Exam 4: Transforming and Distorting Objects

What is aligned with the Average command and what is aligned with the Align panel?

The figure above provides examples of what?

You can think of the Shape Builder tool as a combination of the Live Paint Bucket tool and the Pathfinder buttons.

Case Based Critical Thinking Now that his team has been using Illustrator regularly and getting comfortable with the software, Mark is excited to work with them on some of the more interesting features and to share with them some of his special techniques. -Mark and his team are sitting down for lunch, and Mark is making a sandwich.Mark holds up a piece of Swiss cheese and tells his team that if they were to draw this in Illustrator, they'd need to use which of the following?

The Free Transform tool is excellent for making quick, inexact transformations.

Gradients cannot be applied to strokes.

The Make Compound Path command is on which menu?

When you select any two objects and apply the Make Clipping Mask command, the backmost object functions as the mask, and the object in front is masked.

When you select an object then click the Free Transform tool, what is the name of the eight-handled object that appears around the selected object?

By default, an object's X coordinate represents its horizontal distance from the bottom right corner of the artboard.

When transforming an object with the Free Transform tool, the object is transformed from which of the following?

When two or more objects are made into a compound path, Illustrator defines them as one object.

When you apply a shape mode button, the two overlapping objects are combined into one object with the same formatting as the topmost object in the group before the shape mode button was applied.

Changing an object's size is an example of a transformation.

How does Illustrator define a "face?"

Case Based Critical Thinking Now that his team has been using Illustrator regularly and getting comfortable with the software, Mark is excited to work with them on some of the more interesting features and to share with them some of his special techniques. -One of Mark's designers draws a diamond shape, fills it with yellow, then applies a 12 point black stroke.She becomes frustrated though, when she realizes that she can't apply a gradient to a stroke.Which of the following is her best option?

Generally, compound shapes are used only for practical - as opposed to artistic - purposes.

The Shear tool can be used to create a mirror image.

The Reflect tool is useful for creating a cast shadow.

All transformations are executed from a fixed point, referred to as the point of origin.