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Lesson 2.02
Vocabualry
Term | Definition |
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Artboard | The areas that contains the printable part of your artwork |
Objects | any shape, image, or text that can be moved, scaled, or edited |
Lines | Lines - an open ended path with two anchor points which included 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 on each end |
Path | made up of one or more-line segments, connected by two of more anchor points or nodes |
Open path | one or more paths for which the start point and end point are no the same, for example a straight tor 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 primitive shapes, such as rectangles, ellipses and polygons |
Transformations | scaling, rotation, shearing, and reflecting objects to change there appearance |
Stacking Order | The order of how objects are arranged on the art board in front of or behind each other |
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, such as the color, weight, or style which is not the same as a path, 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 decorative design |