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VectorImgs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 and object or 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 can have no stroke as an option. |
| Fill | To put a color, or pattern into an object. |
| Swatches | Named colors tints gradients and patterns. |
| Gradient | Filling an object with a smooth transition from one color to another. |
| Patterns | A repeated (tiled) decorative design |
| Drawing | Using shapes or other tools such as the pen or pencil to simulate the experience of drawing on paper. |
| Pen Tool | It uses anchor points and paths to allow you to create straight lines, Bezier lines (curved), and shapes in a countless amount of combinations. Considered one of the most powerful tools in graphic design. |
| Bezier | A curved segment of a path which uses handles to control the shape of the curve |
| Image Trace | A tool in a vector program will take a raster image or scanned drawing and automatically convert it to paths, based on selected settings. |
| Pathfinder | a tool that contains four shape options and six pathfinder options that allow you to combine multiple objects in a variety to way to create complex shapes |
| vector Effect | commands that can be applied to an object, group, or layer to change its characteristics, such as distort and transform, warp and stylize |
| Point Type | a line of text that begins at the point that you click, which expands as you type. The type will not automatically wrap to the next like, you must use enter |
| Area Type | uses the boundaries of an area created by dragging a marquee with the type tool to control the flow of text. When text gets to the end of the boundary, it automatically wraps to the next line |
| Type On Path | allows you to attach text to an open or closed path |
| Text Warp | controls how area text flows over or around objects and images |