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Adobe Illustrator

Subjects : it-skills, multimedia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Five ________: Art - Calligraphic - Pattern - Bristle and Scatter.






2. ____________ winds from a spiral while increasing the length of the spiral (W/M) - Start dragging - then Alt-drag/Start dragging then Option-drag






3. A special effect applied to a digital image. Many filters mimic the effect of special camera lenses.






4. Zoom out to view the whole art board.






5. __________ 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






6. Move a shape while drawing it (W/M)






7. 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.






8. A layer within a layer that can have its own name and its own settings






9. Hold shift to draw ___________.






10. Rectangle drawn around an object with a tool to select an area.






11. Will allow you to change all of the colors in your selected art in a variety of ways.






12. Uses the z-axis to give a 2D object depth by extruding the object. For example - a circle becomes a cylinder.






13. fills overlapping SELECTED shapes and line segments






14. The two main benefits of ______________are cross-platform compatibility (they work the same on Windows and Mac OS) and support of widely expanded character sets and layout features - which provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographic co






15. An anchor point where a path changes direction direction in an angle rather than smoothly.






16. Letter 'x' - two arrows






17. ______________ polygon sides - star points - arc angle - spiral winds - or flare rays (W/M) - Start dragging - then press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow






18. 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






19. To ___________ Select the paths - then press Ctrl+J/Select the paths - then press Command+J






20. Characteristics of the inner area of an object - such as the color - pattern style - etc. - inside an object.






21. These tools allow you to cut and merge selected shapes.






22. Nonprinting lines that can be used to create boundaries or guidelines in a drawing






23. Resizing an object horizontally - vertically - or proportionally in both directions to a percentage of its origanal size.






24. Opacity and blending mode






25. vector paths that have two ends; the beginning and end points are not the same






26. Switch between __________ (W/M) - Start dragging - then hold down C






27. 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.






28. ______________ 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.






29. To force an object to take a certain form






30. 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






31. Using the S_______________ - you can visually and intuitively merge - delete - fill and edit overlapping shapes and paths directly in the artwork.






32. Amount of light that can pass through an object. a transparent object allows objects below to appear.






33. Switch through drawing modes (W/M)






34. Change the _______ of a spiral (W/M) - Start dragging then Ctrl-drag/Start dragging then Command-drag






35. Hold shift to select multiple objects.






36. 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)






37. Layer in which one or more sublayers are stored






38. vector paths that are continuious and have no ends - the beginning and end points are the same.






39. The top box in the color icons (bottom of the tool bar) and what you call the inside "color" of a shape






40. object that is dimmed and unavailable for modification but can be used as a guide for creating objects.






41. A point on a path that indicates a change of direction.






42. Allow you to create brush strokes with the appearance of a natural brush with bristles.






43. white arrow that will select individual objects in a group or anchor points






44. Constrain Blob Brush path horizontally or vertically (W/M)






45. __________________ 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/






46. Draw from the center of a shape (except for polygons - stars - and flares) (W/M)






47. Keep the inner radius of a star ________ (W/M) - Start dragging - then hold down Ctrl/Start dragging - then hold down Command






48. A mask can be a ______________. You can use type as a mask. You can import opacity masks with placed Photoshop files. You can also create layer clipping masks with any shape that is the topmost object of a group or layer.






49. Uses the z-axis to rotate 2D artwork in 3D space and change the artwork's perspective.






50. A mathematically generated curve that has two endpoints and control points to specify curve direction