Friday, September 23, 2011

Review week 6

What is the pen tool used for?To create smooth curving lines or regular choppy lines..
How can you manipulate a path/line in Illustrator? Discuss the use of the white arrow tool, pen+, pen-, and convert too.Using the white arrow tool; it's used to control the anchors and handles on a line. The pen+ tool adds anchors, the pen- tool deletes anchors, the Convert tool changes corners into curved lines with handles or curved lines into corners.
How can you utilize the layers palette in Illustrator?Each layer can hold something different, for example shading, outlines, color etc. Layers come in handy for making large images containing many elements.
How do you create a clipping mask in Adobe Illustrator?
Make a box with no fill and no outline bring to the front. make a secon box with no fill and no outline around the first box. Make sure the first box is in the front and not behind the second box. select both using the black arrow tool>Object>Clipping Mask>Make
And you have a clipping mask.

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