Adobe Illustrator Certification Test 100% Pass

Adobe Illustrator Certification Test 100% Pass setting project requirements identify the purpose, audience, and audience needs for preparing graphics. also demonstrate knowledge of project management tasks and responsibilities, as well as communicating with others, such as peers and clients, about design plans the AI workspace encompasses everything you see when a document is first opened, things such as . . . the Tools panel, document window, artboard, and panels. creating a custom workspace - move and manipulate the interface layout in Illustrator to suit your needs - from the workspace switcher menu, select New Workspace - the New Workspace dialog box appears - name your workspace -click OK to close the New Workspace dialog box - choose window workspace creating a new Illustrator document 1. To create a new Illustrator document, choose File New from the main menu. The New Document dialog box appears, with all options set to the optimized values for the selected new document profile. 2. Change any of the preset values as desired: • Give your document a new name. • Change or customize the document profile. • Add or delete artboards. • Modify the document size. • Choose to have a bleed area around the trimming edge of the page. 3. Click OK to create the new document artboards Artboards represent the regions that can contain printable artwork. Multiple artboards are useful for creating a variety of things, such as multiple page PDFs, printed pages with different sizes or different elements, independent elements for websites, video storyboards, or individual items for animation. You can have 1 to 100 artboards per document, depending on size. You can specify the number of artboards for a document when you first create it, and you can add and remove artboards at any time while working in a document. Illustrator offers two ways you can interact with artboards, by using the Artboard panel or the Artboard tool. The Artboards panel allows you to add, reorder, rearrange, and delete artboards; reorder and renumber artboards; and select and navigate through multiple artboards. The Artboard tool offers greater flexibility to create artboards in different sizes, resize them, and position them anywhere on the screen. adding and editing artboards 1. To access the Artboards panel, click Window Artboards. The Artboards panel opens. 2. To add artboards, click the New Artboard icon at the bottom of the Artboards panel. A new artboard the same size as the first is added to the document window and appears in the Artboard panel 3. To create a custom artboard, select the Artboard tool and drag in the workspace to define the shape, size, and location. Green Smart Guides and dimension values appear to help you align and resize the new artboard. 4. With the Artboard tool selected: • To resize the artboard, position the pointer on an edge or corner until the cursor changes to a doublesided arrow, and then drag to adjust. • To change the orientation of the artboard, click the Portrait or Landscape button in the Control panel. • To move the artboard and its contents, click to select the Move/Copy Artwork With Artboard icon on the Control panel, and then position the pointer in the artboard and drag. 5. To delete an artboard, select grids, rulers, and guides 1. To show rulers, choose View Rulers Show Rulers. To turn off rulers, choose View Rulers Hide Rulers. 2. To set the general unit of measurement for rulers in the current document, choose File Document Setup. The Document Setup dialog box opens 3. Choose the unit of measure you want to use from the Units menu, and click OK to close the Document Setup dialog box. Note: You can also set the default unit of measurement for all your Illustrator documents by choosing Edit Preferences Units (Windows) or Illustrator Preferences Units (Mac OS), and then select units for the General, Stroke, and Type options. 4. To use the grid, choose View Show Grid. To hide the grid, choose View Hide Grid. 5. To snap objects to gridlines, choose View Snap To Grid, select the object you want to move, and drag it to the desired location. When the object's boundaries come within 2 pixels of a gridline, it snaps to the point. Note: To specify the spacing between gridlines, grid style (lines bleed Bleed is the amount of artwork that falls outside of the printing bounding box or outside the crop area and trim marks. You can include bleed in your artwork as a margin of error—to ensure that the ink is still printed to the edge of the page after the page is trimmed. Once you create the artwork that extends into the bleed, you can use Illustrator to specify the extent of the bleed. how to add bleed 1. Click the Document Setup button in the Control Panel. The Document Setup dialog box opens (Figure 31). 2. In the Bleed and View Options section, set the units of measure, and enter values for Top, Left, Bottom, and Right to specify the placement of the bleed marks. Click the Link icon to make all the values the same. 3. Click OK to close the Document Setup dialog box. how to add bleed when printing 1. Choose File Print. The Print dialog box opens (Figure 32). 2. Select Marks & Bleed on the left side of the Print dialog box. 3. Do one of the following: • Enter values for Top, Left, Bottom, and Right to specify the placement of the bleed marks. Click the Link icon to make all the values the same (Figure 33). • Select Use Document Bleed Settings to use the bleed settings defined in the New Document dialog box. 4. Click Done or Print to close the Print dialog box. create and move layers 1. In the Layers panel, click the name of the layer above which (or in which) you want to add the new layer (Figure 2). 2. To add a new layer above the selected layer, click the Create New Layer button in the Layers panel. Note: You can also create a new sublayer inside the selected layer by using the Create New Sublayer button. The new layer is added. 3. To move an object to a different layer, select the object in the Layers panel. 4. Drag the selected-art indicator, located at the right of the layer in the Layers panel, to the layer you want (Figure 3). 5. To edit the layer name, double-click the item name in the Layers panel and type a new name in the text field duplicate layers 1. Select one or more layers in the Layers panel. 