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| Artboard | the area of the illustration that contains the printable part of your work |
| 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 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 one each end |
| Path | made up of one or more line segments, connected by two or more anchor points or nodes |
| Open path | one or more paths for which the start point and end point are not the same, for example a straight or 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 (skewing), and reflecting (flipping) objects to change their appearance |
| Smart guides | guides that appear as you move around a document indicating various points of alignment with existing objects |
| Stacking order | the order of how objects are arranged on the artboard, 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 paths in order to edit individual pieces of an object |
| Stroke | the visible outline of a shape or path |
| 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 (tiled) decorative design |
