chapter 3 illustrator Flashcards
use … to draw lines
pen tool
Marquee
rectangular dotted line that surrounds the area you drag over
corner point
where the endpoints of 2 straight segments are united by a point
average command
simple and effective choice for aligning points
join
unites 2 anchor points
smooth points
anchor points created by clicking and dragging the pen tool
direction points
handles at end of direction lines to reshape the curve
to name a view
click view menu, new view
command / ctrl
to change to selection tool and click dartboard to stop the pen
anchor points
that are selected appear as solid blue squares
average command
aligns points
drawing from scratch
starting with new document and using only illustrator tools
tracing canned image
use the place command use as guide
attributes
refers to that which has been applied to an object that affects its appearance
eye dropper tool
to apply all attributes of one object to another
use stacking commands
bring to front, send to back, to assemble an illustration
caps
applied to the ends of stroked paths round caps are more appealing
joins
when 2 stroked paths form a corner point
miter
length of a point
pseudo stroke
or a false stroke where there is no stroke but an object behind it and distort it to look like a stroke
stroke panel
to create dashed lines
live trace
illustrator traces a scanned image or photo
live paint
designed to make painting easier and more intuitive uses regions and edges like fill and stroke
