Andy is really smart and great at quickly explaining a subject that so many others struggle to discuss. Andy, continue sharing your talents!

[@carolqueiroz9692]

This really helped me since I am a beginner with this software. First time I opened Illustrator I found it difficult but this helped me see applications of every tool quickly. Thank you!

[@AndyTellsThings]

Thanks, Carol! I'm glad you liked it 😊

[@NevaehMalave-l6v]

i just finished the video and im literally amazed at how much there is.

[@leoleneko4441]

Decided to learn more about illustrator and I'm glad I found this channel! Short, simple and compact with information, absolute attention worthy. I'm going to use this as reference each time I want to practice it! Thank you so much Andy.

[@AndyTellsThings]

Happy to help!

[@justusngaruiya8713]

Very helpful.Its my first time as a beginner in Graphic design and the tutorial is just superb.

[@umcedits]

I cannot thank you enough for this video. You have opened up a whole new world in my Adobe Illustrator Certified Professional. Cheers!

[@TasnimAhmadTawsib]

Most Underrated video Ive ever seen. You wont believe people in our country are paying to learn these things.

[@SlayeRFCSM]

I'd say it is priceless but even that term won't be enough to describe the use and power of this small video. Just a HUGE THANX to the author!

[@AndyTellsThings]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@samdavepollard]

excellent video impressive, how much you packed into 18 minutes i've dabbled in illustrator a fair bit and have the basics down but there are tools here i didn't even know existed many thanks; subbed

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad it was helpful!

[@piyushthakur749]

I used Illustrator last 1.5 years but still, I don't know about every tool thanks to you for giving us helpful information about tools

[@AndyTellsThings]

Happy to help!

[@tjkoker]

I cannot thank you enough for this video. You have opened up a whole new world in my Adobe Creative Suite subscription. Cheers!

[@AndyTellsThings]

That is very nice to hear my friend! Thanks! :)

[@lauralulu4444]

I had no idea illustrator had so many tools!! Your tutorials are so much better than the college classes I’ve had. They barely taught us the basics and then threw a ton of projects at us 😑

[@dimitrijepuja424]

As a guy whos familiar with Photoshop, but unfamiliar with Illustrator, I can confirm that this video is perfect for learning

[@AndyTellsThings]

Thank you very much! If you're familiar with Photoshop, I'm sure you'll have an easy time learning Illustrator (:

[@Harryedits-tv9ze]

One of the best video of Adobe Illustrator, Thank you so much

[@marnix1]

Oo man you explained every tool very well in very less time. Thank you so much for this video. Love from India ❤❤

[@deliahdely]

Very detail explantion as a beginner in graphics this is the best tutorial so far

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@rejimathewphdlcswreat-expr5328]

Thanks for this excellent teaching - it is amazing how much you can convey in an efficient amount of time!

[@ummerubab913]

thank you so much 87 tools in less than 20 mins its such an amazing video i recommend this masterpiece to all of you😇🥰

[@leapnlarry]

Dude that was insane, my brain is exploding with new info, i have use illustrator a little be here and there for year but i never knew how many tools existed. Too many choices to do the Same thing.

[@jesusjesus6061]

This video is the gem. I should've been watch this so long ago. would make my life so easier 😭😭😭

[@AndyTellsThings]

It's never too late hehe :) Glad to be of help my friend!

[@arjunbaruah4257]

Thank you so much Mr Andy. Your explanation was to the point, swift and inspired me to start Adobe Illustrator in a proper and cool way. Learning should be fun. Thank you again. GODSPEED. ⚡⚡Arigato Andy San 🙏🙏

[@keeganlillith9694]

This is so helpful! I never knew about some of these tools, and now I'm looking forward to trying them out with my job this summer

[@ALEVEL-tutors2you]

could u tell of possible platforms from where we could get jobs based on graphic designing

[@keeganlillith9694]

@@ALEVEL-tutors2youTo clarify, I’m helping with social media since I’m a virtual intern for a college department. There’s not much I can do beyond the computer because I’m not on campus

[@fiora-red]

thank you for this ! I need to use illustrator on a project and have nevere used it before, this helps a LOT !

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad you think so!

[@Cambium29]

Great breakdown of the tools. Thanks.

[@AndyTellsThings]

I'm glad you liked! Thank you 😄

[@Fogsworthblacksun]

Concise and informative. Excellent job Andy.

[@stevenwilson5556]

Illustrator should hire you to do an intro video to Illustrator covering each section, like one for all the tools, an other for all the pallets, etc.

[@AndyTellsThings]

Hey Steven! I wish! Hahahaha perhaps one day, right? And in fact I have another video where I cover all the Panels, take a look at the channel and you'll find it! Thanks for commenting, man!

