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| 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. By default new objects are created at the front of the stacking order. |
| 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, such as the color, weight, or style, which is not the same as a path as a path can have no stroke as an option |
| 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. |