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Final Exam Flashcards

1
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What is the keyboard shortcut for “Fit to Screen”?

A

Command + 0 (zero)

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2
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What is the speculative/spec work? Why do we avoid it?

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  • It is: working for free and they take all your work

- Your time is a value and you should get paid for it

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3
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What’s the most common colour dichromatism?

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  • Red and Green (remember Christmas)
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4
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What is the difference between kerning/ tracking/ leading?

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  • Kerning: Space between the letters
  • Leading: distance between base line
  • Tracking: distance between each letter IN THE ENTIRE WORD
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5
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Which brush tools creates a paint brush effect, with settings such as “thickness, opacity, and stiffness”?

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  • Bristle Brush
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6
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We mark proofs using “r”. What does that stand for?

A

Revision

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7
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What does “RGD” stand for?

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Registered Graphic Designer

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8
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What are the main advantages of soft proofing?

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Faster and Cheaper

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9
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What is the Golden Ratio? What is the synonym?

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  • 1.618

- Golden Mean

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10
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True or False: You can only Image Trace raster photos.

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True

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11
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1 pica equals how many points?

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1 pica = 12 points

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12
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What is a “Leader” as it relates to Tabs?

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the character that fills a tab space

Example:
Fill it with a period then it will turn to this
Page…………………………………………………. 1

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13
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What is a combination logo?

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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.

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14
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What is an Emblem?

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An emblem logo encases the company name within the design.

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15
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What are the sizes for Legal, letter and tabloid are?

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Letter- 8.5in x 11in

Legal- 8.5in x 14in

Tabloid- 11in x 17in

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16
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How do you make rich black?

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CMY can all be any number but 0 and up to 100

K must be at 100

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17
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What are 3 ways you can navigate documents?

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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

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18
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How do you draw different shapes?

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Hold Shift

Polygon- use up and down arrow keys

Star tool- up and down arrow keys and command key

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19
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How to Transform and Relocate shapes?

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Resizing and hold shift

Rotating

Duplicating- option + drag and hold shift

Hold spacebar to relocate art board

20
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How do you use guides?

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Command + R to turn on ruler

Use equation as (+-/*) to set guide coordinates

21
Q

How do you use layers?

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Click and drag to move sub layers

Command + ]/[

22
Q

Explain some rules of fair use?

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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

23
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What is anchor point, path, segment and bezier?

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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

24
Q

How to you group and ungroup and get to isolation mode?

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Group and ungroup- command + G

Isolation mode- double click

25
Q

Swatches, gradients and stroke panel.

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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
26
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What is out of gamut? How do you fix it?

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  • 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

27
Q

How do you type on path, text wrap and create outlines?

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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

28
Q

How do you work the graphic style on the appearance panel?

A

Window —-> appearance

Where you can put many effects and appearances in one shape

29
Q

What pathfinder tool does what?

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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

30
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What does the align buttons do?

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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)

31
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What does a calligraphic, Bristle, Scatter and art brush do?

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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.

32
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How do you do the draw inside function and art brush scaling settings?

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  • Drawing modes right under the colour
  • shift + D to change modes
  • also double tap blob brush tool
33
Q

Dragging into swatches vs. Pattern tile tool?

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  • Basic pattern by dragging path into Swatches
  • Seamless pattern with Object > Pattern > Make
  • Pattern Tile Tool to resize pattern tile & change shap
34
Q

What is the difference from black and white proofing cycles and colour proofing cycles?

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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
35
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How do you export and print files?

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  • do not scale
  • get trim marks
  • use document bleed settings
36
Q

How do you expand, Live Paint, shape builder and gradient mesh?

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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
37
Q

What is the workflow for designers?

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  • Brief
  • 50% paid
  • Research and sketches
  • present
  • feedback
  • corrections
  • final presentation
  • full payment
  • send out to public
38
Q

What does liquefy tools do?

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Warp
Twirl
Pucker
Bloat
Scallop
Crystallize
Wrinkle
39
Q

What does the blend tool do?

A

Object —-> blend ——> make

Like morphing book when it morphs from once object to another

Also blend options —-> different scatters

40
Q

How do you image trace?

Simplify?

A
  • 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
41
Q

What is a perspective grid?

A

Shift + P

  • can put objects on a grid at different x,y,z axis
42
Q

What is an Orphan, widows, rag, rivers?

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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)

43
Q

Test yourself on Proofreading

A

You got this!

44
Q

How to place images, paragraph rules, types of frames, packaging and links.

A

> > > > > > >

45
Q

How to use multi page documents, master pages, tabs and hidden characters.

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> > > > > > > >

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