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MAWD 2.02 Vocab
Vocab for unit 2.02 of MAWD
Term | Definition |
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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 include straight, beziers, and spirals |
Anchor point | 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 |
Closed path | one or more paths for which the start point and end point are not the same, for example a straight or curved line |
Open 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 |
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 stacking order |
Selection Tool | selects an object or a group of objects |
Transformations | scaling, rotation, shearing (skewing), and reflecting (flipping) objects to change their appearance |
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, 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 color to another |
Patterns | a repeated (tiled) decorative design |