Illustrator
Type of image created by the pen tool.
What is a vector?
Unit of measurement used for photo & web images.
What is a pixel?
Letters that have no glyphs or serifs.
What is a sans serif?
Creating a 9 part grid on a layout and placing items of interest in their vertices to create a pleasing composition.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
Type options in a font for currency, trademarks, letter accents & alternate capital letters.
What are glyphs?
EPS file format that is great if you want to preserve all illustrator data (other than .ai).
What illustrator native file format preserves all Illustrator data? (other than .ai)
150 or 300 ppi/dpi for printing.
What is an ideal PPI/DPI resolution for printing?
Go to Edit>preferences>units and increments
What is it to change ruler units?
This technique makes it so that print work has full color to edge of the page without cutting off important word content.
When you need to preserve a font in a Adobe file but you can't share the type face.
What is Outline Type
Ungrouping a symbol
How do you edit an individual element of a symbol.
Images you can use for education & money making design.
What is Public Domain?
Adding Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit in a text box.
What is it to fill with placeholder or greek text?
ideal color settings for:
Web
What is RGB (for web)
& What is CMYK (for print)
Name these three terms:
1st: Space between Letters.
2nd: Space Between Lines of type.
3rd: Uniform spacing on words overall.
1st: What is Kerning.
2nd: What is Leading.
3rd:What is Tracking.
To create an interesting wall texture, a designer put together some brick & mortar vector illustrations. He used this technique/pallet so he could use it as a fill for his design.
What is a custom pattern pallet?
This tool records your actions and, once recorded & saved, can apply those actions to any file.
What is Action or Batch Processing?
What is the designer attempting to do?
Select the type/text tool, click the location where you want the page numbers to go. Go to the Type menu, Insert special characters, Markers, Current Page Number.
What is it to add page numbers?
Image placement technique that ties the original image file and the illustrator document.
What is a linked image?
Fonts that get overused in design. Name at least 4 and you must get 2 from the answer key.
What are:
Comin Sans
Papyrus
Curlz
Bradley Hand
Vivaldi
Kristen ITC
Jocker Man
Zapfino
Brush Script
There is a digital illustration needed for a large billboard. The design will use this tool & image type to make sure they can scale it without pixelating.
What is pen tool & vector?
Optical depiction for each of the colors of light.
What is Red, Green & Blue Channel.
Designer is using this tool/pallet to create a consistent font, size, and color for test of the entire document.
What are Type & Paragraph styles.
This PNG Export setting in Illustrator makes it so that extraneous elements outside of your artboard don't make it to the final PNG.
What is checking "use artboard"?
2 techniques for pairing type.
Opposites (Fat/Thin, Script/Sans Serif, etc.)
Different iterations of the same type family (Bold, Italic, Fine, etc.)