[@jodyknight]

You Sir, ARE A LEGEND!!!!!! Thank you so, so, SO MUCH for this clear, concise explanation of the tools. I have subscribed and saved this video for future reference. I know I'm going to want to use this again.

[@AndyTellsThings]

Thanks Jody, I'm glad it helped you! :)

[@Phoenix.Productions]

wow Amazing Job. Thank you so much. This tutorial was great. Your descriptions were so helpful. The pace made it easy to follow thanks for not rushing.

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad it was helpful, friend! Thanks for the support!

[@juliag1063]

FANTASTIC VIDEO! Just shared it on my LinkedIn!

[@AndyTellsThings]

Awesome, thank you!

[@lyralux642]

this was 5000% helpful, tysm Andy

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad it helped you, Lyra! :)

[@kelseyslaydesign]

Hey Andy! Kelsey with the Adobe Creative Cloud team- just popping in to say AMAZNG tutorial! Very informative and such a great walk through of Illustrator 🤞

[@AndyTellsThings]

Hi Kelsey! How nice to hear from you :) Thank you very much for your comment! I'm glad you enjoyed 😊

[@benjamin8666]

Just wanted to express how helpful your videos are!! you are extrely good at explaining tNice tutorialngs in-depth but still at a basic level for

[@AndyTellsThings]

Happy to help! 😊

[@SamiUllah-rk3hq]

Thanks for good information about AI.I am working on it today.

[@mop9309]

before i know this video i had used only pen tool in illustrator thank man, good video

[@generalknowlegebook9088]

Very good explanation in very short time

[@cw4608]

Best tour of illustrator tools

[@AndyTellsThings]

Thanks, mate! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@gamma128]

Actually works.. Just disable the real time protection in Setting. Wasnt sure that it would work .Awesome bruh..

[@michaelsmith-bj1mj]

Andy, write & publish a book on using illustrator with good example projects and it will sell. I'll make the first purchase! You're good at what you do.

[@gillanalmodovar8715]

You're the best. Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate you for creating videos like this. Very helpful!

[@syedaligll7474]

He's so good at what he does.

[@parallaxdecision]

Dear Adobe, It's ok to get rid of tools that no one uses and create new ones. Awesome run down, Andy!

[@AndyTellsThings]

While I wrote the script for this video I was always "Wait, what? Why do they have a tool for this?" 😂 Thank you for the kind words, Chris!

[@usaammaa]

What tools you are talking about??

[@a.r.c8631]

StraightForward and filled with a lot of information

[@metalgrimm]

11:35 this window just pops-out outta nowhere. I googled it, Go to View -> Perspective Grid -> Define Grid

[@Concord666.]

Really appreciate to you for explaining in the best way.......

[@AndyTellsThings]

Happy to help!

[@logicr8r]

Amazing Video! I really like the way you cover everything in this short time.

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad you liked it!

[@Ur_Quan]

@0:46 you don't need a dedicated shortcut for the group selection tool, it is activated temporarily by holding down the Command key while the regular selection tool (the black arrow) is active (sorry, I don't know the Windows key for this).

[@AndyTellsThings]

When you hold down Ctrl/Cmd using the Selection Tool you're actually selecting the Direct Selection Tool, the white cursor, and not the Group Selection Tool. While the Direct Selection Tool can select objects on a group, it's a different tool and has a few limitations (for example, if the object inside the group doesn't have a fill color, only stroke, you won't be able to seelect the object in its entirety, as the direct selection will only select a specific path or anchor point). In fact, with almost any tool in Illustrator, holding down Ctrl/Cmd selects the Direct Selection Tool, with the only exclusion being the Direct Selection Tool itself, which will select the Selection Tool instead.

[@Ur_Quan]

@@AndyTellsThings Indeed, I made a mistake. Turned out it was a bit more complicated than that. Holding down the Command key temporarily selects the last selection tool used other than the current one. For the Selection tool, by default, it is the Direct Selection tool (the white arrow). But if it was the Group Selection tool (the white arrow with a plus), then it would be this tool instead. Anyway, to always select the Group Selection tool while the Selection tool is active, no matter which tool was used before, you need to hold down the Command and the Option keys together.

[@fariduddin7634]

excellent sir

[@PhotographyByAhad]

BRO DID A VERY HARD WORK MAKING THIS VIDEO

[@madelinegrudens]

This is the perfect reference for Illustrator 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@calderonharoldkim8128]

That was so helpful! I just started using soft and was so overwheld!

[@siddharthabose8806]

I WISH I HAD THIS CONTENT 5 YEARS AGO,, tHANKS aNDY

[@ILoveDrawing]

best illustrator video ever

[@himamhismaheal9020]

I had soft soft for a wNice tutorialle but never actually opened it because it looked too complex. TNice tutorials actually helped quite a bit. i an like for

[@oarslan6350]

Thank you so much for the information. They're useful for me.

