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Question 1

What is the process of creating new files and documents called?

Answer 1

Creating Documents: The process of creating new files and documents.

Question 2

What does creating a new project in Illustrator involve?

Answer 2

Create a new Project: Creating a new document in Illustrator to be used for graphic design.

Question 3

What are document presets?

Answer 3

Document presets are predetermined settings (dimensions, color mode, and units) used to create new documents.

Question 4

What is a custom document?

Answer 4

Custom documents require the user to establish the settings.

Question 5

What can you do with artboards in Illustrator?

Answer 5

You can set up different artboards for different designs, with the same or separate dimensions and orientations.

Question 6

What are the units of measure in Illustrator?

Answer 6

Pixels, Picas, Points, Inches, Centimeters, Millimeters.

Question 7

What are non-printing elements?

Answer 7

The area outside of the printing boundaries.

Question 8

What is the purpose of rulers in Illustrator?

Answer 8

Rulers allow the user to create guides based off of document dimensions.

Question 9

What do grids do in Illustrator?

Answer 9

Grids create a proportional grid of squares that can be adjusted and used for alignment.

Question 10

What are guides used for?

Answer 10

Guides can be created from objects or from rules and are used for alignment and snapping.

Question 11

What are smart guides?

Answer 11

Temporary snap to guides that aid in alignment and distribution of objects on an artboard.

Question 12

What is bleed in graphic design?

Answer 12

The amount of artwork that falls outside of the printing boundary box to account for movement of the paper and design inconsistency.

Question 13

How can you import assets into a project?

Answer 13

There are multiple ways to import assets such as embedding, linking, and copying and pasting.

Question 14

What does embedding an asset mean?

Answer 14

Permanently placing an asset into a project. If the project moves, the asset moves as well.

Question 15

What is linking an asset?

Answer 15

Placing an asset into a project where the asset is not permanent. If the project moves, the asset will not stay with the file.

Question 16

What does replacing an asset involve?

Answer 16

Swapping an asset in a project with a different asset.

Question 17

What is the process of copying and pasting an asset?

Answer 17

Copying an asset from an external source into a project.

Question 18

What options do you have when importing images?

Answer 18

You can decide if you want to embed, link, or import as a template.

Question 19

What is color in art?

Answer 19

The element of art produced when light strikes a specific object, consisting of hue, saturation, and brightness.

Question 20

What are color models?

Answer 20

Additive color is used for screens and subtractive color is used for printing.

Question 21

What is the RGB color model?

Answer 21

Red, Green, Blue color model used for screens.

Question 22

What is the CMYK color model?

Answer 22

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, & Black color model used for printing.

Question 23

What does HSB stand for?

Answer 23

Hue, Saturation, and Brightness color model.

Question 24

What is the LAB color model?

Answer 24

A more accurate color model that measures color as well as brightness.

Question 25

What is grayscale?

Answer 25

Monochromatic shades of grey from white to black.

Question 26

What are color spaces?

Answer 26

A specific organization of colors.

Question 27

What are color gamuts?

Answer 27

Range of colors within a color model.

Question 28

What are spot colors?

Answer 28

Uses a unique code to create a specific color.

Question 29

What are process colors?

Answer 29

Uses CMYK to produce colors.

Question 30

What are swatches?

Answer 30

Predefined, easy to access colors.

Question 31

What are global swatches?

Answer 31

Colors that are automatically updated within a project.

Question 32

What are gradients?

Answer 32

A gradual change of color in an object, which can be two or multiple colors.

Question 33

What do color guides do?

Answer 33

Allows the user to select colors that work well together such as complementary, contrasting, analogous, & monochromatic colors.

Question 34

What are color libraries?

Answer 34

Preselected sets of colors such as PANTONE, Nature, Metal, Food.

Question 35

What are layers in design?

Answer 35

The ability to separate components of a design into separate, selectable sections.

Question 36

What can you do with layer options?

Answer 36

You can change the name of layers as well as the layer color, which affects the highlight color of selected items.

Question 37

What is stacking order?

Answer 37

The order of the layers directly affects the appearance of the design; layers at the top hide layers beneath them.

Question 38

What are clipping masks?

Answer 38

Hiding parts of an artboard within the boundaries of other paths.

Question 39

What are opacity masks?

Answer 39

A combination of clipping masks and gradients that creates a gradual change in the opacity of an object.

Question 40

What are sublayers?

Answer 40

Each layer can contain sublayers for separate paths and shapes. Every new shape or path creates a new sublayer.

Question 41

What does merging and grouping layers involve?

Answer 41

Placing graphics from multiple layers into a single layer using the Layers panel functions.

Question 42

How can you manage brushes, symbols, graphic styles, and patterns?

Answer 42

Using panels in Illustrator to create, edit, delete, and use brushes, symbols, graphic styles, and patterns.

Question 43

What is fill in graphic design?

Answer 43

Fill is the inside color of a closed shape.

Question 44

What is stroke in graphic design?

Answer 44

Stroke is the outline of a shape, text, or image.