{"id":10935,"date":"2014-01-26T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10935"},"modified":"2014-01-26T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T19:11:21","slug":"create-custom-toolbars-in-illustrator-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/create-custom-toolbars-in-illustrator-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Create custom toolbars in Illustrator CC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A click here, a mouse drag there\u2014it adds up quickly. Now Illustrator lets you make your workspace more efficient by organizing your tools into custom panels:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/embed\/1214\/21845\/\" width=\"425\" height=\"246\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I really like the ability to unbury certain tools (e.g. various shapes), especially as I\u2019ve kinda never forgiven Illustrator for changing the way keyboard shortcuts work circa AI9. (In Photoshop, Shift+letter lets you cycle among tools that share that letter. In Illustrator, you can assign Shift+letter to a specific tool. Some people swear by one approach &amp; some by the other.) I know, it\u2019s been nearly 15 years, and I deeply need to get a life. (How am I not typing this from my parents\u2019 basement?)<\/p>\n<p>As for the inevitable, \u201cSo, where\u2019s this feature in Photoshop?,\u201d you can maybe blame me. I didn\u2019t want to do just toolbar customization, or do it in just Photoshop. Rather I wanted to let people remix nearly any UI elements together (tools, menu items, etc.) and do so across apps. That\u2019s where <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/configurator\/\">Adobe Configurator<\/a> came from. Hundreds of thousands of people downloaded it, but only a few used it to create &amp; share toolbars &amp; other custom panels. Maybe I let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and I need to write up a post-mortem on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A click here, a mouse drag there\u2014it adds up quickly. Now Illustrator lets you make your workspace more efficient by organizing your tools into custom panels: I really like the ability to unbury certain tools (e.g. various shapes), especially as I\u2019ve kinda never forgiven Illustrator for changing the way keyboard shortcuts work circa AI9. (In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}