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MAWD Lesson 2.02
Understand Digital Vector Graphics
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 included straight, beziers, and spirials |
Anchor Point | a 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 | is made up of one or more line segments, connected by two or more other points or nodes |
Open Path | one or more paths for which the start point and end point are not the same |
Closed Path | a continuous path that has no beginning or end |
Shapes | geometric based tools that allow you to create primitive shapes |
Transformations | scaling, rotating, 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 individual pieces of an object |
Stroke | the visible outline of a shape or path |
Fill | to put a color, gradient into an object |
Swatches | named colors tints, gradients, patterns |
Gradients | filling and object with a smooth transformation from one color to another |
Patterns | a 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 | a curved segment of a path which uses handles to control the shape of the curve |
Image Trace | a tool that will convert a raster image or a drawing into paths, based on selected settings |
Pathfinder | a tool that contains four shap options and six pathfinder options to allow you to combine multiple objects to create complex shapes |
Effect | commands that can be applied to and object, group, or layer to change its characteristics |
Point Type | a line of text that begins at the point that you click, which expands as you type. |
Area Type | uses the boundaries of an area created by dragging a marquee with the type tool to control the flow of text |
Type On Path | allows you to attach text to an open or closed path |
Text Wrap | controles how area text flows over objects and images |