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CoolSelection™ is a plugin for Adobe® Illustrator®.
CoolSelection adds new and advanced selection tools to the Illustrator.

Use the Selection Brush Selection Brush Tool to draw a selection of any shape You want.

Objects fully inside the shape will be selected. Objects just touched by the shape will be not.
Press and hold the Option (Mac) or the Alt (Windows) to color objects instead of selecting them. More…

Use the Selection Box Selection Box Tool to select objects in the way it's done in CorelDraw or in AutoCAD, or in Inkscape:

Click and drag. Only objects fully inside the selection marquee will be selected.
Press and hold the Option (Mac) or the Alt (Windows) to ignore the background. More…

The possibilities are endless:

Select objects overlapping with many other objects or objects placed over complex backgrounds.

Color black-and-white images literary in seconds.

Pick small objects with a rather big brush – useful when working with a touchscreen.

See the video and use Your imagination!

You can also align objects with a single keypress:

Select some objects. Press a shortcut key. Objects will be aligned to the last object You selected. Press and hold the Shift to align to the artboard. More…

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Select objects with the CoolSelection plugin for Adobe Illustrator

Choose the Selection Brush Selection Brush Tool Tool.

Draw a selection of any shape You want. Objects fully inside the selection shape will be selected. Objects just touched by the shape will be not.

Shift-click to add to selection / subtract from selection.
Press the square brackets [ ] to adjust the brush size.

Press and hold the Option (Mac) or the Alt (Windows) to color objects instead of selecting them. Current color, i.e. the color from the Fill Stroke Control will be used. Details…

Choose the Selection Box Selection Box Tool Tool.

Click and drag. Objects fully inside the selection marquee will be selected. Objects just touched by the marquee will be not.

Shift-click to add to selection / subtract from selection.

Press and hold the Option (Mac) or the Alt (Windows) to ignore the background. Details…

Align objects with the CoolSelection plugin for Adobe Illustrator

Select the triangle and the circle.
Shift-click to add the square to the selection.

Press "1" to align the selected objects to the left side of the square. Press "2" to align to the right side, press "0" to align to the center and so on.

If You want to align objects to the artboard, just select objects with any selection tool and use the Shift + a numeric key: "Shift + 1", "Shift + 0" etc.

Click here to see the all the shortcuts You can use for the alignment.

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How to install (macOS)

If Illustrator is running, quit it. Double-click the CoolSelection2025.dmg file.
Drag CoolSelection.aip to the Plug-ins folder.

Start Illustrator. Tool icons Selection Brush Tool Selection Box Tool will appear in Your Toolbar.
If You can't see the icons, click Window / Toolbars / Advanced.

If You have any problems with installation, see the support page.

How to install (Windows)

If Illustrator is running, close it. Double-click the CoolSelection2025Setup.exe file.
Follow on-screen instructions.

Start Illustrator. Tool icons Selection Brush Tool Selection Box Tool will appear in Your Toolbar.
If You can't see the icons, click Window / Toolbars / Advanced.

If You have any problems with installation, see the support page.