illustrator ch 3 Flashcards
pen tool
draw lines
marquee
surrounds a selected area
corner point
where the endpoints of 2 straight segments are united
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
control/command
to change selection tool and click artboard to stop pen
anchor points
that are selected appear as solid blue squares
average points
aligns points
drawing from scratch
new document and only using illustrator tools
tracing scanned image
use the place command- use as a guide
attributes
applied to an object and affects its appearance
eyedropper
to apply all attributes of 1 object to another