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| Selection Tool | Allows you to select paths, objects or groups by click or dragging over them. |
| Direct Select Tool | Allows you to select individual points of any path. |
| Pen Tool | It allows you to create and edit anchor points and paths. |
| Anchor Point Tool | Allows you to add or remove handles to create a curve on an anchor point. |
| Curvature Pen Tool | Allows you to simply create paths with curved anchor points. |
| Paths | These are created when 2 or more points are connected, these are created using the pen tool. |
| Open Path | A path that does not end, not connected back to the original anchor point. |
| Closed Path | A path that has the same beginning and ending point. It forms a complete shape that can be filled with color or text. |
| Anchor Points | A point on a path indicates a change of direction. |
| Curves | Can be applied to an anchor point using handles to create an arched line. |
| Pencil Tool | This tool is used to create free-form shapes or lines, the accuracy of the lines can be adjusted. |
| Paintbrush Tool | This tool is used to create free-form paths that can have a more hand-drawn feel. |
| Blob Brush Tool | This tool is used to create free-form objects that can have a more hand-drawn feel. |
| Shapes Tools | A group of tools to create basic shapes without using the pen tool (rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star, etc...). |
| Swatches | This is a saved color that can be applied in a design via the swatches panel and can be grouped, these can include gradients and patterns. |
| Global Swatches | This is a color swatches that will be automatically updated throughout your artwork when you change them, indicated with a white triangle in the corner of the swatch. |
| View Modes | Ability to view projects and adjust the display on the screen. Modes include Outlines, Presentation, & Full Screen. |
| Type Tool | This tool allows you to create text in a design. |
| Point Type Tool | This occurs when when using the type tool and you click once, the text will continue without wrapping. |
| Area Type Tool | This occurs when using the type tool and you click and drag a text box, the text will automatically wrap inside the box. |
| Type on a Path Tool | This tool allows you to add text along any previously created path. |
| Touch Type Tool | This tool allows you to adjust individual letter in a previously created text box. |
| Placeholder Text | Text that is placed in a text box that "holds a place" in a design to allow for creating a layout or adjust the text design. |
| Kerning | This is the adjustment of the space between two individual letters. |
| Tracking | This is the adjustment of the overall spacing between letters. |
| Leading | This is the adjustment of the space between lines of text. |
| Readability | The characteristics of fonts and styles that make test easy to identify and read. |
| Hierarchy | To create visual order in design, controlling what the viewer looks at in order using size, color, contrast, etc... |
| Alignment | Formatting the appearance of text with the margins of the text box. |
| Paragraph Spacing | The space that occurs between lines of text. |
| Create Outlines | This command converts text to closed paths and can be found in the Type Menu. |
| Overflow Text | This occurs when the text box is too small to house all the text and is indicated by a small red plus sign in the bottom right corner of the text box. |
| Threading Text | This is the ability to create 2 or more text boxes that are linked, when text is added/adjusted in one box, it will affect the other(s). |
| Text Wrapping | This is when the text in a text box automatically wraps to the next line when it reaches the edge of the box. |
| Perspective Tool | This tool allows you to place elements on a perspective grid to adjust objects on a different perspective, automatically snapping to the perspective grid. |
| Grouping | This command allows you to link objects together so that they can be moved, scaled, rotator, or copy. Groups can be nested inside other groups. |
| Isolation Mode | This mode allows you to adjust single objects/groups inside a group without ungrouping the group. |
| Expand Objects | This allows you to divide a single object into multiple objects that make up its appearance. |
| Transform Objects | This allows you to change the size of objects. |
| Scale, Shear, Distort Objects | This set of commands allows you to adjust the size and perspective of objects. |
| Clipping Masks | This command allows you to mask objects to a shape so that only areas that lie within the shape are visible, the mask and objects that are masked are called a clipping set. |
| Blend Tool | This tool allows you to combine shapes/colors between two or more objects to create a new object between the original, blending the colors and shapes by inserting the middle steps to get from one object to the next. |
| Live Corners | This widget appears when using the Direct Select tool and a corner is selected, when used this will create a rounded corner. |
| Shape Builder Tool | This interactive tool allows you to create complex shapes by merging and erasing simpler objects. |
| Smooth Tool | This tool will smooth a complex path and reduce the number of anchor points. |
| Join Tool | This tool joins paths and anchor points together quickly. |
| Eraser Tool | This tool allows you to remove anchor points and cut through paths. |
| Scissors Tool | This tool allows you to split a path into 2 pieces. |
| Knife Tool | This tool allows you to split an object into 2 pieces along a freehand path you draw. |
| Pathfinder Panel | This panel allows you to create complex shapes by selecting 2 or more objects and using the buttons in the panel to cut, combine, or divide the objects. |
| Align Panel | This panel allows you to align one or more objects the the artboard or other objects. |
| Live Paint | This command allows you to quickly apply colors to objects in a complex design. |
| Appearance Panel | This panel shows you the fill, strokes, graphic styles, and effects that have been applied to an object, group or layer and are able to modify theses from this panel directly. |
| Brushes | Allows you to set the appearance/style of a path, can be applied to existing paths or used to create new paths. |
| Eyedropper Tool | This tool allows you to sample the color or text from an existing part of the artwork. |
| Image Trace | This command allows you to convert a raster image into a vector artwork. |
| Effects | These can be added to objects to create quick dynamic characteristics. |
| Graphic Styles | A set of reusable appearance attributes that allow you to quickly change the look of an object. |
