I used Affinity Designer in the past few years, and yeah, after having a nice workflow in it is a real Pain to use Illustrator. But...I needed After Effects wich by the way is an amazing software, maybe the Best of Adobe CC...so I needed to pick up Illustrator to have a nice control over graphics in AE. But...sometimes it really hurts. Anyway I do not agree with you that it is a hobby software, it is a fully featured professional sw, it just has some really anoying things (for example the buggy zoom and overall engine that is SOO fluid in AD, and it's selection options or the way the pen tool works...), but it even has some stuff that is missing from Affinity, like pattern creator --» it is so painful to create patterns in AD...omg, or like outline. I just don't get it how a company can do such a thing without feeling ashamed, that Adobe costs like 10-100 times more than Affinity, and it is not better, just "different", and mainly even worse...

I feel bad if you guys are still using Illustrator. It’s kind of fun to examine how things used to work I guess, for historical purposes, but for any kind of professional work going forward you’re going to need to pick up Affinity and/or Sketch as Adobe no longer competes in the professional design and development industry and have fully transferred to hobby projects run by about 10 people. This software isn’t even given enough budget to be properly maintained.

Oh yes. Please, please please. Particularly for individual items. If I'm drawing a dog say, and I want to select 50 of 1000 strokes made by the same brush I can't select similar strokes. I can't use the lasso without selecting strokes I don't want. I have to click 50 times. Without making a mistake. I make a lot of mistakes...

Oh yes. Please, please please. Particularly for individual items. If I'm drawing a dog say, and I want to select 50 of 1000 strokes made by the same brush I can't select similar strokes. I can't use the lasso without selecting strokes I don't want. I have to click 50 times. Without making a mistake. I make a lot of mistakes...

+1, we definitely should have this feature...its insane we have to select stuff for grouping one by one...

Shame this is not available...

This has been a essential feature in most windows programs since before 1995. Ctr-Click to select multiple items, shift-click to many items in between the first and last selection and Ctr-shift-click for combination. It would be super helpful to have this on the layer panel to both toggle layers on/off and to select all elements in the layers. Working with multiple layers is such a pain now.

This feature used to be in Illustrator and was inexplicably removed. You would be able to hold the alt key and drag the cursor down the selection indicators for the objects you wanted to select in the layers panel. That was better than nothing, but I honestly need to be able to highlight objects in the layers panel, right click to open a menu, and choose to select on the artboard all of the highlighted layer panel objects.

I have always wanted an option to select one active layer, then (instead of having to click on each individual layer I want to be active) click on SHIFT and another layer so that all the layers in between would be active.

This should be such an easy fix. Highlight layers then hit a hotkey, or, hold a key and drag on the layers. I can't tell you how many years this has been a source of endless frustration.

Oh man yes, please add this Adobe! I can't believe I can only select the layer and not the objects themselves. I do not understand why it would be more useful to only be able to select the layer.

So it takes nearly a year to get added to the backlog?

Adobe is so ******* dumb

STUPID ILLUSTRATOR! Why is this not a feature?!!?!?!?!

This would be a VERY useful feature and it should be trivially easy to implement. That said, there is a workaround. First, unlock everything. Second, highlight the items you want to select in the Layers Panel. Third, use the Layers Panel menu to choose "Options for selection...." When that menu pops up, click the Lock box. You now have locked all the highlighted objects. Fourth, use Object/.Unlock All. That not only unlocks all the objects that were locked -- it also selects them.

Unfortunately, the Options for selection... cannot be put in an action (either by recording or by inserting a menu item) so there's no way to fully automate the steps. You can, however, create an action that does the Unlock All followed by other things (e.g. "Group" to put all the highlighted items into a group).

Has it been fixed yet? How about now?

Yes please!

It's been almost a year now. Is this what "soon" means in Adobe's standards?

Having layers in folders, as you can in Photoshop and Indesign too please!

+1

This is incredibly annoying.