Adobe CC Basics Illustrator

Watch Alignment, Distribution, and Stacking videos (chapter 8 within the LinkedIn Learning Course) Which key do you press to access the direct select tool?

"a" key

You can add colors, patterns, or gradients to the swatches panel in which of the following ways? (Select all that apply)

-Drag colors, patterns, and gradients from anywhere you find fill and stoke into the swatches panel -Select any number of objects and click the folder icon to add all colors to a "color group" within the swatches -With the stroke or fill selected, press the plus at the bottom of the swatches panel

Which of these describes what CMYK is/means? (Select all that apply)

-It describes the inks on a printer -It is a color mode -Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key

How do you select multiple objects? (select all that apply)

-Use the BLACK arrow: click on objects holding down the shift key. -Use the BLACK arrow, being sure not to click on anything, click and drag across all objects you'd like to select.

How do you add or delete Artboards? (select all that apply)

-Use the art board tool -Use the artboard panel

As covered across multiple videos in the series, what does the eyedropper tool (i) do? (Select all that apply)

-With nothing selected, it sets your fill and stroke to whatever you click on -With type selected, it applies whatever type you click on's attributes, including font features, spacing, and color -With an object selected, it applies another object you click on's attributes, including fill and stroke

Which of these is NOT an accurate description of the proportions panel? (Choose all that apply)

-You can use it for quick selection -It is a good way to duplicate things

Grabbing a panel's name tab and hovering it over the sides, top, or bottom allows you to: (choose all that apply)

-dock the panel as part of the interface -return it to being an icon

Guides are: (select all that apply)

-unprinting "guide" lines that can help with alignment -easily snapped to with frames (as long as snap to guides is selected) -hidden in InDesign if you are working in preview mode (W)

Watch: Using the specific Transform tools (4m 18s) You can copy an object while moving it by doing which of these options (select all that apply)

-while object is selected and the selection tool is active, hit the enter/return key to enter the move panel. enter the direction and or amount you wish to move the object and click the "copy" button -while moving an object with the selection tool, and before releasing the selection, hold down the alt or option key

Match the numbers in the image with what they do:

1. Swap gradient colors left to right or right to left 2. Manually set the angle of the gradient 3. Set the gradient to be radial (to start from an inside point) 4. Click this to set color within the gradient. You can also slide this left and right to define where the color will blend from. 5. This determines how even the blend will be between any two colors. Sliding this will give more color blend to the opposite direction 6. Click anywhere in this area to add a color to the gradient. 7. Used to set the transparency of a selected color

See the image. Pick the number where you can click to change the color mode sliders to greyscale, RGB, HSB, or CMYK? (select all that apply)

5

While drawing a star or polygon shape, how can you add or subtract points or sides?

Arrow keys - up and down

Which of these is something the appearance panel CANNOT do:

Change type attributes

How can you access the home screen (AKA the opening screen when you first open photoshop or illustrator) when you have other files already open?

Click the Home Button in the top left of the screen

What is a quick way to select everything* in a document? *Everything that isn't locked.

Cmd + A (mac), Ctrl + A (Win)

What is the fastest way to see the entire art board? (choose all that apply)

Ctrl + 0 (windows), or Cmd + 0 (mac)

Watch Alignment, Distribution, and Stacking videos (chapter 8 within the LinkedIn Learning Course) To send something to the back of a layer, which keys can you press?

Ctrl + shift + [ ; OR cmd + shift [

To make guides from illustrator lines or shapes: Select the line(s) or shape(s) Right click on the shapes or screen Select "Make guides" from the pop-up menu

False

If you have multiple objects selected, how to you deselect one of those objects? (Choose all that apply)

Hold the shift key and click on any object you wish to deselect

How do you draw perfect squares, circles, straight lines, etc.?

Hold the shift key while drawing

The thing circled in red (see image) is found on every panel in Illustrator. What does it do?

It contains hidden panel options

How do you set the blending mode of a selected object (multiply, screen, overlay, etc.) in Illustrator?

Transparency Panel

The swatches panel is the best place to store colors, patterns and gradients for use in fills and strokes.

True

To make a pattern: Select the object you'd like to repeat Go to the dropdowns and select Object > Pattern > Make Adjust settings as needed from the dialog.

True

Watch Alignment, Distribution, and Stacking videos (chapter 8 within the LinkedIn Learning Course) T or F, If you direct select just a couple of points of a shape, you can use the alignment tools to quickly align just those points.

True

With the zoom tool (magnifying glass) active: Clicking and dragging down or to the right, will zoom in Clicking and dragging up or to the left, will zoom out.

True

You can type on any path or turn any shape into a text box.

True

Watch: Using the specific Transform tools (4m 18s) To create a scaled copy of something, you would use the scale tool, click and drag while holding down which key?

alt or option

Watch Alignment, Distribution, and Stacking videos (chapter 8 within the LinkedIn Learning Course) To use the align to key object feature, you first select all shapes to align and then:

click on the object you want to designate as the key object

Watch: Using the specific Transform tools (4m 18s) When the selection tool is active (available in the toolbar top or top left), how do you access the move panel?

hit the return key which the object is selected

Watch Alignment, Distribution, and Stacking videos (chapter 8 within the LinkedIn Learning Course) Stacking order is important with shapes because:

it determines if shapes will appear on top or behind other shapes

Move or pan around within a file using this tool. (choose one)

the hand tool

What does the red square/rectangle represent within the Navigator Panel?

the viewable area

The thing circled in red (see image) is NOT a feature of all panels. When it is present, however, it indicates that:

there are more options available than may be shown

How do you draw a shape or line from the center rather than from a corner?

while drawing hold down Alt/Option