Adobe Illustrator

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Adobe Illustrator

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A professional illustration software application- you can create everything from simple graphics, icons, and text to complex and multilayered illustrations. - for page layouts, multimedia presentations or on the web.

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Dialog Box

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Can change size, width, height- page orientation, unit of measure, and color

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CMYK

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Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black (used for print projects)

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RGB

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Red, Green, Blue: Used for projects that will appear on screens

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Precision

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Key to good design- can get better precision using points and picas

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Point

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1/72 of an inch

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Pica

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12 pt or 1/6 of an inch.

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Preferences

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Use to set units of measure- in edit menu

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Title Bar

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Contains the name of your document, magnification level, and color mode.

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Menu Bar

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Includes all of the illustrator menus

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Black Triangle

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Leads to sub menu

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Ellipsis

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Followed by dialog box

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Artboard

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Area bound by a solid line, which you create your artwork- can be as large as 227 x 277

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Scratch Area

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Area outside the artwork where u store objects before placing them on artwork - will not print

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Tools Panel

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Contains tools that let you create, select, and manipulate objects

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Tiny Black Triangle

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Indicates “hidden” tools behind that tool

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Zoom Text Box

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Displays current magnification level

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Status Bar

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Contains a list arrow menu from which you can choose a status line with info about current tool

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Panels

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Windows containing features for modifying and manipulating Illustrator objects. - arranged in groups

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Docking Panels

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Allows you to arrange multiple panels or panel groups vertically

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Tab key

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Hides and unhides panels

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Outline Curve

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Shows the skeleton of your work - lines and curves

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Preview

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Shows complete work - command Y

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Zoom

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command +

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Zoom out

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command -

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Hand Tool

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(hold spacebar) allows you to move dartboard

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Bounding Box

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Eight hollow white squares that show an object is selected

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Bitmap Image

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Created using square or rectangular grid of colored squares called pixels

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Resolution

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The number of pixels in a given inch

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Resolution Dependent

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Pixels must be small enough to create an image with the illusion of continuous tone

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Vector Graphics

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Created with lines and curves and are defined by mathematical objects called vectors

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Paths

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Anchor points & line segments together that are made up of these vector graphics

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Vectors

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Often used to create logos or line art

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Resolution Independent

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They are not created with pixels, this is no resolution

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X

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Switches between fill and stroke mode

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“None”

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Swatch with red line through it is called this - and used as a fill for a hollow object- any object w/ out a stroke

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Grouping

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Object allows you to move many objects as 1 - to group- go to object, group

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Smart Guides

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Temporary guides that can be turned on and off in view menu- and hello you move and align objects in relation to other objects.

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Scale, Rotate, and Reflect Tools

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The fundamental transform tools.

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Reflect Tool

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To flip an object over an imaginary axis

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Transform

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Repeats the pervious transformation

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Direct Selection Tool

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Selects individual anchor points or single paths of an object- can distort with this tool