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illustrator Flashcards

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Adobe Illustrator is a professional illustration software application-You can create everything from simple graphics icons, and text to complex and multilayered

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Adobe Illustrator

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Dialog box - can change size - width, height- page orientation

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Dialog box

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Cmyk: cyan, magenta, yellow, black (used for print projects)

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Cmyk

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Rgb: red, green, blue: used for projects that will appear on screens

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Rgb

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Precision is key to good design - can get better precision using points and picas

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Precision

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Point is 1/72 of an inch

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Point

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Pica is 12 points or 1/6 of an inch

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Pica

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Preferences: use to set units of measure - in edit menu

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Preferences

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Title bar: contains the name of your document, magnification level, and color mode

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Title bar

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Menu bar: includes all of the illustrator menus

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Menu bar

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Black triangle: leads to a sub menu

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Black triangle

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Ellipsis: followed by dialog box

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Ellipsis

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Artboard: area bound by a solid line, which you create your artwork - can be as large as 227X227

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Artboard

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Scratch area: area outside the artboard where you can store objects before placing them on artboard - will not print

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Scratch area

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Tools Panel: contains tools that let you create, select, and manipulate objects

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Tools Panel

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Tiny black triangle: indicates “hidden” tools behind that tool

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Tiny black triangle

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Zoom text box: displays current magnification level

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Zoom text box

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Status bar: contains a list arrow menu from which you can choose a status line with info about current tool

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Status bar

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Panels: windows containing features for modifying and manipulating Illustrator objects. - Arranged in

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Panels

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Docking Panels: allows you to arrange multiple panels or panel groups vertically

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Docking Panels

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Tab Key: hides and shows panels

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Tab Key

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Outline View: shows the skeleton of your workalikes and curves.

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Outline View

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Preview: shows complete work - ctrlY (toggle key)

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Preview

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Zoom: command +

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Zoom

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Zoom out: command -

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Zoom out

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Hand tool (hold spacebar): allows you to move artboard

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Hand tool (hold spacebar)

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Bounding box: eight hollow white squares that show an object is selected

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Bounding box

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Bitmap Image: created using square or rectangular grid of colored squares called pixels.

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Bitmap Image

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Resolution: the number of pixels in a given inch

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Resolution

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Resolution-dependent: pixels must be small enough to create an image with the illusion of continuous tone

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Resolution-dependent

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Vector graphics: created with lines and curves and are defined by mathematical objects called vectors

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Vic

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Paths: anchor points and lines segments together that

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Vectors: are often used to create logos or line art

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Vectors

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Resolution-independent: because they are not created with pixels, this is no resolution

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Resolution- independent

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X: switches between fills and stroke mode

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X

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“None”: Swatch with red Line though it is called this and used as a fill for a hollow object - any object with or without a stroke

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“None”

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Grouping; objects allows you to move many objects as 1 - to group - go to objects, group

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Grouping

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Smart guides: temporary guides that can be turned on or off in view menu

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Smart guides

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Scale, rotate, and reflect tools are the fundamental transform tools.

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Reflect tool: to flip an object over an imaginary axis

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Reflect tool

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Transform: repeats the previous transformation

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Transform

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Direct selection tool: selects individual anchor points or single paths of an object can distort

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Direct selection tool

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Guides: help you work with precision. - Will lose fill, stroke, etc while guides are on

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Guides

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