2. Choose Duplicate "layer name" in the Layers panel menu (Figure 5). 3. The swatch is copied, "copy" is appended to its name, and it is added to the Layers panels release items to separate layers 1. In the Layers panel, click the name of a layer or group that contains multiple objects (Figure 9). 2. Do one of the following: • To release each item to a new layer, choose Release To Layers (Sequence) from the Layers panel menu. • To release items into layers and duplicate objects to create a cumulative sequence, choose Release To Layers (Build) from the Layers panel menu. The bottommost object appears in each of the new layers, and the topmost object only appears in the topmost layer (Figure 10). For example, assume Layer 2 contains an Atom (bottommost object), Radiation, a Flask, and DNA (topmost object). This command creates four layers—one with each element added sequentially. This is useful for creating cumulative animation sequences. clipping mask A clipping mask is an object whose shape masks other artwork so only areas that lie within the shape are visible—in effect, clipping the artwork to the shape of the mask (Figure 11). The clipping mask and the objects that are masked are called a clipping set. You can make a clipping set from a selection of two or more objects or from all objects in a group or layer. The following guidelines apply to creating clipping masks: • The objects you mask are moved into the clipping mask's group in the Layers panel if they don't already reside there. • Only vector objects can be clipping masks; however, any artwork can be masked. • If you use a layer or group to create a clipping mask, the first object in the layer or group masks everything that is a subset of the layer or group. • Regardless of its previous attributes, a clipping mask changes to an object with no fill or stroke. how to hide parts of objects using clipping mask 1. Create the object you want to use as the mask. This object is called the clipping path. Only vector objects can be clipping paths. 2. Move the clipping path above the objects you want to mask in the stacking order. In the example in Figure 12, the blue oval shape will the clipping path. 3. In the Target column of the Layers panel, select all of the clipping path and the objects you want to mask (Figure 12). 4. Choose Object Clipping Mask Make. The clipping mask is applied (Figure 13). 5. To edit a clipping mask, select and target the clipping path in the Layers panel. 6. Do any of the following: • Move the clipping path by dragging the object's center reference point with the Direct Selection tool. • Reshape the clipping path by using the Direct Selection tool. • Apply a fill and stroke to a clipping path (Figure 14). 7. To release objects from a clipping mask, select the group that contains the clipping mask and choose Object Clipping Mask Release. how to create an opacity mask 1. Select a single object or group, or target a layer in the Layers panel. 2. Open the Transparency panel and choose Show Options from the panel menu to see the thumbnail images (Figure 17). 3. Double-click directly to the right of the thumbnail in the Transparency panel. An empty mask is created and Illustrator automatically enters mask-editing mode. 4. Use the drawing or text tools to draw a mask shape (Figure 18). 5. Click the masked artwork's thumbnail (left thumbnail) in the Transparency panel to apply and exit mask-editing mode (Figure 19). Note: The Clip option sets the mask background to black. Therefore, if you use a black object, such as black type, to create an opacity mask with the Clip option selected, it will not be visible. To see the objects, use a different color or deselect the Clip option. 6. To convert an existing object into an opacity mask, select at least two objects or groups, and choose Make Opacity Mask from the Transparency panel menu. The topmost selected ob swatches Process colors A process color is printed using a combination of the four standard process inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. By default, Illustrator defines new swatches as process colors. • Global process colors A global color is automatically updated throughout your artwork when you edit it. All spot colors are global; however, process colors can be either global or local. You can identify global color swatches by the global color icon (when the panel is in list view) or a triangle in the lower corner (when the panel is in thumbnail view). • Spot colors A spot color is a premixed ink that is used instead of, or in addition to, CMYK process inks. You can identify spot-color swatches by the spot-color icon (when the panel is in list view) or a dot in the lower corner (when the panel is in thumbnail view). • Gradients A gradient is a graduated blend between two or more colors or tints of the same color or different colors. Gradient colors can be assigned as CMYK process colo how to use swatch libraries Open a library: To open a swatch library, click the Swatches panel menu and choose Open Swatch Library [library name]. • Save a library: You create a swatch library by saving the current document as a swatch library. 1. Edit the swatches in the Swatches panel so it contains only the swatches you want in the swatch library. 2. Select Save Swatch Library from the Swatches panel menu. Note: To remove all swatches that aren't used in the document, choose Select All Unused from the Swatches panel menu, and then click the Delete Swatch button. • Edit a library: To edit a swatch library: 1. Choose File Open and then locate and open the library file. By default, swatch library files are stored in the Illustrator/Presets/Swatches folder. 2. Edit the colors in the Swatches panel and save your changes. • Move swatches to a library: To move swatches from a swatch library to the Swatches panel, drag one or more swatches from the Swatch Libraries panel to the Swatches panel. how to create a gradient swatch 1. Create a gradient by using the Gradient panel, or select an object with the gradient you want (Figure 5). 2. In the Swatches panel, click the New Swatch button or select New Swatch from the Swatches panel menu. The New Swatch dialog box opens (Figure 6). 3. In the dialog box that appears, enter a swatch name, and click OK.