General Keyboard Shortcuts
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Illustrating with Illustrator
Fonts!
100

Undo

Command Z or bottom left button of the drawing tablet

100

Selection Tool

V

100

If an image is landscape then what is its orientation

Horizontal
100

What is the canvas that your design goes on called

Artboard

100

Name a font

Answers will vary


200

Redo

Shift Command Z or holding both left buttons on the drawing tablet

200

Increase/decrease the amount of points on a shape

Arrow up/arrow down

200

This type of image is comprised of tiny boxes, when you make it bigger it becomes blurry

Pixel Image

200

How would you change the transparency of an object

Lower/raise the opacity

200

This funny font is a sans-serif casual script typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation.

Comic Sans

300

Copy

Command C

300

Eraser Tool

Shift E

300

This type of image is composed of lines and curves. No matter how big you make it, it will not change the quality

Vector Image

300

What tool would you use to move an object around

Selection Tool

300

This is a popular serif typeface commissioned by a British newspaper in 1931 and can be found on both Apple and Microsoft computers. Commonly used in MLA formatted assignments

Times New Roman

400

Paste

Command V

400

Add an anchor point

+

400

Is it better to start with a big canvas and go smaller or start with a small canvas and make it bigger

Better to start with a big canvas and size down so you don't lose quality

400

What do you use the Hand Tool for?

To grab and move the canvas around

400

This typeface features a small line attached to the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol.

Serif

500

Cut

Command X

500

Where can you find the Pathfinder Tool?

Window>PathFinder or Shift + Command + F9

500

Name a lossless image format

JPEG PNG RAW TIFF

500

What is the modifier key for altering the PATH when using the Pen Tool.

Option (on the Mac) for drawing with Pen Tool

500

This font does not feature a small slab or line attached to the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol.

Sans-Serif

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