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| Drawing Programs | Software with tools that allow the user to create crisp, professional looking graphics such as logos |
| Painting Programs | Image editing programs. Provide tools to color-correct, retouch,and edit digital photos |
| Page Layout Programs | Allow you to combine graphics that you create in drawing and paint programs with text |
| Artboard | Printable portion of the work area, where illustrations can be finalized |
| Bitmap Images | Images created using a grid of small squares called pixels. |
| Marquee | Rectangle drawn around an object with a tool, to select one or more objects or an area |
| Palette | A collection of tools or features that can be used to create or format drawing objects |
| Pixel | Term that stands for picture element, a single point on a computer monitor screen |
| Resolution | The number of dots or pixels per linear unit of output |
| Scratch Area | Area surrounding the artboard in which a user can rough out graphics |
| Toolbox | Container for Illustrator tools used to create, select, and manipulate objects |
| Vector Graphics | Drawings made up of lines and curves that are defined by vectors. |
| Vectors | Mathematical concept that describes a graphic according to geometric characteristics |
| Path | The line that forms the shape of an object |
| Work Area | The area where a user creates an illustration consisting of the artboard, toolbox, palettes, and scratch area |
| Menu Bar | Contains a list of various drop down menus that list Illustrator commands |
| Status Bar | A bar at the bottom of the screen that contains the zoom and status pop up menus. |
| Custom View | The designer can create and name a custom view of a specific area on an illustration and save it |
| Navigator Palette | Used to allow the user to focus on a specific area of a drawing or to change the magnification |
| CMYK Model | The color model used for printing output on paper |
| Color Mode | Determines the color model used to display and print the Illustrator file |
| Picas | Measurement system frequently used in graphic design. There are six picas to an inch |
| Points | Measurement system frequently used in graphic design. A point is 1/72nd of an inch |
| RGB Model | The color model used for illustrations to be viewed on computer monitors |
| Hidden Toolbars | Contains a list of tools that are all related to a specific category that are hidden |
| Palette Groups | A group of palettes. They are Appearance, Color, Styles, and Layers |
| Modifier Keys | Keys on the keyboard that allow the user to adjust or modify shapes and lines while drawing |
| Undo | The process of undoing or reversing the last action. |
| Illustrator File Format | The format that the drawing is stored when it is saved to disk |
| Anchor Point | Points on a path that indicate a change of direction |
| Bounding Box | A temporary frame around a selected object that shows the object’s outer dimensions |
| Grid | A series of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines like graph paper |
| Smart Guides | Temporary guides that display when the user moves the pointer over an object in the work area |
| Smooth Point | An anchor point that connects path segments in a smooth curve |
| Closed Path | A path that has no endpoints like a circle or rectangle |
| Open Path | A line with two endpoints, one at the beginning and one at the end of the path |
| Selection Tool | Used to select an object |
| Corner Point | An anchor point where a path changes direction in an angle rather than smoothly |
| Constrain | To force an object to take a certain form |
| Docking Palettes | The process of connecting palettes by dragging one palette by its tab to the bottom of another palette |
