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Open Path |
Two distinct endpoints, with any number of anchor points in between. |
An example of this is a simple line that you draw with Pencil tool. |
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Closed Path |
Continuous paths, with no start or end- a closed path just continuous around and arounf. |
An example of this would be a shape that you create with one of illustration's shape tools, such as a circle or a rectangle. |
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Compound Paths |
Two or more paths. |
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Smooth Anchor Point |
These ancher points have a curved path flowing smoothly through them.Most of the time you don't know where they are until the path is selected. Smooth points keep the path from changing direction abruptly. Every smooth point has two linked control handles. |
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Corner Anchor Point |
In this class of anchor point, the path changes direction noticeably at those specific points. There are 3 corner points. |
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What are the three corner points? |
Straight, curved and combination. |
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Straight Anchor Point |
These anchor points where two straight line segments meet at a distinct angle. There are no control handles on this type of anchor points. |
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Curved Anchor Point |
These are points where two curved lined segments meet and abruptly change direction. Each curved corner point has two independent control handles. Each handle controls a curved, and you can change only one side if want. |
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Combination Anchor Point |
These are the meeting places for straight and curved line segments. A combination corner point has one independent control handle. The control handles controls the curve. |
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Pencil Tool |
Good to draw pictures that don't look like a computer illustration with more rough lines and edges. |
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Polar Grid Tool |
Is found in the Line Segment tools. The polar grid looks like Bulls-eye target. This grid is divided by circular lines lines instead of horizontal and vertical. |
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Selection Tool |
This tool, which has a black arrowhead pointing diagonally up, allows you to select an object, a path, or a bunch of paths at one time. You can press V to activate it. |
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Direct Selection Tool |
You use this tool, which has a white arrowhead diagonally pointing up, to select parts of an object or path. It's designed to select items on which you want to perform detailed work. |
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Group Selection Tool |
This tool, which has a white arrowhead with a plus sign, allows you to select hierarchical groups of objects. Each click allows you to select a wider range of objects around the core object. |
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Magic Wand Tool |
You use this tool, which looks like magician's wand, to select groups of objects whose fills or strokes are similar in color. It's hard to select color that aren't distinct because it will have a hard time selecting them. |
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Lasso Tool |
Lets you draw around the objects that you want to choose. Generally used for unevenly shaped shaped objects. Great to use when there a lot of contrasts with surrounding objects. |
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The Pathfinder |
Shows quick ways to edit paths. It allows you to do joining paths together or breaking them apart. The Pathfinder options change the way that two or more paths interact. |
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Bezier |
Postscript curves are based on Bezier curves, which were created by Pierre Bezier as a way of controlling mechanical cutting devices, commonly known as Numerical control. He created a method of curves using four points for every curved segment. He placed two points at either end of the segments. |
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Fidelity of a Line |
A low Fidelity value results in sharper angles, and high Fidelity value results in a smoother value results in smoother curves. |
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Smoothes of a Line |
A low smoothness value results in a course angular path, and a high smoothness value results in a much smoother path with fewer anchor points |
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Calligraphy Brush |
It's a brush to imitate a calligraphy pen. You can set the angle and size brush to draw desire. |
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Scatter Brush |
This brush scatters and copies a predefined object along the path. There are many available arts that can be used for this brush in illustrator. |
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Art Brush |
It uses an object along its path. The art Brush stretches the object to the length the object to the length of the path. |
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Pattern Path |
Repeats a tiled object along a path. The brush can have the tiles display the sides, inner corner, outer corner, beginning, end. |
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Bristle Brush |
It attempts to mimic a realistic natural edge brush with soft edges. It looks slightly fuzzy, blurred, out-of-bounds look to your artwork. |
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Brush Scaling |
This options allow to change the size stroke of the brush proportionally to its size. Either increase it or decrease it to fit your art. |
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