Tools & Shortcuts
This tool is used to create straight lines and paths in Illustrator.
What is the Pen Tool?
The default shape tool used to create rectangles.
What is the Rectangle Tool?
Layers are used to do this to your artwork.
What is organize and separate elements?
Changing this affects the outline of an object.
What is Stroke?
Allows you to type words on the artboard.
What is the Text Tool
Pressing this key while drawing a shape constrains it to a perfect square or circle.
What is Shift?
A basic shape (circle, rectangle, star, polygon, etc.) that can be combined to create more complex images.
Primitive Shape
Clicking this icon in the Layers panel hides a layer from view.
What is the eye icon?
A linear gradient changes color along a straight line, whereas a radial gradient changes color in this way.
What is in a circle or outward from the center?
To adjust the spacing between letters, you change this.
What is kerning?
Pressing Ctrl + Z (Cmd + Z on Mac) does this to your last action.
What is Undo?
Give direction to a design. Create movement in a design. Thick lines show importance, thin lines demonstrate quick movement. Diagonal lines can often add visual interest.
What is line?
A raster file that supports transparency.
What is a .PNG File
Colors across from each other on the color wheel work well together when used in a design.
What are Complementary Colors
This panel lets you adjust line spacing, font style, and size.
What is the Character panel?
This tool lets you reshape paths by dragging anchor points.
What is the Direct Selection Tool?
A command used after Image Trace that converts the traced image into editable vector paths.
Expand
This organizational feature allows you to group related layers together inside a folder to keep your workspace clean.
What are layer groups (or sublayers)?
A guide that helps create artwork with depth.
Perspective Grid
To make letters farther apart than normal, you adjust this property.
What is tracking?
The shortcut Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V (Cmd + C and Cmd + V) does what in Illustrator?
What is Copy and Paste?
Converting a shape to a clipping mask does this.
What is hide parts of artwork within the mask shape?
You can temporarily isolate a layer by doing this in the Layers panel.
What is double-click the layer?
These are colors that can’t be reproduced by ink printing.
What are RGB colors?
Text that has been converted into shapes is no longer editable as text, but it is now called this.
What is outlined text or vector shapes?