[@theinternetgenerationvideo7539]

this video is somethinggg more than a saviour , thanks a lot and appreciate your effort !!!

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad it helped!

[@shereerabon8551]

WoooW! Thanks!

[@HuongNguyen-ub4hq]

Thanks for the video, it's really helpful. While watching it, I was also writing down, in my list there are 78 tools, but at the end it said 87 tools. I will check it again isn't it a slightly troll at the end of video

[@AndyTellsThings]

There are 87 individual tools in Illustrator, but the video has 79 "parts", because some tools have been grouped, like the Graph Tools (hence why I said "all the graph tools work the same way, so I’m going to explain them all together). If I didn't do this, the video would be too repetitive, because they really do work all the same way.

[@donaldcanonoy3312]

Still working as of today! Thank you!

[@laraga4650]

This might be my favourite KZbin Video I ever watched haha... My favourite is the twirl tool! :)

[@mnykairmenike8336]

thanks bro.adobe tools made easy. simply the best

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad you liked it!

[@aa7720MagicalDynamic]

Amazing, outstanding Great job 👏 Please make the same tutorial on photoshop tool

[@nikostsiavos2645]

do more of this!! this is amazing

[@nickirosetalento]

your a big help to me. thank you for this channel of yours.

[@alenaflores1554]

Omg. Thank you! I learned so muchhh as a beginner ♥️♥️

[@AndyTellsThings]

You're so welcome! :)

[@gianniskourtessis5483]

Very helpful, and surprisingly therapeutic

[@TheQuotes21]

Such a Legend 🤧 please don't stop making video

[@AndyTellsThings]

Thanks buddy! I'm glad you liked it. I won't 😁😂

[@sean19]

Thanks for teaching us. Great video 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Amuzeraa]

Best video ever!! I've been wishing to get my hands on a video tutorial like this thanks and I'm definitely subscribing!

[@AndyTellsThings]

Appreciate your kind word. Welcome to the channel! :)

[@bonniehoke-scedrov4906]

Incredibly informative!

[@miralaine4265]

Thank you Andy!! It's such a big help for beginners like me!

[@AndyTellsThings]

Happy to help!

[@integralmark]

thanks Andy!

[@tutorio]

Amazing... Fantastic tutorial... Keep up the great work!!!

[@AndyTellsThings]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@mdmanjurulahsun3546]

Excellent video ! Thank you so much.

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad to be of help!

[@mantra4ia]

Gamechanger. Thanks for teaching the language of the program. Coming from a similar, but less complex art program, this would have saved me a lot of frustration had I started her before I tried AI the first time.

[@Mark10VirtualServices]

So good man!

[@pixelbender896]

super useful video thank you for taking the time to make this

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pegasuslb]

Some of these I wasn't even aware existed!

[@8lllV-g6u]

God, I'm glad I found your video that helped me

[@AndyTellsThings]

I'm glad it was helpful. Cheers!

[@randyfernando4442]

Wow! Didn’t know there’s so much more I can do with all these tools! 👍🏻

[@adimaralimuddin96]

this is an effective way to learn the fundamentals of every software. and then the next thing to do is to exercise common 5 tools a day. and then create an artwork based on the tools exercised.

[@AndyTellsThings]

That's a great way to learn, indeed!

[@robkr]

Concise yet clear. Tq 👍

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad you liked!

[@yf_boomin314]

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad it helped :) Thanks for the comment!

[@vivagraphic2739]

very well explained! Thanks!

[@kelectrik6977]

Nice bro, this is hardwork. Learnt lots of new things

[@AndyTellsThings]

Thanks, buddy! I'm glad you learned new things 😊

[@InfoCodex]

Very much informative, detailed and precise video on using different tools in Illustrator. Thanks creator

[@AndyTellsThings]

Glad it was helpful!

[@katherineinahoodie]

This was very helpful, thank you so much, but I still can't figure out how to make the widen tool work on lines (I have gotten it to work on shapes though). It could be because I am using a mouspad and not a mouse, but I'm not sure.

[@AndyTellsThings]

Do you mean the Width Tool? If not, can you point at which moment in the video the tool you've mentioned is used?

[@katherineinahoodie]

Oh yeah, the width tool, sorry 😅

[@AndyTellsThings]

@@katherineinahoodie hey, no problem man, too many tools to remember them all hehe. What you're reportind is odd, because the Width Tool exclusively works only on strokes, and not on fills. So, in theory, any object that has a stroke should work. Make sure you have a stroke applied to your object, go into the Color Panel and apply any color with the stroke selected, then try the Width Tool again. ;)

[@katherineinahoodie]

Oh, thank you so much!

[@naoyukioikawa3377]

This is so helpful! Thank you, Andy.

[@AndyTellsThings]

You're so welcome! :)

[@ВељкоВујадиновић-ш8и]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!