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MAWD 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 2 anchor points, which include straight beziers, and spiral |
| Anchor point | basic compartments 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 at each end |
| Path | made up of 1 or more-line segments, connected by 2 or more anchor points or nodes |
| Open path | one or more paths for which that start point and the 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 simple shapes |
| Transformations | scaling, rotation, 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 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 as a path can have no stroke as an option. |
| Fill | to put color, gradient, or pattern into an object |
| Swatches | named color tints, gradients, and patterns |
| Gradients | filling an object with a smooth transition from one color to another |
| Patterns | 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 lines (curved), and shapes in a countless amount of combinations |
| 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 4 shape options and 6 pathfinder options |
| Effect | commands that can be applied to an object, group, or layer to change its characteristics, such as distort and transform, warp, and stylize |
| 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 or around objects and images |