From the course: Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Customizing your panels—important

Customizing your panels—important

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to reorganize Illustrator's network of panels so that you can get to the program's most important options any time you like. And I'll also show you how to save the result as what's known as a workspace. Now, as you're probably aware, Illustrator is one of the most complicated programs out there, and it contains thousands of options, some of which are absolutely essential that are found in panels. And these panels are indicated by these icons in this vertical strip over here on the right hand side of the screen. And it's a little deceiving, I think, the way we currently have things set up, because these icons end up looking very similar to the tools over here on the left hand side of the screen, but they actually work nothing like them. So, for example, if I click on this first icon in the top right corner of the screen, I bring up a panel of color options that will…

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