But the trivial details still get in the way sometimes. Sometime after I started using it, I learned about the keyboard shortcuts. There is a myriad of shortcuts that speed things up immensely. I began keeping a little cheat sheet with all the keyboard shortcuts, in case I forgot any of them. I now consider myself pretty fluent in Illustrator shortcuts, but a cheat sheet for reference still doesn't hurt.
And thus was born the Adobe Illustrator Alphabet. If you're going to learn any shortcuts, it would be these. In some big projects with a ton of back and forth, these have literally cut my time in half. This quick infographic is super helpful to have on hand for projects.
