ALL ABOUT COLOUR
You can find these on a car but designers use this to choose colour pallets for their work
What is a Colour Wheel?
Show all styling applied to an object including multiple fills and strokes.
What is the Appearance Stack?
a compositional guideline that divides an artboard into nine equal parts with two horizontal and two vertical lines, suggesting important elements should sit on these lines or at their intersections
What is the Rule of Thirds?
The adjustment of the space between individual letters to improve legibility
What is Kerning?
CMD+A does this in Illustrator, Indesign or Photoshop
What is Select All?
we use this option to show/hide colours in print elements and to ensure we're using 100% black
The Separations/Overprint Preview
Scale, Rotate, Shear, Reflection & Perspective distortions can all be found here
What is the Transformation panel?
a layout principle where elements that are positioned together or otherwise connected visually
What is Proximity?
A trick you can use to focus on the shapes of the letters and the negative space between them.
What is the "upside down" trick?
Click this to Lock/Unlock Guides in Illustrator, Indesign or Photoshop
What is CMD+OPT+;or:
File>Document Colour Mode allows a designer to do what?
What is change the colour mode from CMYK to RGB or vice versa?
Small Points that define the shape and structure of a path
What are Anchor Points?
an invisible framework of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines to structure and align content
What are Grids?
A common guideline is that leading should be this % of the font size
What is 120-130%?
click this to get the selection Tool in InDesign
What is V?
the place where tints of the colours used in your design can be found
What is the Colour Guide?
Shape Tool, Pen Tool, Shape Builder Tool & Pathfinder Panel are all methods of this
What is Creating Shapes?
the empty area around and between design elements that isn't actively filled with content
What is White Space?
The design principle of arranging design elements (text, images, colors) by importance to guide the viewer's eye
What is Visual Hierarchy?
Shift+TAB in Illustrator
What is Show/Hide all but toolbox?
the place you can see your recent colours, created patterns and standard illustrator colours
Where is the Swatches Pallette?
Allows you to select and edit individual anchor points or path segments on an object.
What is the Direct Selection Tool?
a centralized collection of design assets that allows users to organize, access, and share frequently used brand elements across different applications
What is the Creative Cloud?
Design Principle of creating a unified, balanced look where all elements (colors, textures, styles) work together harmoniously
What is Cohesiveness?
OPT+Shift+CMD+B in Photoshop
What is the short cut for Black & White?