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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Artboard | the area that contains the printable part of your artwork |
| Objects | any shape, image, or text that can be moved, scaled or edited. |
| Lines | open end path with two anchor points, which included straight Beziers and spirals |
| Anchor point | basic component of path, which appears 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, 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. |
| Stacking Order | the order how objects are arranged on the artboard, in front or behind each other. By default, new objects are created at the front of the stacking order. |
| Selection Tool | selects an object or group of objects |
| Direct Selection Tool | select individual anchor points or line segments in order to edit individual pieces of an object. |
| Stroke | the visible outline of a shape or path such as color, weight or style, which is not the same as a path as a path can have no strokes as an option |
| Fill | to put a color, gradient, or pattern into an object |
| Swatches | name colors tints, gradients, and patterns |
| Gradients | filling an object with a smooth transition from one color to another |
| Patterns | a repeated (tiled) decorative design |