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| Creating Documents | The process of creating new files and documents. |
| Create a new Project | Creating a new document in Illustrator to be used for graphic design. |
| Document Presets | Predetermined settings (dimensions, color mode, units of measurement) used to create new documents. |
| Custom Document | Require the user to establish settings (dimensions, color mode, units of measurement) used to create new documents. |
| Units of measure | Pixels, Picas, Points, Inches, Centimeters, Millimeters. |
| Non-Printing Elements | Tools in Illustrator that assist the user in measuring and aligning objects on the page. Tools include rulers, grids, and guides. |
| Rulers | Allows the user to create guides based off of document dimensions. |
| Guides | Can be created from objects or from rules. Used for alignment and snapping. |
| Smart Guides | Temporary snap to guides that aid in alignment and distribution of objects on an artboard. |
| Grids | Creates a proportional grid of squares that can be adjusted and used for alignment. |
| Bleed | The area outside of the printing boundaries. |
| Embedding | Permanently placing an asset into a project. If the project moves, the asset moves as well. |
| Linking | Placing an asset into a project where the asset is not permanent. If the project moves the asset will not stay with the file. If the original asset is updated the asset is updated in the project as well. |
| Replacing | Swapping an asset in a project with a different asset. |
| Copying and pasting | Copy an asset from an external source into a project. |
| Color | The element of art that is produced when light strikes a specific object. Consists of three aspects: hue, saturation, and brightness. |
| Color Models | Additive color is used for screens and subtractive color is used for printing. |
| RGB | Red, Green, Blue color model is used for screens. |
| CMYK | Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, & Black color model used for printing. |
| HSB | Hue, Saturation, and Brightness color model. |
| LAB | More accurate color model that measures color as well as brightness. |
| Grayscale | Monochromatic shades of grey from white to black. |
| Color Spaces | A specific organization of colors. |
| Color Gamuts | Range of colors within a color model. |
| Spot Colors | Uses a unique code to create a specific color. |
| Process colors | Uses CMYK to produce colors. |
| Swatches | Predefined, easy to access colors. |
| Global Swatches | Colors that are automatically updated within a project. |
| Gradients | A gradual change of color in an object. Can be two colors or multiple colors. |
| Color Guides | Allows the user to select colors that work well together such as complementary colors, contrasting colors, analogous colors, & monochromatic colors. |
| Color Libraries | Preselected sets of colors such as PANTONE, Nature, Metal, Food. |
| Layers | The ability to separate components of a design into separate, selectable, sections. |
| Layer Options | Can change the name of layers as well as the layer color. |
| Layer color | Affects the highlight color of selected items on an artboard. |
| Stacking Order | The order of the layers directly affects the appearance of the design. Layers at the top of the stack hide layers beneath them. |
| Clipping Masks | Hiding parts of an artboard within the boundaries of other paths. |
| Opacity Masks | A combination of clipping masks and gradients that creates a gradual change in the opacity of an object. |
| Sublayers | Each layer can contain sublayers for separate paths and shapes. Every new shape or path creates a new sublayer. |
| Merging & Grouping Layers | Placing graphics from multiple layers into a single layer using the Layers panel functions. |
| Fill | The inside color of a closed shape. |
| Stroke | The outline of a shape, text or image. |
