3.02 Flashcards
What is the process of creating new files and documents called?
Creating Documents: The process of creating new files and documents.
What does creating a new project in Illustrator involve?
Create a new Project: Creating a new document in Illustrator to be used for graphic design.
What are document presets?
Document presets are predetermined settings (dimensions, color mode, and units) used to create new documents.
What is a custom document?
Custom documents require the user to establish the settings.
What can you do with artboards in Illustrator?
You can set up different artboards for different designs, with the same or separate dimensions and orientations.
What are the units of measure in Illustrator?
Pixels, Picas, Points, Inches, Centimeters, Millimeters.
What are non-printing elements?
The area outside of the printing boundaries.
What is the purpose of rulers in Illustrator?
Rulers allow the user to create guides based off of document dimensions.
What do grids do in Illustrator?
Grids create a proportional grid of squares that can be adjusted and used for alignment.
What are guides used for?
Guides can be created from objects or from rules and are used for alignment and snapping.
What are smart guides?
Temporary snap to guides that aid in alignment and distribution of objects on an artboard.
What is bleed in graphic design?
The amount of artwork that falls outside of the printing boundary box to account for movement of the paper and design inconsistency.
How can you import assets into a project?
There are multiple ways to import assets such as embedding, linking, and copying and pasting.
What does embedding an asset mean?
Permanently placing an asset into a project. If the project moves, the asset moves as well.
What is linking an asset?
Placing an asset into a project where the asset is not permanent. If the project moves, the asset will not stay with the file.
What does replacing an asset involve?
Swapping an asset in a project with a different asset.
What is the process of copying and pasting an asset?
Copying an asset from an external source into a project.
What options do you have when importing images?
You can decide if you want to embed, link, or import as a template.
What is color in art?
The element of art produced when light strikes a specific object, consisting of hue, saturation, and brightness.
What are color models?
Additive color is used for screens and subtractive color is used for printing.
What is the RGB color model?
Red, Green, Blue color model used for screens.
What is the CMYK color model?
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, & Black color model used for printing.
What does HSB stand for?
Hue, Saturation, and Brightness color model.
What is the LAB color model?
A more accurate color model that measures color as well as brightness.
What is grayscale?
Monochromatic shades of grey from white to black.
What are color spaces?
A specific organization of colors.
What are color gamuts?
Range of colors within a color model.
What are spot colors?
Uses a unique code to create a specific color.
What are process colors?
Uses CMYK to produce colors.
What are swatches?
Predefined, easy to access colors.
What are global swatches?
Colors that are automatically updated within a project.
What are gradients?
A gradual change of color in an object, which can be two or multiple colors.
What do color guides do?
Allows the user to select colors that work well together such as complementary, contrasting, analogous, & monochromatic colors.
What are color libraries?
Preselected sets of colors such as PANTONE, Nature, Metal, Food.
What are layers in design?
The ability to separate components of a design into separate, selectable sections.
What can you do with layer options?
You can change the name of layers as well as the layer color, which affects the highlight color of selected items.
What is stacking order?
The order of the layers directly affects the appearance of the design; layers at the top hide layers beneath them.
What are clipping masks?
Hiding parts of an artboard within the boundaries of other paths.
What are opacity masks?
A combination of clipping masks and gradients that creates a gradual change in the opacity of an object.
What are sublayers?
Each layer can contain sublayers for separate paths and shapes. Every new shape or path creates a new sublayer.
What does merging and grouping layers involve?
Placing graphics from multiple layers into a single layer using the Layers panel functions.
How can you manage brushes, symbols, graphic styles, and patterns?
Using panels in Illustrator to create, edit, delete, and use brushes, symbols, graphic styles, and patterns.
What is fill in graphic design?
Fill is the inside color of a closed shape.
What is stroke in graphic design?
Stroke is the outline of a shape, text, or image.
