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MaWD 2.02
Understand Digital Vector Graphics
| 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 components 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 on 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, and reflecting objects to change their appearance. |
| 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 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 (a path can have no stroke as an option) |
| Fill | To put color, gradient, or pattern into an object. |
| Swatches | Named colors, tints, gradients, and patterns. |
| Gradients | 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 and allows you to create straight lines, bezier lines, and shapes in a countless amount of combinations. Considered one of the most powerful tools in graphic design. |
| Bezier | A curved segment or 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 combine multiple objects in a variety to way to create complex shapes. |
| 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 line, 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 Wrap | Controls how area text flows over and around objects and images. |