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Adobe Illustrator CC Certification Vocabulary
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Additive color Answer: Created by combining light. Color
components are red, green, and blue. When added together at
100%, the three components create white.
Adobe Bridge Answer: An Adobe application that enables you to
view thumbnails of your files and helps you sort and organize those
files.
Alignment Answer: Indicates how the text is justified / aligned on
the right and left edges: such as left, centered, and right.
Analogous (colors) Answer: Colors that are side by side on the color
wheel.
Anchor point Answer: A point connecting two segments on a path.
An anchor point can be either a corner point or a curved point.
Appearance Answer: The attributes that are applied to an "object"
and are listed on the Appearance panel: stroke, fill, opacity, fx, etc.
Application frame Answer: The frame that surrounds the Illustrator
interface and contains the Application bar, document windows, and
panels, and select zoom and artboard navigation options.
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Area type Answer: A type object (consisting of many lines of text)
where type wraps to fit within a vector shape. OR
Draw text box; text is constrained to the box
Artboard Answer: A printable region within a document. A
document can contain multiple artboards.
Attributes Answer: The settings such as fill, stroke, effects, and
opacity that are applied to an object. The attributes of an object
make up the object's appearance.
Balance Answer: Evenly distributed, but not necessarily centered or
mirrored.
Bleed Answer: The part of the image extending past the cut edge
to ensure an edge-to-edge print.
Blend tool Answer: A multistep color and shape progression
between two separate objects. Blends are created via the Blend tool
or the Make Blend command.
Clipping mask Answer: A special group of objects in which the
topmost object crops (masks) the objects that are below it.
Portions of the lower objects that extend beyond the path of the
topmost object are hidden and don't print.
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The topmost object in a clipping mask is referred to as a clipping
path.
Color (hue) Answer: The perceived hue, lightness, and saturation of
an object or light.
Color profile Answer: A description of the color-handling
characteristics of a device, such as a scanner, camera, printer, or
display.
A color management system uses device color profiles to ensure
that document colors remain consistent as the document moves
from one device to another.
Complementary (colors) Answer: Colors that are opposite each
other on the color wheel. They are high in contrast and vibrant.
Compound object Answer: An object contained within one or more
smaller, transparent paths that creates a hole in the larger object.
The hole can be removed by releasing the compound object and
separating the paths into individual objects.
Compound path Answer: A compound path is an object that
contains within it one or more smaller, transparent subpaths that
create a hole (or holes) in the larger object. All objects in the
compound path take on the paint and style attributes of the
rearmost object in the stacking order. Compound paths provide
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Adobe Illustrator CC Certification Vocabulary
Questions with Correct Answers | Updated
(100% Correct Answers)
Additive color Answer: Created by combining light. Color
components are red, green, and blue. When added together at
100%, the three components create white.
Adobe Bridge Answer: An Adobe application that enables you to
view thumbnails of your files and helps you sort and organize those
files.
Alignment Answer: Indicates how the text is justified / aligned on
the right and left edges: such as left, centered, and right.
Analogous (colors) Answer: Colors that are side by side on the color
wheel.
Anchor point Answer: A point connecting two segments on a path.
An anchor point can be either a corner point or a curved point.
Appearance Answer: The attributes that are applied to an "object"
and are listed on the Appearance panel: stroke, fill, opacity, fx, etc.
Application frame Answer: The frame that surrounds the Illustrator
interface and contains the Application bar, document windows, and
panels, and select zoom and artboard navigation options.
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Area type Answer: A type object (consisting of many lines of text)
where type wraps to fit within a vector shape. OR
Draw text box; text is constrained to the box
Artboard Answer: A printable region within a document. A
document can contain multiple artboards.
Attributes Answer: The settings such as fill, stroke, effects, and
opacity that are applied to an object. The attributes of an object
make up the object's appearance.
Balance Answer: Evenly distributed, but not necessarily centered or
mirrored.
Bleed Answer: The part of the image extending past the cut edge
to ensure an edge-to-edge print.
Blend tool Answer: A multistep color and shape progression
between two separate objects. Blends are created via the Blend tool
or the Make Blend command.
Clipping mask Answer: A special group of objects in which the
topmost object crops (masks) the objects that are below it.
Portions of the lower objects that extend beyond the path of the
topmost object are hidden and don't print.
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The topmost object in a clipping mask is referred to as a clipping
path.
Color (hue) Answer: The perceived hue, lightness, and saturation of
an object or light.
Color profile Answer: A description of the color-handling
characteristics of a device, such as a scanner, camera, printer, or
display.
A color management system uses device color profiles to ensure
that document colors remain consistent as the document moves
from one device to another.
Complementary (colors) Answer: Colors that are opposite each
other on the color wheel. They are high in contrast and vibrant.
Compound object Answer: An object contained within one or more
smaller, transparent paths that creates a hole in the larger object.
The hole can be removed by releasing the compound object and
separating the paths into individual objects.
Compound path Answer: A compound path is an object that
contains within it one or more smaller, transparent subpaths that
create a hole (or holes) in the larger object. All objects in the
compound path take on the paint and style attributes of the
rearmost object in the stacking order. Compound paths provide
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