Get to Know Illustrator
This bar shows the File, Edit, and other menus that give you access to a variety of commands, adjustments, settings, and panels.
Menu bar
Shape tools are located in this panel.
Tools panel
The rotate tool is located in this panel.
Tools panel
Another name for stroke in Adobe Illustrator.
Border
With the Type tool selected in the Tools panel, click to add new placeholder text to the document. This placeholder text is called what.
Point type
This panel contains tools for creating and editing artwork. Similar tools are grouped together.
Tools panel
Shows the shape size in a measurement label, snapping to other objects, and indicating when an ellipse is a perfect circle or when a rectangle is a perfect square.
Smart Guides
Click the Group button in the which panel to group selected objects together.
Properties panel
Clicking the fill color or stroke color reveals colors saved in a document are called what.
Swatches
In the this panel to the right of the document, change text formatting such as font family and font size.
Properties
This includes Properties, Layers, and other panels that contain a variety of controls for working with artwork.
Panels
A path composed of start and end anchor points, connected by a path.
A line
Click an align option in the which panel to align objects to one another.
Align panel
In the Stroke panel, you can align the stroke to the path with what option.
Align options
Name one of the text formatting options.
Answers include: color, font, and size
This window displays the file you’re currently working on.
Document window
Click the Group button near the bottom of the which panel to group the artwork, treating it as a single object.
Properties panel
Select which tool in the Tools panel to erase parts of your artwork.
Eraser tool
Blends from one color to another.
Gradients
Click which button in the Properties panel to be able to move letters independently if they are grouped together.
Ungroup button
This tool, located in the Tools panel, can be used to show you more detail of a document.
Zoom tool
Select an image with this tool.
Selection tool
To cut a path, click and hold the Eraser tool to select which tool.
Scissors tool
You can recolor artwork using which dialog box.
Recolor Artwork
In Illustrator, you can re-shape text in creative ways using outlines with which tool.
Direct Selection tool