Symbol Styler

The Symbol Styler tool lets you apply or remove a graphic style from a symbol instance. You can control the amount and location of the application. For example, you can apply a style gradually so that some symbol instances display the style at full strength and others display the style at partial strength.

SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/symbolism-tools-symbol-sets.html

plug-in modules

plug-in modules are features are software programs that add features to Illustrator

RGB Colors - Additive Colors

RGB colors are called additive colors because you create white by adding R, G, and B together—that is, all light is reflected back to the eye. Additive colors are used for lighting, television, and computer monitors. Your monitor, for example, creates color by emitting light through red, green, and blue phosphors.

SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/color.html

Use actions to automate tasks in Illustrator

-an action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files—menu commands, panel options, tool actions, and so on. For example, you can create an action that changes the size of an image, applies an effect to the image, and then saves the file in the desired format.


-you can’t record commands in the Effects and View menus, commands that display or hide panels, and use of the Selection, Pen, Paintbrush, Pencil, Gradient, Mesh, Eyedropper, Live Paint Bucket, and Scissors tools.

Tools panel

The tools panel is where you will be selecting your tools in Illustrator.

Study Guide for Freelancer Test (general mistakes)

VPAR - Video Ruler Pixel Aspect Ratio

Adobe Bridge - Import files

-rulers are on top and left of artboard

-fill pattern is usually a single tile

Verticle Area Type Tool
Closed paths to vertical containers. enter and edit type with them.

Default artboard size flash catalyst

Crop marks do not replace trim marks created with the Marks & Bleed options in the Print dialog box. Create crop marks around an object In Illustrator, you can create editable trim/crop marks or create crop marks as live effects.

SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/specify-crop-marks-trimming-or.html


The Texture effects are raster-based and use the document’s raster effects settings whenever you apply the effect to a vector graphic

Raster effects are effects that generate pixels, rather than vector data. Raster effects include SVG Filters, all of the effects at the bottom section of the Effect menu, and the Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, and Feather commands in the Effect > Stylize submenu.

The Resolution Independent Effects (RIE) capability in Illustrator makes it possible to do the following:

When the resolution in Document Raster Effects Settings (DRES) changes, the parameters in the effect are interpreted to a different value so that there is minimal or no change in the appearance of the effect. The new modified parameter values are reflected in the Effect dialog box.

For effects with more than one parameter, Illustrator reinterprets only those parameters that are related to the document raster effects resolution setting.

For example, there are different parameters in the Halftone Pattern dialog box. However, only the Size value changes when the DRES changes.

SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/effects.html

Status Bar
The status bar at the bottom of the Illustrator window has a Zoom menu and also displays a variety of information about your project or your selected tool. On the far left of the status bar, the Zoom percentage pop-up menu allows you to define zoom levels.

-Default resolution for document profile

-Print document, web document, and rgb document are all document profiles

-Panels help you monitor and modify your work. Panels can be grouped, stacked, or docked.

Artboard Panel

Lists the artboards

-No more than 25 in a document

-Files can be rotated to print

-When you divide the artboard into multiple tiles, the pages are numbered from left to right and from top to bottom, starting with page 1.

Warp Tool

Hash object single, multi-colored object

A mesh object is a multicolored object on which colors can flow in different directions and transition smoothly from one point to another.

A symbol set is a group of symbol instances that you create with the Symbol Sprayer tool.

adobe connectnow - Adobe Connect room and can pre-load content into that room. Templates make it incredibly fast and easy to setup new rooms and ensure consistency across an organization


smartguides are on by default

9-slice scaling

https://creativepro.com/understanding-illustrator-s-9-slice-scaling/

essential for web graphics
9-slice scaling is useful only when applied to symbols that will be viewed with the Flash Player (as SWF).
Since it’s an effect applied in the Flash Player, you won’t be able to preview the result of a 9-slice scale unless you’re viewing your art in the Flash Player.


1. f8 - define a symbol
2. Enable Guides for 9-slice scaling. The symbol must be defined as a Movie Clip (Figure 1).

 you can preview the proper 9-slice scale result by checking Enable Live Preview from the Control menu.




4 guides create 9 different regions on the screen

middle - both horizontally and vertically

upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right are all areas that do not scale at all.

SOURCE:
https://creativepro.com/understanding-illustrator-s-9-slice-scaling/

Navigating in Panels - Exercise

-you can dock and stack panel windows
-panels are used modifying, viewing, and changing layers on artboards.

Layer

list of layers

Artboard

list of artboards

Swatch

list of swatches

Tools

list of tools

Symbols

list of symbols

Caps, joins, and limits

*save selection feature; don't have to worry about marquee-selecting
https://wolfmanartillustrator.blogspot.com/2019/10/save-selection-feature-saves-time.html


-always trying to find what best accommodates the set of characters

Corners Miter join- sharp corner that extends beyond Endpoint
Smooth join - curved
Bevel join- square

Caps
Projected Cap: Square from Endpoint
Round Cap: Round cap at Endpoint.
Butt Cap: wraps around

Clipping Mask

Clipping Mask
Object>Clipping Mask>Make
Object>Clipping>Release


Clipping Masks are essential when it comes to confining things into certain outlines.

Hotkey:
ctrl+7 - clipping mask

crop marks for clipping masks
Select crop marks to cut parts of design either making it essential for UI icons or templates for printing.

Illustrator - Glossary

Artboard: Canvas in illustrator; workspace
Area Graph Tool: A helpful tool in making a graph conform to a certain area size. In rectangular form, users can specify the area's height and width as well as the graph data.
Arc Tool: Allows the user to make open or closed arcs with the ease of drawing a line segment or polygon. Options including the arc's size and slope are customizable.
Arc Upper: A warp effect that curves the top edge of an object and allows for horizontal or vertical distortion throughout.
Pen Tool: A tool that creates paths made up of points, lines, gradients, and solid shapes.
Blob Brush Tool: A drawing tool that acts like a brush but creates closed filled paths instead of strokes.
Direct Selection Tool: Selects, paths, shapes points, lines, and gradients.
Hand tool: A tool to help navigate around artboard.
Line tool: A tool to simply create a line
Rectangle tool: A tool to simply create a rectangle
Rounded rectangle tool: another tool to create rectangles yet, this one has curved corners.
Brushes Panel: A commonly used panel to add various styles to stroked paths. You can create new brushes in assorted styles (calligraphic, artistic, etc), edit existing brushes, go through downloaded libraries of brushes, and set up your preset brush gallery so it's on hand whenever you need it.
Join Tool
The join tool allows you to take two paths and join them together to create one single path. With the join tool selected, just click and drag a circle around the two end points of the path you want to be connected, and Illustrator will join them together for you.
ReShape Tool
Allows to select more than one point on existing path and move them in the same direction
Shear Tool
Allows you to skew proportions on existing path
Twirl Tool
Allows you to create twirls on existing path
Rotate Tool
Allows you to rotate path
Reflect Tool
Allow you to reflect path
Ellipse Tool
Creating elipses and circles. For perfect circles, shift is held down.
Flare Tool - creates lens flares. i.e. gradients that create tahe look of one.
Polygon Tool - any size shape a polygon


SOURCE:
https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/the-a-to-z-of-adobe-illustrator--vector-20799