Hello everyone. Welcome to Super Selection Mastery. It's a sexy name that I gave it to try  and keep you from skipping the video. Uh, we're gonna select lots of stuff. There's lots of cool ways of doing it. I'm excited by it.

You probably doing the course. I'm probably excited by some of this nerdy stuff as well. Uh, so yeah, let's jump in  and look at all the really interesting ways you can, uh,  make your day easier when you are trying to select  and grab stuff in a larger document  with lots of stuff going on. Get on with it Dan Roge. Okay, I've got two files open, uh, from your exercise files. One's called Selection Madness  and a previous one we've worked on called Workflow Doc.

So open both of those up. We'll start easy. Let's select on this star here  and say I wanna, you could go through  and shift, click all the stars. Okay. But what I wanna do is select the star  and say, actually go illustrate it  and find, uh, I want you to select things that are the same  and often, well this is where you gotta decide. If I pick fill color, which seems obvious, it kind of works,  but it's gonna go through and grab even the text  that has the same feel color.

I can still change it, which is cool. Okay, but it's not quite what I wanted. So often you'll say you, I want to select the same. And often it's the appearance. You say things that have the same appearance  and that'll mean like the appearance  panel is built the same way. Often they are very the same things.

You can see here. It's selected everything but not the text. It's also grab this down here, okay? Which is my um, you know, grasp from earlier. It's up to you what you wanna do. There are a bunch of different options in here  that might be, uh, appropriate for you.

Opacity, stroke, color, that type of thing. Alright, let's look at another one in there. Let's jump to selection Madness. And again, your fonts might not be loaded, okay? Or you might have synced them. It's up to you.

Okay? But let's say, uh, there's this font here, okay? Playfair, okay, you wanna go and change it. What you can do is you can say, I want to select everything  that has the same font family, okay? The font family is in this case, uh, Playfair, it'll go  through the whole document, okay? And in my case it's grab one, two, and three of them.

And I can go and say, all right, I want that to be regular. Awesome. Okay? You can be a little bit more, uh, distinct. So you can say this one, let's say  this one is set to regular. You can be a bit more specific.

If you're working on a large like UI design project like  this or social media  or just lots of stuff on the page,  you can say I want uh, this font. So select the same uh, font family,  but the style, the style is bold, italic, regular light. Okay? And you can see how detailed you can get. You might get them all plus the size, which is gonna get,  so if I do this one,  it's only grabbing these two and not this. 'cause it had a different style.

So there's a lot of control in there. More selection control. You say you didn't say that right? But I'm gonna give it to you anyway. Okay? This is my favorite one of selecting lots  of stuff is something called global edit.

Let's click on this. Uh, like orangey Mandarin red,  um, uh, box down here. Let's say we want to add round the corners,  but I've used that button lots  through this kinda like little UI design thing. You're like, oh, I have to select them all  and you can use select color. It's gonna grab this button. It's not what I want.

So global edit is really awesome with it selected. See over here, start Global Edit. You've seen it. You're like, I've never clicked it. What does it do? We'll get ready.

You click on it  and what it does is it say, Hey,  you've clicked on this rectangle  that happens to be this color  And this kind of shape. It goes through the document  says, do you mean that one as well? And do you mean this one as well? Just hit global edit. It's kinda like a shortcut for all the select same. Okay, and this goes ahead.

A look around  and says Huh, Hey, excellent. So what I can do now is I'm gonna go here, I'm gonna lock,  I'm gonna put round of corners of it. Okay? And now when I click over here, can you see updated  that one, that one and that one. It's great for doing multiple objects  that maybe aren't symbols. It does have some problems with groups.

Some groups work, some groups  I find sometimes it can be a little flaky if you're like,  Hey, it's a little flaky. I find that too. Hopefully with groups  and stuff it's just a bug  and it'll work out works most of the time. Yeah. The cool thing is, is that with this selected here,  so I'm gonna click on the green bit at the background. Let's say I wanna play around with the color of this, okay?

Um, I just want to go and start global edit. But actually if I hit global edit,  okay, it's gonna pick this one. But also this giant version over here, it's picking  that one, it's picking that one,  it's picking this one down here. They're all the same. So that's like,  oh, I'm grabbing them all. You are like, ah, I want the ones  that are just the right size, like just these ones.

So what you can do is you can click on it again,  it's really hard to click on it so far out. Okay, zoom in a little bit, makes things a lot easier. I made all my big handles really big  as well, which is a little bit tricky. So I can say, see this dropdown you can say actually just  match the appearance. Okay? And I want to include things in the canvas, okay?

Which is the outside of here that's on the canvas. This is on the art board so you can include them or not. So there are some options on here. I picked size. So it just means when I start global  edit it's gonna pick this one. You can see it's picked this one, it's picked this one,  but not the big one down the bottom or at the top.

Okay. So you can kind of refine it as well. It's super awesome. I'm gonna go through and change it. Pick one of my other colors. That one awesome.

I find this useful. Like I clipped all these  images that are all in here. Okay? I find sometimes when it might be my work,  but somebody else's or a template that I've downloaded,  there's all these clipping masks everywhere  or a result of some sort of process like Live Trace  or something where you've got these  clipping masks everywhere. What you can do is you can say select an object  that has a bunch of stuff. We're gonna use clipping masks and this selects them all.

