Save Time With Save Selection

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June 26th, 2008 by Rype

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Selecting multiple objects in Illustrator is essential to productivity. Illustrator has some great selection features: Select Same, Select Object, Magic Wand, and so on. One selection feature that I always use is Save Selection. I usually save selections early on in a illustration to easily come back to them even though the stroke, fill, and other attributes have be modified.

Save Selection

First, select everything that you want to save and then go Selection > Save. In the Save Selection dialog you can name the selection whatever you want. Now your saved selection will be accessible at the bottom of the Selection Menu! You can rename and delete these Saved Selections by going Selection > Edit Selection to bring up the Edit Selection dialog.

Save Selection

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  1. amazing! thanks again!


  2. Such a simple thing but massively helpful. Thanks for sharing.


  3. This can be useful if all paths selected have different colors, but when they share the same color is much more easy to use the Select > Same > Fill command, after selecting one of the Skin parts.


  4. Thanks for the tutorials, looking every day and know a lot of new!
    How many years using Illustrator?


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    Claudelle

    June 27th, 2008

    Thanks! Superhandy little function I didn’t know about :D


  6. Aika,

    Probably about seven years, I started using Illustrator when I was 19.


  7. 7 years wow , i have only 1 ^-^ nice trick! i think it will save me a lot of time!


  8. great tip! I am always amazed about all those featires of Ill that I never knew about!


  9. Nice trick! I’ve been using Illustrator for about 7 years as well but I didn’t know about this little feature!


  10. fabulous! this will save me from having to group things i really don’t want grouped…. that’s how i’ve been doing it, and it certainly doesn’t work as well as this! thanks for the tip. :)


  11. wow! that’s a great tip..will have to play around with that one


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  13. Nate,
    Thanks! I’m glad you think so, because that is what I am striving for.
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  14. Awesome website, I linked you from http://www.project66.net/blog. Keep up those tuts :)


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