Illustrator Vocabulary
Chapters 5,6,8,10

Ch.5

Guides - Guides are paths that have been converted using the View > Make

Guides command. The guides are locked and cannot be selected, moved, modified, or printed (unless they are unlocked).

Calligraphic Brush - Calligraphic brushes resemble strokes drawn with the angled point of a calligraphic pen. Calligraphic brushes are defined by an elliptical shape whose center follows the path. Use these brushes to create the appearance of hand-drawn strokes made with a flat, angled pen tip.

Scatter Brush - Scatter brushes scatter an object, such as a leaf, along a path. You can adjust the Size, Spacing, Scatter, and Rotation options for a Scatter brush to change the brush’s appearance.

Art Brush - Art brushes stretch artwork evenly along a path. Art brushes include strokes that resemble graphic media (such as the Charcoal brush used to create the tree, or the Marker brush used to create the grass). Art brushes also include objects, such as the Arrow brush.

Pattern Brush - Pattern brushes paint a pattern made up of separate sections, or tiles, for the sides (middle sections), ends, and corners of the path. When you apply a Pattern brush to artwork, the brush applies different tiles from the pattern to different sections of the path,

depending on where the section falls on the path (at an end, in the middle, or at a corner).

Colorization methods - To change the color of Art, Pattern, and Scatter brushes, you use one of Three colorization methods, models for applying color to the artwork in a brush.

•Tints applies a single hue (the stroke color) to the brush, with the hue equal to black in the original brush, and white added to the hue for lighter colors—similar to creating a grayscale version of the brush, with the stroke color used in place of black. If the original brush contains no black, the colorized brush contains only tints of the hue, no fully saturated areas.

•Tints and Shades applies a single hue (the stroke color) to the brush, with the hue equal to 50% black in the original brush, and black or white added to the hue for darker or lighter colors. As with Tints, this method is similar to creating a grayscale version of the brush, except that the stroke color replaces the mid-range color (instead of replacing black) in the original brush. Tints and Shades creates a wider range of contrast than Tints.

•Hue Shift shifts a selected color in the brush to the current stroke color, and shifts all other colors in the brush correspondingly around the color wheel, to preserve the relationships between the original brush colors. For example, if the original brush is blue and orange (complementary colors) and you select the blue color and shift it to red, the orange color will shift correspondingly to green (red’s complement). (If the original brush has only one color, the Hue Shift colorized brush also will contain only one color.)

Tiles - Pattern brushes paint a pattern made up of separate sections, or tiles, for the sides (middle sections), ends, and corners of the path. When you apply a Pattern brush to artwork, the brush applies different tiles from the pattern to different sections of the path, depending on where the section falls on the path (at an end, in the middle, or at a corner).

Ch. 6

Transformations –

You use the Transform palette for:

• Moving or strategically placing objects in your artwork (by specifying the X and Y

coordinates and the point of origin).

• Scaling (by specifying the width and height of selected objects).

• Rotating (by specifying the angle of rotation).

• Shearing (by specifying the angle of distortion).

• Reflecting (by flipping selected objects vertically or horizontally).

Transformations you can do with the free transform tool are

· perspective

· distorting

· scaling

· shearing

· rotating

· reflecting.

Scaling - You scale objects by enlarging or reducing them horizontally (along the x axis) and vertically (along the y axis) relative to a fixed point of origin that you designate. If you don’t designate an origin, the objects are scaled from their center points.

Reference points - The Transform palette contains a small grid of squares or reference points that represent points on the selection’s bounding box.

Rotating - Objects are rotated by turning them around a designated point of origin. You can rotate objects by displaying their bounding boxes and moving the pointer to one of the outside corners. Once the rotate pointer appears, just click to rotate the object around its center point. You can rotate objects using the Transform palette to designate a point of origin and rotation angle. You can also rotate objects by using the rotate tool and either choosing a rotation angle or dragging to adjust an object visually.

Shearing - Shearing an object slants, or skews, the sides of the object along the axis you specify, keeping opposite sides parallel and making the object nonsymmetrical.

Ruler Origin - The ruler origin is the point where 0 appears on each ruler.

Reflecting - Objects are reflected by flipping them across an invisible vertical or horizontal axis. Copying objects while reflecting creates a mirror image of the objects. Similar to scaling and rotating, you designate the point of origin from which an object will reflect or use the object’s center point by default.

Ch.8

Gradient Fill - Gradient fills are graduated blends of two or more colors.

Gradient Stop – A gradient stop is the point at which a gradient changes from one color to the next.

Ch. 10

Clipping Mask – A clipping mask is an object or group of objects whose shape masks artwork below it so that only artwork within the shape is visible.

Flattening - place all the layers of art onto a single layer and delete the empty layers. In most cases, you won’t want to flatten a file until you finish editing individual layers.

Template Layers - do not print even if they’re visible. Template layers are locked, dimmed, and previewed. Objects on template layers neither print nor export.