Artboard, The white rectangle in Illustrator that acts as your canvas. Content placed inside the of it prints or exports. It can be any size and a document can have many of them., Properties Panel, The main panel on the right side of the screen that shows the most relevant settings for whatever is currently selected. The most important panel in Illustrator., Layers Panel, A panel that shows all the objects in your document organized into stackable layers, letting you control visibility, lock objects, and manage complex files., Workspace Selector, The icon in the top right corner of Illustrator (also called the Backwards Microwave) that lets you switch between workspace layouts and reset the interface to its default state., Raster/Bitmap, An image made entirely of pixels, small colored squares. Photos taken with any camera are rasters. Rasters become blurry and pixelated when enlarged too much., Vector, A graphic built from mathematical equations rather than pixels. Vectors are made of anchor points, paths, and curves. They can be scaled to any size without losing quality., Selection Tool, The black arrow tool (shortcut: V) used to move, resize, and rotate entire objects. The most-used tool in Illustrator. Always return to it when you are done with another tool., Direct Selection Tool, The white arrow tool used to select and move individual anchor points or handles within a shape, allowing you to reshape just one part of an object without moving the whole thing., Anchor Point, A point on a path that defines a corner or turn in the shape. Selecting an this with the Direct Selection tool lets you drag just that corner independently., Handle, A control point that extends outward from an anchor point on a curved path. Dragging a this changes the direction and curvature of the path on that side of the anchor point., Stroke, The outline or border drawn along the edge of a shape or path. These have a color and a weight (thickness)., Fill, The color or pattern applied to the inside area of a closed shape., Stoke Weight, A setting that controls how thick or thin a stroke is, measured in points. A weight of 1 is very thin; a weight of 10 or more is bold and clearly visible., Area Type, Text created by clicking and dragging with the Type tool to make a text box. The text is constrained inside the box. Resizing the box does not change the text size., Point Type, Text created by clicking and letting go with the Type tool. No container box is created. Resizing the resulting object with the Selection tool makes the actual text bigger or smaller., Area Type Tool, A tool that turns any closed shape into a text box, so text flows inside the shape instead of sitting outside it. You must click on the path (stroke) of the shape, not its fill., Type on A Path, A tool that places text along the outer edge of any path or shape so the words curve around the perimeter instead of running in a straight line., Crete Outlines, A command that converts live editable text into a vector shape made of anchor points and paths. After this, the font can no longer be changed, but the shape can be modified like any other vector object., Pathfinder (Unite), A panel operation that merges two or more overlapping shapes into one single combined shape. Only works on filled shapes, not stroke-only lines., Expand, A command (Object > Expand) that converts a stroke-only line into a filled shape with its own anchor points, making it possible to use with the Pathfinder and other object operations., .ai File, The native Adobe Illustrator file format. Preserves all editing capabilities but can only be opened by computers with Illustrator installed., PDF, Portable Document Format. A file type that can be opened on any device without Illustrator. Used to share Illustrator work with people who do not have Adobe software., Save A Copy, A command (File > Save a Copy) that saves a duplicate of the current file in a different format, such as PDF, without replacing or modifying the original Illustrator file.

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