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Adobe Illustrator
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
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it-skills
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multimedia
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. printable portion of the work area - where illustrations can be finalized.
Panel
Reorder layers
Art board
Parent layer
2. To create _________ by placing the object to be used as a mask on top of the object to be masked. Then you select the mask and the objects to be masked - and choose Make Opacity Mask from the Transparency panel menu.
Opacity mask
Hand tool
Join two or more paths (W/M)
Perfect shapes
3. __________ the skew value for vertical dividers in a rectangular grid or concentric dividers in a polar grid by 10% (W/M) - Start dragging - then press X
Calligraphic brushes
Decrease
Vertical dividers
Cmd + Zero
4. Zoom out to view the whole art board.
Cmd + Zero
Alt-drag/Option-drag
Selection tool
Increase or decrease
5. Decrease the _______ for horizontal dividers in a rectangular grid or radial dividers in a polar grid by 10% (W/M) - Start dragging - then press F
Point of orgin
Shape Builder tool
Calligraphic brushes
Skew value
6. stretch artwork evenly along a path and include strokes that resemble graphic media - such as the Charcoal-Feather brush used to create the tree and objects such as the Arrow brush.
Marquee
Expand live-paint groups
Art brushes
Zoom tool
7. A special effect applied to a digital image. Many filters mimic the effect of special camera lenses.
Color Guide panel
Filter
Kuler panel
Scaling
8. Menu button You can access symbols from saved documents either by clicking the _____________ at the bottom of the Symbols panel and choosing Other Library from the menu that appears; by choosing Other Library from the Symbols panel menu; or by choosi
Scatter brushes
Symbol Librarie
Skew value
Click once with the Type tool
9. Moves the view of the art board when zoomed in- you can toggle it with the space-bar
[ (left square bracket)
Increase
Transparency
Hand tool
10. in the option bar for a selected live paint group
Expand live-paint groups
Default fill & stroke
Pattern brushes
Shape Builder tool
11. Six basic ___________ are: Rectangle - Rounded Rectangle - Ellipse - Polygon - Star - and Flare.
Calligraphic brushes
Open path
A linked file
Shape tools
12. The top box in the color icons (bottom of the tool bar) and what you call the inside "color" of a shape
Closed path
Illustrator to Flash
Fill
Stroke attributes
13. ______________ a Live Trace object in one step (W/M) - Alt-click Live Trace in the Control panel - or hold down Alt and select a tracing preset./Option-click Live Trace in the Control panel - or hold down Option and select a tracing preset.
Embed
Create and expand
Clipping Mask
't' ky
14. To slant or skew an object from its original orientation.
Gradient
Shear
Open and closed arc
Brush types
15. Keep the inner radius of a star ________ (W/M) - Start dragging - then hold down Ctrl/Start dragging - then hold down Command
Bounding box
Constant
A linked file
Cmd + Zero
16. Appearance panel contains the _______________ (fill type - color - transparency and effects)
Template
Filter
Fill attributes
Shift+D
17. Letter 'v' - black arrow - will select the whole or grouped objects
Clipping Mask
Join two or more paths (W/M)
Open and closed arc
Selection tool
18. This creates a text box where the text will wrap at the end of the line to the next. Also when you re-size the box - the text remains the same size.
Shape tools
Add or remov
Click and drag the Type tool
Brush types
19. solidity of an object's color; the opposite of transparency.
Add or subtract
Opacity
Brush types
Straight
20. A graduated blend of colors used as a fill; can be linear (flat) or radial (round)
Expand live-paint groups
Shape Builder tool
Gradient
Direct Selection tool
21. Defined by an elliptical shape whose center follows the path; they create strokes that resemble hand-drawn lines made with a flat - angled calligraphic pen tip.
