Art 2 Terminology I

(Gravit Designer)

Artboard

an area defined for your vector work

Ellipse Tool (E)

A common shape tool, it creates circles and ellipses

Eyedropper Tool

A fantastic tool that lets the user sample an object’s color, appearance attributes, effect, or type, and apply that selection elsewhere

Join (Control-J)

To connect two ends of a path to create a closed path, especially useful when you find you have objects with open paths

Knife Tool

A tool used to cut an object wither in a curved or straight path

Layers Panel

The panel that lets you create, edit, and delete layers within your document, and more

Outline Object

A Path effect that allows objects to stay editable, such as type paths, while allowing objects to be aligned to the object boundaries versus the type path

Outline Stroke

A Path effect that treats the stroke of the given path as if it were a fill, rather than a stroke, this is most effectively used when coupled with another effect

Pencil Tool (N)

A tool for creating and editing freehand lines. Various brush and stroke attributes can be applied to the lines for variety in style. Unlike the brush tool, size and shape variations cannot be configured while drawing with it (such as via tablet pressure)

Pen Tool (P)

A drawing tool that creates anchor points and allows the user to draw straight or curved lines

Polygon Tool

A shape tool that creates a polygon of three or more sides of any size

Rectangle Tool (R)

A shape tool that simply creates rectangles of any size

Pointer Tool (V)

Likely one of the most used tools, it allows the user to select an object for customization, manipulation, to be moved around the window, and so on

Border Panel

The panel in which a stroke’s options and attributes are set

Fill Panel

The panel that contains saved color, gradient, and pattern swatches. Often used in conjunction with the Color, Gradient, and Pattern Options panels

Type Tool (T)

A commonly used tool that creates horizontal type, fully editable, and type rectangular containers

Vector Graphics

As a form for computer graphics, is the set of mechanisms for creating visual images directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves, and polygons

Raster Graphic

represents two-dimensional picture as a rectangular matrix or grid of square pixels, viewable via a computer display, paper, or other display medium

Pixel, Pel, or Picture Element

The smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device.