Final Exam Flashcards
What is the keyboard shortcut for “Fit to Screen”?
Command + 0 (zero)
What is the speculative/spec work? Why do we avoid it?
- It is: working for free and they take all your work
- Your time is a value and you should get paid for it
What’s the most common colour dichromatism?
- Red and Green (remember Christmas)
What is the difference between kerning/ tracking/ leading?
- Kerning: Space between the letters
- Leading: distance between base line
- Tracking: distance between each letter IN THE ENTIRE WORD
Which brush tools creates a paint brush effect, with settings such as “thickness, opacity, and stiffness”?
- Bristle Brush
We mark proofs using “r”. What does that stand for?
Revision
What does “RGD” stand for?
Registered Graphic Designer
What are the main advantages of soft proofing?
Faster and Cheaper
What is the Golden Ratio? What is the synonym?
- 1.618
- Golden Mean
True or False: You can only Image Trace raster photos.
True
1 pica equals how many points?
1 pica = 12 points
What is a “Leader” as it relates to Tabs?
the character that fills a tab space
Example:
Fill it with a period then it will turn to this
Page…………………………………………………. 1
What is a combination logo?
These logos combine a wordmark and a symbol or icon to give the flexibility for the use of either or both elements across a variety of applications.
What is an Emblem?
An emblem logo encases the company name within the design.
What are the sizes for Legal, letter and tabloid are?
Letter- 8.5in x 11in
Legal- 8.5in x 14in
Tabloid- 11in x 17in
How do you make rich black?
CMY can all be any number but 0 and up to 100
K must be at 100
What are 3 ways you can navigate documents?
Zoom Tool
- Z key
- click to zoom in
- option + click to zoom out
- Command + 0 to fit to screen
Hand Tool
- H key
- hold spacebar for temporary
Navigator
- window> navigator
How do you draw different shapes?
Hold Shift
Polygon- use up and down arrow keys
Star tool- up and down arrow keys and command key
How to Transform and Relocate shapes?
Resizing and hold shift
Rotating
Duplicating- option + drag and hold shift
Hold spacebar to relocate art board
How do you use guides?
Command + R to turn on ruler
Use equation as (+-/*) to set guide coordinates
How do you use layers?
Click and drag to move sub layers
Command + ]/[
Explain some rules of fair use?
Provides limited right to make fair use in a later work of elements that are copied or derived from earlier work
Commercial or non-profit educational purpose- commercial less likely to be found to be fair use
When work is transformative into new information and new aesthetics it would be fair use
What is anchor point, path, segment and bezier?
Anchor point- are a series of points that make up a path
Path- made up a series of points called anchor points
Segment- A path is made up of one or more straight or curved segments. The beginning and end of each segment are marked by anchor points
Bezier- hold option on the Mac, makes the corner curved
How to you group and ungroup and get to isolation mode?
Group and ungroup- command + G
Isolation mode- double click
Swatches, gradients and stroke panel.
Swatches
- Swatches library
- Saving swatches
- Colour picker
Gradients
- Linear vs. radial gradient
- Adding/removing colours from gradient
- Changing direction of the gradient
- Saving gradient swatch
What is out of gamut? How do you fix it?
- Colours that won’t show up on print
- if you click the warning sign then it will fix the colouring to the nearest cmyk colour for print
How do you type on path, text wrap and create outlines?
Type on path
- create a path
- use type tool
- click on path with type tool
Create outline
- shift + command + O
- or type —> create outlines
Text wrap
- object —> text wrap —-> make
How do you work the graphic style on the appearance panel?
Window —-> appearance
Where you can put many effects and appearances in one shape
What pathfinder tool does what?
1- unite- creates one shape from two
2- minus front- cuts out what ever in the front
3- intersect- what ever overlaps is the only thing that is left
4- exclude- what ever overlaps is the only thing that is taken out
5- divide- cuts out everything into little pieces that are overlapped
6,7,8,9
10- minus back- cuts out what’s in the back
What does the align buttons do?
Align (top, centre, bottom, left, centre, right)
- aligns each thing- up, right, left…
Distribute (top, centre, bottom, left, centre, right)
-distribute each thing- up, right, left… (needs three things)
What does a calligraphic, Bristle, Scatter and art brush do?
calligraphic- Create strokes that resemble those drawn with the angled point of a calligraphic pen and are drawn along the center of the path.
Bristle- Create brush strokes with the appearance of a natural brush with bristles.
Scatter- Disperse copies of an object (such as a ladybug or a leaf) along the path.
art brush- Stretch a brush shape (such as Rough Charcoal) or object shape evenly along the length of the path.
How do you do the draw inside function and art brush scaling settings?
- Drawing modes right under the colour
- shift + D to change modes
- also double tap blob brush tool
Dragging into swatches vs. Pattern tile tool?
- Basic pattern by dragging path into Swatches
- Seamless pattern with Object > Pattern > Make
- Pattern Tile Tool to resize pattern tile & change shap
What is the difference from black and white proofing cycles and colour proofing cycles?
Black and white
- check for Tim and bleed marks
- check for typos and correct processing of typefaces
- check for adequate contrast between elements
Colour
- check for colour accuracy (screen backlit)
- check for colour interaction with paper
How do you export and print files?
- do not scale
- get trim marks
- use document bleed settings
How do you expand, Live Paint, shape builder and gradient mesh?
Live paint
- doesn’t have to be closed path
- “K”
Gradient mesh
- turn something into 3D with light like a circle into a cylinder
“U”
Expanding
Preferences —-> general —-> check scale strokes and effects
To change weight with sizing
Shape builder
- Shift + M
- to combine different shapes into one shape
What is the workflow for designers?
- Brief
- 50% paid
- Research and sketches
- present
- feedback
- corrections
- final presentation
- full payment
- send out to public
What does liquefy tools do?
Warp Twirl Pucker Bloat Scallop Crystallize Wrinkle
What does the blend tool do?
Object —-> blend ——> make
Like morphing book when it morphs from once object to another
Also blend options —-> different scatters
How do you image trace?
Simplify?
- Must be raster image
- object —-> image trace —-> make
- makes a raster image into a vector image
- and you can decide the detail
Simplify
- can make it more curvy
- object —-> path —-> simplify
What is a perspective grid?
Shift + P
- can put objects on a grid at different x,y,z axis
What is an Orphan, widows, rag, rivers?
Orphan- a word by itself at the end of a paragraph on a separate line
Widows- a line by itself on the beginning of a column
Rivers- are the white gaps that can appear in columns of type, when there is too much space between words on consecutive lines of text.
Rags- imbalanced alignment of text at the end of each line (the length the lines of word reach at the end of the line)
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