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The Tools Panel, also known as the Tool Box, is this guy right here that you'll find docked to the left of the Illustrator Window by default. As you saw there, by clicking on the gray bar at the top, I can reposition it very easily. Now, the tools are going to be separated into different functionalities, such as our drawing tools, our selection tools and other tools such as gradients, meshes and the ability to select colors and use paint buckets, zooming, slicing and changing the colors and strokes. So let's go ahead and talk abut the most commonly-used ones and, of course, we'll be using quite a few of them in this tutorial. The first tool you'll see up here is the Selection Tool. You will use this tool to grab things and move them around in your Adobe Illustrator document. The Selection Tool also has a friend called the Direct Selection Tool. This tool allows you to select the components of the entire image or graphic. Let me explain it his way. If you are a robot and you are working on a car, you might be lifting the entire car from one part of the factory to the other. So that would be the black arrow. If you're working on the components of the car, the engine, the steering wheel, the windshield wipers and you need to select those, you would use the Direct Selection Tool. So once again, the whole truck and parts of the truck. We have our Magic Wand Tool and a Lasso Tool, which allows us to select things. The Drawing Tools allow us to draw artwork in Illustrator using vector graphics. We can use Type to create logos and also to even do things like brochures. I can use Illustrator just like I can use QuarkXPress to create posters, postcards, business cards and the like. So don't be surprised that you an create all kinds of text-based documents inside Illustrator. We have a Line Tool and we also have some Shape Tools. We have a brush, pencil and the blob brush, which is very, very cool, the Eraser. We also have the ability to transform things so we can scale and rotate and warp and free transform. We also have the simply sprayer, the Column Graph Too, which I call the business section. We have our Gradient Tool and by the way, the Gradient tool has been substantially upgraded so it's really, really cool and definitely check out that part of the tutorial. We also have the ability to blend colors, use the Eyedropper Tool. We can choose the Live Paint Bucket, the Live Paint Selection Tool and all these other tools to move around in our document and to cut it up for the web. When you want to change colors very quickly, you click on this guy right here to access your colors and you can just use these sliders here to change them. And we'll talk more about swatches and that kind of thing later as well. And last but not least you have the ability to work with color, gradient and also to turn them off by clicking this icon here. As you see, the strikethrough tells us that there will be no stroke or fill based on which one of these guys we have selected. So I have no fill and no stroke just by clicking this guy. You can also use the Forward Slash Key on your keyboard to access that. And last but not least we have the ability to change the screen mode. You can do the same thing by pressing F. So you can go from full screen to normal screen mode, full screen with menu bar and full screen mode. So I'll go ahead and just show you that. So you can use that by clicking and holding your mouse here or by pressing F. So those are some of the tools we'll be using. Don't forget; we will cover many more of them and actually use them in this tutorial.