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| Rulers | Used to measure vertical and horizontal distances between objects or to measure the height and width of and object |
| Knife tool | Tool used to cut paths. It creates two separate objects |
| Brushes Palette | A palette that contains a variety of brush styles |
| Lock | The process of preventing objects from accidentally being altered |
| Attribute | A property or characteristic of an object that specifies how the object will appear or locate in a drawing |
| Guides | Nonprinting lines that can be used to create boundaries or guidelines in a drawing |
| Hide objects | Process of making parts of an illustration temporarily invisible |
| Eyedropper tool | Tool used to copy attributes from an unselected object to the currently selected object |
| Scissors tool | Tool used to cut paths by creating tow endpoints |
| Rectangular gird | A grid of horizontal and vertical lines enclosed in a rectangular shape |
| Lasso | Selection that allows you to drag a selection border around any shaped object |
| Flare tool | Tool used to create the effect of a lens flare or light reflection |
| Reflect tool | Tool used to reverse the orientation of an object or to create a mirror image copy of an object |
| Pen | Tool used to draw straight lines by connecting the anchor points. This tool also creates Bezier Curves |
| Image Trace | The process of having the computer trace around an original graphic image |
| Manual trace | The process of using the pen or pencil tool to trace around an original graphic image |
| Drop shadow | An object, filter, or effect that creates a shadow behind an image |
| Place | The process of embedding a scanned graphic image into an Illustrator file |
| Scatter | A category of brushes that distribute objects along the brush path |
| Artistic | A brush category that stretches a piece of artwork along the brush path |
| Pattern | A brush category that lay down a series of tiles |
| Calligraphic | Category of brushes that gives the effect of drawing with calligraphic pens |
| Direct select tool | Tool that allows you to select a specific anchor point |
| Scale | Tool that allows you to change the size of an object |
| Magic wand tool | A tool that selects all objects of the same color |
