15 second Illustrator tip
Jump into illustrator go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts
Select Tools from the pull-down menu.
Scroll down to where “Opacity” starts in the tools options (see picture above) - you may notice that yours don’t have key commands by default (mine in the picture do) — so the question you need to ask yourself is what to change them to that makes sense and that you’ll remember…matching Photoshops numeric keypad shortcuts makes the most sense to me, but do what works for you. On a side-note the keyboard shortcuts dialog box is most interesting - notice it has a export button, but no import or open button, that’s hugely intuitive — anyway to get you started I exported my keyboard shortcuts (see below) with the above mentioned tweaks, although you’re on your own importing them :).
This is always the first thing I change in Illustrator - I know it saves me a ton of time, maybe you’ll find it helpful…
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