Name That Tool
This black-arrow tool selects an entire object or group.
What is the Selection Tool?
This is the color inside a shape.
What is a fill?
Press Command + S to perform this essential action throughout a project.
What is Save?
Hold this key while drawing with the Ellipse Tool to make a perfect circle.
What is Shift?
This tool adds the words “Sunshine Flowers” to your logo.
What is the Type Tool?
This white-arrow tool selects individual anchor points so you can reshape part of an object.
What is the Direct Selection Tool?
This is the visible outline along a path.
What is a stroke?
Your last edit was a mistake. This shortcut undoes it.
What is Command + Z?
This transformation turns an object around a point without changing its size.
What is Rotate?
This panel helps organize artwork and lets you lock finished parts to prevent accidental edits.
What is the Layers panel?
In Pen Pals, you used this tool to draw the starfish by clicking to place anchor points.
What is the Pen Tool?
These points define a path and can be moved to change its shape.
What are anchor points?
Select all the parts of your sea creature, then use this shortcut to group them.
What is Command + G?
Use this transformation to create a mirrored copy of an owl’s wing.
What is Reflect?
Adjust this text setting to spread the letters in “FLOWERS” farther apart across the entire word.
What is tracking?
In Pen Pals, this tool helped create the flowing curves of the whale, manta ray, and hammerhead shark.
What is the Curvature Tool?
Adjusting these controls extending from an anchor point changes the direction and shape of a curve.
What are direction handles?
Hold this key while dragging a selected object with the Selection Tool to make a copy.
What is Option?
In the owl project, this Pathfinder command subtracts the front shape from the shape behind it to create an eye crescent.
What is Minus Front?
Adjust this text setting to bring the two lines “SUNSHINE” and “FLOWERS” closer together vertically.
What is leading?
In Animal Shapes, this tool let you combine selected, overlapping shapes by dragging across their regions.
What is the Shape Builder Tool?
A starfish outline ends exactly where it started, with its endpoints connected. This is the term for that type of path.
What is a closed path?
You just copied and moved one jellyfish tentacle. This shortcut repeats that transformation to create more evenly spaced copies.
What is Command + D?
Your sea creature’s 5-point stroke gets thicker when you enlarge it. Turn off this scaling setting to preserve its stroke weight.
What is Scale Strokes & Effects?
You want seven petals spaced equally around a complete circle. Enter this calculation as the rotation angle before making copies.
What is 360° ÷ 7? Accept approximately 51.43°