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 ended path with two anchor point, 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 changes directions. |
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 point or nodes. |
Open Path | One or more path for which the start point and end point are not the same, for examples a straight or curved lines. |
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 rectangle,ellipses, and polygons. |
Transformations | Scaling,rotation,shearing (skewing), and reflecting (flipping) objects to change their appearance. |
Smart Guide | Guides that appear as you move around a document indicating various points of alignments with existing objects. |
Stacking Order | The order of how objects are arranged on the art board, in front or behind each other. By default new object are created at the front of the stacking order. |
Selection Tool | Selects an object or a group of objects. |
Direct Selection Tool | Selects individual anchor points or path in order to edit individual pieces of an objects. |
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 a color, gradient, or pattern into an object. |
Swatches | Named colors tints gradients and patterns. |
Gradients | Filling an object with a smooth transition from one other. |
Patterns | A repeated (tiled) decorative design. |
Drawing | Using shapes or other tools as the 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. Considered one of the most powerful tools in graphic design. |
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 a scanned drawing and automatically convert it to paths, based on the selected settings. |
Pathfinder | A tool that contains four shape objects and six pathfinder options that allow you to combine multiple objects in a variety to way to create complex shapes. |
Vector Effects | Commands that can be applied to an option, 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 wraps to the next line you must use enter. |
Area Type | Uses the boundaries of an area created by dragging a marquee with the type of tool to control the flow of the 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. |