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Vocabulary
2.02 creating Vectors Terms and Definitions
Term | Definition |
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Artboard | the are 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 points | 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 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 a straight or curved line. |
Closed path | a continuous path that has no beginning or end, for example a circle or a 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 |
Smart guides | guides that appear as you move around a document indicating various points of alignment with existing objets |
Stacking order | the order of 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 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 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 colors tints gradients and patterns |
Gradients | filling an object with a smooth transition from one color to another |
Patterns | a repeated(tiles) 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. 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 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. |
Vector effects | commands that can be applied to an object, group, or layer to change its characteristics, such as distort an transform, wrap, 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 or around objects and images |