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Now in a lot of Adobe programs; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, even Encore DVD - Adobe's DVD authoring program - you'll have what we see here, a black arrow tool and a white arrow tool. And even though they do different things in different applications the concept behind the black arrow and the white arrow is the same. Let me demystify this for you. I'm going to select the rectangle tool. I'm here in Illustrator. I'm going to click and drag to create a rectangle. Now if I select the black arrow and move this around, it moved the entire shape. If I click on one of these points I can resize again the entire shape. However, if I select the white arrow tool and select the marquis selection that encompasses one of these anchor points here, then one of them is selected. And I can select part of the box not moving or resizing the entire thing, just part of it. I can similarly select two points and move a segment. So here is the concept then. The black arrow tool is for selecting and altering entire objects. The white arrow tool is for selecting pieces of objects. This comes in handy so much throughout the program. And I won't be able to in this training series go through all the various instances where you would use a black arrow tool here maybe a white arrow tool here. But the concepts are always the same. And by the way they have different names in different programs. They aren't really called the black arrow and the white arrow tool. But because their name changes and their concept and look stay the same, I refer to them as the black and white arrow tools. In Illustrator, this is really the selections tool and the direct selection tool. But in Photoshop the white arrow might be the direct selection tool and the black arrow is called the pass selection tool for example. But again all you really need to know about these tools is that again the black arrow tool selects the entire object whereas the white selection tool selects parts of the object, sub pieces of the whole.