Calligraphic brushes
Marquee
Click and drag the Type tool
Shift
22. To ___________ Select the paths - then press Ctrl+J/Select the paths - then press Command+J
Fill attributes
Workspace
[ (left square bracket)
Join two or more paths (W/M)
23. To force an object to take a certain form
Bezier curve
An embedded file
Extrude & Bevel
Constrain
24. __________ the skew value for horizontal dividers in a rectangular grid or radial dividers in a polar grid by 10% (W/M) - Start dragging - then press V
Increase
Rotate
Direct Selection tool
Clipping Mask
25. Increase size of Blob Brush (W/M)
Open path
Closed path
] (right square bracket)
Straight
26. Move a shape while drawing it (W/M)
Spacebar-drag
Expand live-paint groups
Reorder layers
Open and closed arc
27. Constrain a shape's proportions or orientation to: equal height and width for rectangles - rounded rectangles - ellipses - and grids; Increments of 45° for line and arc segments; Original orientation for polygons - stars - and flares (W/M)
Point
Shift-drag
Bristle brushes
Selection tool
28. Will show you variations on a selected color including tints - shades - and pallets based upon that color.
Color Guide panel
Embed
] (right square bracket)
Zoom tool
29. Letter 'z'. magnifying glass - click and drag around the zoom area - hold option + click and zoom out.
Direct Selection tool
Zoom tool
Marquee
Bristle brushes
30. Letter 'd' - black 1pt stroke - white fill.
Extrude & Bevel
Default fill & stroke
Stroke
Illustrator to Flash
31. Will turn the top shape into a picture frame for all selected art below it.
Clipping Mask
Zoom tool
Direct selection tool
Scatter brushes
32. Add or remove _______________ from a rectangular grid or radial lines from a polar grid (W/M) - Start dragging - then press the Right Arrow or Left Arrow
Click and drag the Type tool
Vertical lines
Clipping Mask
Simple or compound path
33. A location in the application window where a panel or panels are secured so they do not float.
Shift+D
Art board
Dock
Direct Selection tool
34. Characteristics of the inner area of an object - such as the color - pattern style - etc. - inside an object.
Fill
Escape key
[ (left square bracket)
Pattern brushes
35. A saved set of panel arrangements and tool setting.
Panel
Marquee
Workspace
Flip
36. Amount of light that can pass through an object. a transparent object allows objects below to appear.
Default fill & stroke
Anchor point
Transparency
Decay rate
37. Uses the z-axis to give a 2D object depth by extruding the object. For example - a circle becomes a cylinder.
None
Revolve
Extrude & Bevel
Opacity mask
38. This creates a single line of text. If you re-size this type it will re-size the text.
Click once with the Type tool
Constant
Shift+D
Clipping Mask
39. A separate - external file connected to the Illustrator file by an electronic link.
A linked file
Stroke
Direct selection tool
Scatter brushes
40. These tools allow you to cut and merge selected shapes.
Alt-drag/Option-drag
Scissors tool
Pathfinder panel
Anchor point
41. An anchor point where a path changes direction direction in an angle rather than smoothly.
Corner point
Layer
Swap fill & stroke
Fill attributes
42. Increase the skew value for _________ in a rectangular grid or concentric dividers in a polar grid by 10% (W/M) - Start dragging - then press C
Vertical dividers
Paste board
Sublayer
Gradient
43. The line that forms the shape of an object
Path
Opacity mask
Gradient fill
Template
44. Constrain Blob Brush path horizontally or vertically (W/M)
Shift
Escape key
Pathfinder panel
Stroke attributes
45. Because the __________ is part of the Illustrator file - no link can be broken.
Open and closed arc
An embedded file
Shift-drag
Spacebar-drag
46. Get you out of the Type tool and selects the Selection tool
Escape key
Perfect shapes
An embedded file
Template
47. The bottom box in the color icons (bottom of the tool bar) and what you call the outline "color" of a shape
Stroke
Direction line
Click and drag the Type tool
Pathfinder panel
48. Stroke type - brush - color transparency and effects
Stroke attributes
Opacity mask
OpenType fonts
A linked file
49. __________________ horizontal lines from a rectangular grid or concentric lines from a polar grid (W/M) - Start dragging - then press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow/
Add or remov
Extrude & Bevel
Direct Selection tool
Zoom tool
50. Hold shift to select multiple objects.
Vertical lines
Default fill & stroke
Shift Key
[ (left square bracket)