Setup
Determines if your document is portrait or landscape.
Orientation
Giving Microsoft Paint nostalgia.
Paintbrush Tool
Letter
Creates anchor points around text and allows customization to a font.
Create Outlines
Type of image that allows you to size it however you like without losing clarity.
Vector
Unlike InDesign, Illustrator only has this boundary option in the setup menu.
Bleed
Pen tool, but you are only working in curves.
Curvature Tool
Used to measure fonts/text.
Points
Best way to organize your artwork.
Layers
Command/Control G does what to multiple objects.
Group
Two color mode options you have when creating your document.
CMYK and RGB
How to stop adding anchor points when finished creating a shape with the pen tool.
Enter
What 72 points equal.
1 inch
Line around your text or object.
Stroke
Keyboard shortcut to show/hide rulers.
R
Illustrators versions of pages.
Artboards
The keyboard shortcut for the Ellipse Tool.
L
12 points equals one of these.
1 Pica
Slider that can change the transparency of something.
Opacity
Year Adobe was founded.
1987
The very first thing you should do when creating your document.
Name the file
Allows you to pick up specific colors and styles in your design and apply it elsewhere.
Eyedropper Tool
6 picas equals one of these.
1 inch
Place you should look if you can't find a menu or tool.
Window
Menu that holds all the options for the current tool you have selected.
Properties