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Creating Vectors
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Artboard | - the area of the illustration that contains the printable part of your work. |
| Objects | any shape, image, or text that can be moved, scaled, or edited. |
| Lines | - an open ended path with two anchor points, which included straight, beziers, and spirals |
| Anchor point | basic component of paths, which appear at the start and end of every path or where it changes direction. |
| Line segment | - part of a line that has an anchor point one each end |
| Path | - made up of one or more line segments, connected by two or more anchor points or nodes. |
| Open path | - one or more paths for which the start point and end point are not the same, for example a straight or curved line. |
| Closed path | - a continuous path that has no beginning or end, for example a circle or rectangle. |
| Shapes | - geometric based tools that allow you to create primitive shapes, such as rectangles, ellipses, and polygons. |
| Transformations | - scaling, rotation, shearing (skewing), and reflecting (flipping) objects to change their appearance. |
| Smart guides | guides that appear as you move around a document indicating various points of alignment with existing objects. |
| Stacking order | - the order of how objects are arranged on the artboard, in front of or behind each other. By default new objects are created at the front of the stacking order. |
| Selection tool | selects an object or a group of objects. |
| Direct selection tool | selects individual anchor points or paths in order to edit individual pieces of an object. |
| Stroke | the visible outline of a shape or path, such as the color, weight, or style, which is not the same as a path as a path can have no stroke as an option. |
| Fill | – to put a color, gradient, or pattern into an object. |
| Gradients | filling an object with a smooth transition from one color to another. |
| Patterns | a repeated (tiled) decorative design. |