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vocabulary
2.01 Digraster
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| art board | the area of the illustration that contains the printable part of your work |
| objects | any shape image or text can be moved scaled or edited |
| lines | an open ended path with two anchor points which included straight braziers and spirals |
| anchor point | basic component of paths which appear at the start and end of every path or where it changer 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 |
| one path | one or more paths for which the start point and end point are not the same for example a straight or curved line |
| close 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 rotating 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 |
| select tool | selects an 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 of style which is not the same as a path can have no stroke as an option |
| fill | to put a color gradient or pattern into an object |
| swatches | named colors tints gradient ad patterns |
| gradients | filling an object with 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 |