And then you can go to object  and say Clipping mask, uh, release ta-da. They're all just kind of like exposed. I find that super handy. I'm gonna undo it 'cause I want them back in. Now another handy one is selecting text. We've kind of already done it, but there is actually kind  of like a nice overall one that's useful.

So I've got this text selected. Okay, just that. And I can say select instead of going into clicking trying  to work through this, sometimes it's easier going actually  just select all the objects, uh, that are all text objects. Okay? And now I've got all of the text I can go through  and say every single one of you need to be Ariel Boo. Okay?

But it is just a handy one  to grab everything on a document maybe. Yeah, I bet you you've run into that one. Another handy one is down the bottom  here, let's look at the Kiwi. Okay? And if I grab my A tool,  so which is my direct selection tool,  I can click on the handle and you're like,  what is this handle doing? Well I click on this one but I can't see it in  relationship to all the rest of them.

So with my direct selection, you know, with it selected,  I can have any of them actually selected. Then I  Can go to Select Object  and I want you to, well select all the handles. Watch this. Is this really handy Now to see  that one's influencing this one that's influencing. You can't work on them all at once. Okay?

But it's just a handy way of like showing all of it  to get a good sense of like, all right,  are there too many anchor points? How long are they? What's giving me the problems? That can be handy. Alright? Another handy selection is that you can save selections.

Say you do spend some time, you like this one, this one,  this one, but not that one. Okay? I need to be quite purposeful with my selection, okay? And maybe not these two. So I wanna make some changes. Okay?

Let's go to Phil. I make a change  and you're like, I'm probably gonna change this again. So I need to save the selections. You go to select and a lot of people dunno. You can save a selection, you totally can. Let's call this my Stars.

I bet you there'll be people out there going,  oh this is gonna be great for my thing. The thing that you do and what happens  is white, they're not grouped. That's the interesting bit. Okay? 'cause you group stuffing, dive into it and do that. So I can keep moving around.

Okay, move this around. I can change the color of this one. Okay? So I've kind of mixed them up. So what I can do though is I can go to select  and I can go to right down the bottom. Can you see it says stars.

So  that's kinda like built into this document. Now I got stars and even though I moved them around, look,  they're all selected and I can say,  actually no that was a terrible idea. Back to being white. Cool, huh? And you can have many, many selections. Just save them.

You can get to it via the layers panel as well. Okay, down the bottom here. Okay, I've got this option. Can you see this? Save selection. So I might do another one.

It's gonna be these two bits of grass down here. Actually I'm gonna zoom select them all. Okay? And I can hit save selection. I'm going to save this selection. Call this one My Grass  and I can get to them by just clicking  that same option down here.

And you can see there's grass and stars also me. This does save with the document as well. So yeah, if you hand it off somebody else,  you can pass on kind of like some ways  of selecting stuff without them being a group. And it doesn't matter which way you go,  but you can also rename them. You can go to edit selection and rename them. Okay?

If you do find, you need to kind of start renaming stuff. Here you go. Two more handy selection stuff is  on the layers panel here. Okay? You can see this little awkward area here. You're like, what does that do?

If I click on let's say  graphics, it's clicking everything on that layer. Okay? In my case it's all the graphics. Okay? If I go to my text layer, okay, and click in just here. You see it kind of makes this little selection.

You can see the little tab there. It just selects everything on the layer. I find this handy when you're like, you know,  working maybe with somebody else's file. You're like, actually I just wanna select everything on this  layer 'cause it's text and maybe change it or hit delete. Okay, that's a handy one. And the last one is the tool that nobody uses.

So this one here is the magic wand tool. And you are like that. The Photoshop thing kind of does a similar thing. It is basically a shortcut to select same. Okay? So you can click on it and you can say, all right,  I wanna click on let's say a star.

It's gonna go through and pick everything  that's the same appearance. You can double click on it to modify it, okay? To make it a little bit more specific. It's not exactly the same as select, same or global edit. It's just another of the many ways you can do stuff. But you might find that's perfect.

You might actually just gonna use it for stroke color. Okay, I'm gonna put mine back to  Fill color, but it's handy in a tool. Awesome. Alright, last one. Uh, super nerdy but actually quite useful. Somehow I've stretched out, uh, selection  for an entire video, but it's worth it.

Watch this. And if I am in here,  let's say I'm gonna lock the background  on my working doc, okay? And I wanna select all these stars in here. We know that if I use my black arrow  and drag a box around the stars,  it's gonna grab this, whatever it touches. See it only grabs a tiny bit  of the text box, but it grabs it. Watch this.

If I click and drag, drag, drag,  drag, drag, same thing before. Grab all the stars that I want. I'm not completely around the fox or the grass or the text. If I tap E, just tap it once. Can you see the icon kind of changes? And it says basically it's the enclosure mode.

Okay? And it just says, I'm only gonna select everything  that is enclosed inside of here. Same with this. If I click these two  stars, it grabs the text box. But I start dragging tap E. Can you see?

It only gives me what I had completely selected. The thing I wrapped all the way around the stars. But only just touch the type  and it's just kind of something you just tap. Alright my friends, that is all of the selection nerdiness. We are selection masters. Could the  course get any more exciting?

It can, there's lots more to come,  but that we'll do for selections for the moment,  I hope you learned something leveled up. Uh, that's it. I'll see you in the next video selection's  over.