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MAWD Lesson 2.02
Understand Digital Vector Graphics
| 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 | an open ended path with two anchor points, which included straight, beziers, and spirials |
| Anchor Point | a 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 on each end |
| Path | is made up of one or more line segments, connected by two or more other points or nodes |
| Open Path | one or more paths for which the start point and end point are not the same |
| Closed Path | a continuous path that has no beginning or end |
| Shapes | geometric based tools that allow you to create primitive shapes |
| Transformations | scaling, rotating, skewing and reflecting objects to change their appearance |
| Stacking Order | the order of how objects are arranged on the artboard |
| Selection Tool | selects an object or a group of objects |
| Direct Selection Tool | selects individual anchor points or line segments in order to edit individual pieces of an object |
| Stroke | the visible outline of a shape or path |
| Fill | to put a color, gradient into an object |
| Swatches | named colors tints, gradients, patterns |
| Gradients | filling and object with a smooth transformation from one color to another |
| Patterns | a repeated 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 | a curved segment of a path which uses handles to control the shape of the curve |
| Image Trace | a tool that will convert a raster image or a drawing into paths, based on selected settings |
| Pathfinder | a tool that contains four shap options and six pathfinder options to allow you to combine multiple objects to create complex shapes |
| Effect | commands that can be applied to and object, group, or layer to change its characteristics |
| Point Type | a line of text that begins at the point that you click, which expands as you type. |
| Area Type | uses the boundaries of an area created by dragging a marquee with the type tool to control the flow of text |
| Type On Path | allows you to attach text to an open or closed path |
| Text Wrap | controles how area text flows over objects and images |