illustrator study guide

What is a precise cursor?

Allows you to see more accurately where your brush strokes will appear

Who uses illustrator?

Animators, Illustrators, graphic artists

Explain the difference between the scratchboard and the artboard.

Art board is primary workspace; Scratchboard is area surroun ding the art-board, don't show up free doodle space

Describe complementary colors.

They are colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel and go well with each other.

What keyboard command do you use to add objects to a selection?

Shift Click

what are tool tips? how can you turn them off?

Tells what the tools are when mouse is hovered over the tool icon, To hide tool tips go to illustrator>prefs>gen(mac) (edit>prefs>gen) win

What is the purpose of a template image in illustrator?

Templates are useful when you are working over and over again with the same page layout or settings and you can use them as starting point then change settings.

Text and logo treatments are created best as what type of graphic? why?

Vector, doesn't loose resolution when resized and keeps color and original form

What steps are necessary to go back to illustrator's default preferences?

Win) docs? settings - username- app data- Adobe> illustrator CS5 setting- move copy desktop and delete the are in settings (mac) library- prefs-adobe ai-en-us and delete

what is a hexadecimal?

a combination of numbers and letters which can be used to indicate a color

The nonprintable area of a document is indicated by what visual cue on the illustrator art board?

defined with dotted lines

what tool do you use to select individual anchor points?

direct selection tool

what tool can take a sample of color in an image?

eye dropper tool

briefly describe hue, saturation, and brightness.

hue identifies color property or name, saturation is the strength or purity of a color, and brightness is relative lightness or darkness of a hue.

what does .ai at the end of a filename indicate

illustrator document

Name the four types of shapes in design.

irregular,biomorphic, rectilinear, geometric

What is an image file format?

is an indicator of how an image is stored and what software was used or can open it.

What are some of the different names for a line in digital illustration?

line segments have anchor points, direction lines have direction points and handles

what are the five elements of art that can be explored in illustrator?

line, shape, value, texture, and color

Illustrator's underlying magic is its ability to work with what type of images?

resolution independent any image

What keyboard command do you use to draw an ellipse or other shape from the center?

shift drag

what part of an object must you click on to select it?

the line

what is the purpose of a direction handle?

to create curves and control direction of where the line sits

what is a Bezier?

transformation of a line to a curve

Briefly describe the differences between bitmap and vector graphic types.

Bitmap=pixels and can blur...vector=lines on x y axis and does not loose resolution or shape when resized

four-color process uses what kind of color model?

CMYK

what is a color model? how does it differ from a color mode?

Color model is a system for describing color. Color mode determines if the image is in Grayscale or RGB.

Identify the shortcut key to undo a mistake

Command z (mac) Control Z (win)

How do you convert the direction of a curve?

Convert Anchor Point tool and click and drag each point of selected angular shape

Name at least two uses of illustrator.

Create logos, exchange typography layout and design, interactive media

Define the term color gamut.

Device that has the capability to reproduce color has its own color range or limits

How do you know when a layer is hidden?

Eye icon will be not visible in the box next to the layer name, in layers panel.

What is the difference between View> Actual Size and View> Fit in window?

Fit window fits the monitor, actual size is size of image on the artboard

Bitmap images are most common for what type of images? Why?

High resolution, continuous tone images, representing subtle gradations of color and shading (photos) because deals with pixels

What is image resolution? why is it important to know?

Image resolution is how many pixels are in an image and is important because it determines how clear an image is

How do different color gamuts affect what colors look like in illustrator?

It effects the way the images look when they are printed out, Printer can have a different color gamut effecting the quality of the print.

What are layers? How are they useful?

Layers are a way of organizing parts of an image. You can add or delete, rearrange, hide/unhide. lock/unlock and duplicate layers.

what color mode represents the primary colors of light?

RGB

What is the difference between"click" and a "click and drag" when defining anchor points with the pen tool?

"click" creates anchor points or gets rid of them. "Click and drag" creates a bezier

what is a gamut warning in illustrator?

"out of gamut" warning appears to indicate that you cannot create that color in that mode... the color is unavailable